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I picked up a pneumatic die grinder at Harbor Freight for $15.00. It is a tony right angle unit and would be an awesome tool if not for the fact that my compressor runs out of air after I use it for about 30 seconds. So I bought…
Continue readingTwilio requires a few things that I didn’t know about when I started this project. One is connecting to an HTTP server in a C++ program, another is SSL for HTTP in said C++ program, and the third is website authentication, again in C++. What this all boils…
Continue readingI suddenly thought that I should start writing the circle test program using JavaScript and an HTML5 canvas. It would probably work exactly like the native Windows app but with smoother lines. I could then add some HTML button or menu to let a user pick which experiment…
Continue readingAlthough I do a bit of rock climbing now and then, this post is about cam lobes like those in car engines, not those used for rock climbing protection. Finding End Circle Location I was discussing this with my dad because he is building a model engine. He’s…
Continue readingLast night, I finished work on the SMS text message handling in the Auto Responder. Twilio makes a web service request using my web server using a PHP script that I created for this purpose. It was simple to configure my Twilio account to use my server and…
Continue readingThe changes to the Auto Responder to support SMS change a few things in my program that affect the users. One of those things is the registration process. With email, the user is expected to send the word “team” followed by their team number to register@mucow.net. The code…
Continue readingIt turns out that some mobile phone services don’t send SMS messages to email addresses quickly enough. My demo Windows Phone from T-Mobile will not sent to email addresses at all and I have no idea why. To deal with this during the puzzle race, I am going…
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