Andrey Mikhalchuk's Blog

Have you seen something like this ad block on a website recently? Even though the site might not be a part of an advertising program and you don’t have any advertising plugin in your browser, that things pups up in a totally inappropriate place and screws the design of the…

I’ve lost an important email recently. Some internet beast in the mail food chain swallowed it silently and never released. After some investigation I found that the party responsible for this evil act was in gmail. And 15 more minutes invested into reasearch revealed a few interesting facts about how…

If you’re an online shopper like me you probably use this massive amount of product feedback on Amazon.com for your own good. Sometimes other stores provide better prices, sometimes you need an item urgently so you will buy it offline. But no matter if I’m going to buy from amazon…

I recently switched to a different computer and got all gems in the system updated approximately at the same time. Not sure what exactly lead to the problem, but debugging the app in NetBeans became impossible because it stopped stopping on breakpoints. To add some confusion, breakpoints were still working…

Build the sketch
Find /tmp/build*.tmp folder. There should be one, if you see multiple then rm -rf /tmp/build*.tmp and rebuild the sketch. Only one build folder should be in the /tmp (for simplicity
run avr-size /tmp/build*.tmp/[sketch_name].elf
sum of data and bss values if the number you’re looking for

I’m working on a new RTFMs episode that involves packing an RGB LED and a microcontroller into a very tight space. The microcontroller I decided to use is PICAXE-08. I chose it for three reasons:
– I had one in the box
– I had no other plans for it as it…

I am working on one of my projects from RTFMs video blog (check out http://rtfms.com) that requires temperature sensing in a very small packaging. Naturally my choice is ATtiny85 – an awesome little chip from AVR that besides other goods (like 6ch PWM, serial interface etc) has internal temperature…

Here is some information for those looking for a high-end HT. My requirements are:

At least dual-band (tri,quad-band is a plus), including 144 and 440 bands at minimum

Good wideband receiver

All-mode receiver

Convenient control

Weather proof

Ruggedly built

Having a lot of features, leaving a lot of space for experimentation

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I encountered an interesting gmail glitch yesterday. I have two email accounts: one personal and one for work. A few weeks ago I was using Thunderbird for both, but after a few cases when I was sending emails from the corporate account and they actually got sent from personal…

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