Electronics, Gardening, Programming
If you old coots want some excitement in your life go fire up a burn pile in your garden. Bright orange crackling flames scorching your face, gray smoke billowing up into the sky, the roar of oxygen combusting. Whoo-hoo, you’ll feel like a kid again. It’s a good time to burn all the sticks and coarse debris before the rain […]
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This is part 2 in a 3 part series that shows how to make Ableton Live play music on electric solenoids using an Arduino. If you missed the first article you can find it here: MIDI Controlled Solenoids with Arduino and Ableton Live – Part 1 MIDI Controlled Solenoids with Arduino and Ableton Live – Part 3 This article covers […]
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In this 3 part article we teach you how to control electronic solenoids from Ableton Live, by using some Arduino programming, a little bit of MIDI knowledge, and some basic electronics. At the end of the series you will have a setup that is capable doing this. This is a pretty complex topic so it is split into 3 parts […]
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Gardening is great because you don’t have to be very good at it to enjoy it :). Puttering around in the dirt with plants and rocks doesn’t have to be goal oriented. You can create a small scene and tweak it for awhile before moving on. The scenes can connect into an area, and you can admire your work for […]
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Many years ago I planted two Asters next to each other. One was purple flowered and one was white. The purple one died a few years ago and now the white one gets purple flowers at the end of the season. What kind of spooky reincarnation voodoo is this? Einstein’s quantum entanglement theory indicates there is a connection between two […]
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Sometimes you need to create a page in OneNote and it would be much easier to create it from the command line. A perfect example is from within a batch file or other script. The ability to create OneNote pages from the command line is something that OneNote has never offered before. Now creating a OneNote page from the command […]
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I’ve taken the mini greenhouses off the spinach and lettuce because they could use the extra light and air circulation. Daytime temps in the mid 60s, and nights in the mid 30s are like springtime for them. I’ll put them back on when we see freezes on the horizon, and I’ll close the greenhouse door. Three pickings for each so […]
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