Using Firefly, your Ubuntu machine can host an iTunes media server which, with the help of Avahi installed as per this post, will show up in the iTunes “SHARED” list and will be accessible via Front Row. The following guide will get you started. Install Firefly (mt-daapd) using the apt-get package management software. Open a
After installing Avahi following this post and are running Ubuntu, it is easy to configure Ubuntu to use Vinagre (a VNC client) to remotely share the desktop with machines running OS X on your local area network (LAN) via the Share Screen… button in Finder. The following guide will gets you started. (Note: In order
The HTML and javascript code below demonstrates how to use a value entered into an HTML form to perform a calculation and return the result. This example simply squares the input value. Some simple checking is performed to ensure that the input value is a number. The following form demonstrates the code in action.
Capacitors are electronic devices that can store electric charge. The amount of charge (Q) a capacitor can hold per volt (V) is called the capacitor’s capacitance (C) and has SI units of farads. C = Q/V Capacitors are used for myriad reasons. You will find capacitors in timing circuits, filter circuits, AC to DC conversion
The Arduino Uno (ATmega328) has a single hardware serial connection. If more serial connections are needed, you must implement these in software. Luckily, there is a very easy to use library to implement software serial connections. It is called SoftwareSerial.h and is included with the latest Arduino IDE. The following code demonstrates how to use