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Electronics

Developing the ambient lighting system — what I’m actually working on

So I shifted my priorities away from just a ‘boring’ sunrise lamp and am now working towards my very own vision of a powerful extensible ambient lighting system. The project has three major construction sites: a client application which lets the end-user control his light system; the RGB lamp hardware and its electronic circuitry; and last but not least, […]

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Electronics

Ambient lamp project with more features and more colours!

I announced my ambition to build my very own wake-up lamp à la Philips back in February. I was pretty clueless regarding every aspect involved in such a project and it took me quite a while to figure things out. Thanks to the wisdoms of the internet though, it’s been a raging success so far. At […]

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Apps & Widgets Bada

NoteCraft for Bada now available for free!

I’m glad to announce that from today, I’m offering NoteCraft completely free of charge to everyone. It’s been two successful years since it’s very first release in January 2011. I learned a lot, received great feedback and had a lot of fun creating NoteCraft. As I’m moving away from Bada though, I stopped improving NoteCraft and there is only […]

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The Web Tutorials

Documents to my OpenStack introductory seminar now online

Last November, as a part of the curriculum of my study in Applied Computer Science, I conducted an introductory seminar about the OpenStack cloud. I had a lot of fun in exploring the cloud technology and put a lot of effort into my work. Thus, I want to make it available to everyone who is […]

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Electronics

Building my own Wake-up Light

During the Christmas holidays, I’ve seen a lot of deals for those new fancy wake-up lights from Philips. It promises a smooth awakening each morning with a simulated sunrise. I’d imagine it to be pretty awesome to have considering my painful Windows Phone alarm, which blasts bad music at me each morning at full volume. […]

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Tutorials

Adding proper sliding effects to jQuery slideshow plugin ‘NivoSlider’

The Nivo Slider jQuery plugin by Dev7studios is a free slideshow gallery. It provides lots of fancy transition animations such as fade-in, fade-out or cutting the image into moving slices. For my site, I just want a simple sliding animation, that moves the image from the left or right edge of the slideshow box into […]