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Trevor's Electronics Blog

Are you interested in Electronics? Or embedded electronics? Or any of the Microchip PIC microcontrollers like the PIC18, PIC24, the dsPIC33 or the latest PIC32? So am I so I'm writing about my adventures with these devices in my blog called Trevor's Electronics Blog. The drive to do this was my adventure in learning the PIC24 and doing it using the Explorer 16 board. I got a book that uses different chip and board configuration so I've added to the book for others the steps needed to run the excersises in the book on the Explorer16.

Here's a picture of my Explorer16.

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Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree, Merry merry king of the bush is he. Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra, Gay your life must be!

It's a well known Australian folk song but how many have actually seen a Kookaburra. Well here is one for you.

For more wildlife photo's see my wildlife section in the photo gallery

Recal of American Currency

It looks like the US government has figured out how to get itself out of the financial problems it's in. Watch the Onion News Network cover as Ronald Schuler, treasury spokesman announces the recal at a press conference. :)

Test your Internet speed to our server

This speed test will test you're internet connection between you're machine and our server in Sydney. One thing to keep in mind, to get to the Server in Sydney you need to go through a few other servers first so the reading you get is of the whole internet, not just your provider or our server at the other end.

I don't have the applet on the main page as it's a Flash movie which consumes a lot of your CPU when its on the screen.

To run, click on the 'read more' link below.

Type O or Type Zero blood type?

Hi all. Came across this video on YouTube the other day discussing what the blood type terminology is. Is it �type O� or is it �type zero�? Have a look for yourself.

Plane crashes on landing at Adelaide Airport, South Australia

Adelaide, South Australia � Saturday 27th September 2008

In front of about a thousand spectators, the King Air B200 Twin Engine Corporate Charter VH-URU on a charter flight from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island crash landed on Runway 30 (South East to North North West runway). No-one was injured with passengers praising the work of the pilot.

The large crowd was at the airport to see the new Qantas A380 Airbus arrive for the first time at Adelaide and where treated to a perfectly executed crash landing of the twin engine King Air.

It circled the airport for some 30 minutes to burn of fuel before doing a low level pass along the runway to steady in the gusty winds before landing on its belly skidding to a very quick stop.

The video shows the approach and crash followed by the passengers escaping and emergency services quickly approaching. Sorry for the slightly bumpy footage. It was really an opportunistic shoot with no time to set up with tripod etc as I�m sure you can imagine.

New version of Banksia Park Weather online!

Finally got around to changing the Banksia Park Weather Station site to its new version moving the Flash movie off to a sub page and using JavaScript to keep the 'static' page updated every 25 seconds. It's got more features and more useful areas including a longer range forecast from Weather Underground, access to radar, warnings from the BOM, and will allow me to grow the informational part of the site that explains weather in simple terms. The version on-line now is just the start.

So if you're living in any of the following suburbs, it's probably the closest site to get temperature, humidity, barometer or pressure, wind direction and speed, and a whole host of other information on the weather :

Banksia Park, South Australia, 5091
Tea Tree Gully, South Australia, 5091
Vista, South Australia, 5091
Fairview Park, South Australia, 5126
Yatala Vale, South Australia, 5126
Surrey Downs, South Australia, 5126
Redwood Park, South Australia, 5097
St Agnes, South Australia, 5097
Ridgehaven, South Australia, 5097
Houghton, South Australia, 5131
Lower Hermitage, South Australia, 5131
Modbury, South Australia, 5092
Modbury Heights, South Australia, 5092
Wynn Vale, South Australia, 5127
Golden Grove, South Australia, 5125

Click on the image at the top of this to be taken to the Banksia Park Weather Station or click on this text.

2003 Ford Falcon BA Workshop Manual

Workshop manual for the 2003 Ford Falcon BA. This is what seems a very extensive workshop manual at 2,089 pages, however it does not include the electrical diagrams. It goes into fault diagnosis of most of the electrical though. It does cover in great depth all the other parts of the 2003 model Ford Falcon.

It�s a big PDF file at 148MB so it will take some time to download.

Sections covered:

Telstra moves more Australian jobs to India

A comical help desk call from a customer with a very strong Australian slang to the Telstra India help desk with an agent that has a very strong Indian accent and doesn�t understand many of the Australian slang terms.

It begins with the announcer making the statement that Telstra moves more Australian jobs to India.

Download the audio clip in MP3 format here.

Here is the transcript of the call. A good read if your not able to get the audio.

My LinkedIN profile

Not sure if you've seen or heard of the LinkedIN site. It's a Facebook for professionals. I've got my profile there now so if you want to know what I am up to with work etc, go and check it out.