Monday, May 16, 2011

Why I hate writing UI code...

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Now that the Atmel CPU is back alive, I have been back working on my beacon code.  The underlying beacon code is finished for the most part....

High Voltage programming the ATMega328

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Having smoked my first AVR CPU, I now face the need to be able to reset the CPU fuses regardless of their current settings.  After some sear...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Smoked my first ATMega328

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I have been having a lot of fun upgrading my toolset for building AVR applications and hardware solutions.  I have been playing around with ...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Working with new tool chain

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As the Arduino beacon project has progressed, I have spent some time trying to minimize the code size.  For one thing, there are a number of...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

New RTC and data logging shield for beacon project

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I have built one of the fine data logging shields for Arduino from the fine folks at Adafruit  to further clean up my beacon project rats ne...

Thanks for all the emails!

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I created this blog originally as a place to catalogue my ramblings and notes for myself.  I have been receiving quite a bit of email from a...

Trying to spruce up the Arduino beacon project

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The Arduino WSPR/QRSS beacon project has gotten to the point where it is time to try and get rid of some of the rats nest of the breadboard ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

QRSS/WSPR band befuddlement...

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I know that on 30 metres, the dial frequency of 10.1387 plus 1300 Hz is the bottom of the QRSS band and plus 1400 Hz is the bottom of the W...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

I2C LCD performance

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I am a bit disappointed in the performance of the Arduino LCD driver, especially with the I2C interface enabled.  I am not sure how much tim...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

WSPR Beacon update

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Now that I have liberated GPIO pins for the RTC clock, I have incorporated it into my breadboard design.  I have the code to the point where...