Category Archives: Technical

First Batch Of Barebones Arduino Almost Ready

I need to get to this milestone already. Hope to have something to go on ebay by end of week. Countdown starting. Anyway, kind of stressed, need to get this project moving. Just doing pushups and situps today though.

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Getting Kids Involved In Arduino

Today we started the production line for the arduino kits at home. I was surprised at how well the kids took to the simple tasks. I think we might be successful after all.  The wires seem to be produced nicely. … Continue reading

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Arduino Sensors

I have my arduino sensors up now.  Not all of them, but enough that it looks good. I will have to order more network adapters to get the coverage I want, but so far, what I got seems to be … Continue reading

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Bleeding Nose

Today my nose was bleeding a lot.  Not sure why, but when I was working out my personal trainer mentioned it and saw that I may have been drying out from the antihistamine I was taking and that was causing … Continue reading

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Got my stuff in!!!

Slowly but surely I am getting my stuff moving. I hope that my supply chain holds up. Today I am trying to reprogram my ISP so that I do not get those annoying errors after flashing. I ran a 1 … Continue reading

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New Heartrate Monitor

Thank You Woot!!! There was a sale on woot today for a Timex Heart Rate Monitor.  I needed a replacement for the one I broke before the marathon this year. Anyway, hope to have it last for a year at … Continue reading

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Getting Gimp To Print Right

I have been struggling with this for a while now but seems like I finally figured it out. I been using gimp to print some diagrams for my arudino kit.  I finally figured out why it was not printing right, … Continue reading

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Kit Coming Together

I new we had one of those plastic sealers around here. Anyway, my kit is almost together. Couple stores had a sale on the boxes, bought them all!!! Busy day, just hitting some pushups and situps.

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Another Doc for Bare Arduino

I put together a quick doc for the ISP today also started another doc for a quick bare arduino on a half breadboard. I think I will support a full, half, and mini breadboarded arduino but it needs to work … Continue reading

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Arduino Kit Coming Together

Got a few more pieces to my arduino kit together. I sampled a new USB TTL, which works well.   Hard to tell but this unit has 5 pins and my documentation was for 6 pins.   But the pins … Continue reading

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