An USBasp in a new design II
Most of the time I design and debug my AVR projects on solderless breadboards nowadays. And for that I have been using some different types of programmers by now: starting…
An USBasp in a new design
Just a small teaser: today I received my circuit boards from PCBgogo – a layout which I just had sent to the Chinese manufacturer last Sunday.
It is a USBasp, which can be placed on a breadboard and at the same time supplies the power rails on the sides. More to come…
Nerd or not?
Today there was a geocaching event celebrating Nerd Day. I must admit that I wasn't aware of the significance of today's date, but I also knew that I can probably…
…not again…
[:de]Ach ne, schon wieder? Ihr habt doch schon vor einem halben Jahr kein Geld von mir bekommen... [:]
The end of a short story in life…
This afternoon the birdsnest outside my office window has been plundered by a crow or raven. Even though the parent-birds got reinforcement by two other fieldfares they never had a chance.
The small birds only had a few days of life but they somehow enriched my days.
BirdCam – feeding in slow-motion
Because there was a problem with the Raspberry Pi again today, I took the opportunity to film my fieldfares live for a short while. In this slow-motion video you can see how first the female arrives at the nest with a fresh worm. A short while later also the male arrives with a beak full of worms for the small ones:
Hatching time
Ten days Mrs Fieldfare has been sitting in her nest – today was the big day: until late afternoon three eggs had hatched. Now also Mr Fieldfare has to show some effort who has not been much around the nest lately.
This is the first day in the life of the young fieldfares in time lapse:
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BirdCam v4
It took four attempts to finally get a suitable webcam to observe the bird's nest outside my office window. Most cheap webcams, even those which show off with true 720p…
Setting up webcam exposure under linux
I had some problems with fswebcam to set the automatic exposure. The exact way how to enter certain parameters is not clear from the lacking documentation, but it works fine…