I Love Cynics!

I have it on good authority that SQUEEEEE is the sound of pure internet joy. I take it that you must also bring your hands up near your chest and wiggle them around while saying it.
Today I received my distinctive red box from SparkFun that signified that my order was here. This makes me a [...]

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Back up and running. Never had that much trouble updating WordPress before. I suspect I missed some basic instruction. What was most odd was that all of the administrative functions worked just fine, but there was absolutely no display from the user side. Strangeness, indeed.
Anyway, it appears to be working again. If anyone notices [...]

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Blog is not working. I has a sad.

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As Greg pointed out in a comment to my last post someone has worked on a project similar to mine. I have to say, their solutions are much more elegant than my own. So, in the spirit of design, I’m gonna totally steal a bunch of their ideas. The use of a dedicated [...]

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Pictured here is a circuit I was working with last winter, trying to convert the RS232 signal from the Garmin eTrex GPS to the TTL signal understood by the Arduino. I made two of those damn boards and neither worked. After intensely looking them over today, I found one that was salvageable. All that needed [...]

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Last winter I started on a project that would integrate a camera and gps into my motorcycle. The plan was to drive the Dalton Highway and have the system snap a picture every few minutes or miles. A few things put that plan on hold. First, I changed my summer plans and drove down to [...]

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