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Ancient VB6 stuff

Visual Basic used to be an easily accessible programming language for the windows platform. I spent quite some hours and a lot of creativity with it years ago, and the result is a bunch of half-finished programs. I started creating stuff with VB6 out of interest when I was a …

Notes about my old LAN server

My old server functioned as an internet gateway and DHCP and masquerading DNS server. The last two are not necessary, but it's always easy if you just have to plug you cable into the LAN, and don't have to configure your network adapters. It also ran an Apache web server …

PenguinPages Preprocessor

When I started maintaining a personal website years ago, I kept all content in static HTML files which I uploaded. The server didn't support server side scripting and for a while I used a JavaScript to provide a navigation menu.

The JavaScript menu fixed just that, navigation. Devising a publishing …

DenAgenda: De Nayer Timetables

DenAgenda is a webservice written in Python program I hosted on my webserver. It converted my college's online timetable from HTML (screen-scraping) to the iCalendar format, which is a standardized calendar file format.

The obsolete sourcecode is available under GPL 2 license and is available as a git repository:

Embedded artists Game/Bluetooth board

I wrote this article on using a microprocessor board with GNU tools for an embedded software class back in 2006. It's written in Dutch.

JAL Programmable Logic Controller

When my brother was doing his last year of high-school in electromechanics, he came up with the idea of doing his final project using a homebuilt PLC instead of the usual Siemens stuff. I built the electronics and came up with a framework so he could easily implement his GRAFCET state machine for his part sorting robot for the PICMICRO in the JAL programming language.

This was long before Arduino, long before 'all the cool kids were doing it', and JAL was a free compiler for the affordable PIC microcontrollers. The Arduino of its days.

Howto: Intel 8051 assembler .exe onder UNIX

Download page

I use this spot to put links to miscellaneous binaries I provide on my website.

Filename		Comment	Size
	16f84_clock.sch	Pic84 Clock schematic	85715 bytes
	16f84_clock.zip	Pic84 Clock Sourcecode + hexfile	14340 bytes
	JCS_1.0.6_SOURCE.zip	Jal Code Studio 1.0.6 Sourcecode	852150 bytes …

Alarm clock using a PIC microcontroller

This is an alarm clock I built. It was very effective during the sort time I used it, because I programmed it to play a very annoying tune through a speaker. I actually started to wake up before the alarm went of, so other people in the house didn't wake up from the annoying pitches it played.

Countdown timer with PIC16F84

This is the first circuit I built with the PIC16F84. It can best be described as an egg timer with only the timekeeping code in place. It's got 4 pushbuttons, a character LCD and a buzzer. I started building this clock because I wanted to build my own Alarm clock …

Electronics related Links

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Mijn favoriete freeware anno 2005

Deze pagina heb ik volledig gewijd aan de vrije computerprogramma's die ik gebruik op mijn computers. Het zijn professionele programma's zonder ruwe kanten, waar iedereen direct mee aan de slag kan. De programma's zijn vrij in de zin dat hun broncode (ontwerpplannen) vrij beschikbaar is zodat elke programmeur met tijd en zin verbeteringen kan maken.

My Highschool Final Project

This is the final project I created my last year of highschool (2003-2004). It's about stepper motor control with an AVR microcontroller and BASCOM. I designed a PCB with AT90S2313 microcontroller and ULN2003 Darlington array to drive the stepper motor. It has a chapter about stepper motors that might be …