To anticipate and prevent
Sometimes you just have “one of those days”. You know the days I’m talking about, right? The day where nothing seems to be right. The day where everything is breaking. The day where everyone is out to get you. Yea, you know what I’m talking about. Ok, so that might be slightly melodramatic, but it’s…
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One of the many little tidbits of advice I found when reading up on Arduino was to protect your computer’s USB port. By that I mean buy a powered USB hub to plug the Arduino into. That way if you do something epicly stupid, you’d burn out a USB hub, instead of your computer’s USB…
For a long while now, I’ve been fascinated with the idea of having an alarm clock that is somehow tied to one’s sleep cycle. On a conceptual level it sounds cool, and on a practical level it would be very nice to have. I’ve had days (as I’m sure most have) where I’ve woken up…
Since I’ve gotten onto my Arduino kick, I figured I should get some proper reading material on the subject. One of the first I saw was Getting Started with Arduino by Make: Magazine. Since “Getting Started” is exactly what I wanted and I rather like most of what Make does, I bought and read the…
An Atmel AVR ATMega8-16PU microcontroller [By DustyDingo – Public Domain](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arduino_avr_atmega8-1.jpg) Recently, I’ve discovered that which is known as Arduino. Basically, it is an open source, open hardware microcontroller. They give you the software and the hardware plans online and you can build your own. Of course, you can always buy a premade kit (which is…
Much to my excitement, I got home on Tuesday and had Medal of Honor sitting on my porch (which has been a dice throw as of late). While I didn’t have a lot of time to play it after I got home and ate, I made sure to set aside some time. After all, it…