A short visit to Köln, and as a result photos published some time ago and now the short video of the Dom and the Hauptbahnhof as seen from the Rheinbrucke. Sorry it took so long! I needed the space to edit the Maroc and Spain video, or else it would have stayed even longer on my hard drive ….
Alhambra. Cordoba, Sevilla, Cadiz. Dat was Andalusia.
Morgen naar Marokko, zag het vandaag al liggen vanuit Algeciras.
I have placed my weatherstation online:
Before you wonder about the rain, that was a manual test 
Next job is installing the airco ….
Such a nice day! Made the usual trip on the bike from Weesp to Muiden and back today. Along the river Vecht. And I took my Canon 1000D with me, including the telelens.
Just a few days before I will leave for some sightseeing in Spain and Maroc.
The weather is looking good, arriving next week!
More Delphi programming. See here for the programs, like a program to control a relay card and tests for the speed one can obtain reading from the parallel port.
Delphi 1998, see my travel photos.
A PC is such a dull device. With my other computers it is so much fun to control other devices, especially the 6502 SBC’s are great for that.
What would be great is to let the PC talk to a SBC, with something faster than a serial port. Or have the PC control the SBC via that serial port with a program much more intelligent that hyperterminal.
So I have been looking lately at ways to get something done with that.
Pascal as programming language, Delphi 7 is what I have. Good books, lots of information on the internet very stable and a functional very rich version. FreePascal and Lazarus are fine too, I have made console programs with FreePascal. But I am a bit too unexperienced with windows programs to fight with Lazarus, still a beta.
First program is TEST LPT. Gives access to all pins of the parallel interface, good for testing. I learned a lot, I/O port access, all the visible things, event driven programming, object orientation, make a help file, add a menu, add an installer. All the essential things to create a professional program. I know how to program for some decades now, I have now learned to do that in Delphi’s rich visual environment.
Here is the page I have devoted to parallel port access.
Besides the photos I made a limited amount of video shots in Berlin. Adobe Premiere 7 works better with mpeg files than version 6, so I did not have to revert to DV-AVI conversion. The quality of the resultant DVD improved quite a bit!
Anyway, I made also flash files of the video to show you here. And yes, I know, I still do pan the image to much, and even with the chest tripod stability is tough.
The third day in berlin was a good day, visited the remains of The Wall and the Naturkunde Museum.
All photos are now online at: http://reizen.hansotten.nl/berlin2009/
