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Robotics Guy's Blog - Small things in big packages

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:34:00 +0000

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...

Robotics Guy's Blog - Notepad++ FAIL

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:13:00 +0000

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...

Robotics Guy's Blog - My Weigh iBALANCE 601 (i601) Scale Review

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:06:00 +0000

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...

Robotics Guy's Blog - Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope Unboxing & Review

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:27:43 +0000

My Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope arrived today! I know patience is a virtue, but I have a really hard time waiting for packages, so I was very excited when it finally arrived! Here it is, just waiting to be unboxed:

I excitedly cut open to find... another box! A...

Robotics Guy's Blog - Constant Vigilance!

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:35:00 +0000

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...

Robotics Guy's Blog - Wampserver - "No data was received to import .. exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration" error

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:07:00 +0000

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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No data was received to import. Either no file name was submitted, or the file size exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration. See FAQ 1.16.

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

Robotics Guy's Blog - Fixing my car horn

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:24:00 +0000

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...

Robotics Guy's Blog - Building a solar garden light (pt. 1/2)

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:05:00 +0000

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...

Robotics Guy's Blog - Writing an ITOA function

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:33:00 +0000

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...

Robotics Guy's Blog - Website CMS changed

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:27:00 +0000

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...