How to program Arduino with Atmel Studio

Arduino is a fun entry point for those of you who want to program microcontrollers. It comes in two parts: the Arduino development board itself, and the Arduino IDE, a very easy to use notepad-like environment where you can write your code.The Arduino board itself is nothing more than a development board for an ATmega328P microcontroller with some nice extras, while the Arduino IDE takes care of making programming a microcontroller a kid's game.

However, the IDE can sometimes get in the way of a more advanced programmer, as it ads a lot of extra code we sometimes do not want (o prefer to do our self). The remedy is to program the ATmega328P with Ateml Studio 7, just as if it were a regular microcontroller. But for that, we first need to tell it how to "talk" to the Arduino to program it.

Guns Of Icarus Online: weapons chart

Guns of Icarus Online is a steampunk-themed video game based on a new concept of cooperation. You and your friends share an armed airship and have to fight enemy for fun and glory, but instead of controlling your vessel directly, you have to move to the different components to steer the ship (helm), keep your ship airborne (balloon, engines, etc) and run from turret to turret during intensive air battles and dogfights. The game is very fun and really stands out from other video games in the way it works on cooperative team playing.

Reduce eye strain and insomnia when working at night with F.lux and Redshift

For thousand of years our days have been scheduled by the sun, so it is no surprise that our biological clock can be directly affected by the amount of light we get. Yet, our bodies can not differentiate sun light from artificial light, and in our modern societies we are surrounded by the later until the very last minute we go to sleep.

Melatonin is the hormone that tells our body when it is time to sleep, but it secretion can be affected by exposure to bright light, specially blue light of which we get a lot during day time, while red light, like that for example of sunsets, does not hamper our sleep cycle. The effect of light on our daily cycles has been studied by Harvard among others.

In this post I am going to talk about software to automatically reduce the amount of blue in your screen without you even noticing it according to the time of day. Remember that screens produce any color by mixing red, green and blue light sources.