Packet radio example

I received an Arduino Uno for Christmas this year, so my Dad and I spent some of the holiday time doing some projects.  His job was to get a circuit built implementing a 74HC595 Shift Register and my task was to set up some RF communication.  Dad completed his project before I did, but as I’m on vacation all this week, I was able to finally get something up and running.

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Speech recognition part 1

Quite a while back, I used Jasper to create a speech recognition periodic table fun fact program.  That was before my website was revamped and I lost the original blog post.  (Well, I do have it in my backups, but it’s not really worth reviving at this point.)  I do have a video showing the results, however:

I’ve started to revisit this project, and here are my first thoughts…

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