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, June 5, 2011

Computer Monitor Recommendations

A place for my thoughts and links to computer monitors. I do tons of electronic graphical design both at work and at home. I'm a fan ...

Monday, May 23, 2011

PCB design with gEDA notes

I've been using gEDA on ubuntu linux for schematics and PCB design and like it so far. It had several key attributes. Free and no limi...

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Notes on the heavy duty motor shield for Arduino

This is a heavy duty motor shield for Arduino It uses the basic motor shield from adafruit.com, same software, but instead of an hbridge ...

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Idea for laptop LCD repurposed as a photoblocking license plate cover

OK, here is an idea so horrible I had to share it, since I've been on the photoblocking topic lately. Another possible anti-speed came...

Friday, April 1, 2011

code.google.com project

Going to try to host my code on code.google.com to make it easier to share and use from my different machines. http://code.google.com/p/ar...

Monday, March 28, 2011

Arduino XYZ CNC Java GUI is working!

I was able to expand the GUI to talk to two serial ports at once. I have the Arduino reading the serial encoders on COM10, and the Arduino ...

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Notes on Learning to Make a Java GUI for the CNC machine

Not sure if this is the way I will go, but I'm exploring using Java to create a small GUI to control the Arduino based XYZ CNC machine. ...

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