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Arduino Wireless SD Shield

John — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:50:30 +0000

A new toy just arrived for me to mess around with. I bought it mainly for the ability to do data logging and as a side project to learn about wireless communications. Look for posts on this wireless SD shield in the near future as I learn more about it and how to use it. [...]

Programming your Arduino with an AVRISP mkII with the new 1.0 IDE

John — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:49:45 +0000

A while back a wrote up instructions on how to program an Arduino with an AVRISP mkII. Back then the current software for the Arduino IDE was set at 0022 and it required you to modify a file to get it work. Apparently enough people wanted a feature like that to come built into the [...]

Tarzan style zip line

John — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:51:48 +0000

A picture of me doing a Tarzan style swing during a zip-lining adventure while on vacation in Cabo. The zip-lining adventure was one of the most fun excursions I’ve done while on vacation. Right up there with cave tubing and four wheeling.

Cabo San Lucas Marina

John — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:18:02 +0000

A shot of the marina in Cabo San Lucas (Los Cabos) that I took while on vacation there.

Don’t be a victim of catastrophic data loss. Protect yourself.

John — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:51:24 +0000

Do you have a backup plan for your website or blog in the event of a hard drive crash, server crash or some other form of harm like getting hacked? If you don’t, you should. Many people take computers for granted, thinking nothing will go wrong or they leave it up to some 3rd party [...]

Hit a devastating roadblock? Get those creative juices flowing!

John — Sat, 21 May 2011 05:50:19 +0000

Discover your Chronobiology Ever hit a road block when you sit in front of the computer to write material for your blog or website? Happens to all of us, even myself. Humans are different, we are all individuals. And being individuals affects when we are at our most creative. Everyone is different and therefore everyone [...]

RSS? What is that? RSS explained

John — Sat, 14 May 2011 03:38:44 +0000

Are you curious as to what to do with an RSS feed or don’t know what it is?. I can see where it could be confusing when first looked at by those who are not technology gurus. So here I am, to talk a little bit about RSS feeds. What they are and what they [...]

How to program your Arduino Uno with an AVRISP mkII

John — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:29:36 +0000

Have an AVRISP mkII that you want to use to program your Arduino Uno and still use the Arduino IDE? Well this post will show you how.This post assumes you have an Arduino Uno, running Windows XP, and have the latest IDE software (version 0022 as of this post). The main reason I wanted to [...]

Cloud Computing, is it really that reliable?

John — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:11:25 +0000

Just when I started looking into and researching the advantages of cloud computing I hear about the problems Amazon has been having for the last day and a half with their Amazon Web Service (AWS). What is cloud computing? The idea behind it is that it allows you to host files, websites, databases, etc from [...]

Yep, I’m guilty of these productivity sins

John — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:19:52 +0000

I recently ran across a post that talks about 5 productivity sins with regards to blogging. I’d have to say it was a pretty good read and I’m guilty of most of them, 4 out of 5 to be exact. Checking Stats: Guilty! While I don’t really check for this blog, I do manage a [...]