CastorisCausa

Personal blog and hacks by Raymundo Cassani

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Often, there is the need of generating a random RGB color for LEDs. The most common approach is to obtain a random value between 0 and 1 (or 0 and 255) for the Red, Green and Blue channels. RGB cube This approach, however, leads to dark and light colors which …

Some months ago I got the this LED panel from Hand-Held Legend to add backlight to the display of the Game Boy Pocket. The installation was quite simple and went without problems using the instructions provided and this useful video. As the panel is powered is connected to 5 V …

Few years ago I found this typewriter in a flea market, without double thinking I got it, as it would be nice to have a working old typewriter. According to the seller, the typewriter was functional and a quick cleaning should be enough to use it, thus, I put it …

Nowadays we have to handle an enormous quantity of passwords. As it is not desirable to reuse passwords, nor to write down, it is necessary to have a way manage them. After research and thinking in advantages and drawbacks among the different methods, I came to the solution of using KeePassXC alongside with Dropbox.

Revamping Emotiv Epoc

The Emotiv Epoc is a 14-channel EEG headset that brought the concept of affordable wireless EEG to the general public, paving the road for later portable EEG systems. It has been used for in several studies. Unfortunately, the Epoc presents two characteristics that make some experiments unpractical. (1) The electrode …