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More Morse code! Tried to verbally explain what I was showing in the video and I don’t care for how I sound! Nevertheless, here it is: Arduino text to Morse code.

Feb 26th

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Post #4: Morse code! Piezo the sensor can become Piezo the annoying tone-maker :)

Feb 5th

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Project #3: using the same three LEDs from before: an impact sensor with the intensity divided between the lights.

Feb 4th

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Project #2: Three fading LEDs! (not a big increase in complexity >.<) Note: I took a second look at this video and realized that I made them fade later, this is the simpler “three alternating LEDs” demo…

Feb 4th

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One of my first Arduino sketches: fading blinking LED.

Feb 4th

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Oct 14th

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Oh, I should mention the changes around here...

Wordpress is awesome!  … and horrible. Rival Rockets had been faithfully hosted by the PHP CMS behemoth on my hand-picked hosting provider’s shared Linux server since March 2008. Problem is, it’s overkill for my needs. I had briefly dabbled in switching to Tumblr about a year ago (during what was apparently one of the worst series of outages and poor uptime in Tumblr history)...

Oct 8th

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Striving for Inspiration

I feel like I need a project, something in which to get lost in the tiny details. Software side projects appeal to me, but the initial pain of starting seems to be keeping me at bay. Oh, and the fact that I don’t really have any ideas of what I’d like to build. My software interests are more utility than outright new globally useful social etc. etc… one thing that “floats...

Oct 8th

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Neatx: Remote Desktop for Linux

I had never even heard of NX technology until I began researching better ways to set up a VNC capable server on an Ubuntu machine that I had planned on running “headless”.  To make matters more confusing, this promising technology is scarcely documented, so I’m putting my findings here. NX Technology, to briefly summarize, is similar in concept to RDP or Terminal Services on Windows, it basically...

Apr 18th

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Music translated to ASL. It’s worth your time.

  Stephen Torrence has done a great service by recording and sharing a number of his translations of songs that catch his attention into American Sign Language (ASL). HowStuffWorks.com interviewed Stephen to get some insight into the process he goes through in writing his translations and the details may surprise you.  The effort he puts into each of his translations shows, and it’s no...

Dec 5th

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A Coloring Tutorial that Blizzard Still Doesn’t...

Oct 10th