Recent content by pemcg

Yes, having waited a couple of weeks for the parts to arrive, it was also a multi-expletive moment. At least I assume that was the cause of the burning smell. I had certainly put the receiver legs in the wrong way round, and the program doesn't print anything other than "ready" on the com...

A word of warning to anyone trying this, if you detect a burning smell after wiring it up and powering on, you may have inserted the 3 legs of the laser receiver in the wrong way around :-(

According to the forum rules: "Due to recent spam issues, private messages and classified ad postings to fellow members will not be available until you have posted at least 20 (genuine, not filler) messages in our public forum area." I guess I could post this another 19 times and then PM you :-)

This looks great. I've ordered the parts, @Niglyn is there any chance you could post the code onto something like Github? I'm a retired (open source) software engineer and I'd love to be able to take a look.