While working on a new revision of a project, I moved from an Arduino Uno to an Arduino Mega. In theory these devices should handle SPI in the same manner, just with different pins. While MOSI, MISO, and SCK are on pins 11, 12, and 13 respectively on the Uno, those change to 51, 50, […]
Continue reading...The first time I stayed awake until the sun came up was the night I got my color Macintosh IIsi. I was maybe ten or eleven years old, and I’d just gotten a space exploration game called Escape Velocity. It was fascinating in its openness and the range of ways you could play it. Years […]
Continue reading...I was recently commissioned to build a machine that would perform a very interesting and unusual task: Count how many times a wire had been wound around a ring by measuring its electrical properties. This task was a relatively involved one, as it included a ground-up design of the circuitry, making choices about component prices […]
Continue reading...Where I work, we use TERMINALFOUR as our main content management system. It’s a real beast of a CMS targeted at higher education, written in Java, and capable of handling very large, high-traffic sites straight out of the box. The only major hangup is that its normal publish processor for outputting HTML from user content […]
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