Projects

Reference and Research

• HomeAutomation - Home Automation Ideas

Project Documentation

• Software Projects - Ideas and projects for Windows or Linux software
• Hardware Projects - Electronic hardware; mostly microcontroller based

• Hardware Construction - Suppliers and PCB Techniques
• Craft Projects - Handmade crafts; wood working, plastic forming, etc.

Projects List

This is a list of all the projects that are floating around in my head. Well there are more, but this is all the ones that I've written down so far.

Status	Description	Blog	Wiki Page	Added
beta	Dynamic iptables		Project	Wed 12 of Dec, 2005
concept	Community Speed Reporting		Project	Tue 9 of Sep, 2009
inprogress	Sea-Doo 951 Top End		Project	Tue 19 of May, 2009
r&d	Direct Voltage Adapter		Project	Wed 3 of Jun, 2009
r&d	Canvas Zipper Repair		Project	Sun 26 of Jul, 2009
released	X-10 Trap		project	Sun 8 of Feb, 2009
released	LinkChecker	blog	project	Mon 10 of Nov, 2008
released	Inventory		project	Thu 04 of Dec, 2008
proto	MH Weather Alert	blog entry	project	Sat 23 of Sep, 2006
beta	RBL Rejection Report
beta	TikiWiki Abuse Scanner
R&D	Freeduino Cube		project	Tue 11 of Sep, 2007
r&d	exPL		project	Sat 4 of Apr, 2010
concept	Weather Dial		project	Sun 22 of Jul, 2007
concept	RRD Fast Polling		project	Sun 21 of Dec, 2008
concept	iTunes Update		project	Fri 21 of Dec, 2007
concept	WSLogging		project	Mon 28 of Jan, 2008
concept	Reflow Oven Control		project	Sat 29 of Nov, 2008
concept	SPA Mon		project	Thu 28 of Dec, 2006
concept	Fan Controller		project	Fri 29 of Dec, 2006
concept	Weather Station		project	Fri 29 of Dec, 2006
concept	Power Supply Design		project	Thu 20 of Sep, 2007
concept	RGB LED		project	Wed 07 of Nov, 2007
concept	Wetness Sensor		project	Tue 26 of Feb, 2008
concept	Lab		project	Tue 02 of Dec, 2008
concept	Apache Reports	blog entry		Sat 22 of Mar, 2008
abandoned	TikiWikiPodcasting	blog	project	Sun 27 of Aug, 2006

Status Type	Description
concept:	The project is just conceptual containing a general description and basic research notes
r&d:	The project is in active development but has not progressed to a prototype
inprogress:	Craft project that is in progress
proto:	The project has a prototype implementation available. Prototypes are generally very rough with only a few of the desired features. Prototypes are provided as significant feature development progresses
beta:	The project has a beta implementation available. Betas are nearly feature complete but likely have bugs and missing documentation. The project stays in Beta until the documentation is completed
released:	The project has a formal release that is considered to have generally useful features and documentation
abandoned:	The project has been abandoned before progressing to a released state

Notepad

Collection of links that have not been filed

• Keypad Shield

AVR243: Matrix Keyboard Decoder
AVR240: 4 x 4 Keypad - Wake-up on Keypress

• LCD Shield

Could use 74HC164 serial / parallel conversion. Should however consider using an AVR, combining with Keypad reader, and implementing an I2C slave. This would take all the burden off the host AVR for keyboard scanning, debounce, etc. and could possible provide some LCD compatibility without rewriting the host AVR LCD routines.

• IRBlaster

Concept is to add an IR Blaster to a linux based host for controlling A/V equipment. Target software is OpenRemote. The following links are my initial conceptual research:
avrlirc - ATTiny / serial based receiver that doesn't require custom Linux kernel. Serial port (or USB port) needed on host. Supplies custom serial host program that speaks the lirc UDP protocol. With this concept it is possible to have an Ethernet port (or WiFi) on the AVR that directly sends the UDP packets.

• ET Controller Research

Building a Smart Irrigation Controller
Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension: Texas ET Network