Remote joystick

January 18, 2012

Most remote access systems are not able to control joysticks, especially the generic ones. Do you want to control devices using joystick remotely? Well, there is a way: 1 – Choose your preferred computer language; 2 – Pick an ordinary joystick; 3 – Disable polling functions if it has that; 4 – On your program, […]

Need to Make a Touchpad with Microcontrollers? Here it is, Without Further Components

January 18, 2012

Do you need to make a simple touchpad? Try doing it with the analog port of microcontrollers. We did it successfully with the Microchip 16F and 18F4550 families.The trick is that: define the analog Ax port as output, and send 1 (or the maximum value) to this port. After that, send zero (0), and configure […]

“Bacia de Santos” Pre salt Bassin – The Oil Industry that Never Actually Arrived to Sao Paulo Coast

September 4, 2011

In September 2011, the Santos Petrobras Business Unit has just changed its designation Petrobras’ Business Unit to Petrobras’ Operational Unit  – from UN to UO on Portuguese spell.  It may signs that the money flow may pass by São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro instead of Santos (it did happen), which leaves only some technical […]

Life decision: Improve people’s lives

September 4, 2011

Last week, I decided on a number of things. So I had the same thinking about the people around me. This text revolves around my personal life and project management techniques. Personal life I lived with my two other brothers in Santos, Sao Paulo, in an apartment ceded by my father. This was somewhat a […]

Kind of poetic these days

July 13, 2011

The English version follows. “Às vezes colocamos óculos escuros para esconder nossos olhos dos outros, e não do sol. Muitas vezes, o utilizamos até para esconder-nos de nós mesmos. Eu acreditando que estava protegido, não percebi que a claridade do dia vinha de cima, de fora, do céu, e fazia meus olhos refletirem nos meus […]

Why I should have an iPhone?

March 28, 2011

Personally, I am(was) a Nokia phone fan. But most phone applications are designed for iPhones. OVI’s Nokia store has apps, but not even a tenth of the variety offered in the Apple Store.My partner and friends have iPhones or would like to have it. But once I am(was) a Nokia fan, I think that the […]

AR Drone – Creativity and iPhones

March 28, 2011

I discovered this toy in early 2011. I thought that it is awesome. Simple and didactic. It may be a sample of most things we can do with wifi integration with nowadays gadgets. http://www.dicasgeek.com/divertindo-se-com-um-ar-drone-o-quadricoptero-da-parrot/ The site “dicasgeek.com” means “geek tips dot com” and holds interesting content. Worth a reading! Image by Thomas Ehrhardt from Pixabay

Sometimes Sharing, Sometimes Super, Othertimes OK

March 28, 2011

Hi, world! For starting our conversation,  I believe that my experiences may improve significantly lives’ of many others. More important than that, I have friends and colleagues that are really great at knowledge and helping people to thrive! That said, I invite people having common goals to subscribe as authors, mainly on existing categories. Please, […]