bookmark_borderScript for Organizing Bitcasa’s Upload Directory

Bitcasa is a great option for everyone who wants to backup a big chunk of files. You have unlimited space to host your files, and it also works as an external drive. I can say it works alright, but it is still a bit slow and there is still a lot of work to be done in order to be as good as its competitors, such as Dropbox.

With the last iOS update, you are now able to backup all of your phone’s pictures directly to the Bitcasa Upload folder. It’s great and works very well BUT the problem is that after a month of uploads, the folder is packed with more than a thousand pictures, which makes it extremely slow to function (because it’s all in the cloud). So I made a small python script to automatically organize the folder by the time it was uploaded, creating a folder like /Volumes/Bitcasa/Uploads/2013/Aug and it moves them to those folders.

Below you can check out the script, hope it helps!

bookmark_borderCrosschecking movie watchlist from two people

trakt

Trakt.tv is a great service for those who like to keep track of everything they watch, both TV shows and movies. I am a bit of a statistics freak and I love to analyze any kind of data, and with this website it’s no different. So far I have watched 2,027 episodes from 35 different shows and 642 movies (that I have tracked so far).

Another thing that I really like about trakt is that I can install a XBMC plugin to add shows automatically to the list after I’ve watched them.

You know when you’re trying to decide which movie to watch with your girlfriend or friend, and you spend more time searching for what to watch than actually watching it? With this in mind, and using trakt’s API, I made a Python Script to do this work for me (maybe someday I can make a php version and put it online), and all you have to do is enter two usernames from trackt and it will list the movies.

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bookmark_borderEmbedding instagram content on your website

Today, Instagram enabled the option to embed pictures and videos on the internet, a feature that many people have been asking for. However, if your content is private this feature is disabled.

To embed any instagram content on your website, all you have to do is go to http://instagram.com/[insert your username].

Embed Instagram on your Page

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bookmark_borderBarTop Mame Cabinet (under dev)

Who hasn’t spend a lot of money and time on arcades during childhood? What about build one and play all those games again?

Mame Cabinet

Browsing the web I found that a lot of people are building their own machines, building over a pc running a MAME emulator with a cool front-end. If you google images for ‘arcade cabinet‘ you will be amazed by what people are doing!!

I decided then to build my own, trying to use as much used stuff as possible, like a old computer, old screen and two usb game controllers that were broken but with the electronics hardware in perfect conditions. The cabinet will stay on the hackerspace from my town, TARRAFA HACKERSPACE, so we can set some championships, it will be fun for sure!!!

On this post, I will be giving updates on the progress (not much will be done during university semester, I hope to finish this project on holidays).

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bookmark_borderATmega8A Development Kit Review

Few days ago I received a ATmega8A Development Kit from ProtoStack.

The board is well made, and it has everything you need to start developing any kind of project using the famous Atmega8, which is the same µC used by the first Arduino. Actually, you can also use this board with different µC’s such as Atmega168 and Atmega328 (used in Arduino UNO).

The kit have a lot of space to add more components, and a good thing is that the VCC and GND voltage is easily accessed everywhere of the board. On the pictures and the video I posted here, I have connected the output pin PB2 to an resistor, green LED and to the ground, even without soldering the board works great.

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