I am not a writer, nor am I a critic, so if you’re looking for either of these things look elsewhere, to read this you must overlook the obvious run on sentences, missing punctuation, and misspellings. What I am however is a computer programmer/hobbiest that started with an Apple II. Granted I was very young, my guess I was using the Apple II in 1985 or 1986, playing Reader Rabbit and Oregon Trail. It was the first computer I ever saw anywhere, I was the only person I knew with a computer.
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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Raspberry pi ADC mcp3008
I finally had time to sit down and finish soldering up the board to take the thermisistor from analog to digital, so I can use it in my raspberry pi. I used the mcp3008 this chip is great it has inputs for up to 8 other analog devices, SWEET, I plan on using that!!
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Arduino Amperage Sensor
So I think the thing that excited me the most about getting into making circuits was trying to get a handle of the things all around me, trying to grasp what is accepted and start to understand it. This for me, started with the essentials, bills that no matter how much money or who you knew you had to pay, Like for example electricity.
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Meat Temp probe to Arduino
So I bought a new Smoke Hollow smoker, I switched from the Bradley to this smoker, since my Bradley quit working, and it was quite a bit of $$ to replace it, Also the Bradley required custom bisquettes, and I was ready to try some different woods (like Jack Daniels)!
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