goodbye little one
forever gone
my heart breaking
my soul almost done
can't move on
but a little voice whispers
"its ok"
a little hand touches
in my dreams
a little giggle heard
sparks a memory
you are not gone
you are here with me
in my heart
helping it beat
and day by day
i will go on
and live
and smile
because of my memories
of little you
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Brown Bear Project
So I just completed this project from make for my daugher.
http://makeprojects.com/Project/Charlie-s-RFID-Teddy-Bear/1411/1
Fyi - the make website cells a kit for this - I don't think I spent as much as this kit. But like any homemade thing, it seems you always spend more money on it than you would think. You might be able to hack an existing toy to do the same thing as this. But such is the way of the world.
It is an Rfid Tag reader powered by an arduino uno board and an ardunio wave shield. Basically you record sound files on a SD card and when an rfid tag is brought near the board, it will play a sound file from the SD card that is labeled with the id if the rfid tag. It works pretty cool. So now my daughter has her own customized personal bear.
I have set up the bear currently so it "reads" two books and will play certain things when brought near the door to her room, her crib and a few other locations in the house.
My only modification to the project was to add an on off switch between the battery box and the board. I have noticed that if the batteries are low, the board will only play one file and then sort of stop. Replacingthe batteries seemed to fix this. Not sure if it was old batteries or if the board draws a lot of power.
The project was pretty fun. I started it several months ago and have worked on it off and on and just finished most of if this evening with the help of my daughter.
I also had to do a little sewing to get velcro on the undersides of this bear. A cool neat little project to do. It probably took me a lot longer than it needed to. It is a fairly easy and straight forward project, the hardest part is probably finding what to record.
Have fun, drink diet pepsi
http://makeprojects.com/Project/Charlie-s-RFID-Teddy-Bear/1411/1
Fyi - the make website cells a kit for this - I don't think I spent as much as this kit. But like any homemade thing, it seems you always spend more money on it than you would think. You might be able to hack an existing toy to do the same thing as this. But such is the way of the world.
It is an Rfid Tag reader powered by an arduino uno board and an ardunio wave shield. Basically you record sound files on a SD card and when an rfid tag is brought near the board, it will play a sound file from the SD card that is labeled with the id if the rfid tag. It works pretty cool. So now my daughter has her own customized personal bear.
I have set up the bear currently so it "reads" two books and will play certain things when brought near the door to her room, her crib and a few other locations in the house.
My only modification to the project was to add an on off switch between the battery box and the board. I have noticed that if the batteries are low, the board will only play one file and then sort of stop. Replacingthe batteries seemed to fix this. Not sure if it was old batteries or if the board draws a lot of power.
The project was pretty fun. I started it several months ago and have worked on it off and on and just finished most of if this evening with the help of my daughter.
I also had to do a little sewing to get velcro on the undersides of this bear. A cool neat little project to do. It probably took me a lot longer than it needed to. It is a fairly easy and straight forward project, the hardest part is probably finding what to record.
Have fun, drink diet pepsi
Finished Bear - the bear is the Brown Bear sold at Kohl's with the Eric Carle Book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see"
"Live" bear reading the Brown Bear book.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Saturn Peeping
Oh how the rings
entice me in the cold
make me feel bold
to go out there
and touch that orb in the sky
to wonder why
it is there
how such beauty
is there for me to behold
Viewed Saturn tonight in my Meade ETX 80. It has a 400mm focal length. I was viewing it with the 6.7 and 4.7 Meade ultra-wide lenses I bought with the 2x Barlow. With the 4.7 it was about 170x magnification. I set the GOTO controller to center on Saturn and let it slew the scope to keep it in view. It worked pretty good but was a bit jumpy at that magnification when it moved. This is the first time I used the 4.7 and the Barlow with some decent success. I should have tried this on Jupiter when I was viewing that a while back. Maybe on Jupiters next passes.
Looking at Saturn in this tiny scope is not at all like looking at those pictures on the internet from the Hubble. Saturn just mostly appears milky white but you can definately make out that it had rings. No definition between any individual rings. No "ears" on Saturn like Galileo saw. Of course I think all the light pollution in the air doesn't help bring out the color. I could vaguely see a bit of color at times, maybe just my eyes playing tricks. I also swore I saw a tiny speck of light at times just to the right of saturn. I bit of a twinkle - a moon or just a star?
It was fun but a bit cold...
entice me in the cold
make me feel bold
to go out there
and touch that orb in the sky
to wonder why
it is there
how such beauty
is there for me to behold
Viewed Saturn tonight in my Meade ETX 80. It has a 400mm focal length. I was viewing it with the 6.7 and 4.7 Meade ultra-wide lenses I bought with the 2x Barlow. With the 4.7 it was about 170x magnification. I set the GOTO controller to center on Saturn and let it slew the scope to keep it in view. It worked pretty good but was a bit jumpy at that magnification when it moved. This is the first time I used the 4.7 and the Barlow with some decent success. I should have tried this on Jupiter when I was viewing that a while back. Maybe on Jupiters next passes.
Looking at Saturn in this tiny scope is not at all like looking at those pictures on the internet from the Hubble. Saturn just mostly appears milky white but you can definately make out that it had rings. No definition between any individual rings. No "ears" on Saturn like Galileo saw. Of course I think all the light pollution in the air doesn't help bring out the color. I could vaguely see a bit of color at times, maybe just my eyes playing tricks. I also swore I saw a tiny speck of light at times just to the right of saturn. I bit of a twinkle - a moon or just a star?
It was fun but a bit cold...
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