Ken Shirriff's blog

Recently, I've been attempting to improve my Spanish by reading Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal , the Spanish version of Harry Potte...

Here are Viking Dishwasher error codes for anyone who needs them. I was visting family over Easter and the Viking dishwasher quit working -...

This article describes how to understand Sony IR codes and how to get them from the LIRC files. The article is intended to describe codes f...

While trying to learn Spanish, I find a few Spanish words are similar to other words and keep confusing me. This article summarizes them, m...

One reader asked how to use my Arduino Infrared Library to detect breakage of an IR beam. The answer was too long for the comments section...

I pulled my Concertmate MG-1 synthesizer out of storage for my next Arduino project (to be described later), only to find that it wasn...

My latest project is controlling a pedestrian sign with an Arduino, so it will automatically step through the states of walk, flashing don...