I’ve been working on alternative firmware for the Amiga tank mouse conversion that can be found on PCBWay. The mouse is using a Microchip PIC18F26K22 MCU and an Avago ADNS9800 optical sensor. The firmware monitors the ADNS9800 sensor and translates the X/Y movement deltas into V/VQ and H/HQ quadrature pulses for the Amiga I may … Continue reading "Amiga tank mouse laser conversion – Alternative firmware"| OppoverBakke
I’ve been using Microsoft’s SQL Server Management Studio since it was called Enterprise Manager, way back when. Over the years, I have become so accustomed to using F5 to run queries that when even after a long time using MySQL Workbench, muscle memory rules and I still hit F5 and wonder why my queries don’t … Continue reading "MySQL Workbench: Adding F5 to execute"| OppoverBakke
Recently I came across a situation where I had multiple models with the same name in one of the AX 2012 instances I am developing for. It is possible to do this through the AX developer workspace as long as they have different publishers, but it causes the model management Powershell cmdlets to freak out … Continue reading "Dynamics AX 2012 – Managing duplicate model names"| OppoverBakke
If you have worked with Dynamics AX 2009, 2012, R2 or R3 for a while, at least more than an hour or so, you’ll have noticed that for some reason it tends to open new windows behind everything else. You click a button to open a form, and then you wait for a while for … Continue reading "Fix: Dynamics AX windows opening up behind everything else"| OppoverBakke
I have noticed that email notifications of posts, comments and replies are not currently working on this site. I am working on rectifying the situation and hope to have this back up and running shortly. EDIT: Everything is back up and running.| OppoverBakke
Hi, all. This blog has moved to a new server, which should hopefully be faster than the old one. However, if you do come across anything that doesn’t seem to work correctly, please let me know in a comment, and I will get on to it as soon as I can.| OppoverBakke
Recently, I added solar power to one of my ESP8266 weather stations. With the right hardware, this was actually remarkably easy to do. To make things nice and easy, I ordered an Adafruit USB/DC/Solar Li-Ion/Li-Poly charger. (Top-right in the photo) These boards can take DC input from USB, a 2.1mm power jack or from wires … Continue reading "Solar powered ESP8266"| OppoverBakke
Here’s a quick and easy way to add a colour picker lookup to an AX form. I’ve seen a number of different ways to add colour picker support to an AX form, but so far, this has been the easiest. It is not ideal, because the colour picker opens up as a dialog window, something … Continue reading "Adding a colour picker lookup to an AX form"| OppoverBakke
Dynamics AX 2012 introduces built-in support for resolving and looking up linked records based on reference record IDs.| OppoverBakke
Last month I wrote a series of posts about reducing the power consumption of the ESP8266, showing how I got the power consumption of a weather station down to 54 μAh per 5 minute reporting cycle.| OppoverBakke