Listening to: Not Enough Love In The World - Don Henley

They sold out the first shipment of iPhones… seems they got their pricing bang on. Well played.

Listening to: No Names (Black Debbie) - Dangerdoom

I was going to give up being an Apple Fanboi. But then I upgraded my iPod Touch to version 2.0 of the OS and installed the iTunes Remote Control. Very cool. Next Lent I guess.

Listening to: Belfast Child - Simple Minds

Ok having nutted out how to talk to my dev board using the USB-serial connection… I then wanted to use the USBNET connection. Again this required some new drivers - but it was basically done by following the instructions outlined here.

The biggest hassle was setting up USB Ethernet on the Mac. You don’t have a comparable ifconfig call to make as you would under Linux. You need to install the USB drivers (additionally this if you’re running 10.5.x), wait for OSX to do it’s stuff and then set up the network connection in the ‘Network’ prefs panel. Once you’ve done that you can execute the relevant ifconfig call via the serial connection and then ssh using the OSX terminal.

Listening to: How We Operate - Gomez

I have started playing with the e-ink dev kit (it uses a Gumstix as the controller). The first problem was talking to the dev board using the usb-serial connection and OSX. I got it working ok last night using my XP virtual machine. This morning I got it up and running using OSX. The key steps:

1. Install the USB drivers for the serial port.
   I needed to install the FT232R drivers - which you can find here.
   You will need to reboot your Mac and then when you plug the USB into your machine you will be treated to a new tty under /dev (in my case /dev/tty.usbserial-A1002bao).
2. Install ZTerm
   I couldn’t get an intelligible connection using ’screen’. ZTerm allows you to set up the serial connection correctly.

Listening to: Free Chilly (feat. Sarah Green & GemStones) [Interlude] - Lupe Fiasco

Check out this recent piece of art produced using Ponoko:

engraving detail
Originally uploaded by nathan_leland.

Listening to: North And South Of The River - U2

Hey hey! It arrived. Lots of photos on flickr:

P1000415.JPG
Originally uploaded by flash5.

Listening to: Eliza - Shihad

Our kittens have arrived (we’re only taking 2).

laurababies
Originally uploaded by mandaburms.

Listening to: Banquet - Junior Sanchez Mix - Bloc Party

My devkit is literally sitting down the road at the FedEx office waiting for the customs paper work to get sorted. The next trick will be to find time… don’t even have time to blog evenly these days.

Listening to: Violence & Bloodshed - Shihad

Awesome!

I have just finished uploading version 0.2 of my SketchUp plug-in to “Google Code” under GNU GPL v3. The plug-in and source code is available via the download area, and also via SVN.

This plug-in should allow users to export selected faces from SketchUp as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This is of particular use for aiding in the design of laser cut products (especially using Inkscape and Ponoko).

Listening to: Broadcast - Strawpeople

It’s great to see that the VortexDNA guys are finally getting some coverage:

At a home nestled in the heart of Christchurch surburbia five men have mapped the structure of the human consciousness.

It allows predictions to be made about people and who they are, which could have huge ramifications for the insurance and advertising industries, says VortexDNA director Branton Kenton-Dau.