.:madworm:.'s photos

Out of the way! Move it you slackers!

The glass 'thing' in the background was abandoned for a couple of years, only half-covered in green glass. Now it looks a bit more respectable.

Today was a nice day. Sunny and not too cold if you keep moving. Definitely not too cold if you ride a bike up to the castle. Looking through the Neutor (new gate).

Looking through the Neutor (new gate).

I had turned the thing down to the lowest setting and came back after just a couple of seconds... ARGH. I should add that the cake was frozen. Still tasty though.

This thing will receive almost any 38kHz IR signal, the TSOP38238 demodulates it, the ATtiny85 measures the raw pulse-lengths and compares them against reference data. It does not do any decoding. It could, but that would make it less universal. And of course that can be changed in software. I made this to add IR control to existing projects without putting the burden of identifying the IR data ... onto the tiny shoulders of the first micro. This one will do the heavy lifting and sends simple byte-sized codes using a bit-banged software uart. The I²C lines are available as well, but I don't want to mess with the USI stuff again.

Now I can stamp all my outgoing correspondence with a happy little smiley. Glow in the dark would be even better.

I really wonder why they cut the rubber in such a strange way. Keeping it square would make alignment a lot easier. Maybe this is caused by trying to pack as many designs on a given surface of their 'make the stamp' machine.

Pretty close to what the Arduino measured ;-) Some C- code for receiving that kind of data.

So it took 4 full weeks from the US to Germany this time. Including customs delays. I got a letter from German postal service. They couldn't find the customs papers (invoice) and therefore forwarded the letter to my local customs office. Of course the invoice was included in a pouch labeled "CUSTOMS PAPERS ENCLOSED". Somebody simply can't read it seems.

So it took 4 full weeks from the US to Germany this time. Including customs delays. I got a letter from German postal service. They couldn't find the customs papers (invoice) and therefore forwarded the letter to my local customs office. Of course the invoice was included in a pouch labeled "CUSTOMS PAPERS ENCLOSED". Somebody simply can't read it seems.