Software
Tonight
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August 5, 2012
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August 5, 2012
Curiosity experiences its Seven Minutes of Terror tonight, or becomes loose parts scattered across Mars.
Bulb Burnout Monitor
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July 25, 2012
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July 25, 2012
The 12V light bulbs on the underside of our kitchen cabinets drop (go dark) like a nest of wasps hit with Raid Wasp and Hornet spray – bunches of them drop all at once.
ASCII to Morse Translator
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July 21, 2012
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July 21, 2012
While there are several ASCII to Morse code translators out there, I haven’t seen the encoding used herein.
Arduino on Eclipse!
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July 18, 2012
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July 18, 2012
As of late yesterday, I’m now developing and downloading code for Arduino in Eclipse.
An Idea Begins
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June 24, 2012
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June 24, 2012
My Raspberry Pi should arrive tomorrow. It is a credit card-size computer running Linux.
Another Moon Picture
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May 8, 2012
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May 8, 2012
This image, with all camera controls on manual, is about 24 hours after the “super moon” maximum.
… Since Sliced Bread
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March 14, 2012
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March 14, 2012
If you travel a little or a lot, there’s a huge amount of help you could be getting, and it’s free.
Win Some, Lose Some … For Now
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March 9, 2012
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March 9, 2012
This week had both. The free upgrade from Hertz was decidedly nice but the customer’s insistence on writing his ISR handler in C++ wasn’t.