Project Coming Along

Daniel Bigelow

Jan 17, 2025 — 1 min read

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 even design and have a PCB printed to mount everything to. It would be pretty awesome.

Warren and I watched the new Starwars show on Disney called Skeleton Crew. It is a pretty fun kids show, kind of hoki for adults though. He didn't want to watch it, but by the end of the first episode he was hooked.

Utah Hockey Club

Today we got to go see a Utah Hockey Club game at the Delta Center. Utah Hockey Club is Utah's new NHL team that we got this year. Normally tickets run hundreds of dollars, but they are selling limited views tickets through a promotion for $10 a piece. The game

Autodesk Fusion

I am working more on creating my wind direction sensor. I normally use Blender, but I feel like other applications are better at the precision work that I need. I watched a 20 minute tutorial on youtube, and got some basics down. I am not very good at it yet,

New Wind Vane Sensor

I am switching methods of angle sensing. After some testing, I think the rotary encoder has too much resistance to use for a wind sensor. I switched to a AS5600 Hall effect sensor, and have been playing around with it. It actually seems to be way better that the other

Pizza and Planning

I got home from work today and took a good nap. When I got up we decided to got to pizza pie cafe. The kids were thrilled, and Mark had wanted to go there anyways. It was really packed so it made it a bit hard to get what we

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Utah Hockey Club

Autodesk Fusion

New Wind Vane Sensor

Pizza and Planning