You Can Never Have Enough 0.1 uF Capacitors
I had almost gotten my ultrasonic sonar detecting aquarium light controller to work when I ran into a weird problem: the hardware and program code…
- August 2, 2010 1:43 pm·
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Sonar Is Cool!
One of the things I find oddly intriguing about working with microcontrollers is that they interact with the environment. This isn’t some amazing insight, of…
- July 23, 2010 8:09 am·
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Redmine, We Hardly Knew Ya
Yesterday I received word from WebFaction, my hosting company, that Redmine was using way more memory than my account limit. After doing some research, apparently…
- July 23, 2010 7:39 am·
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VirtualBox, Ubuntu and GumStix
My next embedded programming project will involve a single board computer (SBC), rather than a microcontroller. I’ve come across several kinds in my research, but…
- July 19, 2010 3:34 pm·
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Exchange 2007, Outlook Anywhere and SSL Certificates
Today I did my annual heart-in-the-mouth exercise of updating the SSL certificates which allow me to access my Exchange accounts remotely, either over the web…
- July 17, 2010 12:16 pm·
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Aquarium Controller Windows Interface
Configuring my Arduino aquarium script gets a little tedious when all you have is a serial port monitor in which you read and write bytes.…
- July 14, 2010 6:28 pm·
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