It’s funny how once the project works, after a brief break it’s immediately on to the next project with no longer thinking about the previous one. This project never got the final and most important update: the code and the success videos. Let’s do success videos first. The full episode: And JUST the finale (thoughContinue reading “Propane and Programming VI: The code and the Finale”

To be clear, it took forever for me to get from one working flame pooger to six that worked together. I encountered a LOT of problems, most of which were my own fault. 1. Air-fuel mixture: Propane (and i think all hydrocarbon fuels for that matter) do not combust in an oxidation-combustion reaction unless theyContinue reading “Propane and Programming V: Testing and Fails”

Time to assemble this thing. It should be pretty self explanatory, so long as it is assembled in steps. I don’t think I have yet mentioned, these are supposed to resemble walkway lights when they are done. I will explain that later. Below, starting in the top left and going counterclockwise: the cone that holdsContinue reading “Propane and Programming IV: Putting it All Together”

I am a fan of the EasyEDA https://easyeda.com/ program for creating simple circuits, especially because it’s closely integrated with JLCPCB, the company that magically turns your digital files into printed circuit boards fairly inexpensively. This is what the schematic looks like (link to download json file below). There are plenty of tutorials on how toContinue reading “Propane and Programming III: Designing the Boards”

A couple years ago I decided to force myself to learn how to program Arduinos and similar microprocessors, the only problem was I didn’t have a pressing need for one, but I knew it would at some point. Naturally, I wondered what kind of cool thing I could make that I hadn’t seen anybody makeContinue reading “Propane and Programming II: Prototyping”

Home Greeter 2000: The Origins First post; go easy on me, it’s my first time. Four things happened closely together in time. My father died, I learned I was becoming a father, I began riding a motorcycle, and Mad Max: Fury Road was released. I like to think of each of these events as entirelyContinue reading “Propane And Programming I: The Inception”