Chris J Arges

Mbox ALSA Patch

Chris J Arges — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:58:13 +0000

Having some basic knowledge of writing Linux device drivers, I decided to get my old Mbox USB audio device working on Linux. After searching for existing attempts I found two leads:

http://www.mail-archive.com/alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg12286.html

http://www.zamaudio.com/?p=97

I followed the second link first, but his driver was written for the Mbox2, and after changing parameters around I still couldn’t [...]

The $50 Xbox360

Chris J Arges — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:42:22 +0000

Xbox360 Disassembled

So I wanted to buy an Xbox360, but didn’t want to spend the cash on a new system. I found a craigslist ad for a broken “red ring of death” machine for $100 bucks. I counter-offered $50, and the deal was done. I made sure that the error code was one that [...]

Return of the Lights Out Project

Chris J Arges — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:27:05 +0000

After a few recent comments, I have revisited my lights out hacking from this post.

Thanks to help from Dustin Wise, I was able to get the full working pinout and thus be able to actually turn on specific lights from software as originally intended. Here is a pinout diagram that he provided:

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uD – Algorithmic Music Generator

Chris J Arges — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:56:28 +0000

This was my senior design project at Purdue University. The image is stolen from bafoontecha.com. I worked with Sumanth Peddamatham and Alex Tucker on this project and in the end we made a compact, slightly stylish (for a senior design project), algorithmic music generator. Blogging about this years later I would have definatly done [...]

Roarey is growin’ up.

Chris J Arges — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:44:21 +0000

Apple G5 (PowerMac11,2) Linux Serial Console HOWTO

Chris J Arges — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:41:18 +0000

I am using an Apple G5 (PowerMac11,2) running Gentoo (64/64ul) Linux/GNU. I wanted to be able to use the xmon kernel debugger with my machine, and since the G5 doesn’t have an external COM port, I decided to do some research. I found that there are commercial products available that use the internal modem [...]

The Date is Set

Chris J Arges — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:31:00 +0000

Our wedding date is going to be Aug. 22, 2009. Church is decided, hall is still in the air. In fact most things are still in the air, but that’s ok we still have a year.

Compute ‘n’ Bike!

Chris J Arges — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:51:00 +0000

Here’s a fun way to compute and stay fit! It was an idea I had to be able to work out and get work done. I just hooked up my laptop to my projector… and taped my mouse/keyboard to my bike. It was fun, but typing was sort of difficult. : )

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Have your computer read every word in the dictionary!

Chris J Arges — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:48:00 +0000

For some reason, I wanted my computer to read every word in its dictionary for my amusement.

In Mac OS X this is possible issuing the following command with no additional software installed:

for i in `cat /usr/share/dict/words`; do sleep 1; say $i; done

In Linux/GNU install wordlist and espeak packages and issue this command:

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Engaged!

Chris J Arges — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:46:00 +0000