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Scooter LED’s
I dropped my flash light last week and the switch stopped working and since it was about time to get a new light I started hacking its guts into my scooter as a backup/emergency headlamp. I’m really happy with the results. I wired a rocker switch on the “dashboard” of my scooter, which is wired … Continue reading
Coop door opener update.
Here are some pictures of my coop door opener. Its coming along… slowly. So far I have built the winch assemboly, the motor driver and the light sensor. I have some code done, but I’ve been having issues with using the Arduino Time Library without syncing time. Here are some pictures of the build. I’m … Continue reading
Ohms law
I bought Make: electronics ebook from the app store yesterday and haven’t been able to put it down. Ever wonder why you have to put a resistor on your LED? or WTF a resistor actually does? This book answers all those “But why?” questions. The first of the basics this book covers is resistance. A … Continue reading
Arduino Motor Control With L293D
I’ve done a lot of digging regarding Arduino motor control without the 20$ motor shield. I’ve come up with a lot. It might seem like a lot of work at first but is really not all that complex. You’ll need some capacitors 470uF and .1uF, motors and a motor driver like the L293D. I use … Continue reading
Chicken Coop Door Code
I’ve been writing the code for my arduino controlled chicken coop door. This is what I have so far: // Troy Watson Arduino Powered Chicken Coop Door // Waits for the sun to come up, turns a servo to open a drawbridge then waits and closes the bridge. #include <Servo.h> Servo servo0; // create servo … Continue reading
CyberClean® — “Just Press and Pull!”
I got a free sample of CyberClean® at CES on saturday and must say its pretty cool stuff. It’s somewhere between lysol and flubber but definitely cleans the gunk out of the dark, nasty orifices of your gadgets. The guy demoing the stuff grabs my iPhone and rams it in the back hatch with this … Continue reading
I got an Arduino!
My wife got me the advanced arduino starter kit for Flying Spaghetti Monster-mas! I’ve been having a ton of fun playing with this thing and trying to remember how to program . My office is full of blinking LED’s and beeping speakers and swearwords. This thing is great! I can’t wait to buy a dedicated … Continue reading
Say hello to the future home of troseph.com (and all my other domains)!
I give you: vulcan.troseph.com. The latest addition to my computer collection. She’s no spring chicken but she’s going to have a lot of web hosting power. Specs: 2x Dual core 2.8Ghz Xeon Procs 4Gb ram 750GB raid 10 Ubuntu 8.04 LAMP stack It should be up and running within a couple weeks. Wewt!