Over the weekend, Paul and some friends were lounging about killing time, when someone produced a newspaper and started reading out crossword clues. It quickly transpired that they were all rubbish at crosswords, which gave him the idea of producing todays program to cheat!

Just a quick reminder (since the announcement dropped off the blog frontpage!) that theres a meeting tomorrow, 7pm at the MadLab, 36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN.

Paul had planned the perfect crime, he could easily murder someone by just dropping a coin from a building!  But how high a building would he need to give him enough time to make his getaway?  

Eventually he decided to kill two birds with one stone (or coin) and wrote a javascript app for today's March Madness program to tell him!

Today Bob added serial control to his RGB sphere, and connected it using a sparkfun bluetooth serial port with a python application running on his computer.

The sphere is controlled over a 9600 baud serial connector, simply by sending it a hex colour code (eg #ff0000 for red).

Today Jim built a script to activate an LED so he knows to pick up his umbrella when its going to rain that day!

He wrote a Perl script to check the BBC's weather RSS feed, and python to drive an LED attached to the parallel port of his computer.