Dad, Sailor, Programmer, Traveller
I worked on my wind indicator app a little bit. I am using an optical encoder to determine wind angle, it has a 3ish degree of precision (kinda). The device has 10 pins, 8 of those being digital pins. These connect to 8 different pins on an Arduino. Then in
Little Mark got attacked by the neighbor's dog today. The kids were headed out to get into the car to get home, and their dogs got out. Nikki screamed for Warren to run, and he made it into the garage, Duke did as well. But Mark got trapped
We went out on the boat today. Unfortunatlly it wasn't really windy enough to even put up the sails. We had a lot of fun, but it would have been better sailing. It was pretty cold at times, but not terribly. I took a ton of pictures for
I woke up at like 945. It was a bit late, especially because I was in bed so early, but I needed it. When I finally got up I started making breakfast and got a text from my dad. We were supposed to go over for breakfast. We threw on
My Arduino project is coming along. I did need to order a new arduino board as my micro isn't working. I read up on tech specs for my encoder, and think I have a good plan to get everything together. If I can get everything working, I may
A few years ago I created a project that took a rotary encoder and would use a windvane to give me relative wind direction. I got it working ok, but I am going to revive the project. I am coming up with a plan of attack and may even create
Mark finished his Math test today. He seemed much more relaxed that yesterday once he was done with it. He thinks he did pretty good. He has the concepts down I'm really proud of him. Nikki worked in Salt Lake today,, so I picked up the kids at
I was exhausted by the end of the day today. I took a long nap when I got home till dinner. After dinner Mark and I worked on his review so he can finish his test tomorrow. He seemed really stressed and off while working on it, but we got
This evening I worked with Mark on his math review. I think it just makes me like the teacher less. The review is far more complicated than the assignment and the questions add complexity that isn't needed to demonstrate that they know what was tought. As an example
Today we pretty much just cleaned the house. The kids did great for there part. Warren was a big help with cleaning the living room and his room. He helped out with the laundry and cleaned the stairs. Mark took a bit of prodding but finally got there and did
We finally have all our Christmas lights put away. It took all day, and it was freezing cold. I didn't even realize how cold or tired I was till I was done. We started at about 1230 and finished up at about 5:30. I immediately came inside
Today I didn't do much. Nikki went on a date night with Sarah, and I stayed home with Warren. I did go to the gym this morning where I absolutely crushed my workout. I had a 15 minute run, but it was feeling pretty good so I did