http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com Embedded geekery and similar pursuits Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:19:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnimaopenwrt-and-xbee/ http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnimaopenwrt-and-xbee/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:19:02 +0000 Kelvin http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/?p=433 Omnima Embedded Board to an Xbee device, using it as a low-cost and low-power controller for a home Xbee network. This article explains how to configure an Omnima with OpenWRT/Linux such that is capable of talking to an Xbee device using Python and Pyserial. Continue reading]]> http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnimaopenwrt-and-xbee/feed/ 0 http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnima-embedded-controller-and-openwrt/ http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnima-embedded-controller-and-openwrt/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:14:47 +0000 Kelvin http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/?p=358 Omnima embedded controller. £23 gets you a MIPS platform with Ethernet and USB host ports, 16MB of RAM and (via OpenWRT) a wide-ranging repository of pre-packaged Linux applications and libraries. Compared to the likes of the Arduino, this is a lot of bang for your buck. Continue reading]]> http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/omnima-embedded-controller-and-openwrt/feed/ 0 http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/py2exe-and-pygame-dlls/ http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/py2exe-and-pygame-dlls/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:10:44 +0000 Kelvin http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/?p=342 PyKaraoke I came across a problem with Py2exe's handling of Pygame DLLs. Continue reading]]> http://www.kelvinsthunderstorm.com/py2exe-and-pygame-dlls/feed/ 1