tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90171654034355654032012-02-03T09:33:09.089-08:00A collection of projects and build logs that I am trying (unsuccessfully) to keep current. Check back often.Hipcathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234860595786835013noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9017165403435565403.post-12727496509059071292012-02-03T09:32:00.000-08:002012-02-03T09:33:09.098-08:00

I’ve got a tiny 9g servo from sparkfun, and decided to control this with a PD patch. There are some things you need to know about this patch/sketch. First off keep in mind that your arduino programmer, and your patch can not control the same comport. Also (on win7) I’ve occasionally had problems with one or the other refusing to release the com port resulting in having to restart

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While they duke it out for control of Com 8, Let me explain. I'm in a class, and one of the things we are learning is Pure Data. In reality you have to just play with it awhile to understand what it really is. For now let's say its a way to patch functions and variables together. So I have an Arduino, and I want to control it with the touch screen interface on my laptop.. I think we all know

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SOOO I'm always real paranoid about the little nipple things (can I say nipple in a blog?) on the bottom of a board grounding out on something bla bla... I thought about covering the bottom in a layer of hot glue, and decided against it. I saw some standoff screws at RadioSmack though and thought that was a good idea. It almost was! I'm SO glad I didn't get metal ones. The nipples on the PWM/

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 I ordered some parts from Mouser, and picked up some from Radio Shack. The wife asked what I was up to which came with the usual... Nuthin... She knows better. I saw this link on one of my Favorite Websites I saw what he had done, but I thought with a few changes I might be able to do a bit better. I decided that instead of a normal open switch that you have to set it off to disable the alarm

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Love shipments from Sparkfun! Parallax PIR Sensor  (the dome thing) Arduino controlled LED driven by a PIR As some may note I am a college student, and part of that is taking classes (I'm an Electrical Engineering student). An interesting class was referred to me, experimental, simply called 'Audio Video'. It's going to make this blog a bit more interesting I can tell you. I've had 

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So I decided to try something new, and downloaded the latest and greatest AVR Studio 5. Downloaded installed and created a new AVR C executable project, it asked for device, I told it and it made happy :). As with anything it's hard to know where to start, so I just started playing around and found IO view.  First thing you'll want to do is Debug~>Options and Settings~>Text editor~>All

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Yes, I'm talking about sending data from an AVR chip to a USB port. I've been wanting to do this for awhile, to be able to log data over a time period, and creating custom interfaces for random... ok fine I don't have any damn good reason other than I just want to know how it works. I've been taking stuff apart for years to find out, now I'm putting things together to find out how it works.

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So the wife and I throw a party every fall around Halloween, and we theme it. This year's theme was Time Travel, and I had intended to go as the time traveler from H.G.Well's book 'The Time Machine'. Well best laid plans of mice and men and all that, I was convinced to appear as Dr Who. Intrigued by the brilliantly geeky suggestion by someone who didn't even show up, I accepted the challenge. I

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I've not been around for a bit, so I thought I would drop in some posts as to what I've been up to. As for the HAL project, HAL isn't up and running, I blew the 3.3v regulator on the Bus Pirate at some point when I was updating it to version 4.1. Undaunted I tried something else. I decided I needed to slip into a shallower end of the pool, and ordered 10 attiny13s. Yes ten. I found some good '

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 I don't have a lot of money, especially since I have an hour to commute and gas is at a bazillion dollars a gallon. I started building my own equipment. I've a bird and i don't want it dead... wife would come unglued at me if it was my fault. So I started looking at options for the fumes created by the soldering iron. I came across this and decided to build one. I've an old tin I had used

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I had it housed in an Altoids can (thought it fitting) but I was at the store and saw Altoids smalls... The can looked like it was the right size, so I bought one and brought it home. I'm pretty generous with them so it doesn't take me long to go through them. Before I knew it I had it cleaned out and was trying to fit the bus pirate in... and it didn't fit.   So not wanting to start over, and

