Some quick instructions on how to create an ISO image from a CD or DVD using Mac OS X. But sadly this has failed in creating iso images of some disks, such as Microsoft installer disks.

A most awesome French Onion Soup creation.

The Atmel AVR Dragon is a new programmer for Atmel AVR 8-bit Microcontrollers. I obtained this little beast because my old AVRISP serial programmer was useless due to lack of serial hardware on my PC. The Dragon was quite inexpensive and readily available at DigiKey. It promised to not only provide ISP (In-circuit Serial Programming), but also JTAG, debugWire and high voltage programming for AVR device. It arrived in a very stylish red little box, but no cables, enclosure or anything else for that matter. After some searching I came across the Serpac H-65 enclosure. It proved to be a perfect fit for "my" Dragon.

I needed a device to test R/C servos. Hooking up receiver, battery, servos and then running the transmitter with the antenna extended inside the house was awkward. I thought this could be a nice little project for some microcontroller. After a long abstinence from PIC assembler, I downloaded the latest MPLAB release and programmed away. Here it is, the first cut of my servo tester.

During the summer of 1998 I built yet another PIC based clock. I had an old LED analog clock kicking around. It was a CMOS logic design built from an ELV (a German electronics magazine) kit. The clock lost its time every single time there was the slightest brownout, it bothered me to no end. So I set out to reuse some of the parts and built a PIC based replacment. The most significant item on the feature list was a low power time keeping mode to keep the time ticking but the display dark during AC power loss. What can I say, it actually worked! The clock was able to keep time for several minutes running on just a larger capacitor (where the schematic says 'battery').

Curious me wanted to know the pinout of the plug on the back of my Hitec radios. Some time ago I made up a buddy cord for the Hitec Optic 6 and Hitec Laser 4. It took me a while to retrace those steps and find all the information used to make that cable. So here it is, this is how I made my Hitec buddy cord.