My first robot project. I try to reproduce Hanno’s dancebot. It’s a self-balancing robot that uses a parallax propeller microcontroller and some accelerators and gyros to remain upright.
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Using the LIS3LV02DQ accelerometer
While working on the dancebot, I had to get this accelerometer chip to work. I mounted the accelerometer to a QFN breakout board, and installed it on a parallax propeller professional breadboard.
Read MoreMiniDigi and MiniAMP
DSP4YOU (www.minidsp.com) is a company that makes tiny audio DSP (digital signal processor) kits. For this particular review, I’ll be reviewing two of their cards, the MiniDIGI and the miniAMP. Like most of my reviews, lets start off with the picture: The miniDIGI and miniAMP are the two little cards sitting on top of my …
Read MoreConway’s game of life on a parallax propeller
One of my first successful propeller projects. I implement Conway’s Game of Life using a propeller and some random eBay LED MAtrix display.
Read MoreTED-5000 from the TheEnergyDetective.com
This is a review of the the TED-5000 from TheEnergyDetective.com. This is kind of a unique contraption, so lets start by saying what it is and why you might want it. There’s some psychological evidence that merely being aware of your energy usage will cause the average person to become more conservative. Take for example …
Read MoreWordPress and mod_rewrite
Apologies in advance that this is a long and confusing post… Part 1: The problem I decided I wanted to migrate my old Land of Devastation website at http://www.landofdev.com/ over to a subsection of http://www.smbaker.com/. There are several reasons for this, chief among them being that the Land of Devastation website doesn’t really stand by …
Read MoreAdding custom CSS to a wordpress blog post
In the previous post, I showed how to create fancy mouseover buttons in wordpress without having to resort to the ugliness javascript. However, the post finished up with one very big issue….. You can’t include CSS definitions in a wordpress blog post because they need to be placed in the header of your blog. Well, …
Read MoreCreating mouseover buttons in wordpress using CSS
One of the issues that I ran into when porting my websites over to wordpress was the lack of built-in image mouseover capabilities. My previous website used dreamweaver, and had mouseover using javascript built-in. Of course, one simple way to do this would be to copy the javascript over from the old site into the …
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