“I am fluent in over six million forms of communication…” – C-3PO Historically, all of the services I’ve created on Windows (like a daemon from the Unix world), have been written in C/C++. Recently though however, I’ve needed to create a service in a .NET language like C#. There are several ways of doing this. […]
“Great Scott!” – Dr Emmett Brown I recently decided to go back to using a proxy auto-configuration script (proxy pac file) on my Windows 8.1 system. I encountered quite a few difficulties getting the pac file to take effect, so I decided to do some analysis to work out what the requirements were to get […]
“M-my lord, it-it’s impossible to locate the ship. It’s out of our range.” – Nute Gunray We recently moved into a new house and as always the first problem to address was finding the optimal place to park cars in the garage. Ideally, we wanted to park the cars as close to the garage door […]
“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 […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 