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As most techies I know, I have a set of websites I check up on each morning, and throughout the day. I get to the office in the morning, and first things first, I “make the rounds.” And thanks to my handy dandy RSS reader, I never miss a single thing. I’m hyper-informed about the narrow set of topics that the sites in my usual rotation...

No I haven't hit any sort of production or even commercial level polish. But the title sure had some nice alliteration huh? ;)

As the title hints at though, the past month has been a great example of the vast gap between a prototype (as seen in my last YouTube video) and a...

Good news everyone! I've reached prototype stage! And I've got a video to prove it!



And with that I set to some real world testing.

Night 1: The alarm went off as expected! I snoozed it (as I am want to do). But 30 seconds later it went off again!...

I've been making good progress since receiving my IOIO. Got it up and running over USB, tested it all out, and then had to wait for my PICKit3 to upgrade it's firmware. Once it arrived, it took some time for me to grok it (I've never used a PIC programmer or anything like it before) but finally got the Firmware upgraded and got the IOIO...

I had an unexpected break through on my C3 project! A couple nights ago, I had some spare time, and had been thinking about the pressure sensor for a long time. The problem with it is, there is a circle with a radius of just 4mm, and in order to get good readings, the force must be applied to the center, not the edges. This gives me only about 2mm's in...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm beginning a new game project that I'm pretty excited about. Me and the artist I always work with have been mulling a new project for some months, and have been waiting for other things in our lives to clear a way for it to begin.

About a month ago we started to put things together. Setting up internal servers and...

Welp, JUST over a month, and I've got it pretty much completed. I have it all together, working, packaged up in it's enclosure, and mobile. (I'll do a proper video of it soon and post...

Testing the accuracy of my device has been quite an interesting ride, and it has lead me to one conclusion: Breathalyzers are far from an ideal way of testing Blood Alcohol Content (BAC).

This must be why in real serious cases, Police Departments use blood or urine tests as they are directly measuring the concentration of alcohol in your...

Still waiting on Arduino to release their WiFi shield... So the drinking continues! Er... I mean the MQ3 project continues!

So I've put some time into looking for parts and methods for more making this handheld. Ordered some bits, and I'll update more on that once those parts come in. But the more immediate and all important challenge, is...

Still waiting on Arduino to release their official WiFi shield for my C3 project. So my mind began to wounder. And I started an Android app to help post articles to www.talentopoly.com. But got stalled due to waiting on 3rd party API support. So my mind began to...

So it's been a bit since my last update, and that's because things have stalled.

The bad news is I've hit a bit of a wall in terms of long term stability with my existing WiFi module. I've addressed issue after issue gradually improving stability of the WiFi stack and my own code. But in the end I just can't get it to stay alive long...

I've been super busy lately so I haven't had a whole lot of time for this project, but I did manage to get some work done last nite and merge in a patch I found floating around the internet.

It was supposed to make my WiFi chip reconnect to the AP more reliably, and so far it appears to be working! My original soak tests lost connection to the...

LLOONNGG week of packing, moving, and unpacking. Still not done unpacking. Probably won't be fully unpacked by the time we move again Oh well.

ANYWAY! Onward and upward!


[ I really like my little Paint.NET logo, so thought I'd throw it in again ;)...

So I got my brandy new Arduino Mega 2560 in the mail. It has 256KiB of program memory (8x the memory of a standard Arduino!)



As I mentioned in my last post, the standard...

The next real step forward was to begin working on the networking and time keeping. But those steps were the beginning of what is to become a real software project. Still small to medium sized compared to PC projects. But it will have a level of complexity that Ardunio projects don't usually achieve. What this means is the Arduino IDE would be wholly...