So one of my new projects is to create a movement alarm for preventing bag theft. The motivation for creating this is threefold: 1) When I go to a happy-hour or a cocktail party, I often have my computer bag with me. But I do not want to carry it around with me, so I…

A while ago, thanks to the joys of eBay and manufacturing in China, I ordered some low-cost 16×2 LCD character screens, and they finally arrived.  Yeah, now I can get down to trying to output some text to the LCD screen, just one of the pieces of the puzzle for creating a metro ‘next train’…