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I'm Davide, an italian engineer with a passion for technology, design and scuba diving. These are my personal pages. Enjoy!
2010
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20W led from Hong Kong vs conventional lights
Pictures of a 20W led i found from an HK seller on eBay: impressive results! This led product could replace conventional lighting. At last led tech is mature enough to enter mass market.
MassiveLyrics: get all the lyrics for your iTunes library
Fill the lyrics of your entire iTunes library in one click with this OSX app. No more blank lyrics on the iPod!
Stepperino alpha version
Stepperino is a stepper motor controller based on arduino and cheap, commonly available components. This early version is capable of controlling an unipolar stepper motor (5, 6 or 8 wires) in full step mode and is the first step towards more sophisticated control to be achieved in firmware.
my wet iPhone dissection
The disassembly of my 2g phone that I accidentally dropped into water (toilet water to be precise)
Setting up mt-daapd/firefly
mt-daapd, aka firefly, allows to serve a music folder directly to any iTunes running in your home network. This is great to share music across the house or to keep a music dump folder aside from your main itunes library.
Setting up Avahi
Avahi advertises the shares made available by netatalk to macs in your home network via bonjour, so that connecting to the file server means just clicking on its icon. This is how to set it up.
Setting up netatalk
How to install and configure netatalk to serve files from ubuntu server to macs in your home network.
Enabling ssh access
ssh enables remote terminal access to a linux box, and is the first step towards an headless machine. This is how to configure it for the first time in ubuntu
Setting up MDADM
MDADM (multi disk admin) is the software implementation of RAID on linux. It can be used to take a bunch of disks and make them into a single, powerful drive. This leads to several advantages, depending on the raid configuration you choose to implement.
ATOM/ION nas home server
Build and configure a cheap NAS/HTPC box based around the new Intel Atom processor and Nvidia ION chipset. Low power consumption, your files everywhere, torrenting, automated backups, reproduction of 1080p video, all for under 400$: how could you do without?
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