19
Mar 07

Moved out of MediaTemple

MT was a great host for 4 years.
Good prices, very reliable structure, quick support response.
Their biggest mistake?

THE GRID.

As much amazing as it might sound, this whole grid sucked to me.
I’ve had service outages at least once a week.
I’ve stopped sending support requests when I was answered “[...] you should use thunderbird, not mac mail [...]” when I found out I had issues with their IMAP service.

I’ve got my own PVS now and I’m happy with it.
I’m at the moment hosted by Nohup in italy.
I’m more than happy now.
Although they’re not competitive in prices with MT, they provide a very stable service and a much faster one.

thank you nohup.

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04
Mar 07

AVR (and of course Arduino) RAM limits overcome.

As many AVR users might know, the AVR microprocessors we’re using for Arduino prototyping or just as bare µC’s to play with, have a limited amount of RAM memory.
This ranges between 512 Bytes to 4 KBytes for the more advanced ATmega128.
Arduino, at present time, has its core in an ATmega168, which has 1 KB SRAM memory for code execution.

While I was reading through the C++ code of the Nokia LCD library for AVR, I found out that a modifier was used when defining the Arrays containing LCD fonts and Bitmaps: PROGMEM.

continue reading this on tinker.it

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