“We have an emergency alert in detention block AA-23.” – Random Death Star Administration Team Member. When I first moved into my house I found there was a Networx NX-4 alarm installed. Great! All I needed to do after that was add a network connection to it so that I could control it from my […]
“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 […]
I like comically verbose debug outputs. I tend to produce a lot of information in debug logs attached to applications that I write. Rarely does anyone else see the logs, but as the whole purpose of the debug logs is to track down and fix faults, the more information the better. I found a very […]
One of the code posts I created a few weeks ago referenced one of the utility logging functions that I have created for use in my applications/tools. It has certainly made my life a lot easier and I have several derivations of it for various situations. This function is called in much the same […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 