Well, the microprocessor is in the case and everything is wired. I am waiting on delivery for one more LED indicator for one parking spot. The sensor for the civic works great. The unit is turned on by an Insteon OutletLinc only when the garage door is open, and when the car reaches 42 inches from the sensor (the wall), the light lights up.
I just have to mount the controller box to the wall and clean up the mounts for the light and ultrasonic sensors.
Not a whole lot going on here. Just relaxing a bit. Corinne and I watched Avatar (Bluray) and it was amazing. Great movie.
I received the last order of sprinkler system parts (hopefully) to finish the drip irrigation for the front landscaping. I will most likely attempt to install it in the next week or so. Whenever it isnt too hot outside.
My parking sensor is awaiting one more ultrasonic sensor and some brackets. I think its ready to go. I should have it mounted for testing by the end of the week.
I am modifying my homemade router/firewall at home to run Pfsense 2.0 beta on a hard drive instead of a flash card. This will allow me to run squid (http cache proxy), havp (anti-virus scanner), and other network monitoring tools. They cannot be run on a flash card since the card has a finite read/write life.
Finished the code for the parking sensor in about 10 minutes. I am using an arduino duemilanove microcontroller. The Arduino Duemilanove is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button.
I am using a PING))) Ultrasonic sensor, a large red LED, and the arduino. When an object gets within a certain programmed distance (in this case 40 inches), the red LED lights up. The sensor is amazingly accurate down to about 2 cm. Also, the response time in change in distances is within milliseconds.
