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So, I decided to order a small size prototype for my LED-Clock project from Formulor, the german partner of Ponoko. Small because it’s pretty expensive. My design on a 18x18cm and 3mm thick sheet of acrylic glass with shipping and tax costs about 52 Euro. The shipping alone makes a whopping 6.70 Euro… for [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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. [...] Bild (germanys daily trash newspaper), the TV channel ProSieben, BUND, Greanpeace and WWF together with Google initiated an action where people were asked to switch off all their lights for 5 minutes. The target audience were not only private households but also companies and even cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Reason: a sign [...] |
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