Hacking & Retrocomputing

I'm currently playing with Amazon Web Services and EC2, Amazon's highly flexible VPS hosting service. Gandi Hosting is providing a similar Xen based hosting service, and last day I saw that they benchmarked their basic "one share" server with Unixbench and got a score of 40.

I was curious to …

I've just set-up a new page about some Android experiments:

http://www.drolez.com/software/android/

One of my 1st contribution to the Android community is a new rooted ROM for French Dext Owners: DextRootFR I saw the Motoblur 1.3.20 update coming but none of the usual modders …

ZK is my favorite Web 2.0 toolkit. In fact, it's so powerful that I'd call it, a Web 3.0 toolkit. A true Web 3.0 toolkit where you do not have to write a single line of Javascript, which is compatible with all major Web browsers, and which …

The Future is Solar

Here is a link to an excellent short article published in theoildrum.com, one of my favorite sites.

Read it, I'm sure it will convince you that our future is solar, and that other pseudo-alternatives like bio-diesel should be forgotten ASAP !

How to control servo with cheap AVR micro-controllers? Here is my Open Source PWM / Servo controllers with GPIO and serial interface

These modules allow you to control servo motors the same way Pontech.com modules do, but for MUCH less money ! They are based on an Atmel AVR 2313:

• servo …