The kits I ordered from Adafruit arrived! Here’s the list: 2 x XBee Adapter Kit [v1.1] 2 x XBee Module – XB24-ACI-001 USB TTL-232 cable – TTL-232R 3.3V Adafruit Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield for Arduino kit – v1.0 The XBee module that Adafruit sells is the chip antenna version. According to Parallax, “The wire antenna versions will [...]
Well, it’s long overdue, but I’m finally using some form of VCS for maintaining the code that I write at home. Up until a few weeks ago I was basically keeping a ‘Code’ directory in Dropbox and that was about it. Now I’m using git on each computer (i.e. notebook, desktop, etc.) and made a [...]
Playing with the Arduino a bit again tonight. Here’s a snippet (source) to read the analog output from a Sharp GP2D12 analog distance sensor and convert it to centimeters: Seems to work reasonably well.
