Programming PIC16F877 in PLCC case

24 February 2008 10:51 pm by davidateeyore

I have built a temporary PLCC programmer for the 16F877. The commercial adaptor had a short circuit on the power line. My version has power, ground and the programming lines only.

Tiny GPS!

24 February 2008 8:09 am by davidateeyore

Futurlec have a really neat little GPS module for microcontrollers! Could be good for myCybot…if I ever get round to getting the Arduino motor controller going! Some pix…
Gutted Cybot with Arduino
A different view…
another view of the cybot and Arduino…

WordPress on Ubuntu 7.10 Server

24 February 2008 7:15 am by davidateeyore

After some stuffing around trying to get the wordpress pkg installed on Bungalow for the Gerb to have a local blog engine, I have decide to do a remote (from here, that is)  one at wordpress.com.  I found several  posts  via Google that purported to tell  you how it is  done, but to no avail. Wonder why Ubuntu elected not to use WordPress install default locations??

Hello world!

24 February 2008 6:46 am by davidateeyore

Well, here I am on WordPress.com. This is my first post on my tech blog. There will be more!