Siliconfish

Hobby blog about tech tips I've picked up, projects I'm working on, or links to useful information and cool stuff. I'm an Electrical Engineer and professional Analog IC designer for 25 years playing in my spare time. Arduino, hacking consumer electronics, video game hardware, satellite TV, PC building, Android apps, appliance repairs and whatever else that interests me.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Check Engine Light Came On

Before I could try out my home brew OBDII interface, the check engine light came on for my 1997 Honda Accord. It has 180,000 miles on it. ...

Friday, October 22, 2010

Research on the Arduino OBD II interface for reading codes, auto MPG, etc.

This post is just a place to keep some notes and links while I develop this project. Why do this? Monitor live engine, MPG, etc. Diagnose...

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Arduino Shield List

A note of a neat website. I will try to get some of my stuff listed. http://shieldlist.org/

Monday, October 18, 2010

GE GSS25TGPEWW Refrigerator broke

Doh! My GE GSS25TGPEWW side by side refrigerator is having a problem. It's new as far as things go, maybe 5 years old. I'm not r...

Friday, October 15, 2010

Arduino project list and some ideas

Projects I've built with Arduino covered in my blog, Ethernet stock/time fetcher (need to write it up) GPS logger- in the field and w...

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Research on the Arduino TV output

As always, somebody has already done the thing I thought of and made a web page. However I'm sure I can think of a new twist. http://...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Arduino RFID tag reader cleaned up

I made a more permanent version of the RFID tag reader: It took some staring at the cryptic documentation and the web site below to figur...

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Arduino RFID tag reader prototype

Put together the basic Arduino RFID reader in about an hour! It was way easier than I expected and worked the first time! <N...

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Arduino RFID reader started

I've started putting together an RFID reader, using an ID-20 module from Sparkfun and an Arduino. This post is just a place to note a c...

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Arduino IR remote TV sleep timer setter

Now that this project is finally up and running in field trials, I'm finally going to write it up. The purpose of this project is auto...

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