Today I learned that the diagram style that shows two or more vertical lines with actions going from line to line is called a sequence diagram, and it’s a UML thing (we never got in to UML when I was
PlantUML, sequence diagrams
Sending engine RPMs to the network, 3/x
A small re-write of the sender into a Click driven CLI, making hard-codes into CLI arguments.
Sending engine RPMs to the NMEA bus, 2/x
It turns out that iNavX doesn’t support rendering ERRPM; it only supports the NMEA 2000 variant, PGN 127488. This led me down the path of trying to work out if I could send PGNs to the MiniPlex3 via the WiFi
Sending engine RPMs to the NMEA bus, 1/x
Whilst Dad was visiting, we put his portable oscilloscope across the two terminals on the back of the tachometer, and found a very nice mV signal that changes frequency with engine revolutions. This means that a bit of circuitry plus
Indexing my books – part two
VBA is a horrible thing to work with; mostly because the development environment (if you can call it that) built in to Office 2013 stinks. You get lovely errors like “Access denied” when using the HTTP request component, or “-91”.
Indexing my books
I’m currently packing books into boxes, in preparation for January, when I expect to be moving out of this apartment and in to a house a little way up the road. It occurred to me that it’d be nice to