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Antonio Ospite, theorist attacks

Mix sport, technology and art and you get the perfect project.

I really enjoy art even though I am not much of an artist myself, I am definitely a technologist (more of a researcher of technology than a user TBH), and I've become a sports person too in the latest years, in particular I discovered how jumping rope can be a fun way to do cardio, way funnier than playing hamster on the treadmill; and each time I was jumping rope I started thinking about a tech project involving a jump rope.

Wire-wrapping is a very handy way to connect wires to PCB pins, especially in two scenarios:

1. As an alternative to soldering, in order to be able to easily recycle the components.
2. As an alternative to female jumper wires, in order to save some vertical space (sometimes jumper wire connectors are just too long).

If you have a jump rope with ball bearing handles you can use zip ties to hack them into one of those fancy “speed ropes”.

And yes, I am kind of into jumping rope these days.

Interesting text about English pronunciation: The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité.

A due update to my AKOP “work”: a Debian and a Linux versions could not be avoided.

I released version 0.2 of tweeper, go get it from the tweeper git repository.

After my cool non-sense story about Android 5 I wanted to get back again to the Altoids theme and expand a bit on it.

Some interesting and inspiring things I stumbled upon this month:

I was having a hard time getting the Acer C110 USB pico projector work when connected to the BeagleBone Black, it wasn't showing up on the USB bus at all, no sign of it in the kernel messages and consequently no sign of it in lsusb.

Tweeper is a web scraper which extracts the most recent public tweets of a given user from their home page on Twitter.com and formats them in RSS, so the information can be conveniently accessed and collected by a feed reader.