Progressive Odyssey

Here's a very early look at another nerd project I've started working on.  No hints, I'll leave it to your imagination as to wha...

In writing yesterday about evaluating the cost effectiveness of our fancy whole-house fan I mentioned that I only had a way of measuring h...

As I've written before , two years ago we installed a whole-house fan in an attempt to make better use of the sometimes-colder outdoor ...

At the beginning of the summer one of the pastor's of my church challenged the congregation as a whole to memorize a particular book of ...

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 ...