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2017

Oldies - Radio Times

Old radiocommunication-related programs

2015

Sony Entertainment Network spam stopper

How to avoid Sony Entertainment Network e-mail notifications for an account that someone created using your address

Denise’s birthday problem solution (in Python)

A python script to resolve Denise's birthday problem

Ludomatic Replacement Part

This is a very simple model for printing Ludomatic part replacement. Ludomatic is a popular variation of Ludo

3D Printer – Z Axis Calibration

How to calibrate Z axis on a 3D printer

2014

Compress a directory in inno setup

Inno setup script to zip a directory using Windows built-in compression

Arcade Joystick with Teensy 3.0

DIY Arcade Joystick with Teensy

2013

Jinja2 + Eclipse: quickly replace trans / endtrans to gettext( ) new style

A regular expression to quickly replace trans and endtrans old\'s jinja2 to gettext new style

Utility functions for udp / json-parser

Extend udp / json-parser functionality by adding json edition capabilities

TortoiseSVN, non-standard SSH port, Network Error: Connection Refused

How to configure TortoiseSVN to use a non-standard SSH port

Enabling GoogleAppEngineLauncher Source Code Change Detection in Mac OS X Lion

Quick recipe to enable source code change detection on the GoogleAppEngineLauncher (Mac OS X Lion)

Yet another conversor board for generic 16×2 line displays to I2C

A conversor board for generic MGD1602B 16x2 line displays to I2C

2012

FAIL: How to NOT try to hack a cheap GPRS module to change its IMEI

Bad hacking techniques

Featuring FullControl for Android, or how to control your phone bill

Limit call, SMS and Internet usage with this Android application

Parallel Port Sniffer for Linux!

Capture the parallel port data using a small kernel module for Linux

Scoreboard (Part 3: Final – Communicating with Android and more)

A digital VGA scoreboard project based on ATtiny45, using Wireless Bluetooth V2.0 RS232 TTL Transceiver Module that communicates with Android

Scoreboard (Part 2: Reading UART from the Bluetooth Module)

Make ATtiny read UART from cheap Wireless Bluetooth V2.0 RS232 TTL Transceiver Module

Protoboard adapter for cheap Bluetooth module

Protoboard adapter for Wireless Bluetooth V2.0 RS232 TTL Transceiver Module

Revenge of the Tiny Pong VGA, now controlled with a single button

VGA Pong game based on ATtiny microcontroller, joystick is a button!

2011

jQuery Lightbox: Adjust big images to the window size

Adjust big images to the window size on Lightbox

Brute force attack a BIOS with Arduino

The goal of this experiment is to convert the Arduino board into an USB keyboard plus a VGA sniffer to crack the password of a standard BIOS using the Brute ...

Migrating GAE Blobstore to an HRD application

Migrate your Google App Engine application to High Replication Database scheme

Tiny Pong: More fun with ATtiny45 and VGA

VGA Pong game based on ATtiny microcontroller

Playing around with Arduino

Some quick thoughts about the Arduino Duemilanove board

Scoreboard (Part 1: VGA signal from an ATtiny45)

This project aims to display a scoreboard in a regular VGA monitor, remotely controlled with an Android device (cellphone, tablet) via Bluetooth

CDCasefier Gimp plug-in – Put your CDs in a case

This Python-Fu plug-in for Gimp will let you put a scanned CD photo into a virtual case

Make something useful out of your DPF (Digital Photo Frame)

Connect a digital photo frame to a computer and keep updating it with useful information displayed as pictures

How to fix the “federated domain” problem in emesene

Workaround to avoid displaying the 'federated domain' error message on emesene

Ubuntu Linux: How to Convert from HTML to JPG

Convert from HTML to JPG from linux terminal. Actually, the convertsion is from HTML to PDF and then from PDF to JPG.

POIMan for Sygic

An Android application that lets you keep your Sygic's Point of Interests (POIs) up to date and manage them (add / remove) in an easy way

2010

Building ffmpeg in Debian (Lenny)

Building ffmpeg with AAC support might be trickier than you tought

Firefox add-on: UploadProgress

Firefox add-on to display file upload progress

Motherboard BIOS not saving changes

If the problem is not the battery, try replacing a transistor on the motherboard

How to create two wired virtual serial ports on Linux?

How to create two wired virtual serial ports on Linux using socat

How to calculate the space used by files in Linux?

How to calculate the space used by files in Linux

How do I compare two binary files on Linux?

How to compare two binary files on Linux terminal using hexdump and diff

How do I add VNC to Terminal Server Client in Ubuntu?

How to add VNC to Terminal Server Client in Ubuntu

Extracting FLV meta tags with Python

A Python script to extract FLV meta tags from your pictures

2009

(HTML) Table cell not inheriting style

Never forget to declare the DOCTYPE at the beginning of your HTML, otherwise strange things will happen

Simplified DES (S-DES) file encryption implementation in C

Simplified DES (S-DES) encryption algorithm is not supposed to be secure at all, in fact it was made for educational purposes.

Cool JavaScript Tool Window

A JavaScript movable and resizable floating tool window

File Upload Progress with mod_python

Progress bar for attachment uploads with mod_python

MacOS X 10.5.x (Intel) + mod_python + PIL + PyCAPTCHA notes

If you have a Mac OS X Leopard on an Intel platform, and you are interested in installing mod\_python using your default apache setup and the python that com...

2008

Asterisk PBX with X100P Clone (Part 1: Installation)

Installing Asterisk PBX with an Intel X100P clone FXO to allow my extensions to make (and receive) phone calls to the telco line

USocket – USB controlled Socket with PIC18F4550

Control (switch off/on) two power sockets with a computer by using its USB port using PIC18F4550 microcontroller

Slice and rotate images with CutNRot

An utility script written in python that uses wxPython to edit your scanned images (JPEG, BMP, TIFF, etc.) obtain sub-images, rotate and save them

Code optimization for RXTX parallel port implementation

Some optimizations for the RXTX library

Converting Visual Studio solutions to SCons

A python script to convert Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 solution files (\*.sln) and the associated project files (\*.vcproj) into a set of SCons files (SCons...

Converting Visual Studio solutions to Makefiles

A python script to convert Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 solution files (\*.sln) and the associated project files (\*.vcproj) into a set of Makefile