Arduino Wireless SD Shield

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A new toy just arrived for me to mess around with. I bought it mainly for the ability to do data logging and as a side project to learn about wireless communications. Look for posts on this wireless SD shield in the near future as I learn more about it and how to use it. [...]

Programming your Arduino with an AVRISP mkII with the new 1.0 IDE

Arduino Uno

A while back a wrote up instructions on how to program an Arduino with an AVRISP mkII. Back then the current software for the Arduino IDE was set at 0022 and it required you to modify a file to get it work. Apparently enough people wanted a feature like that to come built into the [...]

Tarzan style zip line

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A picture of me doing a Tarzan style swing during a zip-lining adventure while on vacation in Cabo. The zip-lining adventure was one of the most fun excursions I’ve done while on vacation. Right up there with cave tubing and four wheeling.

Cabo San Lucas Marina

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A shot of the marina in Cabo San Lucas (Los Cabos) that I took while on vacation there.

Don’t be a victim of catastrophic data loss. Protect yourself.

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Do you have a backup plan for your website or blog in the event of a hard drive crash, server crash or some other form of harm like getting hacked? If you don’t, you should. Many people take computers for granted, thinking nothing will go wrong or they leave it up to some 3rd party [...]