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.

Engineering: A Road to Success

CharlesGantt

Over the last half decade, many industries have taken a massive hit due to the downturn in the global economy. While this has affected millions of highly educated professionals worldwide, it appears that the engineering industry has mostly been spare...
- 13 Feb 2014
Show your love for technology this Valentine's day!

anujaapte

Working in a high-tech company comes with a number of benefits! Running into something fun (= geeky) everyday is just one of them. Just today, I found out that my colleague Ye Cheng created a heart that blinks when it senses love . A motion sensor an...
- 13 Feb 2014
A New Job....

e14 Contributor

I had seriously intented on making this blog a series of articles about eddy-current displacement measurement, however, changes in my company have interfered. We regularly get a new set of senior managment every 2 ot 3 years, so it's like start...
- 13 Feb 2014
"Beyond the Phone" Wireless Power Challenge!

e14 Contributor

Have you ever thought of designing ways to incorporate wireless power into our daily lives? If you can provide a solution which goes 'Beyond the Phone' then you should join this challenge. The prizes up for grabs are a 13in MacBook Pro with Retina di...
- 13 Feb 2014
Low Cost PICKit 3 Bundle at Farnell - while stocks last

e14 Contributor

Go grab yourself a bargain while stocks last ! This bundle was created for our 2012 Seminar Series and comprises a PICKit 3 programmer / debugger + a demo board that features 8/16 and 32-bit PIC MCUs , it was developed to show the migration path acro...
- 12 Feb 2014
Sensor Board Layout for Rocket Project

kas.lewis

This TimeIn this blog post I plan to go over the board layout for the components chosen in the previous blog entry and explain the reason for the layout and placements that I have chosen. I was hoping to give an outline for the software but due to th...
- 10 Feb 2014
The Chicken Coop Project

wymand

I live on the side of Tiger Mountain in the Issaquah alps. We keep chickens but there are a lot of predators in the woods so they are caged in. But I still need to watch them. I currently use a fixed IR in the coop and another PT&nb...
- 9 Feb 2014
NXP OM13320 I2C kit on the way!

e14 Contributor

I'm planning to use this with Teensy3 and 3.1 to help develop and debug I2C libraries. The Arduino Wire library (which is where the I2C support is) has some long-standing serious bugs: like locking up execution if there are certain kinds of I2C error...
- 9 Feb 2014
Unboxing the Arduino Starter Kit

nelson.milum

[This is re-posted from my own blog at nelsonm.com] So there’s some exciting news in the world of what Nelson does with his spare time! I’ve always had an interest in electronics, programming, computers, technology and the cool things that can b...
- 8 Feb 2014
Assembler vs C vs Flowcode ..3..2..1..Fight!

benmatrix

I briefly want to go over some of the upsides and downsides to programming based on the popular embedded languages assembler and C, show how they are used in the field and then compare these to Flowcode. AssemblerThis is basically writing code d...
- 7 Feb 2014
How to program a Raspberry Pi using Simulink

anujaapte

Why do you love the Pi? I love it because the Raspberry Pi has made it easy for young makers to play with hardware! I wish this were the case when I was in school.. I remember falling in love with MATLAB for similar reasons in grad school. With MATLA...
- 5 Feb 2014
Frozen Electronics: A Project for Beginners and Advanced Alike!

mraureliusr

I've been so busy lately I haven't had time to blog on here. I've been spending most of my energy trying to get my video blog and website up and running -- and everything has been going pretty smoothly. I already have a couple (unofficial) endorsemen...
- 5 Feb 2014
How Aha! Moments Happen – or Don’t. … and What It Means for Innovation

ipsdesigners

Businesses count on Aha! moments when seeking to innovate. Aha! moments, or brand new insights occur when the brain has aggregated shards of related information into a wholly novel, highly applicable construct – something akin to the ‘whole’ that is&...
- 3 Feb 2014
E-Book for the Utilite Computer beginner

e14 Contributor

The Utilite computer features a Cortex A9 processor (Freescale i.MX6) with up to 4 cores.It can run several Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Archlinux ARM, Kali Linux and also Android.The book will help you to get quickly around the boarding hu...
- 2 Feb 2014
Big Oven Needs Igniter

e14 Contributor

Many moons ago I bought two big gas convection ovens for baking. Both didn't work. They were inexpensive for big ovens. I bought them on eBay. The manufacturer changed hands, married another company, hyphenated it's last name and as a result parts ar...
- 2 Feb 2014
First Pi project...

benmtl

Well now that I have a pi and a goal .. I have started my first project. I am going to be at least trying to make a voltage monitor / logger. I have come to need this tool a few times at work. Since anything commercial is too costly so ... here...
- 31 Jan 2014
Parallax LCD

chiversj

I would like to write in C some simple code to use a Parallax LCD two wire device. I believe it uses IC2. I also need to know which pins on the GPIO to use. Thanks
- 29 Jan 2014
DIY TRIAXIAL TEST LEADS AND SHIELD BOX

robrenz

My exploits in making some cables and shield box for my 2450. Also a diode leakage test on the 2450. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o13e5LWsPTI
- 25 Jan 2014
RaspiSwitch (8-channel IP Switch with integrated NAS)

e14 Contributor

So it was delievered, my first Raspberry Pi, and I thought about what to do with it. I've got a MediaCenter already, installing the xbmc distribution on the SD Card seems just too easy. Then I saw my 20 year old "PowerManager"...
- 25 Jan 2014
This is a test blog post

bluescreen

The thing about writing a test blog post is that to make sure it really works, you need to include a variety of media. For example, can you see a picture? And then, you should try different font styles. With links to things like different v...
- 24 Jan 2014
AutoPiLot: Using an RPi to drive a powerboat auto pilot

docjim

Project title: Auto PiLot Objective: Design, construct, commission and operate a complete autopilot system capable of safelysteering a sea-going motor boat under user command. Method: Exploit the processing capabilities of the RPi to&nbsp...
- 24 Jan 2014
Online test tool for Simcom GPRS shields

e14 Contributor

Simcom offers a range of 2G and 3G M2M modules. All the modules offers a rich set of AT command interface for developing IP-based applications. This tutorial is intended for developers building M2M applciations with Simcom modules. With the online AT...
- 22 Jan 2014
Digital Power Design Workshop in April!

e14 Contributor

We're hosting a Digital Power Design Workshop in April. You can learn how to design analog & digital power supplies with ease during this in-depth laboratory based workshop. If you're a aspiring design engineer, make sure you attend! For ...
- 22 Jan 2014
Video: "Linux Tutorials: How to Apply a Patch to the Linux Kernel Stable Tree"

fustini

I came across this great video tutorial from notable Linux kernel hacker Greg KH 100 Linux Tutorials: How to Apply a Patch to the Linux Kernel Stable Treehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zUVS4kJtrA&list=PLbzoR-pLrL6qucl8-lOnzvhFc2UM1tcZA www.youtu...
- 21 Jan 2014
4 Ways to Get Past Cognitive Biases – and Improve Your Bottom Line

ipsdesigners

Critical thinking techniques teach us to be very mindful of our own cognitive biases. Unfortunately, these biases are rooted in human nature and are hard to overcome, but being aware of them is our first defense.Have you ever completely missed the ma...
- 20 Jan 2014