When News breaks, ... we fix it
While I have been using Win11 for a month of so now, basically it is OK. But there are a couple issues I have run into, that is in helping others in my neighborhood keep there PCs running.
As the end of Win10 gets closer, I finally bit the bullet and got a new Win11 PC. Part of the fact was that I seem to be the IT guy for our community, which is great. And I was running into a lot of people with new Win11 machines with a number of really weird problems caused by Win11. So I was hesitant to switch.
So how to move my old system over (lots of programs and files and settings and ...)
Checking out a new batch of ARM Stamps, I plugged a new one in and all that I saw was unknown USB device.
It was time to build some more boards for our OEM customers.
We created a domain specifically for the clubs, hoa's, villages and other organizations at Timber Pines in FL.
Check out tpclubs.org
With that we can create a subdomain site like village.tpclubs.org
It was fun getting reacquainted with BASIC and BASICtools for the People Counter. Most recently been hacking at YAML, TWIG and PHP. Languages I only know enough to be dangerous in. Was doing that to handle some of the tweaks to these webpages and to the other websites I am supporting.
It was go...
The PIR sensors came in, bought on a closeout deal from Parallax. They seemed pretty straight forward, power them up, after an acclimation period they light up when something moving detected. That was great until I hooked them up to an input on the ARM. I was getting a high reading all the time,...
I was asked to do a rough count of people walking through a hallway. So I ordered some PIR sensors, that are typically used in light switches that turn off when no one is there. I could have used any of our boards, and the LPC1756 has a crystal controlled real time clock. But that would be too ea...
After many years had to change my office chair. Not sure where I got that one from, but the feature I liked was it adjusted from computer height to then also high enough to look through my microscope.
Well earlier this summer it broke and while I fixed it, what it really needed was for the base...