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	<link>http://jtoee.com</link>
	<description>Putting the &#62;O&#60; in technology</description>
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		<title>Bye Bye Holographic Storage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember reading this great article about holographic storage in 1991. Yes, that&#8217;s 1991, I was a nerd even back then (article on Der Spiegel or via Google Translate). Holographic storage was going to take over everything and replace hard-drives in five years. I guess that didn&#8217;t happen, but companies such as InPhase sure kept [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jtoee.com/2010/02/bye-bye-holographic-storage/</link>
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		<title>Ditch Flash, Mr. Jobs. Really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal to ditch flash because it is a buggy old technology with security holes. That&#8217;s an interesting attitude, considering that the real reason for why Apple refuses to support Flash on the iPhone and iPad is that it would undermine the Apple store and they would have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jtoee.com/2010/02/ditch-flash-mr-jobs-really/</link>
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		<title>Link: Game Development in a Post-Agile World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this totally awesome rant/statement of facts (thanks Slashdot) about real-world development, hype, and just getting things done. I personally have always been a huge proponent of just doing what works and feels right in the particular situation, borrowing bits and pieces from all kinds of methodologies. I&#8217;ve never been a fan of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jtoee.com/2010/02/link-game-development-in-a-post-agile-world/</link>
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		<title>Launching Open Source Home Automation Site!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking my home automation tinkering to the next level, I am launching  catrpillr.com as an open-source solution to home automation. The site contains circuits, software, firmware, and documentation. Be advised that you currently still need at least intermediate knowledge of electronics to put these pieces together. The current solution allows you to fairly easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jtoee.com/2010/01/launching-open-source-home-automation-site/</link>
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		<title>Connecting Multiple AVR/Arduinos via I2C/TWI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my RF receivers require a full hardware-based UART to function reliably, I decided to opt for adding a simple attiny2313 as a controller connected to an Arduino. Ready to build a simple protocol, I decided to do a little more research into I2C &#8212; the inter-integrated-circuit protocol which puts multiple digital micro-controllers on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jtoee.com/2009/12/connecting-multiple-avrarduinos-via-i2ctwi/</link>
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		<title>Atmega/Arduino (Soft-) Serial Ports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the implementation of the &#8220;reverse&#8221; channel of my home automation system, the RF receiver will transmit radio data back to the master controller which in return sends it to the computer. Since the atmega168/328&#8217;s processors used in the standard Arduino only have one hardware-based serial port (UART), I tried for the software-based serial that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jtoee.com/2009/12/atmegaarduino-soft-serial-ports/</link>
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		<title>iPhone Garage Door Opener</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You keep forgetting your keys but would never let your precious iPhone out of sight? Then nothing should seem more obvious than the need to open your garage door with your iPhone. An Arduino and a few microcontrollers, relays, rf link transmitters and receivers and some firmware later, it&#8217;s now reality. Check out the prototype [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jtoee.com/2009/12/iphone-garage-door-opener/</link>
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		<title>Talking to an Arduino from Ruby/Rails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m in the process of building a full home-automation suite so I can finally open my garage door with my iPhone (stay tuned, more on that soon), I wanted to quickly post this since it actually wasn&#8217;t really easily found online and I spent a few minutes (ok, more like an hour) fiddling with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jtoee.com/2009/12/talking-to-an-arduino-from-rubyrails/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s powering Web apps: Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s powering Web apps: Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] &#124; Technology &#124; Los Angeles Times
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		<link>http://jtoee.com/2009/12/whats-powering-web-apps-google-waving-goodbye-to-gears-hello-to-html5-updated-technology-los-angeles-times/</link>
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		<title>Taking an Open-Source Approach to Hardware (WSJ)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal has another article on open source hardware and Arduinos up today.
The palm-sized Arduino serves as an electronic brain running everything from high schoolers&#8217; robots to high-end art installations. But perhaps the oddest thing about the device is the business model behind it.

Read it here.

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		<link>http://jtoee.com/2009/11/taking-an-open-source-approach-to-hardware-wsj/</link>
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