New Development Toy
I just picked up a new development toy, the Teensy 3.1. This thing looks pretty awesome, and it’s compatible with the Arduino 1.0.5 IDE which is great for me. The Teensy 3.1 has a lot of great features that lends itself to being used in my projects. Just the pinout on the device shows that […]
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Notes on Raspberry Pi Crashing or Locking Up Often
I’ve been working on a remote weather station project but after dealing with some problems communicating consistently with the weather station hardware I ran into a problem with the Raspberry Pi crashing or locking up fairly often. Sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes every couple of days. as you can imagine this started to drive […]
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Installing a Huawei e353 Cell Modem on Raspberry Pi with Tmobile
I have a situation where I need to install a cellular modem, from the console, in a remote weather station which is being powered by a Rapsberry Pi. I did a bit of shopping and bought an UNLOCKED Huawei e353 GSM device from Amazon. The e353 works with T-Mobile and AT&T in the United States […]
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avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte 0x0000
I’ve been working on an Arduino project with the Atmel ATMega328P on a custom board using an Olimex AVR-ISP-MK2 to program through the ICSP header and kept running into an error when trying to flash a newly compiled program to the 328P. The error would come up as “avrdude: verification error, first mismatch at byte […]
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Another Silly Quest – Dynamic Balancing
I really want to get the best results out of my Y-6 Multicopter camera platform and I know a big part of that is reducing motor/prop vibrations in the airframe. I’m looking into a dynamic balancer for the purpose because even with static balancing there are still vibes. The system is not running smoothly and […]
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