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1-Wire Adapter

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

I ran across this schematic for a simple 1-wire serial adapter.

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25-pin 9-pin

Update

I built one of these adapters and am using it to monitor 3 DS18S20 temperature sensors in my home using cacti.

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555 Timer Calculator

Monday, June 18th, 2007

There are a lot of these out there but in true DIY spirit I wrote my own. You may need to download the .NET runtime libraries to run it.

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Fishing on the mighty Mississippi

Monday, June 18th, 2007

This was my second excursion out on the mighty Mississippi in search of a big catfish. I really had a lot of trouble reeling this baby in…

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Arduino

Monday, June 18th, 2007

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