Category Archives: Technical

Arduino Sensors

Posted on July 22, 2013 by larry

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

Posted on July 19, 2013 by larry

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!!!

Posted on July 17, 2013 by larry

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

Posted on July 16, 2013 by larry

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

Posted on July 14, 2013 by larry

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

Posted on July 13, 2013 by larry

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

Posted on July 10, 2013 by larry

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

Posted on July 8, 2013 by larry

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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Two Projects Near Completion

Posted on June 29, 2013 by larry

Wow, I really kicked it up a notch.  I am pretty much done with one project and close to finishing another.  Helps that both had similar components but I think it is because I stuck with breadboarding and did not … Continue reading →

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Significant Progress in my documentation

Posted on June 26, 2013 by larry

I made some significant progress in my publication today.  But as I went through it I felt like a had a long ways to go. I think if I do a section a day, I should be able to produce … Continue reading →

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