Journey through Electrosanity

Now we're building a house.  It's on a steep hill in Chattanooga.  More details on that later, but for now I'm contemplating tan...

Our last post let me easily verify my PCB layout.  I simply entered each pin name into the toggling code and probed to verify the signal w...

In our last post, we discovered how to manually program hardware pins.  Our final code to continuously toggle a pin is:     #include <...

I've spent the past month proactively vacuuming the internet for any and all useful Atmel programming guides.  Unsatisfied with what I f...

Hello to anyone still using an RSS reader (I suspect y'all are my only audience, due to my infrequent updates). I've started a new...

Wow, it's been well over a year since my last post! So much has happened, but as usual I've run out of time to talk about it.  I...

Random thoughts on buying/charging batteries.   Both sealed and wet lead acid are self balancing as long as you drop the current down to b...

It's been 3 years since I got the ebike running.  Everything is holding up except the batteries, which have slowly declined in performan...

I just spent 11 hours lowering a circuit's power by 400mW.  Our total budget is 76500mW, and we're getting innovative trying to get ...

Two solid anchors: Outside our thermal chamber room: diagAbby road: Viborg, SD.  I prefer a shotgun, but whatever floats your b...

Lee and I are renting a 3/2 on wonderful Shoal Creek Blvd (as previously described).  Lee wanted the master and I had no preference, so I pl...

Every few months, my chiropractor takes some measurements and then presents a body state-of-health analysis.  One key specification is ...

Texas gerrymandering at its finest:  On my short 7 mile bike ride to work, I cross through three congressional districts:  My house is in di...