basic stamp
Most of the stamp stuff I have been messing with is using the the SX Video Module. It's a pretty sweet little board, with 128 characters, that outputs a composite video signal as well as audio. It's super easy to get up and running and has extra pin outs to send signals to other devices like X10 controllers or wireless modules. This thing is great for writing little games or drawing programs.
Computer_Guy
I began this to amuse myself. The funny thing is I found this to be relaxing. I started writing blocks of code for facial expressions. Soon enough I hope to link those subroutines to some of the light meter code. Computer_Guy looks really funny on a projector. This made me go play Zork for an hour.
light meter
Here is a nifty little program I wrote that uses a photocell to take light reading. After working with the patterns I had developed prior, I used certain portions of that code to correspond to the photocell reading, per the graphic beneath the text. You can see in the video there is about a one second lag in the reading. I used RCTIME to take readings from the capacitor inline with the photocell.
Now I have my cheap solution for sensor readings of the aquaponic system.
To do:
- write voltage meter
- write temperature meter
- write battery monitor, variation on voltage meter
- other...