http://matthewmorey.com ...an engineer who surfs, travels, and pretends to know the meaning of life. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:56:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As promised in my earlier post and the follow up post, here is some sample code I'm using to respond to @MattsOffice mentions. With a version of this code and a Cron job I can respond to any number of specific commands. This code only illustrates responding to one command, ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/code-2-of-2-for-mattsoffice/ As promised in my earlier post here is the code that I'm using to auto-update the MattsOffice Twitter account. With this code and a Cron job I can update the light and temperature conditions of my office automatically at whatever time interval I choose. ioBridge.com does offer "Actions" but none of ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/code-1-of-2-for-mattsoffice/ A couple months back I came across IOBridge's IO-204 and instantly knew I needed one. I went ahead and bought the device as well as several of their accessory boards. Once everything arrived I started tinkering and was amazed with how easy it was at connecting DIY projects to the ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/introducing-mattsoffice/ [caption id="attachment_33" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="RC Diagram"][/caption] The purpose of this project was to implement and run performance benchmarks on various reconfigurable computing (RC) platforms. During the process of implementation and benchmarking, all results as well as lessons learned where documented. Comparisons against pure software implementations where also made. In this paper ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/implementation-and-performance-traits-of-select-reconfigurable-computing-platforms/ As of October 2007, the iPod had sold over 119 million units worldwide and as a result, has become the best-selling digital audio player series in history. With such a huge user base the iPod accessory market is even larger, as most iPod users own several iPod accessories. Within the ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/iparty-a-novel-autonomous-ipod-music-mixer/ [caption id="attachment_61" align="alignleft" width="195" caption="Theta Tau Website Screenshot"][/caption] This site (http://www.ufthetatau.org/) was completely done with PHP and MySQL. The visual design of the site is not the greatest but the database back end and members only section is rock solid. The members section serves over 250 members and is used for ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/uf-theta-tau-web-site/ [caption id="attachment_65" align="alignleft" width="194" caption="Apex Environmental Web Site"][/caption] I used the template feature in Dreamweaver to design this site (http://www.apexenvironmental.com/). Most hard core web designer discredit WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver but in my experience they increase productivity by leaps and bounces. This site also has an administration backend developed with PHP. ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/apex-environmental-web-site/ [caption id="attachment_19" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="IRAS"][/caption] I built IRAS in my Junior Design class. IRAS is a small self-contained and self-powered unit that will monitor the climate and door status of a refrigerator or freezer. The climate monitoring component outputs the temperature in °F and the relative humidity as a percentage on ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/iras-intelligent-refrigerator-alarm-system/ [caption id="attachment_36" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Small8"][/caption] My final project in my Digital Design class was to design a simple 8-bit computer (called Small8) using VHDL and Altera's Cyclone FPGA. Small8 consists of an 8-bit processor (64K address space), RAM, and I/O ports. The Small8's design is split into three sections: Overall Architecture, Central ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/small8-my-version-of-an-8-bit-computer/ [caption id="attachment_23" align="alignleft" width="194" caption="Application Note"][/caption]A major part of a product is the documentation that accompanies it. One thing SpinCore's PulseBlasterDDS board lacked was a proper manual and application notes. In addition to redoing the manual, I wrote a brief document which describes how to set up a simple NMR ... http://matthewmorey.com/projects/application-notes/