These pages are intended take you into the fascinating world of electronic sensing and control. A very, very simple example of the sort of thing you'll find here is home heating control: Something SENSES the temperature in the house, and then CONTROLS the heating, turning it on or off as necessary. Making something to hunt for life on Mars is, in principle, nothing more. Visit the "Examples" link below, too.
Happy study....
Sensors: Electronic thermometers and more.
Actuators: The devices which make things happen.
Wiring: Information on connecting the bits.
Programming: How you establish the rules.
Examples: Click here for.... (You can guess.... I hope!)
Combining many elements of sensing and control, I hope you will forgive my enthusiasm for a package I have put together and am calling FarWatch.
If you have premises with an always-on broadband connection, you don't need to pay for anything more to set up a system that lets you monitor those premises from anywhere on the internet.
This web resource has been evolving since September 2002. You can either find things through the links, or use the search button below to look for something specific.
If you would like to use material from this site, say on a CD, my page about permitted use may save you some time.
Click this to search this site without using forms, or just use......
The search engine merely looks for the words you type, so....
* Spell them properly.
* Don't bother with "How do I get rich?" That will merely return pages with "how", "do", "I"....
Ad from page's editor: Yes.. I do enjoy compiling these things for you...
hope they are helpful. However.. this doesn't pay my bills!!! If you find
this stuff useful, (and you run an MS-DOS or Windows PC) please visit my
freeware and shareware page, download something, and circulate it for me?
At least (please) send an 'I liked the parallel port use page, and I'm
from (country/ state)' email? (No... I don't do spam)
Links on your page to this page would also be appreciated!