Jaco’s Random Writings

Whoa! What happened to the website?
Short answer: I tore it down and set it on fire. It is gone. All that’s left are the ashes.
Long answer: I was unhappy with it. No matter what design I came up with, I disliked it strongly. And I realized that it wasn’t the designs that were particularly troubling. [...]

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I’ve loosely been following the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) program for some time. Heck, I remember when it used to be called the $100 Laptop Program. Now, I loved the idea behind it. The idea was to make a laptop cheap enough so that schools in 3rd World countries could afford them for the [...]

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So I caught an article off of Slashdot regarding some of Microsoft’s business dealings. Now, it’s not a surprise at all that Microsoft is once again at war with OSS. In fact, they never stopped fighting OSS. They just moved the fight behind closed doors. But it would appear that the fight has broken out [...]

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So here it is. The project page for “Duimdla” is posted up. Why so long after the project has been completed for almost a month now? Simple, side projects, the hunt for a job, and the arduous task of making sure all the documentation for the project was up to scratch and that the proper [...]

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I found this super awesome project while trolling the Arduino Playground site. This is a small little barebones grain synthesizer made using an Arduino, 5 pots, and a mono audio jack. I think they explain it better than I can on their site: Click Me!
Anyways, I have a video of it in action here for [...]

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