Biking the Fuldabrücker Runde

The other day I was taking my mountain bike for a spin. I wanted to check out the “Fuldabrücker Runde”, a course around a municipality here in northern Hesse. I learned from a previous mistake and pre-loaded the track onto my Edge. There is a website on which you can look at routes within [...]

RoboCup WM in Istanbul – The Roundup

For those who don’t know it yet: One of my hobbies is RoboCup – robots that play football (Why not soccer? It is FOOTball, dammit!).

Between the 3rd and 12th July was the RoboCup World Championship in Istanbul, Turkey. Well it was a crazy tournament, to say the least. Our equipment, including our [...]

It is 09. June 2011 now… well… long break, again.

Title says it all… But, now that I finished my diploma thesis I have some more spare time and what else but picking up old projects comes into my mind?

I grabbed the box where I stored my stuff and… it was dusty… sign of a neglected project! Anyway, I could pretty much [...]

HBCI and Linux using the Kobil TriB@nk card reader

Here in Germany we can use FinTS(HBCI) doing online banking. This method is theoretically safer then the most commonly used method using PIN/TAN. PIN/TAN is vulnerable to phishing or attacks by trojans logging key strokes. That, and the fact that I wanted to test the FinTS(HBCI) service forced me to do switch.

The other [...]

OpenStreetMap on the Mac

I use my powerbook for almost all the work on OSM using the JOSM tool. But starting the Terminal.app, cd’ing into the right directory, typing the command,… is actually a pain in the ass (at least for me . Mac OS X is a nice operating system and therefore there should be a nice [...]

OpenStreetMap02

I already posted something about the openstreetmap project before. Now some pictures to illustrate the progress:

It shows my work (Elgershausen and some parts of Großenritte) and the work of T2000 and another guy we dont know yet . Oh, before i start explaining all over… follow this link. [...]

Kitchen

Hm,

just to proove I am not only announcing projects but actually do them here are some pictures of my kitchen. I am not done yet… the color is still missing but its an aweful lot of work as the wood is not the best and its the first paint job of that kind [...]

OpenStreetMap

T2000 told me about OpenStreetMap, an open source project for providing free street maps and more… well see here.

I ordered a GPS mouse and managed to get it working with my PowerBook using gpsdX and the Prolific drivers to get /dev/tty.usbserial working.

Anyways, its working great and I already uploaded some street information. [...]

Barcode Project

Everything started with… what a wonder… an idea! After living in my new apartment for more then half a year i finally got an idea on how to design a part of the wallpaper in the stairway. I will paint barcodes over the doors to the diffrent rooms. First one: living room.

6 phases [...]