Progressive Odyssey

An important part of my home power monitor is the ability to measure the instantaneous power for a given circuit; this will allow me to calc...

Here's the latest developments in the home power system monitor: The black rails down the side are the connectors for the curre...

Each one of those green things is a radio capable of transmitting and receiving data when hooked up to an Arduino .  You'll notice th...

For the past few months, in my voluminous spare time, I've been working on developing a system similar to my home temperature monitor ...

I just stumbled upon a free photo stitcher called  Hugin  and have been using it to redo the panoramas I have taken over the years.  I prev...

This is one for the nerds.  If you've ever been frustrated by technical support that seems to know less than you, you're going to be...

My wife was very interested in visiting plantation during our trip and even though we went to three, I think she would have liked to see man...

If you have very many compact florescent light (CFL) bulbs, you may have noticed that they glow for a while after you turn them off. Th...

This past week had been a week of delays for me as the bureaucracy that is Wichita State has been dominating my attention. That I even have...

Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana and it has a fantastic capital building.  Actually it has two fantastic capital buildings and both a...

My wife and I just returned from a brief trip to visit family in Baton Rogue, Louisiana where I had my first up-close experience with the Ca...

Behold, the efforts of several months of labor: my basement nerd corner: Due to my hobby and school projects often monopolizing our din...

Yesterday was the first day of the spring 2012 PSERC conference and this year Wichita State is hosting. Unfortunately, due to the reconstr...

The weather is changing.  This week the overnight lows have been right around 70'F and the highs have been in the mid 80's.  We'...

As I was biking into school last week I realized that throughout my entire life in Wichita, I have lived very close to the river that flows ...

I've been having a problem with my home temperature system for a while and the issue really manifested itself over this winter.  The ...

I'm taking a class on smart grids this semester and a good chunk of the classwork is actually working on a large project. I'm worki...

I found out today that I was turned down from a program at North Carolina State designed to help aspiring faculty get a better handle on th...

A good friend of mine gave me an interesting model for defining the roles of universities: discovering new knowledge (research), disseminati...