Roberto Carvajal

personal blog

Category: Geek

Arduino

The other day thanks to a very good friend I got an Arduino as xmas present to my wife! we fell in love with the thing right away and started hacking something cool, we got a the starter kit flex from SparkFun.com and bought a couple of extra pieces to try to build a Pong [...]

Android

So I am not a heavy smartphone user, in fact, I am not even a heavy cell phone user at all, I recently sold my macbook and I currently have no “smart” mobile device but that didn’t stopped me to checkout the Android Developer Lab a few days ago here in Chile. I was always [...]

Running roboSimu, ODE and drawstuff in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

During this week my lovely wife is attending a conference at school about robotics, nano technology and neuroscience, all themes that we love and are very interested into learning as much as we can. One of the workshops was about simulating robots in the computer before attempting to build them in real life, of course [...]

Slickr Plugin

Just installed slickr plugin for wordpress, works great!, in a breeze I merged my flickr albums with a great and simple ajax interface. Can’t ask for more. Check out the photos here and the instructions of the plugin here.

Streaming Video From Linux To The Xbox 360 With Ushare

I had successfully setup ushare to stream multimedia content from my linux fileserver/p2p machine to my xbox 360 in order to reproduce the media on my tv without using xbox 360 hard drive space and without all the hassle that means burning disks or copying data to a pendrive, it works, the only problem right [...]

Copilot

So my girlfriend is a geek too (surprise! surprise!) and she has helped clients for years to setup computers, get rid of virus, trojans, malware, etc and most of the time clients just bring their desktops or laptops to her and she fix them and they pick them up good as new, but some times [...]