I’ve been using the Processing IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to develop OpenBrewery.org, however it has many shortcomings compared to a real IDE, for example: No code completion No auto formatting of code No built in testing tools! <– this is the most important The list goes on actually. While Eclipse has its own share of read more
Maker Faire Presentation Times
May 16, 2013 – 3:19 pm
Eric Anzelc and I will be presenting our nanobrewery project at Maker Faire this coming weekend. Saturday, May 18th 4:30pm, Electronics Stage Sunday, May 19th 2:30pm, Electronics Stage Oh, and the project now has a name: OpenBrewery.org.
How to Homebrew Video
May 9, 2013 – 9:37 pm
This is the original step by step homebrewing video Ben Krasnow and I made in… 2007? We didn’t quite know what was important in the process and what wasn’t, but the video came out fairly well. It’s a bit long at over 7 minutes and I have a much shorter version in the works.
Dedicated Page for the Brewery Up
May 9, 2013 – 9:10 pm
Check out the page I’ve created for the nanobrewery project. Included currently are links to the code on bitbucket and a gallery. Schematics to come. Actually, if anyone has suggestion on free, easy to use schematic software, I’d love to have some suggestions. I tried out Eagle and a few others and made very little read more
Nanobrewery Control Software Available for Download
May 1, 2013 – 4:21 pm
The code for the graphical user interface for the nanobrewery is now available online at BitBucket under the GPL v3 license. I won’t lie, it’s not the easiest thing to implement– you’ll have to customize it the various variables for your own application. It also always chooses the 2nd COM port in the system to communicate read more
Processing Arduino/Firmata Analog Pins 6 to 15 not working
May 1, 2013 – 10:02 am
Firmata is a project that allows the pins of an Arduino to controlled via the Arduino’s serial port. It supports various revs of the Arduino, the Mega1280 and 2560, Teensy 1-3, Teensy++, etc. Processing has a library posted on their webpage to interface with Firmata, but the library only supports the standard Arduino (I’m assuming read more
Testing Whether an Arduino’s Analog Pins Still Work
April 30, 2013 – 11:24 am
Shorted some pins in an Arduino project. Some of the analog pins were reading 0, but this could be due to multiple reasons. Did we fry some of the Arduino’s analog pins? I disconnected the Arduino and wrote a quick program to check the analog pins, this one for Mega2560. Just change the for loop’s read more
Motherlode Brewery: Introduction
March 16, 2013 – 12:53 am
I don’t remember exactly how it started, but in October 2011, Eric and I decided it would be a good idea to build a brewery. Eric had just gotten his Master Brewing certification after completing the Master Brewing Program at UC Davis, coincidentally where I got my Computer Science and Engineering degree years earlier. We’d read more
It’ll Only Be 5 Minutes I Promise…
January 25, 2013 – 11:28 pm
Engineers are not known for accurately estimating effort. My wife has a shorthand she uses with me: multiply the shortest reasonable time by 3 to get the actual time. Across projects with many tasks, this is surprisingly accurate but it does go wrong sometimes. While doing some project management research, I came across this more read more
