I am staying in Houston tonight, over at the luxurious Crowne Plaza. I bought a chromecast quite awhile ago, and I really wanted to try it out… The hotel wifi wasn’t going to let me… Or was it?!?!
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I finally had some time at work to finish testing the Maxbotix sensor hooked to an Arduino and finally to a Xbee. This tasked turned out to be simple with one hiccup.
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Kristin and the boys left to get haircuts, this left Emily and I to our own devices. We decided we woudn’t waste our free time and bust out one of the Beagle Bone Blacks I bought awhile ago and hook up some Xbees. So I got my breakout boards and the xbees and my horror when I saw the xbees were to be soldered to the breakout board. I wasn’t about to do that, so we found the pins and have them coming from Spark Fun, so that project will wait for another day.
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I got curious the other day if Apple Messages was hackable. In short, yes it is, but not without some headache. You must have a “bridge” to allow you to relay the message, but for people like me who have a mac that is always on this isn’t an issue, here is how the hack works..
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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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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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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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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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I really struggled with this one for a whole day, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out when I did:
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Here I am again, talking about another thing I really struggled with, reading an input from the serial on the Arduino. I am using a 2560 hooked to my Raspberry Pi on Serial1, you might have an Uno or something, the directions are probably similar, but you only get the single shared serial port.
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