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Technology

Setting up a WiFi connection on the RaspberryPi

I’ve recently tried to setup a WiFi connection with the RaspberryPi and encountered some issues: the connection didn’t start automatically and it wasn’t stable. I’m using an Edimax EW-7811Un USB dongle, which is supposed to be supported out of the box with Raspian Wheezy (2012-12-16). After researching the issue, I finally have a configuration that […]

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Design Technology

Où sont les Vélibs ?

Cela va faire un mois que j’ai un pris mon abonnement Vélib. Traverser la ville à vélo est plutôt plaisant, il fait presque beau et la plupart des parisiens sont en vacances. Tout se passe bien, à condition de réussir à trouver un vélo. Si comme moi vous avez déjà consulté votre appli mobile pour […]

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Technology

Compte rendu du hackathon Music Hack Paris 2012

Ce dimanche avait lieu le Music Hack Paris à la Cartonnerie. J’ai pu assister aux démonstrations des projets.

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Javascript Technology

Hacking RFID with NodeJS

tl;dr: you can write JS code (see below) to read RFID tags with NodeJS. Last week-end, I found my old RFID reader in a drawer. It’s a mir:ror, made by Violet, you know, the company that invented Wi-Fi rabbits. The device is a USB HID device and used to ship with a lousy app that […]

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Design Javascript Technology Web Webstandards

CSS Color Palette Extractor

There are already many web apps that extract colors from CSS. But none of them seemed to do what I need them to do. So I built my own. My goal was to create a tool that would help me consolidate the palette of an ever growing CSS. To achieve this goal, I needed a […]