Jul 05
I’m done with school now, degree and all, and still have a couple of weeks before I’m officially on the job. In the meantime I’ve been fooling around with some home automation hardware, specifically the veralite from micasaverde. While I haven’t spent too much time with the veralite yet my first impression is that it …
Mar 22
The digital section of my Bright Light Controller is fully functional and I’ve gone ahead and made a library to help interface with the MSGEQ7 IC. As of Version 0.1 the library will probably only function on a 16MHz or slower Arduino. This shouldn’t be too difficult to modify, but I haven’t gotten around to …
Feb 14
Step 1: Purchase a new Atmega. This is the version of the chip from digikey Atmega328P Step 2: Carefully desolder the old processor. I found that is very easy to lift the pads in this process. If I were to try it again I’d probably try using a heat-gun. Step 3: Solder the new proccessor …
Jan 26
I have recently stumbled upon a service called BatchPCB which offers cheap single run PCB prototyping. I’ve decided to give them a try since it seems safe for someone whose never designed a board from scratch. After some digging it seems like going to their supplier, Gold Pheonix, would work out cheaper if you’re looking …
Jan 03
I’ve been looking through the Arduino schematics in search of a circuit to perform automatic power supply selection in the case that there are two available supplies. I had convinced myself that there was a design flaw in the Arduino Uno selector, however upon further inspection it seems it should work just fine.
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