JAKE MOOMAW
Massive improvements to the MMA7455 library
This post was originally published on May 21, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Holy cow! It compiles without warnings, the 10 bit reads work, and it is a whole lot cleaner now. The functions are actually returning stuff, so the code to print to the SSD1306 looks like this: sprintf(x_axis, “%d”, JSC_MMA7455_Read_8Bit_X()); ssd1306_WriteString(x_axis,Font_11x18,White); Now I can start adding […]
My first, terrible library for STM32
This post was originally published on May 20, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc I have officially written my first library/sensor driver! It’s for the MMA7455 3-Axis Accelerometer, and it is more than a wee bit ugly. It only provides for 8-bit functionality in its current incarnation, and only in monitor mode. The 10-bit read only reads the X axis […]
Strike and Dip Part X
This post was originally published on May 18, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc It’s alive! The only thing left to be done on the code for this incarnation is to move the code for the button that writes to the SD card to an interrupt. The button only works sporadically right now, but an ISR should fix […]
Strike and Dip Part IX
This post was originally published on April 14, 2018 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Well, it’s been a while since I did any updates to the page. That said, I’ve made some changes to the unit and my workflow. The biggest news is that I’m finally learning git! I’m JakeSparkleChicken on GitHub, and have been moving all of my […]
Strike and Dip Part VIII
This post was originally published on December 29, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Well, I bricked my Metro Express M0 board. I was trying to install the CircuitPython package on it, and it did not go according to plan. Yet another change of plans! I’ve had a Beaglebone Black kicking around for a while, patiently waiting for me to […]
Strike And Dip Part VII
This post was originally published on November 20, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc The Strike and Dipper is dead. Long live the Strike and Dipper! I have been beating my head against the Metro M0 Express for three weeks now, trying to bend it to my will. The SoftwareSerial library doesn’t work on it, but it […]
Weather Station Mk-I Part II
This post was originally published on October 26, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Server Prep First and foremost, you need a standard LAMP stack. nginx can be substituted fro Apache if you are more comfortable with that, and I suppose that you could do this on a Windows server as well, but it would just be wrong to […]
Weather Station Mk-I Part I
This post was originally published on September 22, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Kristi is enamored with weather data and this is a project that I’ve wanted to make for a little while now, so this one was particularly satisfying to get (mostly) finished. It’s still on a solderless breadboard and only measuring the weather inside […]
Strike and Dip Part VI
This post was originally published on October 25, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc Last week, the GPS sensor and SD card breakout finally arrived. They both work beautifully…as long as you don’t use the SD card reader with anything else. The combination of SD.h and SPI.h uses 50% of the Arduino Uno’s space for global variables right off […]
Strike and Dip Part V
This post was originally published on September 26, 2017 at https://sparklechicken.net/channel/jakessbc So I don’t have the GPS sensor or the SD card reader yet, but I know which ones I’m picking up. I’m trying my hand at getting a custom PCB made for this one, since I’m planning on actually creating a few pseudo-production model […]
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JAKE MOOMAW
Jake is a network and systems admin in the Chicago area, where he lives with his very understanding wife and very stinky cat.
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