Monthly Archives: October 2009
Reading data from a uLog logger, saving to a file
Here’s a Processing sketch that takes data from Sparkfun’s uLog datalogger via a serial port, and saves the results to a file. To use this, you’ll need: uLog datalogger with some data on it USB-to-serial adaptor; there are many types … Continue reading
Simple Client URL example in PHP
Here’s a simple example of using the cURL program through PHP’s client URL library. It’s a really powerful way to use HTTP, because you can set just about every HTTP option using the library.
Mail form in PHP
Here’s a simple HTML/PHP form that takes data from the form and sends it in mail via HTTP POST. Save it as formToMe.php:
Traceroute scraper in Processing
There are many web-based interfaces to traceroute available, including a nice list at traceroute.org. Here’s a Processing sketch that retrieves the raw HTML from one of them and separates the traceroute lines into time taken, hop IP, and hop name. … Continue reading