Purdue Perl Mongers - April 13 - "Starship Mongers" I wrote a quick five-minute counter in Javascript...

Purdue Perl Mongers - April 13 - "Starship Mongers"
I wrote a quick five-minute counter in Javascript just for this I don't think I've mentioned it here, but I'm one of the core members of Purdue Perl Mongers , which I've wrangled into a SIG of Greater Lafayette Open Source Symposium (#GLOSSY) to try to reac...

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So I got a 5V Trinket Pro, with the goal of using it in a keyboard project. The "keys" part of the deal...

So I got a 5V Trinket Pro, with the goal of using it in a keyboard project. The "keys" part of the deal were not ready yet, so I wanted to test the Human Interface Device aspects.

So I wrote something that spat out the word "Hi" every second.

I know. Now I know.

So, I can't overwrite it, because I bring up the IDE and the script I want to send it keeps getting "Hi" appended to it.

A friend suggests wiring it up to a Uno and having it wipe the boot loader. I can do that, I believe, but I want to know if there are other "clever" ways to wipe a program off an Trinket or turn off it's HID aspects so I can program it normally.

Thoughts? 

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Diagnosing A Problem: OddMuse I work in a lab in a large research-centered university. We use a wiki...

Diagnosing A Problem: OddMuse
I work in a lab in a large research-centered university. We use a wiki to serve as our lab notebook where we keep notes about the samples that go through. We're also a Perl shop, so we went with a Perl-based wiki named OddMuse (a fork of UseMod ). This has ...

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Taking the Great Leap Forward with Dancer2 I am working on understanding a raft of technologies, including...

Taking the Great Leap Forward with Dancer2
I am working on understanding a raft of technologies, including Dancer and Bootstrap , in order to make our web presence look more current and, more importantly, be more maintainable.  I'm learning a lot, which is not the positive statement that it sounds l...

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The Story of a Computer: It had served for a while as our lab firewall, and doing that required significant...

The Story of a Computer:

It had served for a while as our lab firewall, and doing that required significant networking and not much else, so it had 2x512MB RAM. When my Linux box wouldn't let me into sudoers, I looked to this machine as my replacement, but balked at the lack of RAM.

I ordered some RAM, tried it, and got a beep code, which is computer for "You got the wrong RAM, idiot", and I left it on the bench for a while.

Specifically, until one of our half-time workers became a full-time worker, who needed a computer. I put Windows 7 on it, discovered that the motherboard battery had died, and discerned that this didn't behave very well on 1GB RAM.

I researched and ordered more RAM, being sure the item name on the page was "Memory for THIS DEVICE", and we got a new CR2032 for it, and when I came in today, I'm told it had freaked.

Yes, it had freaked. The screen was all goofy, but close enough I could see the tell-tale signs of Windows 7 on the screen. I yanked the power cable, cracked the case, popped the battery, then pulled both memory sticks.

Now, when I press the power button, I get nothing. Nothing. Once, when checking connections while plugged in, I got it whirring, but with no memory. I quickly unplugged and added memory, but get no sign of power or function with either the old or new RAM.

I hate hardware.

Any thoughts? I'm out of ideas.

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Turned two broken headphones into one functional set.

Turned two broken headphones into one functional set. 

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