We’re at three months since the last post… We were in Sweden for almost two months, introducing Axel to the grandparents, and after coming back I’ve not had time to write. I have however made progress on an upgrade for the mini mill that I started planning at the beginning of the year: replacing the …
This isn’t really a project post, but some of you may be aware that Kilauea volcano here on the Big Island is having a bit of an eruption right now. Two weeks ago there was a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, the largest to hit the island since 1975. This was stronger than anything we ever felt …
My computer’s graphics card (an ATI 5870 from 2010) finally died, the monitors started going black after a few minutes of use. Time to get a new one, I guess. The only hitch is that my computer is water cooled (there’s a page describing this project on my old, now-defunct online photo album) so a …
I said I would do a little writeup of the software for the weather station earlier, and I realized that it would actually be good to do a little How-To about using an Xbee to wirelessly upload now software to an Arduino. While I’ll include a bit of explanation along the way, there will be …
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