Nolan's Corner blogs

Scalar skys

sneakin — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:15:11 -0700

Scalar sky 2

sneakin — Sun, 13 May 2012 05:06:32 -0700

1/28 crossed by 1/28/14

double rainbow for real

sneakin — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:38:38 -0700

double rainbow

sneakin — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:29:02 -0700

Broken Plate 1.1

sneakin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:10:43 -0700

I blame the microwave for weakening the glass under a heavy load.

Unwired DIY latch: not as precarious

sneakin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:38:14 -0800

A very precarious wire and screw AND gate

sneakin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:28:32 -0800

It sorta works.

sneakin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:06:23 -0800

Shares my couch

sneakin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:34:46 -0800

Concurrency, done easy

sneakin — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:21:14 -0800

I dashed this off to feed data to Graphite from my improvised security device:

#!/bin/sh
cat /dev/ttyUSB0 | ruby datecat.rb >> door_log.txt &
tail -f door_log.txt | ruby door_temp.rb | nc localhost 2003 &
tail -f door_log.txt | ruby door_opening.rb | nc localhost 2003 &
wait

Besides a lack of supervision, piping crap together is an easy way to use all of your cores.