Douglas Wong's Blog

GoPro HUD

dougw — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:43:32 GMT

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 ...(read more)

Scavenger Hunt Quiz Prizes Unboxing

dougw — Sat, 18 May 2024 08:25:09 GMT

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 ...(read more)

2022 Summary of element14 activity - DougW

dougw — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:55:00 GMT

As the year winds down I always summarize my element14 activity in a blog that I later use to lookup my historical content.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...(read more)

Leaderboards List

dougw — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 15:10:00 GMT

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...(read more)

2021 Summary of element14 activity - DougW

dougw — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 18:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Verint/Telligent

dougw — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 06:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Who remembers EPROM?

dougw — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 05:34:16 GMT

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...(read more)

Just How Cool Is A Hemmi Slide Rule

dougw — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:32:44 GMT

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 ...(read more)

Strip Board - Is it the best prototyping board?

dougw — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 03:17:06 GMT

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...(read more)

element14 Loot

dougw — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 03:48:37 GMT

I just received a box of loot from element14, including an Arduino Nano Every and an Arduino Micro - thanks tariq.ahmadI'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...(read more)

2020 Summary of element14 Activity - DougW

dougw — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 04:45:39 GMT

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...(read more)

Miracle Batteries

dougw — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 03:58:43 GMT

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...(read more)

Peek-A-Boo!

dougw — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:07:37 GMT

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(read more)

The Cat and the T

dougw — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:52:31 GMT

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...(read more)

2020 - a good year for hindsight

dougw — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 23:41:37 GMT

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 ...(read more)