Category Archives: Technology
Sheep It!
Back when I was still working at Amazon I decided to contribute to a DIY/Maker faire. I can’t remember the title of the event. I thought it would be [..]
uint32_t writeError = UC3 + STK600 + JTAG;
I can’t write to my AT32UC3A3 using an STK600 and AVR Dragon via JTAG! What do I do?! Read more
Learning: AVR Assembly
I have been trying to learn AVR assembly for the past few weeks. Things are coming along, but it is tough to remember all of the 3 and 4 letter instructions and which registers they can work with. Here is part of an example project, which was really a series of exercises that I worked on through out the chapter. I’ve been reading a book from 2002 called AVR: An Introductory Course. While the reviews for this book haven’t been great, I’ve found it to be a reasonable book for learning. I’m sure it is outdated but I’m sure that the much of still applies. Read more
Citadel 3D v0.1
Here is my 1st attempt at PCB design. These are renderings of the Citadel project I have been working on. I still have some traces to complete, but [..]
Arduino Workshop Book
Here is a book I just came across. It looks promising. John Boxall seems to have the book printed out on his website as well, complete with code [..]
Citadel Breadboard
Here is what I have so far for my drum enclosure lighting system, code name: Citadel. 🙂 I will provide more documentation, when I get around to it. [..]
Jeopardy Controllers are Easy
Hardware is easy… according to the people that use many of the things I make, that is. They don’t actually say this, but I can tell. They see [..]
EE Learning
While browsing electronics.stackexchange.com, I found the following list of electronics learning sites: Read more
Build Break Alarm
Note: I meant to post this a long time ago. It is definitely an out of order project post. A while back I changed teams at Amazon. While [..]
Christmas Lights Hacked
After working on my last hardware project, the Ara’Kus (a heavy metal opera) flickering/wireless lantern, I have moved on to hacking some Christmas lights. I found that many [..]