The cool toy of the day has to go to Drawdio. You draw an picture and it connects a circuit through the graphite in the pencil. It then plays back the sound through the speaker. The only complaint I've heard is that it sounds like a dentist drill. I fully intend ...

What struck me about the pieces shown during last night's Nuit Blanche was that all the ideas were entirely doable by any person. In fact I feel that way about most art pieces. Its the idea that matters, and frankly, it doesn't have to be an original idea to make ...

The Arduino EEPROM is a useful thing to have available for those times when you need to store small samples of data. In my initial data logger prototype I managed to record the Hall Sensor data into two bytes worth of space per minute interval. This gave me around 4.25 ...

Just a quick note that I will be presenting at the Toronto Flex User Group on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at the Oakham House on the Ryerson Campus, starting at 6:30pm. Oakham House Room: Oakham Lounge 55 Gould Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 1E9 I'll be presenting: ActionScript or Flex Project? Development lessons learned building client projects.

I made the first successful run with the data logger yesterday. I've wired up a hall sensor to the wheel of my bike and recorded 60s intervals of my ride into work and back. Ideally I'm looking for increased resolution over a typical bicycle computer; where a ...

Been working on a data logging application lately with the intentions of recording my biking sessions and displaying them on a mapping API. The general idea is to use the Hall sensor common in many RPM applications to record revolutions to the EEPROM onboard the Arduino. I'm having a few issues ...

I'm filing this one under useful tricks. If you've got a password field the browser has saved and you can't recall the text (and you're too lazy to check the browser password save dialogue), fire up Firebug and press inspect. Target the password field and click. It will pull the ...

I've had the Solenoid project working for about a week and a half now, but the rain and lack of sunlight was getting in the way of making a video of everything in action. It worked out well because it gave me the chance to demonstrate the project to a ...

This Solenoid controller has been filled with a ton of small successes. Today I'm chalking up one more success to the list. I've got the XBee portion of the controller working. I had been working on this for a long time now, and the more I work on it the ...

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it. -- Albert Einstein The big issue I was having with the Solenoids was too much pressure. So while on a trip to Sudbury my Stepfather and I redesigned it. Well, I just told him what I was thinking of doing, and he ...