Yep, it's been 4 full years I signed up here and lost my time with you guys I can't believe it. Happy Omniversary yay.
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Well, it seems my website turned 10 today. I already wrote about its history here (I'd add the fact julosoft.net redesigned into a corporate website with my video games portfolio while juju2143.ca became more of a front page where you can find my contact info and many of the projects I've done).

The first page was created in Feburary 2004, then it went through many URLs and redesigns... Suprisingly, version 1 of the site is still online after 10 years. Throughout the years, I offered many services, random PHP scripts and files were hosted there as well as forums, IRC channels and networks, projects and other websites. My mom's website also still exists (v1 of my site was a subdirectory of her account, while today it's on my account and it's currently getting redesigned on zabimage.com )

So yeah, happy birthday, website.

Well, this is yet another idea I have in mind, whether I'll complete it or not I have no idea... But oh well I'll just write it here so I can take notes and have your input on that as well.

So my mom recently acquired 2 fishtanks because my brother wanted domesticated shrimps (not the ones you eat) and some fishes and, like the computer geek I am, I was like, why not automatizing that up with some sensors and remote controls? I guess that would be kinda fun to have a webpage to turn on and off the lights and read and log the temperature. Yeah, there's some kits you can buy for that, but I think it would be pretty interesting if I do it myself. So here's a list of the parts needed...

• Turning on and off the lights (done, I have a Belkin WeMo switch)
• Temperature sensors (I found some free samples, I guess it's not that hard to waterproof them in silicone, that or I just buy a pre-waterproofed one.)
• pH/ammoniac/nitrite/nitrate sensors (yeah those one are pretty expensive, so I'll just wait until I'm rich.)
• Some LEDs (if I waterproof the temp sensor myself, better throw some LEDs in. Also probably change the colors on them too via the web interface.)
• A web interface (I just finished to set a webserver up in my room, so it's gonna be used... Also I can already start it with the WeMo API somehow, then expand once I have more features in the fishtanks.)
• All those parts would be plugged on an Arduino or Raspberry Pi which would send the data to the web server.

So yeah, gonna be fun.

This week, the Omnimaga staff began the restructuration of its official IRC network dubbed Omninet, a network aimed to be specialized in programming and graphic calculators.

However, since the first days of the restructuration, magical equine creatures known as ponies has been seen under the hood. Indeed, Derpy and Fluttershy, two pegasi (winged ponies) from the mythic town of Ponyville, Equestria, has been given operator access on the network, the latter even owning one of the servers linked.



DerpyBot and SweetieBot, robotic copies or respectively Derpy and Sweetie Belle made to be responsive 24/7, and one of the princesses of Equestria, Luna, has been seen on the network as well, with SweetieBot taking up the channel administration duties.

We are still unaware if the ponies are only here to help or they secretely plan an invasion or a coup d'état from Equestria on Omnimaga. Omnimaga, as we know from its -maga suffix, is an important producer of magic of all types, a resource Equestria extremely values.

Software is being written by Eeems to help manage the different servers and statistics software has been installed with stats on all the channels created, its users and plenty of graphics updated real-time. The chatbox on the header of the site is also linked to both Omninet and EFNet. While our official IRC channel is now on Omninet, the link to the channel on EFNet is still being maintained for the foreseeable future.

The current Omninet operators are Eeems, Geekboy, Sorunome (Derpy), Alberthrocks, AngelFish and Juju (Fluttershy) and the servers are {omni,eeems,irp,saphira}.irc.omnimaga.org.

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So I felt like practicing my C/C++ skills, and I thought, why not writing a programming language? So that's what I did. This one will be heavily based on the TI-BASIC and Axe syntax, but instead of emulating a 96x64 monochrome screen, it'll just output stuff to stdout like nearly every scripting language out there, like Python and Lua. That is, I don't intend fully emulating the TI-83+, but rather adapt it to the Linux operating system.

Right now, it's barely working, not much is implemented outside of numbers, strings, A-Z, Str0-9, Ans, ->, Disp, Input and the fact : behaves like \n.

You can download and compile it here: https://github.com/juju2143/tibasic

It should work for Linux and Mac OS X. For you Windows guys, you can try Cygwin.

And if you like, I'll just throw a bonus in, that is, 2 languages for the price of one!

This thread is for discussing about Illusiat 5, a PC game by DJ Omnimaga, how to run it, updates about recovering the graphics from the exe and maybe talks about a remake.

So Geekboy and I are recovering the graphics from the .exe... So far it works, the files are uncompressed in the exe. Updates soon.

Download it here: http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=140

Extraction results: http://juju2143.ca/illusiat5/illusiat5pics.zip (JPGs converted to PNG and GIFs not animated due to limitations of my custom script)
Possible offsets: http://juju2143.ca/illusiat5/results3.txt (have fun picking up which ones are legit) (EDIT: rewrote the script to clean it up and to be more accurate)

And on the twelveth day of Christmas my favorite website gave to me... The Christmas Update of Supersonic Ball PC the fabulous port of the game of the same name for TI-83+ by DJ Omnimaga!



What's new?

• Updated graphics
• Added title screen
• Added HUD
• Fixed controls
• Music pauses when the game is paused
• Added online highscores
• Game pauses when window loses focus
• Now compatible with LÖVE 0.9.0

Get it while it's hot! (Windows binaries coming soon, for now download LÖVE 0.8.0 or 0.9.0 and the .love source package.)

Download
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EDIT: Until the next version release, the game does not quite work unless either you download the latest version on Github, unzip it and drag the folder on love.exe or you download this file in the same folder you put the .love in.

Ever want to have a fancy, programmable Christmas tree? Look no more! It's so easy I'll just give out a recipe on how to do your own. I started this project yesterday when I went to the dollar store and I found battery-powered Christmas lights.


You'll need:

• Battery-powered lights (about $1, mine have 10 lights and is powered with 2 batteries)
• A tree (also about $1 for the not-actually-a-tree-but-a-garland-on-a-plastic-frame variety, mine's about a feet high, perfect for your desk)
• An Arduino or any MCU lying around with its USB cable (around $25-30). Any programmable board that have at least a PWM pin and a ground pin will do, I used a TI C2000 launchpad, but using an Arduino might be easier to program.
• Wire and/or an IDE cable (You should have those lying around if you did some electronics before. Else you should find that at the hardware store.)
• No batteries! (around $0)

1. Decorate your tree with your lights. (Optional? Or else it won't be a tree otherwise.)

2. Plug the + side of the battery pack to a pin that supports PWM on your microcontroller and the - side to the ground. (An IDE cable might be handful if you don't want to solder and the pins on the controller are male, unlike the Arduino.)

3. Load up a PWM example on your microcontroller, compile and upload it. Be sure the PWM pin it uses is the same as the one you plugged the tree in. You can send a number between 0 and 255 to that pin, 0 being 0% intensity and 255 is 100% intensity. (In my example, it's a fade in/out example.)

And there we go, a pretty christmas tree.

Now what else should I do with that?

• Use a button to switch between patterns
• Control the intensity via the serial port
• Change the intensity according to the music

The sky is the limit! Any other suggestions? I should try those ideas out in the holiday time. (Yeah there's no pics of the steps, I'll might add some later.)