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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DIY 3D Printer with OpenBeam
I’ve been tempted to build a 3D Printer for the last couple of years. I’ve followed their development on reprap.org and on message boards and forums but never really liked the print quality and the ribbed, non-smooth appearance of the printed items. A few months ago I finally decide to try out the 3D Printing […]
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