This is an RSS file. It is intended to be read by a software program called a "feed reader". Search on Google for more details. <![CDATA[mshook's Feed]]> http://www.simpy.com/user/mshook http://www.simpy.com/ http://www.simpy.com/img/simpy-icon-16x16.png Simpy http://www.simpy.com/user/mshook 1440 <![CDATA[Hooking our Roku up to Pandora was *way* more fun than hooking up our Grace/Reciva radio to Pandora | http://tinyurl.com/yc5hark]]>

According to that discussion, the player is based on the STB225 set-top box platform designed by NXP. At the center is a chip called the Nexperia Multi Format Source decoder PNX8935, which combines a 32-bit MIPS processor and a dedicated video decoder supporting multiple codecs, including H.264. The reference STB225 boards have SATA and USB capabilities. The Wi-Fi daughtercard in the Roku box uses up the USB header, but there are several other headers that have yet to be identified. Roku engineers say that the box uses HDCP on the HDMI connection, which might limit its hackability.

On the software side, Roku has released the source code to all of the free software used inside the box, including the Linux environment and bootloader.

Tagged by mshook under linux, pandora, music, how, roku, stb, mynote, experience, ]]> Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:10:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Science Toys You Can Make With Your Kids | http://sci-toys.com/index.html]]> Magnetism: Electromagnetism: An electric motor in 10 minutes Fun with High Voltage A 10 minute railgun A 30 second motor Listening to magnetism Electrochemistry: A plastic hydrogen bomb Building your own solar battery Building a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Homemade Batteries Collecting Chemical Elements Radio: A quick and simple radio Building a radio in 10 minutes Build a portable crystal radio A radio out of household items A simple AM transmitter The Three-Penny Radio Thermodynamics: Aerodynamics: A Bernoulli levitation ball A Homemade Vacuum Pump A Classic Propellor Toy Light and optics: Simple laser communicator Make a solar hotdog cooker A solar powered marshmallow roaster Biology: Extracting DNA in your kitchen Mathematics: Kaleidocycles A Geodesic Dome A Homemade Microgram Balance Computers and Electronics: A Computer Controlled Transmitter A Free Space Laser Data Transmitter Fun With Solderless Breadboards A Simple 1 Watt Amplifier Tagged by mshook under electronics, science, good, project, motor, radio, transmitter, laser, optics, eclectic, interesting, morse, ]]> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:25:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Free serial port monitor works as advertised for me, including USB simulating a COM port. | http://www.serial-port-monitor.com/]]> Free Serial Port Monitor allows you to intercept, display and analyze all data exchanged between the Windows application and the serial device. It can be successfully used in application development, device driver or serial hardware development and offers the powerful platform for effective coding, testing and optimization. Tagged by mshook under debug, protocol, com, uart, usb, emon, useful, works, ]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:15:00 -0500 <![CDATA[GSM: building open source: access point http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS & receiver http://wiki.thc.org/gsm | http://tinyurl]]>
  • OpenBTS is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to make telephone calls without using existing telecommunication providers' networks. OpenBTS is notable for being the first free software implementation of the industry-standard GSM protocol stack.
  • The GSM Software Project: We want to bring together all the folks that are interested in building a gsm receiver.
    • Tagged by mshook under 1, november, 2009, a, cell, telephone, how, howto, gsm, sdr, cool, interesting, radio, dsp, ]]>     Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:26:00 -0500     <![CDATA[This is what Jim Fischer used to schedule a STAR center meeting. Also, polls to say, choose a movie. http://doodle.com/]]>

    How does Doodle work?

    1. Create a poll.
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    Free. No registration required.

    Schedule an event …

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movie night, or any other group event.
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Make a choice …

… among movies, menus, travel destinations, or among any other selection.
    Tagged by mshook under via, sunrise, schedule, poll, useful, choose, decide, howto, service, ]]>     Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:02:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Tags not that useful for information retrieval - Jon Udell interviews Cathy Marshall of Microsoft Research | http://tinyurl.com/]]>

    she collected a bunch of Flickr photos of people spinning on the bull’s balls in Milan. Notice how that fulltext query effectively retrieves a pile of images, taken by different people, of the same curious custom:

    If you are passing through the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, you should spin around on the testicles of the bull mosaic found in the centre. Legend has it that this will bring you good luck!

    Now try this query, which uses the same terms but looks at tags instead of the free text (title, description) associated with the photos. It finds nothing.

    Tagged by mshook under tags, critique, ir, judell, flickr, del.icio.us, legend, italy, milan, itconversations, ]]>     Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:44:00 -0400     <![CDATA[217 PHP CMS, Wiki, BB, etc live demos including admin pages | http://php.opensourcecms.com/]]> 
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    Video
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COMPASS: One-Stop Shop
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Clean Clothes
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Lawyer Humor
Search HelpMeLaw
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Tour Poverty USA
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    Tagged by mshook under cool, eclectic, interesting, maine, law, activism, nasa, pbs, health, money, poverty, language, taxes, swhpl, ]]>     Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:27:00 -0400     <![CDATA[A New Yorker writer reads his Kindle outside LL Bean and is not impressed (my Palm T|X works just fine) | http://tinyurl.com/ndq]]>

    ...Amazon’s “See a Kindle in Your City” promotion. Her Kindle was in her purse; she’d crocheted a cover for it out of green yarn. In the past, she said, she’d taken books out of the library, but some of them smelled of smoke—a Kindle book is a smoke-free environment. I thanked her and bought some digestive biscuits and a teapot, and then I went next door to Sherman’s Books and Stationery. I asked Josh Christie, who worked there, to recommend a truly gut-churningly suspenseful novel. I was going to do a comparison between the paperback and the Kindle 2 version. Christie suggested “The Bourne Identity” and a book by Michael Connelly, “The Lincoln Lawyer”—one of his colleagues at the shop swore by it. I bought them both.

