A webpage to document and share my open-source software/hardware projects.
For the laser seismograph project, I had chosen the MAX1067 analog to digital converter (ADC) to convert the analog signals coming out of the photodiodes into a digital form which could be transmitted over SPI to the microcontroller. Although I knew how SPI worked and had studied it in school, I had never actually designed Continue Reading
Building a circuit on a breadboard to test out ideas is really fun, and very useful. But, what if you don’t have a nice oscilloscope at home, or you’re testing out lots of potential circuits with different chips and you don’t want to buy them until you’ve figured out what works? Welcome to the world Continue Reading
I was looking through the spam folder in my inbox (it’s always good for a laugh) and noticed that some clever spammer had figured out how to break the tables inside of Gmail’s sender information card: Normally the sender’s information card that pops up if you hover over it looks like this: The Continue Reading