Robotics Guy's Blog

I've used Notepad++ for several years now and have yet to find it's equal. Sure, there are full blown PHP IDEs available, but those are more advanced than what I need and are slow. Notepad++ is very lightweight and starts up almost instantly, has great syntax highlighting, and works for many different languages. In short, it's great. Today...

I recently purchased a My Weigh iBALANCE 601 precision scale for measurements and parts counting. This scale rocks so hard, I just had to write a short review.!

I...

There's a saying, "Big things come in small packages." So, what comes in big packages? Small things of little value, of course. Take this package I received, for example:



A fairly large package, right? I wonder what could be...

I usually can spot scam emails right off the bat, but I have to admit, this one almost got me.


Dear Webmail Account Owner,

This message is from the University Webmail Messaging Center to all email account owners.

We are currently carrying out scheduled maintenance,upgrade of our web mail service and we are changing our mail host server,as a...

When I tried to import my localhost MySQL database sql file into phpMyAdmin today I was greeted with the following error:

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The solution was pretty simple, and I'll post it in...

My old car, or should I say, my very old car, recently broke down. If it weren't for the fact that I don't have much money, I would have rejoiced in the car's demise. Really, I would have. You have no idea how much pain my old car caused me.

Since I commute to school I had to quickly buy a new car. Of course, when I say new...

The final project in one of my engineering classes this semester is for my lab partner and I to build a circuit to drive a solar garden light. This is our pre-report for the project, which gives a general overview of how we intend to complete the project.

Project specifications:

ENGE 321

ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS...

A recent project I worked on was interfacing an accelerometer to a PIC18F4550 and displaying the sensor data on an HD44780 display. When writing my HD44780 framework code (check out the...

If you're viewing this website for the first time, you might be wondering why all of the blog posts, tutorials, downloads, and gallery images were all added in just the past few days. No, I haven't gone on a blog posting, tutorial writing, file posting, image uploading spree, but rather have changed the CMS the website uses.

I first used WordPress...