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on July 22, 2009

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Arduino - an open-source PIC platform

Arduino - This is another litter gadget I would like to buy and try out. It's a PIC prototyping board with a USB connection to connect to your computer. What makes it different from other prototyping board is that it's open-source. There is a large community behind the project. IDE development tools could be downloaded free of charge. And you could buy it easily around the world. If you are interested in this, I would recommend you to read the tutorial from the following link. If you are new to PIC, this is a an good introduction. If you are experienced, the tutorial provides you information on what is being offered. http://todbot.com/blog/spookyarduino/ If you know of other links with useful information or nice application of Arduino, let me know.

Inside of the Octopus Card (八達通)

With the hope to extract the chips from my normal-sized Octopus and made a smaller Octopus card, I search around on the net for a solution. I found one indeed but the size reduction is not promising at all. Below link to the website for instruction ( http://www.anpan2.ath.cx/eddy/index.php?fpath=main9.html ). The card was soaked in thinner to dissolve the plastic cover from the circuit board. Once that's done, the antenna was folded to reduced the card size. Due to the large size of the antenna, the overall size of the card could not be reduced much. The left picture below is the original circuit and the right one has the antenna folded (new size: 76 x 46mm). If you really want a reduced size Octopus chips, the best is to get the one from the mini Octopus card or the Octopus watch. For me, I decided to abandon my original idea... both the mini Octopus and the Octopus watch are too expensive if the only purpose is to get the chips.

T9, 九方, 中文輸入法

I have justed installed the software and use it to type in Chinese. The software supports a few input methods but I only used 筆順 so far. The input method is very similar T9 on mobile phones and with my limited T9 experience, I could manage to use it in a short period of time. I know there are people who said input method like T9, 九方 are not efficient as 倉頡. But this is fine for me. I don't type a lot and I just want a way to write. And this software seem to be better than those pen writing input methods. But then, if T9 is available on desktop, I think I would like to have that. If you know of any T9 software, please let me know. Lastly, if you want to try 九方, below the link, http://www.q9tech.com/ (Updated Aug-29, 2008) to try out 九方 on the net, below is a nice, http://ime.g4team.com/q9/

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