About Me
I guess i should introduce myself somewhat. My name is Andrew and i live in the southern suburbs of the Adelaide metro area in South Australia. I was born and raised in this area too so much of my family live around me. I am 28 years old, married and have two beautiful children – a 4 year old girl and a 1 year old boy.
I spend most of my days as an IT Network engineer so i guess you could call me a bit of a computer nerd but i try not to fall into this stereotypical category. I regulary administer Linux and Windows servers as well as general desktop support in my day job but i also do ad-hoc contract work for a few other companies. When i’m not playing with/fixing PC’s or servers i enjoy playing with RC stuff. I have a Modded T-Maxx monster truck, the Ryobi boat and also a Honey Bee King II electric helicopter. They are all awesome fun but each have thier own place – i.e the heli needs almost totally calm conditions to fly and no rain but the maxx can be driven in winter no problems. It’s a good balance so that there is always something to play with…
Other than RC I love making things. Those that know me well know that i try to make everything. I hate buying things that i can make myself. I have an equipped shed with some very handy tools, the most recent being a metal lathe. I could not have made the boat without it, it is such a handy tool.
I’m also very electronically minded, it’s another area of interest for me. Something i really wish that i persued from school. It was my intention to do so but the computer thing sorta fell on my lap and i grasped it well so that took over from the electronics. I still dabble in electronics regularly from advanced auto electrics (retrofitting EFI on a few cars, alarms and wild stereos) to circuit board building, chipping consoles and much more.
One of my projects was a CNC mill (basically a computer controlled router). This was successful and awesome to see working. It took me about 6 months to build. After a little while of work with it, i came to the conclusion that although it was awesome to have, just trying to do simple things with it was way too time consuming and i ended up selling it (for a nice profit too). Before i sold it tho it did allow me to make things like an extended chassis for my Maxx to be able to fit a big block engine and a few other things. Maybe one day i will make another (bigger) one but not any time soon. Building the CNC machine also taught me more skills and forced me to learn how to use autocad. Something that i find very handy now.
So that’s a bit about me….
I have found a PCboard with your URL on it and I wondered if you were behind this project?
RFID Car Immobilser using a pic 12F629, as I’m trying to learn how to program I was hopeing that this was yours!!
thanks
Alan,
Toronto Ontario, Canada
Yes, that is my instructable.
Hi my dear friend, i had see your post in http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=108384&whichpage=83 about the gps tracker tk102/101, and i want to know if you have all the imei commands that i can send to the tracker to get information or data, if you can help i will apreciate that, thanks and sorry about my bad english im from venezuela.
Sure, i’ll drop you an email
Hi Andrew,
I´m working on some software in php for the TK102-2 tracker. I adopted your “tracker.txt” to suit my needs. Most of my changes aren´t of any importance to you. However I changed the way the socket is being read. Your version doesn´t cope with the “readsd” command which triggers the tracker to spit out any position information held on the SD Card in a “line-by-line” manner.
The way your script reads the socket those lines will be cut after 2048 bytes and you loose one line. I changed reading of the socket to:
while (($rec = socket_read($socket, 512, PHP_NORMAL_READ)) !== 0){
This will read complete lines – one after the other and nothing gets lost.Maybe this is of interest to you.
BTW: could you drop me a copy of the imei commands that Mr Leitzner from the post above requested?
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for the info. Mine does not have SD card so yes, the change is a little irrelevant to me but it’d be great if it did. I find that mine tends to fail after about a day in GPRS mode.
Hi Andrew
I just love your H pattern shifter. is there any way I can Buy the plans from you so I could make one up. I live in Sydney Australia and use a G25 at the moment with rfactor, Im working on building a set of peddles from Todds designs similar to yours
David
Hi David, thanks for the comments. I have a 3d autocad drawing of the shifter if you would like. That shows most of the construction. It does not show the switching mechanism but that is not overly complicated. It’s just a matter of making up your own ‘H’ plate for the shaft to move through at the bottom and mounting the switches on it. More than happy to supply any detail you need to help you construct it yourself.
Hi Andrew thanks for the reply
The 3d Auto cad drawing would be fantastic i can get it drawn up to be able to construct one I can sort out the electronics myself please use my email adress for contact.
thans David
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