This is the first post in a series, in which we will detail several aspects of the creation of the music of Super Time Bomb. In this post we’ll show you how we created the music for the game (which happens to be chiptune-style) using free software available for the Ubuntu platform. The tools that we are using are however pretty generic, and there should be alternatives (if not even direct ports) available for your platform.
Collectd is an easy way of monitoring servers (CPU, memory, network, etc) and using the threshold and the notification plugin we can get notifications via email if some of them hit a threshold.
The only problem is that collectd doesn’t provide a summary of the current status (like, for instance, Jenkins does), that’s why we built our own summary system.
Download from Github
When you want to draw an image in a screen using Arduino you must convert the image to PROGMEM const unsigned char first.
In order to achieve that, there are some tools available like image2code or LCD Assistant,
but in this tutorial we will show an easier and friendlier way, using the GIMP image editor.
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Are you sad that Santa didn’t get you that phone-controlled quadcopter that you wanted for Christmas?
How about building your own?
It is not as difficult as it seems, in Coconauts we will show you how to do it. Or at least, we’ll show you how to get started with building a small Bluetooth controlled device.
Every time there’s a change of year we can’t help taking a look back to account for everything that is different from the same point one year ago. For Coconauts 2014 has been a really exciting year, and we wanted to have a record of our achievements during the same, so when we take a look back again at the end of 2015 we have something to compare against.