#what's playing?
$iTunes = New-Object -comObject iTunes.Application
$iTunes.CurrentTrack | select Name, AlbumArtist, Genre, Time

$iTunes.Mute = $true $iTunes.Mute = $false

$iTunes.Stop() $iTunes.Play() $iTunes.Pause() # toggle play/pause $iTunes.PlayPause()

$iTunes.NextTrack() $iTunes.PreviousTrack()

Now I just need Powershell talking with my Arduino and I can have my iTunes remote.

see also: How to Wake Up with Powershell.

...wonder what those ConvertFile methods do...

Put my BBB together last night. The published directions were good. It wasn't step-by-step, rather 'Start with the SMT inductor, then add the resistors and capacitors' and so on. I'm proud of the soldering job, this is one of the cleanest boards I've ever done. The order you put the components on does matter, if you follow the instructions you start with the smallest components and then move on to the larger ones. That makes assembly easier because you can usually set the board flat when you apply the solder. The resistors and Diodes are a snug fit; this is a tight board. I think if I was going to embed an arduino board in a larger project I would use the BBB.

Thanks to dfowler at ucHobby.com for providing this board to me.

I made and published code to turn the Arduino into an AVR910 ISP programmer. Sadly, avrdude won't program fuses on the '910. So I'm working on some AVRISP (version 1) software.

Getting the fuses working was the easy part. Avrdude uses the Universal command for that, so it is essentially just passing the commands from avrdude right to the SPI port. Once I set my /RESET line as output it worked like a charm. But I can't have two arduino based programmers that don't do the whole job.

Took some work but I now have writing to the flash working also. I've only tried it on the Tiny2313 chip, so some of my assumptions might not hold for other chips. I want to get it working with AVRStudio also, so that will take some more work.

Now that I can program fuses I can set the Tiny2313 to run at 8MHz instead of the default 1MHz. Sometimes that's useful. I can also set it to use an external crystal or resonator, which opens up a wide range of frequencies.

I like working on projects like this. The constraints help me focus (it has to work with avrdude for example). The protocol is documented, so part of it is just implementing the protocol. And I wind up with a tool I can use on future projects.

I have a project on Google Code for Mega8 based ISP software. I'll post this one after I get it cleaned up a bit.