As most techies I know, I have a set of websites I check up on each morning, and throughout the day. I get to the office in the morning, and first things first, I "make the rounds." And thanks to my handy dandy RSS reader, I never miss a single thing. I'm hyper-informed about the narrow set of topi…

No I haven't hit any sort of production or even commercial level polish. But the title sure had some nice alliteration huh? ;)

As the title hints at though, the past month has been a great example of the vast gap between a prototype (as seen in my last
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And with that I set to some real world testing.

Night 1: The alarm went off as expected! I snoozed it (as I am want to do). But 30 seconds later it went off again! I had left in my hard coded debuggin…

I've been making good progress since receiving my IOIO. Got it up and running over USB, tested it all out, and then had to wait for my PICKit3 to upgrade it's firmware. Once it arrived, it took some time for me to grok it (I've never used a PIC programmer or anything like it before) but finally got…

I had an unexpected break through on my C3 project! A couple nights ago, I had some spare time, and had been thinking about the pressure sensor for a long time. The problem with it is, there is a circle with a radius of just 4mm, and in order to get good readings, the force must be applied to the c…

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm beginning a new game project that I'm pretty excited about. Me and the artist I always work with have been mulling a new project for some months, and have been waiting for other things in our lives to clear a way for it to begin.

About a month ago we started to…

Welp, JUST over a month, and I've got it pretty much completed. I have it all together, working, packaged up in it's enclosure, and mobile. (I'll do a proper video of it soon and post it)


(Reading from a Vodka bottle, not a person ;))

It's currently using an external 9V battery for power. Though I'd …

Testing the accuracy of my device has been quite an interesting ride, and it has lead me to one conclusion: Breathalyzers are far from an ideal way of testing Blood Alcohol Content (BAC).

This must be why in real serious cases, Police Departments use blood or urine tests as they are directly measuri…

Still waiting on Arduino to release their WiFi shield... So the drinking continues! Er... I mean the MQ3 project continues!

So I've put some time into looking for parts and methods for more making this handheld. Ordered some bits, and I'll update more on that once those parts come in. But the more i…

Still waiting on Arduino to release their official WiFi shield for my C3 project. So my mind began to wounder. And I started an Android app to help post articles to www.talentopoly.com. But got stalled due to waiting on 3rd party API support. So my mind began to wounder.

About two weeks ago I was br…