MSP430 development on a Mac
I'm back (again) to trying to sort out a native development environment on my computer (MacBook Pro running 10.6.7) for MSP430s from TI.I'm running a trial of CrossWorks from Rowley...
View ArticleNTP sync for Windows (XP)
The procedure for getting Windows to synchronize to a network (NTP) time server is (for some systems) harder than it should be. NIST has a good writeup available as a PDF from:...
View ArticleHealy Scoreboards
Large format LED digital displays were added to the Healy a number of years ago and were explicitly tied to the Totco winch wire data system. These signs were not suitable for use in the marine...
View ArticleLeap Seconds - are they just to complicated?
Since the advent of modern time keeping society has been struggling to keep our notion of time of day in sync with solar time.Now there is a proposal before the ITU to drop the attempt (like the GPS...
View ArticleSeaMARC I
A deep-towed seafloor mapping sonar developed in collaboration with International Submarine Technology (IST.) The Lamont project was lead by William B. F. Ryan with engineering and operational support...
View ArticleEmacs - TRAMP (another another amazlingly handy capability)
I've been using emacs as my preferred editor for a very long time on lots of different *nix-like platforms and it's capabilities continue to amaze (and sometimes amuse) me.This evening I was looking...
View ArticleOS X: installing matplotlib and basemap for Python (2.7)
Installing matplotlib on the new (Lion 10.7.1) Mac Mini at home:This machine was "migrated" from an older machine so the first step was to update Xcode from 4.0 to 4.1.1 The "installation" method using...
View ArticleDennis Ritchie was a giant
How amazing is it that Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie died in the same week? Jobs was a very visible guy in the modern technology world. Ritchie was unknown to the users. He created the C programming...
View ArticleWrite up on tools for a "lean startup"
I stumbled into an old write up http://riftlabs.com/2010/11/tools-for-the-lean-hardware-start-up from Rift Labs (used to be some other name) about tools (hardware and software) for hardware development...
View ArticleUNH CCOM Friday Seminar: 2012-02-10
I gave the UNH CCOM/JHC Seminar Series 2011-12 talk on Friday, February 10, 2012 at UNH's Chase Ocean Engineering Laboratory in Durham, NH.The title was "Mapping the (Ice Covered) Arctic Seafloor at 20...
View ArticlePlease look out for others
You are probably aware by now of the apparent suicide of Aaron Schwartz at the age of 26. There are a number of moving pieces. (See links below.)One that spoke to me was the ending of Limor (adafruit)...
View ArticleOscilloscope watch.....
The range of things that have been enabled but the current combination of (relatively) easy code and inexpensive components continues to surprise/amuse me.The item of the moment is the Oscilloscope...
View ArticleMB-System under Windows (XP)
I ran into a very through (but slightly dated) note about how to install MB-System (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/MB-System) under Windows XP at:...
View ArticleDrawing (electronic) timing diagrams
I've periodically needed relatively simple timing diagrams for documentation of e.g. for triggering schemes for synchronizing sonars or the BGM3 gravity machine interface. There are very nice (and not...
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