Posted by md
on March 08, 2009
I just released a new version of USBTemp. This one includes some minor bugfixes:
- The placement of C5 was wrong in the schematic.
- The host software now compensates for some USB hickups.
- The RRDTool graph generation script adds minimum, maximum and average temperature readings to the summary.
You can get the new version from the Mikrowerk page. The photo of the Galileo thermometer above was CC’ed on flickr by Nick Lawes.
Posted by md
on January 03, 2009
Its this time of the year: I have time for a small project. This year I have built an USB-powered thermometer. Basically, you just plug it into an USB port. Then you can query the module via a small commandline tool. I wanted to be able to use my NSLU for creating temperature graphs. The image above is the temperature in Kaiserslautern, Germany – updated every 15 minutes.
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Posted by md
on September 08, 2008
I resumed my code katas – this time, I’m using Erlang to solve the problem:
By listing the first six prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13, we can see that the 6th prime is 13.
What is the 10001st prime number?
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