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Although It's probably not good for me, I decided that it would be effective if I made wine. So I began (rather blindly I might add) an odd rotation of wine. What I've done is purchased a gallon of wine, and emptied it (the fun part) then I filled it back up with a mixture of yeast and sugar and flavor... and gave it time. The Yeast converts the sugar to alcohol the flavor makes it tolerable, and

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I had posted this which she couldn't use at all. As in she couldn't get it to work. Not long ago I dropped in and took a look, and discovered over 600 viruses on that machine. That's more than Master Yoda has. That is a lot. My time was limited but I told her she needed to wipe the hard drive and start over. I've seen infested and I was just hoping they didn't get into the boot sectors. I should

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If you have a lot of patience, some skill with a soldering iron, and are meticulous, this might be a fun project. Otherwise skip this and buy them.I'm not known to be organized. In fact just the opposite. SOO when I built these leads I simply wanted to make some leads that would connect the bus pirate to something so that I could use it. I'll be building my own leads later, AFTER the custom

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever. For Christmas, my wife set our differences aside and got me a Bus Pirate. (and a dremmel, she is just asking for me to be arrested) You can Google bus pirate and learn all about what it does and how it works. This is about the quest to build a functional home for my bus pirate.I want a home for it that is nice looking, as in I wouldn't mind having it on my desk

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My inlaws have become excited with this 'E-Cigarette' as I fully intend to take one apart, and re-engineer it for my own nefarious dealings, I associated it in my mind with my wife's new obsession.. LED candles. The Flicker LED candle if you take it apart seems to just be an LED, a switch and a battery. If that were the case then the light would come on and off and that's it. really though

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I built a robot.. ish. it is for a microprocessing design class. The idea behind it was for it to self preserve itself. We centered the thing around a JM Micro Mini. Uses a Coldfire 32 module you can find the specs, and a 'midterm module' we used the light sensor on the midterm module, to read into the A/D converter (it has only one, otherwise we would have use the temperature sensor too) We read

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And it's such a good idea too... so I promise to catch this up with my shenanigans.. there have been quite a few as of late. But first, I want to put out there that I want this who doesn't?! Every good hac.... erm... Electrical Engineer... or electrical RE-engineer should have one... I put it out on the wire I wanted one... we will see what happens. After all, if your going to cause trouble...

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Being the holidays, I haven't been working on the mod project. I survived no worse for wear. I did put together a nice clean little package for a friend. She said her computer has multiple nasty baddies. I think she said she said she had Mc Affee but I could be wrong. My sister has some baddies they sounded like similar baddies. Here's what I put together. I had an old 256mb jumpdrive on my

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Well I've been drunk a lot. There is also the holidaze I've been running around for, but I have started a new project. I enjoy the look of steampunk. I don't want to dress up in period costume talk funny and look down at people who think it's weird... but I enjoy the look of some of the things they created... SO I looked around for something that I could mod and not care if it came out looking

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Just mired in homework and tests.I have been playing with a new cad program. Came recommended from HackadayEagle came highly recommended, and it seems to produce. I haven't played with it too much but it defiantly looks like it would be very handy to the hobbiest... IF you want to pay 200bucks. Im running the freeware version right now. I was using Tinycad which did just fine for homework in my

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Yea I know.I've been trying to clear my desk for the holidays. Not as easy as it sounds. Getting my homework caught up and ahead so I have nothing to worry about over Thanksgiving. Not to say I haven't been doing other things.Kernel update. I used Windoz for well over two decades in my own home. So I did cringe when it said it was updating the kernel... went off without a hitch, other than it

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As you can see I've been watching Google Wave for some time now. With mixed emotions. I got my own wave invite (don beg me Juan) and it quickly degenerated to an argument between a close friend of mine and a chatbot. I can see that it is a good collaboration tool. I can see the point that it is merely another distraction in the office. Most of all what I saw, was an interesting new way to expand

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We will take an exception. I'm an Electrical Engineering student that honestly enjoys electronics. Opposed to those that just heard that they get paid a lot. So I do do a bit on the side. Of course I'm notorious for taking things apart. Today is Veteran's day. I support the veterans wholeheartedly. I have my reasons. I took on a project today, Was kind of a surprise. It was a fiber optic

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