In my last blog post I described a procedure to find a forgotton PIN for 10 digit mechanical lock boxes  where you enter a specific sequenc...

Today I thought I'd show you a small script I'm using to decommission an old computer.  To make sure important files weren't de...

I love the Raspberry Pi.  It allows me to prototype ideas quickly and without too much effort, but one thing I despise is the GPIO.  Maybe ...

This post will unfortunately be very short.  I was playing around with a webcam connected to a Raspberry Pi, and just as I was starting to ...

Let's say you have some important data you want to protect, how do you do it?  The obvious answer is encryption, this then leaves you w...

I've been playing around with bar codes recently, specifically the Code-128 variant.  I'm looking at this particular type because i...

Well, it's that time again.  One of the large supermarket chains has released yet another set of collector cards.  This time there are ...

I've been playing around with OCR software lately, Tesseract, gOCR, and Ocropus.  I'd like to get all the developers together in a ...

Recently I've been occupied making wedding invitations, so I haven't really done anything too technical, but during this task I did...

I spent the weekend getting my tax documents in order (yeah I know, I live a pretty extreme life).  I like to assemble them into a single P...

A quick blog post today.  I wanted to know the most efficient way to carry change with me.  I'm a little OCD and I sometimes like to be...

I've been doing a series about how to calculate the switching times of harmonic elimination PWM waveforms and I thought it was time to ...

The frenzy surrounding the Aussie Animal cards promotion got me thinking.  How many randomly collected cards would you need to collect befo...

I've finally sorted out the code to generate PWM waveforms that you'd use to control an electronic device such as an H-bridge drive...

In my last post I demonstrated how to find the angle of rotated printed text using image processing.  I also mentioned a couple of ways to...