In this installment of Photo Edits I show how I retouched a photo from Sydney to go from ordinary to extraordinary. This was a fun one since I just switched to Lightroom and am working with a whole new workflow.
Author: mwwalk
Myfico – My Favorite Tool for Checking Credit Scores
There are lots of tools out there to check your credit score and report. I’ve used a lot of them, both free and paid and have finally found my favorite: MyFico.com. Let me tell you why.
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Photo Friday – Princes Pier Posts
This is the part of the remains of the famed Princes Pier in Melbourne, Australia. The pier operated from 1915 to 1969. In 2006, the first 140 meters of pier were fully restored and the rest of the pier was removed. However, they left the oh-so-photogenic pylons and I had tons of fun shooting them.
Sending 16 bit and 32 bit numbers with Arduino I2C
I’ve been using I2C a lot lately and something that keeps popping up is the need to send large numbers. I2C normally only sends a single byte at a time so you are limited to 255 as the largest number. This post will show you how I break large numbers apart to send them over I2C and reassemble them on the other side.
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Arduino i2c problem sending multiple bytes
I ran into a bit of a weird problem a little while back when using I2C on Arduinos. I friend also had the problem recently so I figured maybe it was common enough that this post could help other people. The problem occurs when you have the master request a certain number of bytes from the slave. Except when the slave sends the bytes back, they all show up as -1 except for the last one. Here is some example code and a workaround solution.
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Photo Friday – Cancun Lighthouse
This is a cool old lighthouse at the northeast end of the giant row of hotels that is Cancun. It is only accessible by staying at the Dreams Riviera Resort – or by sneaking in ;). Here are the lat/long coordinates if you want to put it into google maps: 21.137485, -86.741162
Photo Friday – Institut de France
Here’s an old favorite of mine from when I was just starting with photography. This is a photo of the Institut de France (home of the Académie Française), which sits across the Seine from the Louvre. Continue reading “Photo Friday – Institut de France”
The Best Travel Itinerary Mangers – TripIt, Kayak, TripCase, and WorldMate
One of the blogs I follow (Thread Tripping) recently had a post about different itinerary managers. These managers offer a convenient place to keep all of your reservation information and dates. I had no idea there were options other than Tripit so I signed up for all of them and gave them a try. I imported my next three trips: a weekend in San Diego, my Honeymoon, and a ski trip to Utah. It included a variety of air and hotel types including a Southwest booking for two people on points, which turned out to be the most difficult to import because of the way Southwest generates two confirmation numbers for one email. Here are my thoughts and the one I’m going to be using going forward.
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The Wandering Engineer 