Geekery – Wests Go West https://westsgowest.com Nick and Marie's move to Seattle Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:22:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Decorating for Christmas https://westsgowest.com/2012/12/decorating-for-christmas/ https://westsgowest.com/2012/12/decorating-for-christmas/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:22:54 +0000 http://westsgowest.com/?p=1349 Continue reading »]]> Nick and I had fun decorating our new home for the holidays over the weekend. We brought up our boxes of garland, lights, ornaments, and decorations and enjoyed figuring out where to put everything. Now that we have a fireplace, we’ll have to pick up some stocking holders so we can hang our stockings above the fire. We’ll probably want to get a bigger tree for next year, too. Our old apartments just didn’t have the space we have now. 😉

We also had a good time playing with Lego over the weekend. We even built a Lego ornament for our tree, based on an instruction guide I found online.

And yes, that is a Yoda Santa hat on top of our tree. 🙂

Decorated for Christmas

Decorated for Christmas

Lego ornament

Lego ornament

]]> https://westsgowest.com/2012/12/decorating-for-christmas/feed/ 2 Temperature via Arduino https://westsgowest.com/2012/08/temperature-via-arduino/ https://westsgowest.com/2012/08/temperature-via-arduino/#respond Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:22:52 +0000 http://westsgowest.com/?p=1258 Continue reading »]]> It’s hot in Seattle this weekend with highs in the 90’s. Because of Seattle’s mild climate, most homes here don’t have air conditioning. The weather is generally nice enough that you don’t need a/c or heat most of the year.

On what is likely to be one of the hottest weekends of the year, Nick and I had the brilliant idea to spend our time working on my dad’s website. So we spent today in our computer room, which not only generates tons of heat from our computers, it is also on the top (aka hottest) floor. 😛

At some point, we were wondering just how hot it was in the computer room, but we didn’t have a thermometer to measure the temperature. Nick tried a meat thermometer, but we didn’t think that would be a very reliable source. 😛 Then, Nick remembered that our Arduino kit (which we got a while back, but haven’t used yet) came with a temperature sensor. We ended up building and programming our very own binary display thermometer, pictured below!

For the geeky details, visit my blog post on my other blog, xaben.com! 🙂

Arduino Binary Thermometer

Our Arduino binary thermometer (87 degrees!)

P.S. We have other things we’ve been meaning to blog about, too, and we’ll do that soon – promise. 😛

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