Archive for September, 2007

Programming AVR with a MacBook

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

I recently switched from Windows to OS X. I bought a MacBook and I already love it.

The downside is, that I have to build up the complete environment to program AVR microcontrollers again.

This is a write up of things to install and confiure to get the tool chain up and running.

mac and mysmartusb

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Using twitter and twibble for mobile tracking

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Some weeks ago I met Thilo and he showed me twibble, his GPS enabled twitter client for the N95. Nice little and smart application. It sends messages with geo positions to twitter. The postion can then be tracked and viewed within Google Maps.

I was impressed and decided immediately to try to post the same messages with my mobile tracker and use the same, twitter, twibble and GM, to track my positions.

Track in Google Maps

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