Ansi now on weather underground

Moin
Since 5 minutes I push my local weather station data (which can be seen in near real time here) to the weather underground network. See the sticker on the right side or this cool one here:

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APRS igate running xastir

Moin

I just played a little bit with APRS igate on Linux. There are some igate software available on Linux but the most supported package (javAPRESSrvr) is not available today because of an error on Yahoogroups where the files are hosted.

Therefore I installed xastir from Sourceforge and connected the the local running instance with the APRS-IS network. Now DM1AS is visible on FINDU.

Nice side effect on this, the server generates an Google Maps page every 5 minutes with APRS stations around my home. Maybe tomorrow I connect my radio to the igate and there will be more local stations available.

So far you can see the map here:http://tinyurl.com/nacc5k

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testupload

New bibliothek stuttgart

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Bikemap Routes on Garmin GPS

Moin

I love Peters Bikemap.net page. Using this service to plan all my bike tours. Unfortunately my Garmin (GPSmap 60) does not understand the gpx file from Bikemap export. I wrote this little script to modify and split the route into smaller routes. GPSmap 60 only handle 250 points per route. Therefore the script splits the route into smaller pieces, renames the note names into “rtept” resp. “rte” and uploads the route via USB to the connected garmin.

What you need to run this script are gpsbabel and the unix commands: sed, split,cut and head .

Here it is, as usually no guarantee.

#!/bin/bash
filename=$1

gpsbabel -i gpx -f ${filename} -o csv -F out.csv
split -l 200 out.csv splits
rm out.csv

for i in `ls splits*`
do
 gpsbabel -i csv -f ${i} -o gpx -F ${i}.gpx
 sed 's/wpt/rtept/' ${i}.gpx > out
 rm ${i}.gpx
 mv out ${i}.gpx
 rm ${i}

 linenumber=`wc -l ${i}.gpx | cut -d " " -f 1`
 let linenumber-=1

 sed -n 10,${linenumber}p ${i}.gpx >a.gpx

 rm ${i}.gpx

 cat ${filename} | head -n 9  >${i}.gpx
 echo "<rte>"                >>${i}.gpx
 cat a.gpx                   >>${i}.gpx
 echo "</rte>"               >>${i}.gpx
 echo "</gpx>"               >>${i}.gpx
 rm a.gpx

 sudo gpsbabel -r -i gpx -f ${i}.gpx -o garmin -F usb:0
 rm ${i}.gpx
done

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LeChuck Me… Monkey Island is back yeahhhhh

Moin

Just found on Slashdot the article on the new Monkey Island. Its points to rockpapershutgun. Go and read on your own or just watch this cool movie with preview and background information and hey also great impressions on the new Monkey Island. Cant wait to have it:

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Pachube Temp Sensor with Atmel MC over ethernet

Moin

I spend this rainy day working on an old project and I am happy to announce its 99.8% finished. Now I have a nice Atmel Board screwed to the wall with an ethernet port. Nice little project where you can access measurement values and digital I/Os via normal http access. For now I have 3 temperature sensors running. One outside, one on the ceiling and one on the floor of my office. Idea is to control a fan when the temperature between the ceiling and the floor is to hight. I have this problem specially in winter times when the heater is on. Next week I will attach a light sensor as well. For now you can find all the measurements on pachube feed 1303. For example here is the outside temperature sensor. Time is in utc.

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Server update to Ubuntu Server 9.04

Moin

My blog will be offline on sunday for some time because I will reinstall the server with new HD and Ubuntu 9.04.

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Planning a geekend

Moin

If you ever wondered if geeks are social here is the answer. Yes they are and they are very social and organising some very cool events which are called “geekends”. Combination of weekend and geek. Not just going for hiking with friends. No developing, building, ironing and coding very cool and geeky things.

As being a reader of the very cool MAKE magazin I read the article on a brain machine the other day. This project is great for a geekend. Something to build, some hardware, software and after all a great toy to play with.

The idea is to build one of these Brainwave (aka Light and Sound Machines) on your own with a little micro controller. Lets see if we can optimize the hard and software a little bit. The original one is based on an other project and therefore the hard and software is not optimizes for a LSM.

More Information on the original project you can find the the blog here.

Stay tuned to my blog to read more on this geekend.

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Gott gibt es nicht

Religionsunterricht ist Betrug

Moin

Saw it today and I have to support it!!!!

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Star Trek 11 juhu

Moin

After six very long years of waiting… here it is Star Trek 11

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