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May 18, 2012
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 topi…
February 22, 2012
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
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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 had left in my hard coded debugging …
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
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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 had left in my hard coded debugging …
January 19, 2012
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…
January 10, 2012
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 c…
December 20, 2011
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…
About a month ago we started to…
November 30, 2011
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 it)
(Reading from a Vodka bottle, not a person ;))
It's currently using an external 9V battery for power. Though I'd …
(Reading from a Vodka bottle, not a person ;))
It's currently using an external 9V battery for power. Though I'd …
November 10, 2011
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 measuri…
This must be why in real serious cases, Police Departments use blood or urine tests as they are directly measuri…
November 04, 2011
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 i…
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 i…
October 27, 2011
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 wounder.
About two weeks ago I was …
About two weeks ago I was …
October 03, 2011
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 j…
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 j…
September 16, 2011
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! …
It was supposed to make my WiFi chip reconnect to the AP more reliably, and so far it appears to be working! …
September 05, 2011
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!
[sub][ I really like my little Paint.NET logo, so thought I'd throw it in again ;) ][/sub]
So since my last post I began working on…
ANYWAY! Onward and upward!
[sub][ I really like my little Paint.NET logo, so thought I'd throw it in again ;) ][/sub]
So since my last post I began working on…
August 29, 2011
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 Arduino only has 32KiB of program memory, and with all of the networking features I want compiled into the library I'm using, I wa…
As I mentioned in my last post, the standard Arduino only has 32KiB of program memory, and with all of the networking features I want compiled into the library I'm using, I wa…
August 27, 2011
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 achi…
August 24, 2011
As I stated in my last post, I began some actual work on this project over the weekend.
What's some times not appreciable, is the amount of time it takes just to get started on something like this. Finding all my Arduino parts and pieces, installing the software, figuring out all the little quirks a…
What's some times not appreciable, is the amount of time it takes just to get started on something like this. Finding all my Arduino parts and pieces, installing the software, figuring out all the little quirks a…
August 22, 2011
Over the weekend, many weeks of research culminated in the first concrete progress on my new hardware project. First let me give a run down of the idea for this project.
The core idea originated from the fact that I'm a bit like Jekyll and Hyde. Except instead of a murderous monster living in my psy…
The core idea originated from the fact that I'm a bit like Jekyll and Hyde. Except instead of a murderous monster living in my psy…
August 18, 2011
Read Part 1 here
The next day at work it was all I could think about, and around lunch time, it hit me. They are in series! I'm dividing the voltage between the two servos! If I hook them up in parallel they'll EACH get 9V!
That night after a flurry of cutting, de-soldering, and re-soldering, it was …
The next day at work it was all I could think about, and around lunch time, it hit me. They are in series! I'm dividing the voltage between the two servos! If I hook them up in parallel they'll EACH get 9V!
That night after a flurry of cutting, de-soldering, and re-soldering, it was …
June 30, 2011
I probably should have posted about this when I was actually doing it. But C'est la vie.
Anyway I had been messing around with some Arduino stuff a while back, and got pretty far but never finished a project. Other things came up so I shelved it all. Then we got a kitten and I thought it would be fu…
Anyway I had been messing around with some Arduino stuff a while back, and got pretty far but never finished a project. Other things came up so I shelved it all. Then we got a kitten and I thought it would be fu…
May 07, 2011
We're in the early planning and prototyping stages for our next project. So I worked up a little prototype of the core tech we will need.
The core mechanic is based around one important assumption: That it's fun to kick over someone's sand castle
To this end we need good free-form terrain destructio…
The core mechanic is based around one important assumption: That it's fun to kick over someone's sand castle
To this end we need good free-form terrain destructio…
April 30, 2011
[ A bit late on this post, but as the guy in Ghost Busters 2 said when the Titanic arrived in New York... Better late than never. (What? too obscure?) ]
So my friend and I have released our first Android game!
[Android Market Link] Oceans Unleaded
[Android Market Link] Oceans Unleaded Lite
It is small …
March 25, 2011
So I've been working on a little Android game for a while now. Mainly as a first effort, small scope, learn the technology sorta deal. So it's pretty simple in concept.
Anyway it's getting to the end of development now, mainly just polishing and tweaking, so I decided to take a crack at making an ad…
Anyway it's getting to the end of development now, mainly just polishing and tweaking, so I decided to take a crack at making an ad…
March 06, 2011
Welp, funny timing my last post about there being no good Android phones at the moment.
My trusty side kick, the Motorola Droid has decided to die...
Not entirely mind you, but the touch screen is becoming unusable. The bottom left corner in fact. The hardware "back button" is the most affected, work…
My trusty side kick, the Motorola Droid has decided to die...
Not entirely mind you, but the touch screen is becoming unusable. The bottom left corner in fact. The hardware "back button" is the most affected, work…
February 27, 2011
I've had my Droid for about a year and a half now (got it the day it came out) and all though it has treated me well, it's getting quite old in "phone years".
I'm not due for an upgrade until July, so it's not a pressing issue at the moment, but while musing on what I might get when it's time, I hav…
I'm not due for an upgrade until July, so it's not a pressing issue at the moment, but while musing on what I might get when it's time, I hav…
July 16, 2010
Well this project didn't go as I had planned. Every part of it took about ten times longer than I expected. And in the end, it still didn't function exactly the way I wanted.
First some fun media to show what did work :)
Also a short video of it:
" target="_blank">YouTube: Distributed Planar Key En…
First some fun media to show what did work :)
Also a short video of it:
" target="_blank">YouTube: Distributed Planar Key En…
March 29, 2010
Welp, I'm back from my vacation. Actually I got back over a week ago, things have just been really busy.
Some cool photos if you are into Mayan ruins or caves (this pic links to the whole gallery):
Anyway, easing my self back into things I finally finished up a long time (non-technical) project:
Paper…
Some cool photos if you are into Mayan ruins or caves (this pic links to the whole gallery):
Anyway, easing my self back into things I finally finished up a long time (non-technical) project:
Paper…
March 07, 2010
So on my last post, benryves pointed out that I might be able to use some of the Analog input pins as Digital I/O pins. And as it turns out, he's right. I could swear I read some where that you couldn't, but I was wrong.
Well this put my design in a bit of jeopardy, not because it was wrong or would…
Well this put my design in a bit of jeopardy, not because it was wrong or would…
March 03, 2010
I had been thinking about how to achieve individual addressing using demultiplexers even before I gave Charlieplexing a shot. But during my preliminary research the stumbling block was that the largest demux I could find was only a 4 to 16. If I wanted to individually address 64 LEDs I would need f…
February 27, 2010
As I stated last time, I had decided to try out Charlieplexing as a way of individually addressing 64 LEDs with only 14 I/O pins (9 is all I need for this actually). So I ordered some resistors and some very specific LEDs. Before I get into the build, let me give a high level overview of what Charl…
February 24, 2010
So I've been thinking about what I want my first big project to be, tossing around a lot of ideas. Trying to balance complexity & difficulty VS coolness. (Also, I want the project to be fun to make!) One of the things I've been interested in doing ever since I heard that you could do it at home…
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