“I ain’t been dropping no eaves, sir, honest!” – Sam Gamgee. I have an upcoming problem that I need to solve with regards to my car (which is an Australian Holden 2009 VE Commodore). My car doesn’t have a USB iPhone interface, only a Stereo Auxiliary port. Whilst this works relatively well, I can’t control […]
“Our situation has not improved.” – Henry Jones. I ran into a strange problem recently with an Arduino project that I was working on. The existing code had been working perfectly up to that point, but I needed to add some more code for additional functionality. As soon as I did that however, I started […]
“But how could they be jamming us if they don’t know… that we’re coming?” – Lando Calrissian. That’s probably the only Star Wars quote that came to mind in regards to wireless/radio communications. As part of one of the Arduino projects I had created, which was an ultrasonic range finder to ensure the cars were parked […]
“1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott!” – Dr. Emmett Brown. Ahh, Back to the Future. Dr Brown’s reaction after learning of the recent changes to the non-functional capacity requirements. This post is part of a 6 part series, starting with Part 1. I had a tremendous amount of fun with that first system, despite its simplicity. […]
“Now, witness the power of this fully operational battle station.” – Emperor Palpatine. This post is part of a 6 part series, starting with Part 1. It’s time to start building the device. I did actually build an LED into the circuit as well so that I could see a light turn on when the […]
“Welcome to Sheldon Cooper Presents Fun with Flags.” – Sheldon Cooper. Ok, whilst we’re not studying vexillology, the title of this post reminded me of the hilarious Fun with Flags webcast from The Big Bang Theory. In our case, it’s actually Fun with Frames, the frames of course being those of our good friend Mr […]
“The circle is now complete.” – Darth Vader. More Darth Vader quotes. Excellent. To recap, we now have the garage controller interface sorted out and the basics of the Arduino understood. Now, it’s time to complete the circuit design and move on to the build. This post is part of a 6 part series, starting […]
“This will be a day long remembered.” – Darth Vader. To recap from the previous entry, I needed an alternate form of entry into the house and thus investigated interfacing with my garage door controller. The overall aim was to use my phone to open/close my garage door. This post is part of a 6 […]
“No loose wire jokes.” – Anakin Skywalker. I decided recently that I’d like to start experimenting with the Arduino rapid prototyping boards (www.arduino.cc). It’s been a desire of mine for some time to learn how to interface computers with other electronic devices, and the Arduino seemed like a good place to start. The difficulty, as […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 