Based on a Reddit post in /r/embedded. Every so often this question comes along. While I base this list on my own experience, I still think people would learn a lot if they follow it. Most people who know some C and C++ can do this and it has a lot variation. You get to
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For my next project I want to create a Drawing Robot. I just finished ‘House 2’ and that was quite intense. I needed to think of a lot of things to make it work and there was nothing to build upon, except the vision of my wife and my experience. For now I would like
Tip: If you just want an enterprise level accounting, ERP and CRM package for your hackerspace, skip to the end. As treasurer of Hackerspace TDvenlo keeping the books has been quite a chore. When we first started in Q4 2018, I wanted to have a good grasp on how things work, swift start and of
Sander and I pitched this idea at BCHDEVCOM in Amsterdam. https://www.hackathon.cash/ Since we both don’t know how to write software, it currently only is an idea. Please steal it. You can view the video of our presentation on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVUSHZkBsq8;t=355 This article describes a possible Distributed Reputation system based on blockchain technology. Thereby pre-empting
Better late than never. This a report on IoT Tech Day from 2016. I wrote this in May 2016, but I’ve been busy with personal matters for the last 2 years. So, before visiting the successor of IoT Tech Day called TEQNATION coming April, here is the report I was writing in 2016. Introduction
This blog might produce a lot more posts next year. In 2018 I will enjoy my sabbatical, to figure out what I will be doing next. That will probably become something in the blockchain space combined with a lot of hardware. I’ve been working continuously since 1999 after my studies. First at Oce Technologies and
Yesterday I wanted to see how some of my Bitcoins were doing. I use Multibit HD 0.4.1. Suddenly MultibitHD showed the whole wallet being unconfirmed. That means that I couldn’t send any Bitcoins or that Multibit HD has lost its bookkeeping. I find this unacceptable. Who can work with a wallet that can’t do the
Testbash 99 second talk: Testing for blockchain deployment
Testbash Netherlands 2017 is a conference on January 27th 2017 in Utrecht. During the day they asked people to submit a 99 second talk. Since it’s only 99 seconds. What could go wrong? To make the content last a little bit longer I put the talk here. Testing for Blockchain deployment This is a talk
Visit to FOSDEM 2016
Here’s my report on visiting FOSDEM in Brussels last Saturday. The “Free and Open Source Developer European Meeting” is basically a mix between a 10.000 geeks, Free/Open Source Software projects, enterprise solutions and a sense of community descending on the Universite Libre Bruxelles (ULB) for a weekend. I really like FOSDEM for the atmosphere, interesting
Some reposts about refugees (vluchtelingen) and our way of living in the EU.
Around a week ago the discussions about refugees started to heat up in the EU and in The Netherlands. In the Mediterranean people drowned and in the Netherlands we performed a lot of navel gazing on “Bed, Bath and Bread”. One of the best pieces on calling out the Dutch provincial closed mindedness came from