As many of you are already aware, I have been doing a fair amount of Arduino programming over the past year. The Arduino platform is built as a very rudimentary introduction to hobbyist electronics. Arduinos come with all of the necessary parts to begin building simple circuits with a very low learning curve. It is [...]
For Christmas this year, I received one of Adafruit‘s Ice Tube Clock kits. It is a really neat project that is basically a PCB that Adafruit designed along with a bunch of parts (resistors, capacitors, etc.) that you must solder onto it in order to build the kit. It is a good introduction to building [...]
I have uploaded some new photographs from Christmas 2010. You can view them by clicking on our tree below. Merry Christmas everyone!
It all started with an issue in a computer lab in room 216 of Elliot Hall. Over the summer, the IT staff at Mansfield University decided it would be proper to disallow mansfield.edu access from this particular lab, citing “security” issues. This is all fine and dandy, since the people who use the lab are [...]
I have finally dusted off my camera and taken some new pictures. I found this kitten at Ashley’s father’s house and I decided to take some pictures of it. See the album by clicking on the picture below (redirect to cleteblackwellphoto.com).
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans! Herei s a picture of a kitten that I took today:
I have recently finished installing Gentoo Linux on an old IBM 600E laptop. At one time I would have called this laptop a powerhorse, but that time is not today nor five years ago even. The laptop contains a Mobile Pentium II processor clocked at a racing 364MHz. It also contains a whopping total of [...]
Stopping a thread in Java has proven to be a pain for me. You can’t call a the stop() method anymore even if your thread doesn’t have anything that will fail by abruptly stopping a thread. I found this awesome code that shuts down a thread and I thought I would share it. Simple and [...]
This Friday and Saturday, I had the pleasure of taking a trip to Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania to attend the CCSC East conference and programming competition. Six programmers and one advisor attended as an official trip of the Mansfield University Computer Science Club, of which I am the current president. The conference itself was [...]
My latest Arduino project is a little bit more complicated than my last. This new project will check the main headline on Drudge Report and it will then display it on the LCD screen of the Arduino. After that, it checks to see if the headline has changed since the last time it checked. If [...]