Legacy Personal Blogs

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This blog contains the legacy personal blog posts of our members, other than our Top Members whose content has been migrated into individual blogs in this area. Our new platform does not have personal blogs so this is how we have preserved the personal blog posts of our members from the Jive platform. No new posts will be permitted in this blog. Instead, if you wish to create blog content, please post it in the blog in the most appropriate topic area.

  • Stuff trickles in and challenges continue

    funinalaska
    So I got more things in the mail today that I will eventually need to utilize.I received:Ethernet shieldMore LEDs (gonna make a cube eventually when I need a change of pace and have time)a DHT22 sensor I am still waiting for a decent amount of t...

  • LED matrices, learning new things and learning things I should have known.....

    funinalaska
    Ok... Wheewwwww     The other day I got 3 8X8 Led Matrix modules in the mail from China.I was bordering on wigging out that I wasn't going to be able to figure out how to use them, but alas I did.First thing I learned,  ...

  • Introduction

    e14 Contributor
    Hi All I just wanted to say hello as I'm a new member. I have very little Electronics knowledge but I'm looking forward to that challenge of learning as much as I can from the internet and element14. i have purchased myself an Arduino uno starte...

  • was ist ein blog und... andere grundlegende Fragen...

    e14 Contributor
    Hallo liebes Publikum,1.) Was ist ein "blog"? Kann ich ihn - wie hier jetzt - dazu benutzen, einen "Thread" oder "Thema" oder allgemein eine Frage neu zu erstellen, oder schickt sich da eine andere Form?2.) Wie kann ich an meine postings eine Signatu...

  • Seeking help on Arduino wireless communication for temperature monitoring and recording

    funinalaska
    Ok, I am in the middle of working on a project and I decided I want to make one more expansion to it.I am working on a weather monitoring system using an ArduinoInitially my plan was for having indoor and outdoor sensors to display temperature on an ...

  • Controlling LEDs for lighting effects and message boards

    benmatrix
    One of the great features of Flowcode is it allows you to create firmware for microcontrollers without really having to know much about what's going on down at the machine code level. A very simple way of determining if a microcontroller is beha...

  • hello all

    e14 Contributor
    juststepping up to the plate to introduce myself and be known.I am a sound and lighting tech, for concerts by trade and i rebuild computers for a hobby.Most of my current laptop and desktop computers were assembled and programed by myself from scrat...

  • VERY Strange idea

    funinalaska
    Ok, I am sure I am not the first perso that has thought of this, but here is a very strange idea.I would need some serious help with it though if anyone if game.Has anyone ever thought of driving a stepper motor with relays instead of transistors?I k...

  • C switch statements

    mlease
    This week I covered several approaches to make large switch statements execute faster and save power. Switch statements are a great way to help keep your code readable but it is easy to forget they can turn into a long sequence of if-then-else statem...

  • Check out on YouTube: Panasonic Hybrid Capacitor Overview

    jing.liu
    Take your just two minutes to check out Panasonic technical video to have a quick overview about our Hybrid Capacitor! In this video features and benefits of Hybrid Capacitor are being simply and well explained.Come and see how Hybrid Capacitors...

  • RoboPanthers Robotics Club is a Go!

    SGarciaV
    RoboPanthers Have a Blast Off! Today, October 21, 2013 marks the first meeting and workshop of the St Louise de Marillac School RoboPanthers robotics club with 17 attendees, located in the village of La Grange Park, Illinois. Thanks to the paris...

  • Steve Vai's Alien Guitar Rig

    bluescreen
    I saw the legendary guitarist Steve Vai perform last Friday. Besides being one of the best guitarists in the world, he is also one heck of a showman-- he really interacts with the audidence the enitre time he's playing. He appeared dressed like an al...

  • Reference Designs

    nickgray
    I once worked for a company that provided circuit designs and even application notes based upon construction of a single copy of a circuit, generally at the request of a customer. This is fine if the usual disclamers are given. However, that company ...

  • Enough building, time for demolition

    funinalaska
    Today i took a break from building and coding and trying new things o go back to a favorite past time from my child hood.When i was younger I loved to take things apart.Any time my family or someone we knew got a new appliance, or was getting rid of ...

  • RPi/Z-wave project: Adding in the Pi Rack

    packetgeek
    Received a Pi Rack board as part of the Connect Four Challenge.  I consider it the second most useful Raspberry Pi daughter board that I have, just under the RaZberry daugther board.  Before having the Pi Rack, I needed two Raspberry Pis, o...

  • Yay, I did it (baby steps)

    funinalaska
    Ok, I managed to get my DS18B20 and my outdoor thermistor to display on my LCDall being driven from an Arduino Nano clone.I know this is probably a minimal feat for most people out there, but for me this was a big thing.Now, at least this part is goo...

  • Today's frustrations

    funinalaska
    So today I decided I was going to figure out how to get the temperature as sensed by the DS18B20 to display in a 16X2 basic LCD display.So I got the DS18 working and displaying info back via serial monitor.Once I got that part, I decided it was time ...

  • Learning things the hard way

    funinalaska
    Ok, So yesterday I was working on making an indoor/outdoor thermometer with my Arduino. I was using a TMP36 sensor in a breadboard for the indoor and an epoxy coated 10k precision thermistor for the outdoor. I was using the demo code on the Adafruit ...

  • Intro to my new obsession

    funinalaska
    So i decided a couple months ago I was going to learn how to use Arduino boards and how to develop things with them.This decision came with a particular mission and project in mind.I am obsessed with LEDs.I already have a mess of standard "dumb" led ...

  • any questions?

    e14 Contributor
    If anyone wants to learn some 3d fotoshop comment on what I should do and I will make a tutorial.

  • Behind the Scenes of "Who Wins?"

    e14 Contributor
    So element14 has asked us here at SYN/HAK, an Akron, Ohio-based Hackerspace,  to share with you what went into the making of the "Who Wins?" video. The video is meant to settle an age-old question. If a certain starship and it's rival spacestati...

  • Is Today's World Analog or Digital?

    nickgray
    In a world enamored with all things digital, analog just refuses to die. It seems as though analog may be old-fashioned. After all, everything we have and use today is digital. Our cameras, telephones, television, communications systems, and everythi...

  • First blog on Electronic Life

    e14 Contributor
    Just to let you know this is my first blog and I hope that you guys/girls can talk about electronics and how cool it is.

  • Arduino Data Logger, sending data to Excel via a Web Server on Ethernet Shield

    neilk
    I recently adapted my 2 channel temperature datalogger to record temperatures in my household heating system. I wasn't satisfied with reading back a file from the SD card in order to analyse the data; I wanted a near real-time graph in Excel, on my P...

  • This is the start of my element14.com adventures... ;-)

    e14 Contributor
    Surfing the web I found:http://www.curious.com...which is meant to be a general 'learning' site. So, looking through the list of tutorials...; I found one that interested me a lot, namely, a beginner's tutorial related to programming the Arduino comp...