That classic Seinfeld joke sums up exactly how I felt when I started looking at embedded firmware projects. It seems like there are only two ways that embedded software developers build things, either in crazy expensive IDE’s or with ‘make’ files. You know, the files with cryptic file rules that... [Read More]

The beginning of the year seems like a good time to look back and reflect on the previous year and even though I didn’t start the blog as a new year’s resolution, it coincidentally was near the beginning of the year. I had intended to post regularly so it almost... [Read More]

It’s been too long since I’ve posted and I feel horrible about it. Not that I think anyone else noticed, or that anyone else is concerned with what I’m doing but I was all excited about the roll I was getting on and the fact that I feel that I... [Read More]

I have used Instructables many times, learned many things and have been inspired and figured that it was about time that I gave back. [Read More]

Our last lawn mower was a standard gas lawn mower with a pull start which mostly worked fine for me, but my wife often had trouble with it. Eventually it started giving me trouble as well and combine that with a move to a house with a larger lawn and... [Read More]