2012-01-04: Installing Xcode 4

After the recent upgrade to OS X Lion, I installed the latest release of Xcode (version 4.2.1 when I’m writing these words). I used to download big disk image files...

2012-02-08: Deleting EBS Snapshots with aws-sdk

Removing a lot of EBS snapshots by hand with AWS’s web console is not really funny, isn’t it? Scripting it with fog is easy, but this time I decided to...

2012-03-16: Spring Is Here...

…at least for my little apricot tree and its elusive guest spider :-)

2012-03-21: Our First Arduino Board

It arrived yesterday morning… I knew it was small, but having it in your hand is another story (and the facts the the project started here in Italy and that...

2012-06-09: My First Standalone ATmega328p

Writing small sketches and playing around with Arduino is funny, but I was curious about reducing the component numbers, the board size and skipping the bootloader to recover those precious...

2012-10-27: Bigger AVR MCU: ATmega1284P

Some weeks ago I received this little MCU: Compared to ATmega328P, this ATmega1284P is not really a “little MCU”, it’s big (and I’m not talking about the physical dimensions): Feature...