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So as I mentioned, I attempted the flash method to update u-boot to the latest version. I got to the erase flash part of the instructions and I ended up getting a support call and had to run. Storm rolled through while I was gone and killed the power and, because it was down for [...]

Over the past few days I attempted to upgrade the u-boot, root, and usr images on my NGW100 but ended up loosing power after erasing the u-boot partition (doh, major fail!). I ended up realizing that Mouser Electronics was pretty close to me in Ft Worth so I ran over there earlier this week and [...]

I’ve been so bad in the past few months about updating this blog. I’ve made some headway so far on my latest project, but it has not been what I’ve would have liked. Been side tracked due to a great idea I had for a program in C# for insurance agencies.
Thanks to everyone who have [...]

I have been thinking and experimenting really hard lately. I’ve bee trying to figure out exactly which on of the 500 projects I want to debark on. There are just so many in my mind but I do believe I want a project that will put all of my skills (so far acquired) to the [...]

I just received an inexpensive keypad from SparkFun the other day and have attempted to hook it up with no such luck yet. I’m hoping I am just being stupid about the whole thing. I grabbed the Keypad Library from the Arduino Playground and set the correct pins according to the Arduino tutorial. No such [...]

Well, the new LCD4×40Bit-ShiftReg library is working quite well. I’m actually thinking about changing the actual name of the library but figure the above is too long. Maybe I should try something like LCD3Wire4×40 or something. Your thought are greatly appreciated!
So anyway, I added my Parallax RFID card to the setup and finally worked out [...]

Well I have finally finished the update to the original LCD4Bit library I have been hacking to bits. I’ve changed the code so that it now supports the 4×40 LCD with a NXP 74HC595N shift register. I had a hell of a time getting it all to work together and ended up having to setup [...]

Well, I just got the Make Controller in the mail this week and am excited to start playing. I managed to get it hooked up correctly after I flashed the controller with new firmware (did not work out of the box). I’ve also been working on interfacing it via OCD with C#. I can’t wait [...]

So I got a reply from John Ryan on the Arduino forums and he mentioned that I would need to use an interrupt to grab RFID data to ensure it did not stop my program while waiting for a tag. I banged my head around with the implementation of interrupt code but found a solution [...]

So I managed to grab a Purdy LCD sample (thanks to LadyAda’s page) to test Arduino interfacing. The first problem I ran into was that my LCD has two LCD controllers (KS0066 - based on HD44780). Thankfully lega7 faced this issue and modified code to work with a 4 line LCD.
I started with that [...]