Picture of my new workbench

Here is a picture of my new workbench.

I created my own workbench

I created my own workbench a few days ago. I still have to put up a few photos, but maybe I will do that in a few days.

Creating the workbench was quite simple: I got an old top of a table and bought a piece of particle board for hanging tools. I also added eight power sockets so I can use my soldering iron, a power supply for 12 V and 5 V, a desk lamp and various chargers.

While I was creating the workbench I also found a nice video about creating your own workbench on systm.

My new laptop

Yesterday I bought a new laptop. A Toshiba Sattelita Pro L40. When I tried to install linux it looked like it work pretty good. But when I tried to connect using the onboard wireless adapter I noticed an error in the dmesg output.

Today I thought of another way to get linux on my computer. I now use the preinstalled Windows Vista Business (reinstalled from the recovery disk) and vmplayer from VMware with a virtual appliance.

I still testing this so, I'm not sure how good it's going to work. And I'm going to be offline for a few days, so I will let you all know when/if this works.

Create a sound generator with an NE555 IC

I few weeks ago I started doing some electronics projects. The second thing I tried was using the NE555 chip. It's was quite simple to use. Within a few minutes I had a blinking led (remember, this is my third electronics project).

This video shows how you can create a sound generator with a few NE555 chips. I created something like it, a few days ago.

First results of perl survey

The first survey results are in about the conversion rates. There is still time to complete the questions. For all the reasons mentioned on the page: fill out the perl survey.

Scrape stuff of webpages

A web scraper in Perl, which uses a simple DSL for specifying what to parse. An example for the author follows. Web::Scraper hacks #1: Extract links linking to images

I'm unemployed (by choice)

For the first time in 1,5 years I'm unemployed. Not much of problem of course, because I chose to do it this way. I have all these projects waiting for me, but no time to work on any of them.

So I chose to stop working for an employer. Today is my first day without going to work. For a start I changed the the headers of this website and internettablet.nl. my Dutch website about internet tablets. I'm thinking about buying a server to host all my websites and a few others.