Category: Projects
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Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling
You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different. Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the…
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RV Mods – Sewer Hose Hanger
Anyone who’s owned a camper knows that a prime concern is where to store your sewer hose, or as the kids call it the poop pipe. Old school thought says to store it in the 4″ x 4″ hollow steel bumper. This poses several problems… First is the inside of these steel bumpers is usually…
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Soon to come
Sorry I haven’t posted it’s been quite a busy fall and winter. I’ve been working full bore working on OSCAR development alongside other client work. Some of which I will attempt to detail here soon. I’ve got two projects in the works that I’ll detail. Both are frivolous, but really cool. Mood lighting…
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Arduino serial programming using a Nokia phone cable
My last article briefly described my first Arduino built on a breadboard. I also talked about loading the bootloader with an AVRISP MKII programmer. Once you’ve written your code for your Arduino you need a way to get your code onto your chip. The bootloader makes it as easy as a serial cable and the…
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Build your own Arduino
So as the weather gets colder and my bank account doesn’t have the funds to continue on the Mustang for a while… back to playing with microprocessors. Yeah, I know I’m a geek… but who cares. I’ve continued reading about hobby electronics and robotics over the summer (Shout out to Mythbuster Grant Imahara). I found…