You are being told that we need new ways to tax people that will also track when and where you use the roads. These involve systems to record your license plates, or installing a GPS receiver into your car to track you where ever you go.
All of this is just an excuse to try and [...]
I was programming the arduino and ran into a limitation regarding the memory inside the device. The 328 chip only has 2KB of RAM for data strings. And if you lose power that memory goes away. It has 1KB of eeprom that is retained between reboots, which is only a day or two of data [...]
Lets build an alarm clock.
It has to be better than a regular alarm clocks in several ways. The first thing is that the alarm should only sound on work days. It should not go off on weekdays nor on days on an exception list, these are holidays, no work.
It should slowly begin making chirping noises [...]
I installed the bootloader on 25 atmega268 chips that I just bought following these directions: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP
I saw the hackduino project here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Perfboard-Hackduino-Arduino-compatible-circuit/ This looked very interesting and I knew that I could complete this project with minimal effort. I also thought that I could route the wiring so that it took up minimal space.
I wired [...]
This is a link to a short video of the project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIYY0n8TeJg
I did not have to do anything to the xbees to make them work, they just worked out of the box.
Added names to each one for scanning purposes using the atni <name> command using a serial port, followed by atwr to write the data [...]
In the path of life there is only two roads. There is the high road and the low road.
The high road is rocky, narrow, difficult, and steep. It is cold and lonely and you will get hurt taking this road. Many people who try to take the road will slip and fall, not up [...]
Robert Frost (1874–1963). Miscellaneous Poems to 1920. 1920.
Fire and Ice
(From Harper’s Magazine, December 1920.)
SOME say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is [...]
That word is just not used as much as it should be used. I’d like to see a plethora of plethora.
By the political rhetoric. Neither party is your friend and both parties spend like it is going out of style. The mock fights they have are as real as big time wrestling.
Just what part of government they grow is different, and if they want you to pay your taxes now or later. Deficit spending is [...]
I am thinking of combining scheduling, curl, xml and xslt tools, and sqlite into one program to allow me to pick up files at set times, transform the data, save the data to a database or file, transfer the file to another system, while archiving and logging everything it did. A separate companion program could [...]