Digital Photograph archiving, PhotoShop Elements 10.0 and Texas Instruments - Photoshop Elements 10.0 1. As you may have read last week, I bought Photoshop Elements and Premiere 10.0 . I plan on doing a full video/blog review of Elements 10.0 in the next couple of weeks. For now, it will suffice to say that Elements has a ton of features and a lot of flaws too. You get a lot for your money with this packag...
Ebay follies, Adobe upgrades, and Windows 8 - If your Lego Mindstorms CPU brick looks like this...you do not have a NXT 2.0..... 1. I hate it when I do something really stupid. I was shopping on Ebay for a used Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kit to buy for my daughter. I found one with no bids, in "like-new" condition starting at a bid of $105. Since the Mindstorms NXT 2.0 ki...
Camping, the Amp Hour, and Near Space flights - 1. The first item this week is totally unrelated to technology, as a matter of fact it's anti-technology. Sometimes it's nice to go somewhere that your cell phone doesn't work and get some peace and quiet - to disconnect for a little while. We went camping. We hooked up the popup camper and rolled out. 5 miles down the road, we bl...
bad for you and bad for Google - Sometimes I like to stay within the realm of the known and familiar. A lot of times I will order the same thing at a restaurant that I go to a lot. I find being around people I know well preferable to being around strangers. Familiarity is more comfortable. I don't need familiarity in my Google searches. I don't want Google...
Crikey!, free schwag from TI and All About Circuits - Free schwag from Texas Instruments! A TI shirt, coffee mug, electronic pen and more from the 'Make the Switch to TI MCU's' contest. I love free stuff! 1. I've been watching a very interesting video blog lately, the eevBlog . It's hosted by a zany Australian electrical engineer, David Jones. He was a full time design engineer unti...
Lego Mindstorms Suduko solver. Notice the title of this post is 'Learning with the Arduino' and not 'Learning the Arduino'. Since I've had my Arduino, I've learned a hell of a lot about electronics. I've learned much more than I ever learned through formal education. The best learner will be someone that is self-motivated. My int...
I bought the Sainsmart LCD keypad shield on eBay, shipped directly from China. The LCD keypad shield is super-easy to use. I just connected it to my Uno and it's ready to go. The shield uses the standard LiquidCrystal.h library. There is some example code, a manual and some other info for the shield at the Sainsmart LCD keypad sh...
I have been interested in electronics for 30 years now. I have built all kinds of high voltage projects. I used to talk on the C.B. radio in the 70's and 80's. You may remember me as stargazer or bodysnatcher. I used to live in the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium. I am now affiliated with Carl's Electronics.
