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 provide 20-30% more [...]
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.
