Who is Cyberspice?
I am a female software consultant from the UK and seem to spend an awful lot of my life on planes flying from one country to another. I am tall, blonde green blonde (again), gray/blue/green eyed, and a little over weight. I wont tell you my age except to say that software consultancy is one of several careers I have had which includes accountancy and corporate finance; physicist and academic; and software engineer and consultant. I seem to collect degrees for a past time.
Huge Tracts Of Land
I could be described as a bit of a goth although like any true goth I will steadfastly deny the claim. However I wear an awful lot of black and dark colours, velvet, pvc, and big boots. I also has a few piercings but to date I have not been inked. I can be often found dancing around at various clubs to various kinds of music but dark lyrics seem to be a consistent theme. My hobbies include playing guitars and keyboards, photography, bellydancing (cabaret, tribal and gothic tribal fusion), climbing, canyoneering and boldering, skateboarding, riding motorcycles and keeping snakes. And when she’s not doing all that she’s studying psychology.
I am a bit of an Apple fan-girl and loves my Macs, my iPod and my iPhone. However my day job means PCs but mostly Linux and if Windows is required it is run in a Virtual machine. I am a bit of a Linux guru and is equally at home hacking kernels, drivers and build tools; carrying out high level design; and developing large applications, including client/server; in C, C++, Objective-C, and Java. Recently I’ve started projects based on PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. I work in the digital television industry and know far too much about digital TV protocols.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:57 am
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September 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Thanks for the plugin wp-CPG-widget. Helped a lot to a site with wordpress and a coppermine gallery with over 900 pictures. I hope to update the plugin to work well and the future WordPress versions. Good health and success!
January 16th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
I came across your post on the vivarium (http://www.cyberspice.org.uk/blog/2009/10/29/boarduino-vivarium-temperature-monitor/) while searching for breadboard ethernet for arduino.
Thanks. I had just been working with the TMP36 and gleaned some good suggestions such as using integer math and using averages to smooth the noise in the comments.
If you need to recover some lines on your boarduino you may wish to try this serial interface for your LCD (http://www.moderndevice.com/products/lcd117-kit). I have been using it with success.
Once again, thanks for sharing the knowledge!
March 10th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Would it be possible to send me the schematics and the code for your Boarduino vivarium temperature monitor. I too would like to build a temperature sensor with ethernet and a web server however I’m not that talented unfortunately. I’d like to use yours as a reference to get me started please. It would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
March 18th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I’ll publish the schematics on my web site. I’m currently in the process of setting up a projects section.
May 17th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
I’m a mom, a blogger, and a Ph.D. student, and I need your help. I’m doing a study about why women blog, and you have been selected at random to participate in a short survey about what motivates you to blog and what you get out of blogging.
I hope you will take it by clicking this link. Please do not forward the link. (If the link does not show up in your browser when you click on “clicking this link,” you can click here or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/231228/women-bloggers Please do not distribute the link.
Thanks in advance for your help. Feel free to contact me at gmmasull@syr.edu if you have any questions.
Gina M. Chen
Ph.D. student
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University
215 University Place
Syracuse, NY 13244-2100
June 11th, 2012 at 4:32 am
Hello,
I stumbled upon your Ethernet for Beeb project searching for a replacement for the now defunct upgrade projects to equip BBC machines with Ethernet and USB.
I am really curious to know how far did you get with your Ethernet for BBC project? Do you have a kit ? Any plans?
I have recently taken possession of a BBC and am actively exploring ways to upgrade it to allow some form of current connectivity level.
Stephen
December 7th, 2012 at 9:18 am
Hello Melanie Rhianna Lewis,
you may be interrested with this discussion about mandatory locks in PHP5 which leads to maybe integrate DIO into the mainline : https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63709
Thanks
Eric
December 21st, 2012 at 9:21 am
Hi Melanie, I’ve been developing php over I2C using dio-0.0.4. Now I’m upgrading to 0.0.6, but… why the max baudrate is 38400?
Thanks a lot!
February 6th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Vicent, I’m assuming you’re using UNIX/Linux.
38400 is the maximum data rate supported by POSIX with out the extended data rates. The build actually looks to see if the macro B57600, B115200 etc is defined before supporting those rates in the code because they are not always available. For some reason the extension build you’re using does not support the higher rates.
I haven’t changed anything except for bug fixes between the two versions.