If you’re into DIY electronics, you’ve probably heard of SparkFun before. Their original kits and reseller products, such as the Olimex development boards are a great tool to get up and running fast.
It looks like SparkFun is now hopping on to the Open Source Hardware bandwagon, licensing under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License. This is great news! Hopefully more of their products could use this upgrade, and allow people to create derivatives (like fixing the bad analog signal quality on the Logomatic v2).
For reference, their ClockIt kit is now open source. A number of projects come with GPLed microcontroller source code, but not an open source hardware license.
A simple an inexpensive way to emulate HID and standard 125kHz RFID cards by just using a microcontroller, an optional capacitor, and a coil:
http://scanwidget.livejournal.com/32928.html
Quite a cool hack, especially since it can emulate the FSK based HID cards (think building access control).
I’ve been extremely busy lately moving everything from one place to another, and haven’t had any time to push out code changes to EVE-Central. So, in order to make it look like there is some progress (;)), I’ve added a quick “Latest Transactions” section to each item. The filtering is bad (it doesn’t quite get regions yet) and only shows the last 10 entries. There is a lot more backend work, including new aggregate pricing models, which use this data, however the data is brought out to the API or webpages yet.
This transaction data is provided by users (you included!) giving EVE-Central.com Full EVE API access to your account so the system can pull market transaction logs. The more people who contribute, the better it gets.
Check out this OLED keyswitch NKK.
Full color 64×32 display, with a SPI interface, which is much easier to use than previous products (such as the ScreenKeys)
IS15DSBFP4RGB on Mouser
Just as an FYI, CCP seems to have broken their wallet API recently.
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<eveapi version="2">
<currentTime>2009-05-17 03:00:34</currentTime>
<error>A general error has occured, please try again later.</error>
<cachedUntil>2009-05-17 04:00:34</cachedUntil>
</eveapi>
Its been down for a day or so. If anyone has some hints on what they broke this time, I’d like to hear it.
Just a quick note for today.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the UserVoice feedback page to date. There are some great suggestions mixed in here. I’ve started flagging entries as planned/review/etc. If you head to http://evecentral.uservoice.com/pages/16679-general you can see the activity to date.
More updates soon.
I’ve added a UserVoice feedback link to the front page of EVE-Central. UserVoice is a very handy little feedback suggestion system which allows anonymous users a quick way to add comments to the site and vote on other people’s suggestions. I’ve already collected two good pieces of user feedback from the system (and fixed one bug!).
This is complementary to the other methods I’m (trying) to track, including EVEO forums (please use the official thread if you do comment directly - other threads get lost far too fast) and the Bugzilla list (for developer input bugs).
I’ve only placed the feedback side tab on the front page for now - I may add it other places or provide a less “in your face” version on the new page footers.
First, a small change that others have been asking for. Now, when you search for items in the main interface, blueprints won’t be shown by default. Since there really isn’t a player market for these, there is no reason to show them to you. Uploads and API access will still be accepted for those that want to know.
Edit: You can once again search for Blueprints. If you add the term “Blueprint” to the end of your search, all blueprints which match will be returned. Feature added by popular request.
API transaction pulling is ongoing and the system has been collecting a good amount of data which helps to fine tune algorithms. Work on this feature was a bit slow due to real work and other life activities, but gave me more data to play with, so its not entirely bad. While there is no direct display of data as of the site update tonight, the underlying database contains an entirely new pricing model. I expect the introduce the display of this data in the upcoming week. If you want to help, feel free to register on EVE-Central and input your full API key.
On a side note, I have been playing with producing a market lookup iPhone application, which pulls data from EVE-Central.com. It will take awhile to push it out of the door (and pass through Apple’s approval), but perhaps by the time of the iPhone 3.0 OS launch it will be a reality.
Fly safe!
As a statistic for the internet, I would like to report that my Apple Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter works just fine. I purchased it from new stock at an Apple store on April 2nd, and am using it with a 2009 Mac Mini base model (+ putty knife upgraded RAM). The monitor is an NEC LCD3090WQXi, running happily at 2560×1600.
Which brings up two main complaints:
I know this is an active adapter, with a full DisplayPort to DVI protocol converter (and high bandwidth DVI for that matter). But why is it $99? That is 1/6th of the value of a new Mini.
And why does the new Mini still ship with the same gargantuan power brick that the original Mini shipped with? Its nearly 1/3rd the size of the computer! I know Apple has worked hard to miniaturize power adapters - every other adapter is much smaller! Even the Time Capsule has a built-in power supply…
As you may (or may not) have noticed, the User Settings page on EVE-Cental.com now contains an option to set your full API key. Note that it requires the full API key in order to pull your market transaction logs. I am posting this announcement now as I’d like to collect as many API keys as possible in order to help test the system. If you’re willing to help, please log in to EVE-Central.com and set your API key.
The log data will not currently show up in any online view. I am working on polishing the framework for matching them to existing orders, and other similar fun.
I also have not published the full terms of use for the API logs. The market transaction logs available from the service will however never contain identifying information, such as your character name, IDs, etc. It will be a completely anonymous donation.
