Microcontroller Projects

This page is my attempt to share some of the excitement and fun I am having rediscovering electronics, microprocessors and logic. After many years in the high tech industry I got pretty burned out and finally said, "#@$! this, I'm just going to go and play music for awhile." So I "dropped out" for several years.

Now I am rediscovering the excitement I had so many years ago. Hopefully this will be fun for you too if you are interested in this kind of stuff.

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My Microcontroller Lab
The Dripping Faucet Project
Have you ever observed a natural event that seemed very irregular but you thought it might have some sort of pattern embedded in there somewhere? Maybe it was a rushing stream, the music in a waterfall, a crackling fire or a dripping faucet. This project is my attempt to find "Strange Attractors" influencing the chaotic behavior of a dripping faucet.
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Input Signal Conditioning
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Figure 1: Project Plan
Figure 2: Input Signal Conditioning