Category Archives: Programming

Ugluino, the ugly Arduino powered robot

Posted on January 1, 2012 by smackaay

So, even though I’ve built a wide variety of crap over the last few years, all of them with varying utility, I’ve decided to build a quick robot. With oodles of free time and the feeling of having to go … Continue reading →

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Some neat devices for the hobbyist

Posted on December 29, 2011 by smackaay

Ok, well, the year is coming to an end and I’ve seen a number of neat devices out there but here are some that I own. The next year coming up is a going to be an interesting year methinks … Continue reading →

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Stuff I’m playing with

Posted on September 24, 2011 by smackaay

Well, since I posted a bit of stuff yesterday I’m gonna post a couple of other things I’ve been playing with. Since I finally have a day off. may as well. The FPS I’m making I don’t know what I’m … Continue reading →

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Happy 2011! uuh, I guess a bit late though.

Posted on March 3, 2011 by smackaay

It’s been well over two months since I last posted. Frankly, not a lot has happened in the meantime anyways. Work is going well and life is pretty good. That said, I’ve begun to regain my inspiration for electronics again … Continue reading →

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The new Haas Mill Features

Posted on December 22, 2010 by smackaay

The company I work for has recently purchased a Haas VF-5 40 taper machine to augment the capabilities of the shop. Seeing as they didn’t have one before, this will greatly improve the capabilities of the shop. The item of … Continue reading →

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Long time no post. Machining and trying to get back on my feet.

Posted on February 8, 2010 by smackaay

Well, it has been some time since I posted, about a month and a half or so. There have a been a number of events that have occurred in that time that have both beneficial yet disappointing. I’m not really … Continue reading →

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Grams to Krebs conversion formulae

Posted on November 10, 2009 by smackaay

After many a day scratching my head as to why I can’t get my viscometer to calibrate correctly, even assuming logarithmic and quadratic relationships, I find out why I have been having so many problems. Krebs units are in not … Continue reading →

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Working on new viscometer head

Posted on October 6, 2009 by smackaay

  Well, I’ve been designing some new stuff since having a little wind of inspiration. This head weighs in at about 700g and provisions have been made to allow an attachment to a handle and therefore a hand-held version could be … Continue reading →

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Getting closer to final completion

Posted on September 22, 2009 by smackaay

A long road behind and still some ahead, here are some pic of the viscometer in its state of completion. Now to implement the ModBUS protocol and finish up this project.

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In-Process Stormer Viscometer – Damn near complete

Posted on August 24, 2009 by smackaay

  The viscometer is nearing full completion! YAY! To mark this occasion to mark the end of a long two years, I am placing a small gallery of the almost finished product. The only thing missing is the outside cover which … Continue reading →

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Programming, Drafting, Designing and whatever else…

Posted on July 25, 2009 by smackaay

Well, it’s been a busy few weeks since I left the business training program. Thankfully I have some work lined up and things may go well for the short-term. For the last while I was working on the design for … Continue reading →

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Chaos game, a little program.

Posted on May 21, 2009 by smackaay

Was bored for a little while today so I made a quick program in Freebasic to produce a Sierpinski Triangle and a some sort of pentagonal fractal. This little program uses the chaos game method to produce it. I think … Continue reading →

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Rotary Viscometer almost finished

Posted on May 18, 2009 by smackaay

Well, it’s been a long road but I’m almost at the finish line in terms of the majority of development. All of the parts are mostly made and I’ll begin programming very soon, most of which has been done already … Continue reading →

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Programs for generating old school sounds

Posted on January 31, 2009 by smackaay

Since I’ve started playing around with writing games again, I’ve been interested in old school sounds. These things can be hard to come by these days since a lot of the older sounds were pure square and triangle waves. I … Continue reading →

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Wrote a little game… Astrosmasher

Posted on January 30, 2009 by smackaay

Well, out of boredom I’ve created a little game called Astrosmasher. Nothing special really, I just wanted to see if I could make a game look like an old Atari game. I think I succeeded in some ways Astrosmasher is … Continue reading →

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Viscometer and Graphing

Posted on November 14, 2008 by smackaay

Now that I’ve got the new board working, I’ve been programming all of the pertinant functions back into the chip. This time I’ve redesigned them to be a little more modular and useful in the long term. As was mentioned … Continue reading →

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Writing a new graphing program

Posted on November 12, 2008 by smackaay

Since I’m starting to take measurements based on time and value along with multiple data sets, I’ve decided that I need a new graphing program. This one will allow the use of multiple data sets and it will have save … Continue reading →

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Found a decent terminal program

Posted on October 9, 2008 by smackaay

For a while I’ve been looking for a decent freeware terminal program. Oddly enough, it’s been sitting right under my nose through a simple google search. I figure I’ll record it here for my own edification and file storage, just … Continue reading →

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Playing with simulations for the Viscometer

Posted on October 8, 2008 by smackaay

So, I’ve been playing with simulating the output of the viscometer at a specified power output. When the real unit runs it seems to output noisy but patterned values. I’ve found that the output has a sinusoidal output with anomalies … Continue reading →

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Fucking around with VB2005

Posted on June 1, 2008 by admin

So I’ve decided to get my feet wet again with programming after a long hiatus doing other things like photography and electronics. I thought I wouldn’t have any problem programming again but little did I realize how trained your mind … Continue reading →

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