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Software « Lifelong Learning
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. DSC Alarm Envisalink3 DSCServer SONOS = Alarm Announcements! Image courtesy of antpkr at FreeDigitalPhotos.net. Long title and a large degree of entropy? My SONOS speakers will quickly pause, a nice British lady will announce which zone was opened, and then the speaker goes back to whatever it was doing before the announcement. I'm hard to please and this solution while dependent on layers of technology, works exceedingly well. ...
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. My Ice Tube Clock from Adafruit Industries. Image curtesy of Adafruit. I've always loved when things old and new come together to form something new and interesting. I think that's the best way to describe my new Ice Tube clock from Adafruit Industries. They've managed to mix an old eastern bloc VFD (vacuum fluorescent display). Stay tuned for more. My New Maker’s Notebook. I'm going to keep it close by and see if I can capture any ...
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Closed Loop Monitoring For Motorola Paging System « Lifelong Learning
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. Closed Loop Monitoring For Motorola Paging System. Finished monitors looking sharp in their enclosures. I had built a prototype monitoring system using one of our pagers and an Arduino. Paired with a Windows Service. Well, it works and it works wonderfully so I was asked to build three more. Using multiple devices ensures we don't get false positives regarding a system outage due to the device or computer failing. Subscribe to comme...
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blink(1) mk2 for the win… « Lifelong Learning
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. Blink(1) mk2 for the win…. Blink(1) mk2 by ThingM. Last week I finally received my two new shiny blink(1) mk2 USB RGB "things"; these were rewards for helping fund the KickStarter project from ThingM. Consider subscribing to our rss feed! Filed under: Cool Things Electronic. Subscribe to comments on this post ). July 9th, 2014 - 18:17. Thanks a lot for this great APP! I downloaded your code to try using blink1mk1 instead of blink1mk2.
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. Oh yeah, I’m licensed! So as I talked about in my previous post, I headed up to Dayton Ohio last weekend to witness Hamvention 2011 first hand. Well, what I failed to enlighten the world on is I had been studying to get my license so I could be honest-to-legal HAM operator! I was able to take the test for free (it's normally $30) at Hamvention and once I passed (you doubted me? A new way to control water! I've been working on a rath...
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Arduino « Lifelong Learning
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. Closed Loop Monitoring For Motorola Paging System. Finished monitors looking sharp in their enclosures. I had built a prototype monitoring system using one of our pagers and an Arduino. Paired with a Windows Service. Well, it works and it works wonderfully so I was asked to build three more. Using multiple devices ensures we don't get false positives regarding a system outage due to the device or computer failing. I've slowly been a...
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Arduino in the workplace « Lifelong Learning
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. Arduino in the workplace. Motorola Advisor II connected to an Adafruit. Protoboard shield on an Arduino. Recently I was faced with an interesting challenge at work. How could I monitor our paging infrastructure (pagers, yes pagers, I work in healthcare) to ensure it was up and running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Software we have in use already. I'm curious if others have solved a problem like this and how? You must be logged in.
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. Sound Detection With The Arduino. I decided on Saturday that I'd try my hand at building a setup with the Arduino. To detect sound. I found the perfect schematic online here. From the guys over at SparkFun. Communicating With Ardunio Using Micrsoft .NET (C#). Is the final results. A few things to note:. I'm using a fixed char command "INLENGTH" which will need to be updated if you wish to increase the command char length. So a few m...
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Electronics « Lifelong Learning
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Knowledge should be uncompromisingly sought after and freely given away. It’s offical, I got my extra license! I'm hopeful I can teach this sense of drive to accomplish your goals to my children, that would be one of my life's greatest accomplishments. It’s offical, I got my general license! I'm a amateur radio operator and it's been some time since I got licensed but I finally took the time to study and got my general license. PS I'm taking my extra exam on in early December, wish me luck! Now the task ...
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