Silent Q

Azog's little slice of the world. Whee.

Arduino and an LM34 temperature sensor

| July 30, 2009

Ok, so this is nothing that hasn’t been done before. But I’ve been working on another project, and it is just driving me nuts, so I need to take a break from it, and do something else. Maybe not “simple”, but “achievable!” I ordered some LM34 temperature sensors to play with, and threw together an [...]

Spam comments

| July 27, 2009

Hmm, I hope this isn’t lame. But I think I’m gonna start messing with spam comments. I’ll just delete the links, etc, and post the inane text they try to pass off. So if you see some screwy comments that just don’t make sense, well, there you have it. I’ll probably get bored with that [...]

The Bus Pirate

| July 25, 2009

I’ve been following Hack-A-Day’s bus pirate since I first read about it. I even went and had the artwork fabbed. So as soon as I saw that they were offering an all-new pre-built version, I ordered one up. It came today: My gosh, that is tiny! Haven’t played with it yet. See how far I [...]

The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junk

| July 17, 2009

Or TGIMBOEJ Some background. If you’re familiar with tgimboej, feel free to skip past the MORE. The Evil Mad Scientists came up with the idea of sending a box of “junk” around the world. People would take what they want, put something in return, and send it along. Think of it as a traveling geocache, [...]