Douglas Wong's Blog

  • GoPro HUD

    dougw
    This is a follow up to my e-bike video, which was an element14 prize. I had hoped to get this HUD working before the e-bike video, but I was missing the HDMI cable. View from a pedestrian bridge over the Rideau River. You can see the river is lined ...

  • Scavenger Hunt Quiz Prizes Unboxing

    dougw
    I was the lucky winner of some great prizes for participating in a scavenger hunt quiz:  Scavenger Hunt Quiz 1 - English   Scavenger Hunt Quiz 2 - English  The quiz included an eclectic variety of questions which still managed to ...

  • 2022 Summary of element14 activity - DougW

    dougw
    As the year winds down I always summarize my element14 activity in a blog that I later use to lookup my historical content. This year was a mad scramble the whole year. I tried to fit a lot of projects into an already busy schedule and almost nothing...

  • Leaderboards List

    dougw
    This is just a list of element14 leaderboards I have found - I will try to keep the list updated as I find more. If you find others, please link them in the comments below. /leaders/participation-leaderboard /members-area/leaders/members-area-activit...

  • 2021 Summary of element14 activity - DougW

    dougw
    My annual summary of activity is how I find all my old content. It works better than the search engine. This year has been a difficult year from many perspectives as I'm sure everyone is aware. My activity has been adversely affected by the incredibl...

  • Verint/Telligent

    dougw
    I am trying to get a feel for some aspects of the new platform by writing this blog. It probably won't see any views by members since it looks like personal blogs are squirreled away and probably not in the main forum stream. This is partly a tes...

  • Who remembers EPROM?

    dougw
    This is just an off the wall way to say thank you to element14 and Xilinx. They had a little give-away draw to win a Zynq book and they ended up sending me a huge book called Exploring Zynq MPSoC and a screw driver set. I also recently completed a Pr...

  • Just How Cool Is A Hemmi Slide Rule

    dougw
    I made an unexpected discovery the other day while purging some old dead storage. I came across a slide rule and a super 8 movie camera. At this point, these items are mostly just curiosities, but I thought I would see if I could remember how to use ...

  • Strip Board - Is it the best prototyping board?

    dougw
    VeroboardSpoiler alert - for me strip board is generally the best proto-board. But why?Well, when it comes to circuit cards, I have a compulsion to make them clean, neat and orderly (PCB-OCD).I have all these rules and objectives that I use when layi...

  • element14 Loot

    dougw
    I just received a box of loot from element14, including an Arduino Nano Every and an Arduino Micro - thanks I'm not quite clear what the occasion is, but this stuff is useful - the cat thinks so.... Look for these to appear in a project at...

  • 2020 Summary of element14 Activity - DougW

    dougw
    I like to make a list of my main activities of the previous year and put them in a summary blog, so I can easily find them. 2020 was a strange year as I'm sure everyone can attest to. element14 was a bright spot throughout the year that helped take m...

  • Miracle Batteries

    dougw
    My first digital multimeter was a Micronta....here it is, fresh from my museum archives:I remember being very impressed with its long battery life when I was using it decades ago, probably because it didn't use LEDs. But now I just turned it on and i...

  • Peek-A-Boo!

    dougw
    Two element14 T-shirts in two days - Wow.This one came with a very useful breadboard.... But not the cat - he just wanted to try it on.Hey - when are you going to learn to get the size right? Thanks element14

  • The Cat and the T

    dougw
    The T-shirt is great - the cat has spoken...Note the nice element14 Presents battery it came with.What do you mean photobomb? .... this is my half of the shirt..... I was here first.Okay, lets see how to turn this into a game.... Thanks element1...

  • 2020 - a good year for hindsight

    dougw
    Somewhere in the last 2 years I lost the plot. I thought I would share my experience in case it benefits other members. One of my goals in the past 2 years has been to get nominated for member of the year, but I have not been able to figure out what ...

  • 2019 Summary - What the Helement14 Is He Up To?

    dougw
    Every year I review my projects for the last year, but when I look at the oddball list of projects I did last year, it really begs questions like "What was he thinking?" or "What was he into?" or "What was he up to?" It started with a magnetic levit...

  • Who Guessed This Was Going On?

    dougw
    In the past year or so I set out to explore what we members could do to improve interest and participation in the forum. This blog is a discussion of some of those initiatives. In total these activities took quite a bit of thought and effort so I wan...

  • element14 T-Shirts

    dougw
    It came up recently that it is possible to collect a whole week of T-shirts from element14.Here is the proof: This collection is actually missing at least five T-shirts I have squirreled away somewhere, but it does show it is possible to have a ...

  • Goodies ....

    dougw
    This is what I won for participating in the Project14 Test Instrumentation contest:Some of it was chosen by element14 (tool kit, PocketBeagle and swag)I chose the Pi 3A+, displays, proto stripboards, & transistors. Thank you element14 - this...

  • 2018 Summary of element14 Activity - DougW

    dougw
    This is the latest blog in my annual summary series. This year I will try to include a few more statistics for those that are interested in that sort of thing. Those that follow the forum will know from my comments that I greatly enjoy reading and le...

  • Nightmare Disk Failure & Recovery Attempt

    dougw
    A few months ago I purchased a 2.5" 2 TB USB hard disk drive mostly for backup, but I started using it for project work that had lots of video in it. A few days ago it wouldn't power up with my computer - it just made an intermittent beeping...

  • 2017 Summary of element14 Activity

    dougw
    Every year about this time I do a review of my forum activity over the past year. This summary provides some insight into the amount of time I expend on element14 activities and it also provides insight into how well the forum motivates me to partici...

  • Dollar Store Parts in Projects

    dougw
    This blog is to add to theheckwithkaren blog about using Dollar Store parts in projects.I scour the Dollar Store for parts on many projects and I have use parts from the Dollar Store countless times.Here are a few examples:The Acrylic dome on my Konk...

  • Phantom 4 Unboxing

    dougw
    This blog will cover my experience with the DJI Phantom 4 which was a prize for my entry in the Safe and Sound Design Challenge.The objective is to provide those who were curious about the great prize in this challenge with information about what it ...

  • Makers - The Missing Link

    dougw
    It is clear from the response to the "bit by the bug" blog that there are a lot of inspiring stories about how people became interested in technology.Active members of the forum can all relate to many of the sentiments and motives expressed...