Category Archives: Electronics

RS232 Shifter Board

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Jethro Carr

As part of my project to make an Arduino based watchdog for my home server, I went and picked up a proper soldering iron today and assembled the RS232 Shifter Circuit I had purchased from Sparkfun/Mindkits. I ended up getting … Continue reading →

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Android via serial to Arduino

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Jethro Carr

Whilst I’ve been pretty busy lately, I recently made another order from Mindkits and got to work with testing some of my ideas for my Arduino-based remote management solution for my home server. There’s 4 major parts to this solution … Continue reading →

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Soldering Adventures

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Jethro Carr

As part of my efforts to learn more about electronics, I recently obtained a power supply kit that breaks the standard 5V USB output into 3.3V and 5V bread-board connectable outputs from Mindkits (who resell Sparkfun kits in NZ, amongst … Continue reading →

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Leosticks are a gateway drug

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Jethro Carr

At linux.conf.au earlier this year, the guys behind Freetronics gave every attendee a free Leostick Arduino compatible board. As I predicted at the time, this quickly became the gateway drug – having been given an awesome 8-bit processor that can … Continue reading →

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