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Musical training software

So I created an online class for learning how to play the Tin Whistle. It’s a hobby I’ve had since the late 80’s. Anyway, To play this instrument, when you want to learn new songs, there are fingering diagrams. These…

Version 2.0 of Temperature monitoring system

So now that I have self configuring software in the Arduino, spinning up a new set of sensors or adding digital pins to an existing one is relative simple. All I need to do is the electronics and wiring and…

Version 2.0 of my monitoring software

So it was time to update the software. the previous version of my software was rather basic. I would send it a basic commaind using AT mode in Xbee and it would dump a delimited string holding each analog sensors’…

More temperature monitoring effort underway

I am planning on getting a new roof this year. My house never had soffit vents installed. They are supposed to allow a natural airflow that will keep the attice cooler and cause less decay in the roof and shingles.…

Porting to Ubuntu Part 2

My Port from a Windows laptop to Ubuntu has been rock solid. The low power, Netbook that I converted to Ubuntu has been rock steady and comes with the benefit of low power consumption. In addition, I’m using the same…

Porting NodeJS from Windows to Linux

Porting Problem Summary: Getting the right versions of node & serialport installed Uninstalling Node Getting the node.js program to run automatically Getting the program to not shutdown upon disconnect Changing the port designation Changing the code due to node.js version…

Internet of Things (IoT) Project-Part 2

(NO Caution) Agile development underway. I’m a big proponent of Agile development and this project is a perfect example. I built the initial version and a few tangential issues came up that were unexpected. In SDLC, this type of thing…

Internet of Things (IoT) Project-Early Results

I’m having a noise problem with 2 of the sensor but here are the other 4 plotted in real time. The bottom line is the outside temperature. The others are in different places around the garage. Early results on the…