http://www.symbolengine.com C64, Amiga, GP2x and Wordpress goodness... Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:32:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently I was faced with the problem of controlling three identical Personal Media Players with Arduino. Emulating the remote might have been an option but they were too close to each other, so it was hard to control them independently. A command sent for one device sometimes could be registered ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2009/09/05/control-any-ir-remote-capable-device-by-wire-with-an-arduino/ I made a single side board version of USBTinyISP for easy etching. But I failed to be the first on the internet. Apperently Wraimann beat me to it. Never mind, this one is much smaller at the expense of leaving out the 10 pin socket. You can always make an ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2008/11/25/usbtinyisp-single-side-board-version/ I'm sorry for the loooooong downtime. I was having problems with my db and didn't have the time to fix it until now. http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2008/11/18/sorry-for-the-downtime/ I have been working with Tolga on a 4 motor walker. After taking care of the electronics we started working on walking dynamics. Figuring out the timings needed to control this beast wasn't that easy. Luckily Tolga had a working Wowwee Roboquad lying around. So we had a chance to ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2008/05/30/how-to-control-a-4-motor-walker-robot/ wmii has been the my window manager of choice ever since I first saw it. I recently got a shiny Dell M1330 and as anyone can guess Vista did not live longer than 2 hours on it. I had never used wmii on a laptop before and I saw that ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2008/03/22/useful-scripts-for-wmii-on-laptops/ I finally had the time to try out Spaceman Spiff's Color Fix on my DTV. So I took my DTV apart , heated my soldering iron and tried to focus my eyes on the teeny weeny resistors. First let me tell you this: Piggybacking Surface mounted resistors is NO PICNIC. ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/06/14/half-a-spaceman-spiffs-ghetto-dtv-color-fix/ I got meself a PAL DTV recently. These things are pretty cool out of the box. But if you want to get more out of your DTV, there are many hacks around the net. Here is a checklist of the hacks I want to make for mine. It may prove ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/22/c64-dtv-hacking-checklist/ Since 1200 schematics were so popular, I made A600 schematics into pdf format too. I have changed the layout of some pages, and joined hard to follow schematics that were scattered on multiple pages. Enjoy:Amiga 600 PDF Schematics @ Symbolengine http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/14/amiga-600-schematics-in-pdf-format/ Amigaguide is a hypertext document file format designed for the Amiga, files are stored in ASCII so it is possible to read and edit a file without the need for special software. However it's not pretty to read it with a text viewer, because links don't work and formatting clutters ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/07/amigaguide-to-html-converter-viewer/ GP2x is a wonderful device for its portability, power consumption and price tag.  You can do pretty amazing stuff with an out of the box unit. Here is a slice of that:Go to settings/system menu on your GP2xMake sure the IP Address is 10.1.0.1Turn on telnet, ftp, samba and web ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/06/setting-up-a-usb-network-with-gp2x-and-what-you-can-do-with-it/