My goal is to help Makers of all skill levels to find the information that they need to be successful in bringing their creations and ideas to life. This site contains a blog with posting of what I worked on the previous week, what I plan to work on this week, and things that I’ve found interesting in the world of making and hacking. I may occasionally dive into other topics. I hope you find the information in the blogs interesting and would like to get your feedback. Please let me know what things you find interesting.
In addition to the blog posts, there are detailed project builds. These pages will be created and updated over time. The intent of the project pages is to provide step by step guides on how I put my projects together. Please comment if you run into any problems or find errors in the project pages.
Latest Blog Posts
Astro Camera
There will be a solar eclipse across much of Mexico, the U.S.A., and Canada on 8 April 2024. I thought about putting together a Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi HQ Camera, a telephoto lens, and building a motorized mount to move the camera to keep the sun in frame. I came across an interesting build…
Lao Digital Week 2024
I had the opportunity today to attend Lao Digital Week 2024. While one is on vacation, attending a convention is not usually an activity one would take but I wanted to attend this event when I noticed it yesterday, and an opportunity happened to open for me to attend. I had a great time walking…
Geotagging Photos
I found a good Instructable, GeoTagging With a Standalone GPS Unit & GeoSetter : 6 Steps – Instructables, to walk through geotagging photos with a standalone GPS device and the GeoSetter application. As a result of reading through the 14 year old Instructable, I landed on a somewhat standard CSV format that GPSBabel understands. As…
Revisiting the GPS Logger
I’m on vacation/holiday this month, but before I left, I paid the GPS Logger project a visit and rewrote the code in C++, using the Arduino IDE and FreeRTOS to make it a bit more responsive to user input. The result is a nearly polished project that I’m very happy with, but I plan to…
Progress
Well, it has been a productive week. Much progress has been made since getting to the root problem with FreeRTOS and WiFi on the Raspberry Pi Pico. Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, I’ve been pulling in the code from my previous attempts and have the been piecing them together. Progress has been very…
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