Introduction In my previous post I declared my intent to refresh my technical skills through the development of an amazing doorbell, myDoorbell. In this post I describe a doorbell system found in a typical U.S. residence…
Introduction After being a university chief information officer (CIO) for more than a decade, I decided to refresh my technical skills acquired through formal education and practice as an electrical engineer. I learn best by…
Introduction I have been waiting for the right technology to enable me to rid myself of my traditional door locks. While I’m not completely satisfied with my current selection, I found two I was willing…
Given my interests in enterprise computing and embedded systems, I decided to combine these two disciplines by using Docker to create a C development environment that generates an ARM executable from my OS X-based Mac.…
When you leave the safety of the Arduino development environment and move to development with Atmel AVR processors, without an IDE, you lose some debugging / printing capabilities. However, there is a simple technique to…