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“Programming PIC MCUs in BASIC” — online, free

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Google turned up an interesting tutorial on programing PIC MCUs with BASIC. Yes, I know that most people use some variant of C. Well, I don’t know C. I do understand BASIC, however, so this seems to be a good…

Building the Packet Server

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Yesterday, I scrounged through some of the PC parts I acquired when a local factory shut down. I was surprised to see how “good” they were. The tower I used has a 400MHz processor with 256M of RAM, and the…

One step closer to actually doing it….

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Dave and I measured the portion of my property which will have the most to do with the antennas. I was surprised with the amount of room I actually have over there. I could put up two verticals and phase…

Finalizing the Antenna Plans…

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Okay, I belive I have finally reached the point where I can start constructing the antenna/tower setup, weather permitting.

We (the wife and I) have decided to forgo a tower for now. We don’t plan on living here forever (at this…

Gmail Is Awesome…

Monday, January 29th, 2007

I just discovered that the email filtering of Gmail applies to the messages I POP into Thunderbird; meaning, I never have to download them.

It’s like the people in my killfile don’t even exist. This is awesome.

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