A little poking around online and then fidgeting with a multimeter and the Garmin connection cable provided the following information on the cable pinouts:
On my cable the fourth pin, Power, did not correspond to any of the serial connector pins. That’s fine, and probably to be expected. I had no plans to use it for [...]
I have to give more kudos to SparkFun. Despite their website saying they were going to be closed until Monday, the order I placed on Wednesday went out yesterday. Should be here soon.
In the meantime, I’m gathering the other parts and figuring out how to get them to interact. Here’s what I have so far:
The [...]
Tags: Arduino · Computing · Photography
One of my goals for next summer is to drive my motorcycle up the Dalton Highway to Prudhoe Bay. I’ve already got a list of gadgets that will likely be going with me, including my mobile amateur radio and camera gear.
A big nerd like myself, that just didn’t seem enough. Enter the picture you see [...]
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First, credit where credit is due. I found this flash game in the Something Awful thread about addictive flash based games.
If I can roughly translate the German title of this game, it’s called “The Institute: Psychiatry for mishandled stuffed animals” and that’s exactly what the game is about. You have a cast of five stuffed [...]
Tags: Computing · Psychology
My laptop died. Just out of warranty, too. Damn it. I think it’s just the hard drive. It boots up, but the moment you try to do anything useful, it locks up and the hard drive makes a rhythmic thunking noise. It’s got a good beat, but you can’t dance to it. I’ll figure it [...]
All good things come in threes; Neapolitan ice cream, stooges, celebrity deaths. So I figured one last run through of this game was required before I set it on the shelf to gather dust along with Battlefield 1942, Duke Nukem and Doom. But before I could do that, I needed a theme. Something to make [...]
Apparently several stores in Fairbanks now think I’m some sort of criminal. A project I’m working on requires me to make some duplicates of our corporate video. The video is on DVD. I take an early lunch and head over to Office Max. They’ve happily accepted my DVDs in the past.
“I’m sorry, we don’t do [...]
After finishing Neverwinter Nights 2 a couple of weeks ago, I browsed a couple of forums and found that if you play an evil character there just might be a chance that you get a more interesting ending. Honestly, it wouldn’t take much.
So I set out to play the game in the absolute opposite way [...]
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As I work to improve my photography business, Urban Raven Photo, I find that I’m reading more and more on photography. Not just looking at the collective works of others, but even going back to the basics, so to speak. This book is not one of the basics.
If you had to name a photographer that’s [...]
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I don’t think I have big hands. Really, I don’t. So why is it that when I put a computer together I invariably cut the hell out of myself?
I’m tired of giant computer cases. They take up a ton of space, are noisy, and just look boring. No, I’m not looking [...]
Tags: Computing