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Digital Temperature with the Arduino

I was waiting on an order I had placed with Tayda Electronics (they rock) for my One-Wire temperature sensors. If you haven’t heard of One-Wire or these particular sensors you need to check them out. They are made by Dallas Semiconductors… Continue Reading →

Squeeky Clean In No Time…

A few months ago, Natalie started playing around with making her own lotion bars. While she was researching, she came across numerous folks blogging about making them but also making soap. It’s something we were both interested in since we… Continue Reading →

Charge that IPod with MintyBoost goodness…

  Ah the power of Altoids! And now it has the power to charge your IPod with as much minty power as does at killing that early morning coffee breath! It’s been out there for a while but I finally… Continue Reading →

Sound Detection With The Arduino

I decided on Saturday that I’d try my hand at building a setup with the Arduino to detect sound. I found the perfect schematic online here from the guys over at SparkFun.com. They have a really nice breakout board for an… Continue Reading →

Communicating With Ardunio Using Micrsoft .NET (C#)

Being a .Net developer, I figured I needed to know how to get my applications to talk to the Ardunio board via the USB serial port. Took a few hours to get the Ardunio code working, but here is the… Continue Reading →

Learning To Count Again..

I decide to stop by Radio Shack and pick up a seven segment LED (RHDP) so I could learn to use it with my Arduino board. I had actually ordered a few from Jameco but I had a couple of… Continue Reading →

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