AASullivan

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  • Testing out new (old) camera!

    Managed to snag a Canon Rebel t3 and have been tinkering a bit. So here’s some cat photos!

    Auto adjustments for the first photo, then a couple other odds and ends:

    The last is fully adjusted with shadows/lighting and a couple other tricks. It’s nice to get back into the photography stuff so hopefully there will be more soon!

  • Crockpot Mac and Cheese recipe

    Ingredients:

    • 4 cups (1 lb) uncooked elbow macaroni
    • 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, cut into pieces
    • 3 cups grated sharp Cheddar cheese
    • 2 cups grated Pepper Jack
    • 6 eggs, beaten
    • 1 cup sour cream
    • (2) 10 3/4-ounce cans condensed Cheddar cheese soup
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 2 cups whole milk
    • 1 teaspoon black pepper

    Boil macaroni until al dente (will fully cook in crockpot). Drain.

    In sauce pan, mix shredded cheese and cut up butter stick, and cook on low heat until melted and creamy.

    In the crockpot, mix everything together then put macaroni and cheese sauce in. Stir.

    Set cooker on lowest setting for 3 hours, stirring every 30 minutes.

  • Got snow?

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  • Arduino Wireless Logging, Post Four: The Graphs

    When I got all this data logged and running, I wanted an easier way to show data than spreadsheets or queries. The end goal was actual graphs to show trends and what not. Introducing “phpgraphlib”. This is an open source piece of code built to implement charts/graphs into webpages with ease. This took a bit of work, but here’s the idea behind it:

    • Be able to load a web page and show trends/data
    • Pull this information on demand from a database

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  • Arduino Wireless Logging, Post Two: The Design

    This is the second part of the series for my Arduino wireless project I’ve been working on for a couple weeks now. You can start reading from the first post: https://aasullivan.com/?p=1146.

    We have the idea, now we have to build it. I have three Arduinos set up at this point in this manner:

    • (1) Set up as wireless receiver/hub; this will read data, print to Serial and log to ethernet eventually
    • (2) Transmitters which simply read data every ~5 seconds to blindly send to receiver (node 0)

    This layout will allow me to test from a couple devices to make sure the layout of the node IDs will work properly and be read properly as well. I ran into my first set of issues at this point: I can only read one Arduino at a time off Serial from the IDE, so went and imaged an older Dell D630 to handle the receiving end of things to troubleshoot the payload issues I ran into.  (more…)