Monthly Archives: November 2013

I Don’t Know I Am Tired

Posted on November 20, 2013 by larry

I had a rough night last night and didn’t get much sleep. I think total I had 2 hours of sleep. I will hit they hay early tonight, but the weird thing is I just got up from a 15 … Continue reading →

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Need To Learn Arduino Serial Communication

Posted on November 19, 2013 by larry

Getting more advanced with arduino, I need to find a way to send and receive messages via serial port on the Arduino. That way I can have the arduino speak with my PC or Raspberry Pi via USB Port. Kind … Continue reading →

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Successful Arduino Meetup

Posted on November 18, 2013 by larry

Dang what a busy Day, Started off with a Skype Meeting with Retrofit Decommission meeting of one of our HPUX servers Weekly Linux Server Engineer Meeting Then the Arduino Meetup The arduino meetup was also a 2 in 1 meeting. … Continue reading →

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Tired Day

Posted on November 17, 2013 by larry

Burned out, needed a day to do nothing. Did a small bit of drywall  and doing an easy situps and pushup workout. But nothing more.  

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Arduino In A Box

Posted on November 16, 2013 by larry

One of the reason I wanted to but Arduino on a breadboard was so I could strip out what I needed it fit it into tight places, here is what I did today with yesterday’s Arduino. I found the box … Continue reading →

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Arduino, Ethernet, and Sensor in a Small Box

Posted on November 15, 2013 by larry

  I am trying to cram a PIR, Arduino and ethernet module into a tiny power box. It looks like it will fit, months ago before I started with tiny ardunio’s I was able to fit an Uno in here. … Continue reading →

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Feeling Sick Cold Catching Up To Me

Posted on November 14, 2013 by larry

Feeling awful, tired, and had to work from home today. Consequently I did not get any decent workout, don’t even feel like going on the treadmill. Just gonna hit some pushups and situps and go to bed.

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Bad Day On The Workout

Posted on November 13, 2013 by larry

Man, I didn’t have a decent workout today, just pushups and situps. I got home and had some technical things to take care of. The big one was getting my enc28j60 ethernet working with the arduino. I have always used 3.3 … Continue reading →

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Little Victories

Posted on November 12, 2013 by larry

One of the things the Jade from Retrofit told me was to accomplish little goals and it will help feel a sense of accomplishment. Totally agree, today I felt like doing NOTHING  when I got home, but I got off … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Injury But Motivated

Posted on November 11, 2013 by larry

Went for a run today, actually finished a full lap.  That is progress, made my goal for my running for the week with my adivisor from Retrofit. Unfortunately I only could add another mile walking, wanted to add to to … Continue reading →

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