For the last couple of months I've been having a problem with Skype freezing up for 1-3 seconds every time I'd click to another application and come back. After 2 months or so of hatred for Skype, I finally found a fix that appears to be working.Open Internet Explorer -> internet options -> security -> …
New Fit Tracking App
I logged in to my FitDay app today to find that they wanted $10.99 a year for me to update my weight daily. I've been with them for almost 12 years - and said good bye. There are plenty of other (some better) apps out there - I was using FitDay as I had been …
Progress – and moving forward
I've had these blades for like 4 weeks maybe (sometime the week of the 24th of Mar). I built a slideboard like the next week. I've used the slideboard a few times (mostly b/c of weather). I've managed to get in a skate about 2x a week (mostly due to location). I'm trying to find …
AVR programming on a Mac
I have done a lot of my work locally on WinXP running in Parallels. I bought the book Make:AVR Programming which I cannot recommend more for anyone wanting to do AVR programming. With that, I installed http://www.obdev.at/products/crosspack/index.html - and then his examples use make files to build and flash to the AVR. I would like to see …
Cylon Eye – KITT — bitshifting with a shift register on an arduino
KITT and the Cylon Eye are very popular among those tutorials on Shift Registers.This tutorial should cover an Arduino vs AVR - This is going to suck for a tutorial. I wanted to go over some of the changes that I made to some code based off of the AVR.Let's start with the AVR - …
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Wii Nunchuck update
In February of 2013 I was attempting to wire a Wii Nunchuck to my Arduino (which I did). The problem was that I thought it wasn't good enough. I liked that I could run the throttle on a train with this Arduino and code (here's the original post: http://holoprinter.blogspot.com/search/label/Wii%20Remote). What I didn't like was that it …
Laser tripwire
My son keeps asking me if we can build a laser tripwire. The idea is that a laser hits the photoresistor and if anyone breaks the laser beam then an alarm will sound. Sounds great and annoying.The circuit is very simple. A photoresistor, a 10K resistor and a laser pointer.I used this link to provide …
