Build it up to break it down again

Two weeks ago I went down to MIT to check out their once-monthly swap. I wandered around and was impressed by everyone else's high level of wizardry, as well as their piles of cool stuff. I didn't end up buying much, but I got a ton of new ideas! The pics below show all of [...]

[Read more →]

Here is a pic of the back of the lcd. It shows that the JPE and JPB pads have been soldered closed. Those correspond with (0 to +5v) and inverted. Here is the code I used to test it. I got my start by changing code from djmatic.

[Read more →]

I have always been interested in Lego NXT. It seems like a really easy way to get into robotics, and programming. I have never really figured out how functional it is in the "real world" (whatever that means) The other day a coworker was really pushing the idea on me telling me I needed to [...]

[Read more →]

Sometimes I get bummed out about how much of the internet is negative. Here's my chance to say thanks for someone doing something positive. I'd like to give a lil' shout out to Modern Device Company for having really good customer service. I placed an order and included a few questions along with it. The [...]

[Read more →]

I'm pretty happy I FINALLY got the arduino to hook up correctly with two different hd44780 displays. I used the arduino example found here. I had done this before, but I found out that the Liquid crystal library is kind of broken. It needs to have a few lines swapped out in order to load [...]

[Read more →]

so in the last lil' bit I have not been blogging at all. Happily that has been because I've been swamped with projects, vacation, and work. Now I've got a big old backlog of updates on everything. Here we go! Grow your own shiitake mushroom log My beautiful girlfriend gave me a kit two years ago that [...]

[Read more →]