I Love Cynics!

It’s true. I do. It’s been almost a year since my last update. Oh, and that Arduino project? Yeah, haven’t worked on it since that last post, either. This summer was crazy hectic. My kiddos were up to visit and we had a blast. My sister didn’t get to run the Mount Marathon in Seward, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 camera breakout [...]

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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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Just realized that this blog turned five years old a bit over a week ago. Oddly, that doesn’t add up to a ton of posts. As many promises of “posting more” as I’ve made, you’d think there’d be more! Might as well make that promise again. I will do my best to post at least [...]

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I’d been lettin’ it go for a while. Updated to version 2.7 and added a Twitter feed. I’m sooooo Web 2.0. Have to say, I’m really liking the new WordPress interface.

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A while back, I posted to the Arduino Forums about the trouble I was having getting actual data from the GPS to the Arduino. If you scroll down a couple of entries, you’ll see that I was getting a ton of gibberish. The response from the Forum was that the RS232 output was not only [...]

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The GPS to computer serial cable that I originally purchased for my eTrex was about six feet long. For this project, I wanted a much shorter cable, so I didn’t have to coil up a load of cable and try to find space for it on the cross bars of the motorcycle handle bars. I [...]

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That’s what I’m getting so far when I hook up my eTrex to the Arduino. An example is shown below: Rather disappointing considering that when hooked up to my computer and running Hyperterminal, notorious for sucking, it works perfectly, outputting nicely readable lines. Grrrrr. Ah well. I’ll figure it out. And if not, integrated GPS [...]

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