I finally got around to testing this sensor (two actually). The AS3935 is IC sensor created by AustriaMicroSyetems. There are a few breakout boards available out there with the chip installed. The first one I got from Tautic on Tindie is no longer available. The second breakout board I got was from PlayingWithFusion. I never …
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Hacked by Plug-In, no doubt………..
I have finally got to point where this site is back online. I have not devoted much time to re-applying WordPress and uploading content. About 4 months ago, this site was overtaken and infected its way to the DNS servers. Typing in the link to this site brought you to a Chinese Yacht club site. …
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Transmitter-Reciever Arduino Connection
In continuing my plan on using the Arbotix to be the base of the aerial platform, I was ready to test the translation of pulse signals from the transmitter through arduino to the servo, and ultimately the ESCs for motors. The transmitter I am using is the FlySky CT6B, which comes with a 6 channel …
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Remote Aerial Platform
I got a 100-sized helicopter (electric) recently and was going to use it to try aerial imaging and/or FPV after I got this awesome little dice cam that takes HD movies onto a microSD card. This thing also has 4 infrared lights for any dark time videos. It is essentially a 1 inch cube. I …
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Vue Rendercow persistence
After getting Vue 10 up and running, I wanted to employ some of my included 5-cow licenses. On renders that take a while, using multiple workstations is the way to go. In fact I installed Rendercow on my main workstation because I have 6 cores and at least one of them could be taken up by …
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WD Passport Concerns
What good is a backup drive if you can’t extract the data back off it? There are many that are feeling that pain, I am finding out. I actually haven’t lost anything because a backup drive has failed yet (internal drives have failed, of course). I am now wondering about backups of backups! This came …
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Windows 7 Plunge
Plan of Attack After my RAID/hard drive debacle, I figured it was time to start with a clean slate. Usually with my Windows boxes over the years, I would start with a clean drive and reinstall/upgrade OS to clear out the bloat. I would accumulate all kinds of apps and drivers that just cluttered up …
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Unthinkable (or at least Unwanted) happened!
A system drive failure (and the S.M.A.R.T. system gave no warning!) and it wasn’t wasn’t a simple drive. It was a RAID 0 [that is a zero, but looks like small ‘o’] set. Serious lesson learned – no system drives on RAID 0 again! How it happened: getting ready to go on trip to Prague/Vienna …
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WebDAV on Ubuntu (10.04)
Had an interesting go-around with WebDAV on a non-production test server with Apache2 and it seemed errors were almost random. There were a number of factors involved. First, I am testing for preparation of using multiple authors to update a website. WebDAV was the logical choice. Installing WedDAV was simple enough: load or enable modules …
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Ubuntu 11 (Natty) on Beagleboard
I have no idea what messed up the microSD that had Ubuntu 10.10. I loaded up a new SD with the latest 11.04 image (zcat and dd) and that went pretty smoothly. Meanwhile, I decided to put Angstrom back on that corrupted DS card (worse case it wouldn’t work) withmy development PC (used Linux Mint presently). …
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