I’ve never done anything bot-related and just couldn’t let it stay that way. A couple of friends and I (Hi there Miguel and Gonzalo!) have put together this simple bot and will be playing with it to discover the wonders of the Wiimote shortly. It uses a Skypic board as brains and a Sky293 board [...]

Precisely one week after releasing the long awaited 0.6 version of this web server, Cherokee 0.6.1 has been released minutes ago. As I’ve said once and again, the project has been gaining momentum and here you have the download link to prove it. It is mostly a maintenance release since most of the development efforts [...]

If you’ve made it this far, you are already half way there. This step is the most time consuming of all, so if you make it through the end you are as good as finished ;) This binding technique will be sewing through the fold, where the signatures of the book are folded and stitched [...]

This has nothing to do with computers, but as a Hard-Scifi lover I had to say something about it. I’ve just read that Arthur C. Clarke passed away today at the age of 90. If you’ve read him (who hasn’t?) you’ll know why this saddens me. If not, here is some information about him and [...]

As I anticipated some weeks ago, Cherokee 0.6.0 has finally been released. It was a couple of days ago but it caught me away and with no Internet access until now. Anyway, the trunk was branched on March 6th and after some exhaustive testing and a little polishing here and there … here it is!!! [...]

Before we start sewing everything together, we’re going to need several holes in each booklet to pass the thread through the folds. Instead of sewing directly and piercing each one on the fly with the needle -which, by the way, is hard unless you’re from planet Krypton-, we’re going to prepare each booklet beforehand so [...]

Not much to say here. Once you’ve reached this step you should already have everything printed in a pile of 5-page subgroups correctly arranged for folding. You only need to be careful when selecting the pages that should go in each booklet. I do the folding manually. Just take the pages, align them properly so [...]

This involves the process of arranging the pages into several booklets and printing them. This might seem stupid, but printing a book is sometimes trivial and sometimes a lot trickier than it looks. You need to print 2 pages in each side of the sheet, and arrange them in a way that results in properly [...]

This isn’t going to be a technical post for once. Besides computers I do have more mundane hobbies you know. A couple of years back I started bookbinding as a remedy for a particularly stressful month. Manual tasks always seem to have a relaxing effect on me, so it seemed as good choice as any. [...]