Maplin had a robot arm kit going cheap so I thought I’d give it a go. I succeeded in building it within a few hours, and it works brilliantly when connected to the USB port. Next step is to get my Arduino to control it.
If you are trying to install Diablo 3 in advance of the big launch on Tuesday you might come across the common problem of the installer getting stuck at about the 30% mark as it tries in vain to update setup files.
I tried all of the online soultions to this – replacing agent.db etc, and nothing worked. Eventually I tried exiting from Malwarebytes Antimalware temporarily during the installation and it flew by like a dream.
Give that a go if you are stuck.
Playing around with IFTTT (If this then that).
For ages I’ve been meaning to create my own link shortener, a bit like tinyurl or bit.ly, which allow you to map a long URL to a nice short one. The concept is dead easy. What’s been hard up until now is finding a reasonably priced domain name that is really short.
Luckily .cc domains are now available, which apparently belongs to the Cocos Islands in Australia. So I bought rjp.cc (my initials) and stuck my link think on there. I’m quite pleased – the single small script makes notable use of:
I’m going to kick off regular notes again, but with no pressure. Just as and when I want to post something.