    Outside, I sat on a bench near L. L. Bean, eating an ice cream, and tried to order “The Bourne Identity” wirelessly from the Kindle Store. But no—there is no Kindle version of “The Bourne Identity.” What?

    Tagged by mshook under maine, llbean, book, amazon, ebook, kindle, nyer, review, critique, palm, touch, iphone, swhpl, ]]>     Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:03:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Use text utilility - all sorts of operations - regular | exprehttp://streetpc.free.fr/text/ssion, encode, decode]]> Tagged by mshook under text, regularexpressin, regex, re, decode, url, uri, utility, javascript, useful, ]]> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:39:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Dena had a booth opposite Jayne at the Thomaston 4th of July craft fair. Susan says they're good books | http://tinyurl.com/p8d]]> Welcome to Dena's Barefoot Book Nook! Here you'll find high quality, beautiful books that spark the imagination and celebrate the cultural and natural diversity around us. You'll also find puppets, puzzles, music, art and more for the children in your life!

    I hope you enjoy exploring our new website and that you'll come back soon!

    Please contact me if you'd like to learn more about hosting a Book Party and earning FREE books, having a Barefoot fundraiser for your school or organization, or starting your own Barefoot business.
    Tagged by mshook under mlm, thomaston, maine, book, books, jayne, july, 2009, parade, fair, children, susan, ]]> Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:45:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Bitlash interpreted language shell for the Arduino serial port. Runs on the Arduino; interprets commands you type on tty http://]]>

    Introducing Bitlash

    Bitlash is an open source interpreted language shell for the Arduino serial port. It runs on the Arduino and interprets commands that you type in a terminal window or send programmatically:

    bitlash v0.95a here! ... > print "hello, world", analogRead(3) hello, world 552

    Bitlash is a development and prototyping tool for those situations where you need to bang some bits on the Arduino but writing a sketch in C is premature. The Bitlash command language is very similar to Arduino C and includes a large repertiore of the familiar Arduino C functions so you can hack your hardware from the serial command line or even over the internet via telnet.

    Tagged by mshook under arduino, c, very, cool, free, open, source, interpreter, avr, concise, small, macro, ]]>     Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:44:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Anne's House of Dreams, 5th in the series | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/annhd-table.html]]> The book starts with Anne's wedding to Gilbert, which is very small and takes place in the Green Gables orchard. After Anne and Gilbert's wedding, they move to a house that Anne has long anticipated as her "house of dreams", in Four Winds Point, an area near the village of the Glen St. Mary. There, Anne and Gilbert meet many interesting people, such as the eccentric Captain Jim and Miss Cornelia Bryant, who deems the Blythes as part of "the race that knows Joseph." Anne also meets Leslie Moore, who lost her beloved brother and her father, and then was forced by her mother to marry the mean-spirited and unscrupulous Dick Moore. She felt free for a year or so after her husband disappeared on a sea voyage, but then he turned up, amnesiac, brain-damaged and generally helpless. She becomes friends with Anne, but is sometimes bitter towards her because she is so happy and free. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%27s_House_of_Dreams Tagged by mshook under book, ebook, anne, novel, canada, june, 2009, ]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:16:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Free versions of IC design software - microprocessors & rf - with examples]]> Welcome to Microwind and Dsch information page

    About Microwind | About Dsch | Contact | FAQ | Manuals | Layout Editor | 2D process view | 3D views of the IC | Analog simulation | Tutorial on MOS devices | View of atoms | 90 nm process | 65 nm process | 45 nm process | books | application notes | power point slides

    Tagged by mshook under ic, microprocessor, up, design, how, 3d, 8051, 4bit, ]]>     Wed, 20 May 2009 08:46:00 -0400     <![CDATA[Digital Culture: You’ve Got Blog: The New Yorker November 13, 2000, p. 102]]> Tagged by mshook under nyer, 2000, blogging, history, culture, media, twitter, blog, ]]> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:41:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Wubi - Ubuntu Installer for Windows via Floss Weekly]]> Tagged by mshook under windows, linux, ubuntu, install, via, podcast, wishlist, free, ]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:30:00 -0400 <![CDATA[9 Extremely Useful and Free PHP Libraries - via captcha graph json email template rss atom feed s3]]> Tagged by mshook under via, php, popular, library, captcha, graph, json, email, template, rss, atom, feed, s3, ]]> Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:24:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Free CFreeConferenceCall.com - I've been using this. It works. It's free.onference Call, Phone Conferencing, Teleconferences - F]]> Tagged by mshook under via, richard, conference, emon, call, telephone, service, free, works, mynote, ]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:25:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Drum machine howto: Hydrogen]]> Tagged by mshook under synth, drum, machine, linux, music, samba, howto, tutorial, midi, sequencer, free, ]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:56:00 -0400 <![CDATA[inserts ads; A FREE SMS API | Zeep Mobile]]> Tagged by mshook under sms, api, service, texting, advertising, ad, free, ]]> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:53:00 -0400