https://www.photonicsguy.ca/ 2026-04-06T20:31:17+00:00 https://www.photonicsguy.ca/ https://www.photonicsguy.ca/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2021-07-06T14:15:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/t530?rev=1625580959&do=diff Lenovo T530 Laptop WiFi upgrade I successfully installed an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 wireless card by modifying the whitelist in the BIOS. I've compiled this step-by-step guide with references as I had trouble finding a similar resource online. Living in Toronto, the 2.4GHz WiFi band is over saturated and my best wireless throughput was roughly 16Mbps, now with 5GHz Wireless AC, I get an average of 700Mbps. I decided not to upgrade to the latest BIOS and to attempt the whitelist modifi… text/html 2016-03-09T02:48:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/electronics/mysensors?rev=1457491680&do=diff MySensor board After reading about the MySensors project, I decided to design a small circuit board to hold the Arduino and radio module. Status: * Nov 25th: I've assembled two working boards. Imgur photos * Nov 24th: I received the boards, Yay!! * Nov 7th, 2014: I'm waiting on the PCB's from text/html 2017-08-22T17:50:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/astronomy?rev=1503424236&do=diff Star pointing Concept Hardware <https://github.com/kriswiner/MPU9250> Magnetic declination * Magnetic declination calculator for Canada * Magnetic declination calculator for US (My) Magnetic declination: 10° 28.50' West (-10.475°) text/html 2016-03-08T19:51:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/carouselpi?rev=1457466673&do=diff CarouselPi - A Kodak Carousel Slide Scanner I'm converting a Carousel slide projector into an automated slide scanner using a Raspberry Pi with a camera module. My main goal is the cataloguing of the slide trays and indexing with the use of barcode stickers on each carousel. I intend to have the images indexed so that I can easilt find a specific slide and scan it in with a professional scanner. text/html 2014-11-13T22:37:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/electronics/7segdisplay?rev=1415918236&do=diff 7-segment display module [Working Display] Arduino library available on Github This was one of my first doublesided and surfacemount boards. I made this board using Eagle for layout and then I used BatchPCB to manufacture the board. The board operates correctly, however, if I were to revise it, I would use a larger SMT resistor than the 0402 size. The board will be controlled via I2C from a PIC microcontroller, initially for the pressure sensor and later for other projects.