Monthly Archives: June 2015

Legit Rest Day

Posted on June 11, 2015 by larry

After yesterday’s 4 mile run and in anticipation of the Rock N Roll run this weekend, I am OK with just chilling. I have been drinking a lot of water though, but I have not eaten much. Had a McD … Continue reading →

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Mailbox Broken In To

Posted on June 10, 2015 by larry

Today I came home to a mailbox that was broken in to. Either I will get a heavy duty mail box or get some sort of monitoring on the mailbox. I tried to get some sort of arduino going but … Continue reading →

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Taking a Break

Posted on June 9, 2015 by larry

Been doing a lot of little things constantly for a few days now, today I stepped back a bit, no arduino, no running, but a little yard work. Making it a quick post, after I post gonna do pushups and … Continue reading →

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Full Breadboarded Arduino and ESP8266

Posted on June 8, 2015 by larry

Got the ESP8266 and other components working on a breadboard. Looks pretty clean, I will adjust a few things though. As a followup from yesterday’s post regarding the FTDI I got it working again, the trick was to prevent auto … Continue reading →

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Pain in the ass FTDI chip

Posted on June 7, 2015 by larry

OK, no more FTDI chip, I will move on to the CP2102. I recently tried downloading a sketch from my Windows 8.1 box using an FTDI chip and noticed it was not working. This is how a working FTDI chip … Continue reading →

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Confused with Arduino ans ESP8266

Posted on June 6, 2015 by larry

Although I got partial communication with between arduino and esp8266. I am not sure how to get it working but I got a few ideas. As a standalone I do have it working. Just doing pushups and situps.

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Breadboard Compatible (Somewhat) ESP8266

Posted on June 5, 2015 by larry

Got some addition ESP8266 today that did not have the headers soldered on so I took this opportunity to make it more breadboard friendly. Basically I flipped on of the rows and put it on the top. Looks way way … Continue reading →

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Need To Get Documentation In

Posted on June 4, 2015 by larry

I have some time over the next few days to get some documentation together on the ESP8266. Slowly getting there but I do have a ways to go. Also add to the fact I am learning a lot about this … Continue reading →

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Prepping for Load Test

Posted on June 3, 2015 by larry

I am setting up for a load test on the ESP8266, as I post I am waiting for it to charge. Yesterday I did figure out how to restore the firmware, in doing so I learned a lot about the … Continue reading →

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WIfi PIR

Posted on June 2, 2015 by larry

Woohoo got the wifi prototype going. Finally got this working wirelessly. Just doing pushups and situps.

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