I was at the Red Cross today, donating platelets. This is a process where they take blood from one arm and run it through a machine to extract the platelets, and then put the red blood cells and plasma back…
Here I am, welcoming myself back to TechForHomeHealthCare.com. It looks like my last entry was in something like 2014….before Covid, before Trump, before Robert Kennedy, before the revival of measles. (What are they thinking?). The CDC is abandoning its own…
I’ve been an advocate of FileMaker Pro as a rapid-application software development system. FileMaker allows a developer or savvy end-user to get database applications up and running in a relatively short amount of time. Much of my development involves automating…
Click the image to see it in all its glory. Having used the sample GroveStreams Arduino code to simulate a temperature sensor, my next step has been to verify how data can be sent to the GroveStreams chart generator for…
A relatively new web service called GroveStreams allows you to upload sensor data (or any other data) to the web for display and analysis. The have a sample tutorial for the Arduino which simulates a periodic temperature reading. This displays…
The Champlain Mini Maker Faire will take place on Saturday and Sunday, September 28, and 29, at the Shelburne Farms Coach Barn in Shelburne Vermont. I’ll be showing my Arduino projects. Look for a feast of 3d printers, robots, innovators,…
Intermedia, um….my web and eMail hosting provider, has been down about three hours since early Tuesday morning September 3rd. There was traffic on Twitter, with resellers of Intermedia services worrying about their clients, and especially people whose phone systems are…
They were out of stock with the assembled boards, so I bought the kit for a savings of $10.00. I followed the instructions on the web, without problems taking probably double the estimated time of one hour, I took two.…
