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Automate a basic humidifier with an Arduino, relay and simple sensors 3 Mar 2013 | 07:02 am
Mechatronics is described as the intersection between mechanical, electrical and computer engineering, and it covers just about anything that uses electronic signals to act on mechanical systems. It’s...
Introducing the Mass Page Maker Pro WordPress plugin 25 Feb 2013 | 07:28 am
Since starting this blog, some of my post popular posts have been about the WordPress plugins I’ve written. Built as I started learning about PHP, they’ve received hundreds of comments and often gener...
Troubleshooting a custom computer build 17 Feb 2013 | 03:48 am
Recently I decided to take some leftover computer parts and add them to a few new ones to create a small computer I can use for an upcoming projection project and also use later as a home theatre PC. ...
Building a bench top power supply with a computer PSU 5 Nov 2012 | 09:32 pm
Electronic tinkering and building have become a bigger hobby for me as I finished my university degree. The Arduino development platform is quite a remarkable system, and the online community of users...
Compiling C Programs on OS X 10.7+ 11 Oct 2012 | 07:51 am
One of the first posts I wrote for this blog, back in 2007, was about how to write and compile C programs using Mac OS X. That post was a result of me doing C programming in my first year of universit...
Fix missing media info and thumbnails in WordPress 3.4.x 26 Jul 2012 | 09:58 am
Does your WordPress media library look like this photo? Maybe you don’t have the same affinity for the BMW 1M that I do, but if you’re missing thumbnails, I might be able to help. After upgrading an ...
Tracking Login Attempts 13 Mar 2012 | 02:35 am
I’m an inquisitive person. Maybe it’s because I’m an engineer, but I like learning about new things, whether they’re related to cars, computers or technology in general. So recently when looking throu...
Looking Back and Looking Ahead 21 Feb 2012 | 11:48 am
Wow. It’s been almost 12 full months since I wrote on these pages. Partly this is down to laziness, and partly a result of having too many cool things to do. Since I do enjoy writing and describing in...
Building a Watercooled PC: Part 1 24 Feb 2011 | 03:55 am
I’ve been looking forward to writing the post for this project. It may seem that I’m exclusively a Mac user, but my time inside operating systems is probably split 60, 30 and 10 in Mac OS X, Ubuntu an...
Introducing “Here’s My Location”, an iPhone app 6 Nov 2010 | 12:47 pm
Towards the end of school in April, I got in contact with a classmate who was connected to iPhone development, and in September I started working full time for them. It’s been really cool to see how a...
