Overview of the PowerTroll outboard cruise control system

About Me

More than you want to know about me
I wasn't born here, but almost my whole life since 2nd grade I've been an Alaskan. I graduated from the Juneau-Douglas high school, then from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, then studied the aurora (northern lights) at the the University's Geophysical Institute. When I finally had enough school I started work for Alaska state government with the last ten years as DP manager for the state dept of labor. I enjoy summer salmon fishing in Juneau and winter vacations in Mexico. An ambition is to win the Golden North Salmon Derby which will probably require divine intervention as I've fished it dozens of times and rarely catch a legal king during the derby.
Stuff of mine at least vaguely related to PowerTroll
- nFP - Software only floating point for Brainstem. Works but not extensively tested. Too slow for what I wanted to do. Here is an example showing how it can be used to do square roots, and here is an excel workbook showing how trig tables can be generated in nFP format.
- Data logging onto brainstem eeprom. Written as a 'learning experience' to understand brainstem, devantech compass, tea programming, and other aspects of Acroname's technology. It's an excel workbook (with the .tea program pasted in as doc) and it contains a macro your download may complain about but you can safely disabled the macro (unless you want to use it).
Other stuff of mine not even close to related...
- AM-100 emulator - Open source emulator for Alpha-Micro am-100 computer, with lots of am-100 manuals and software.
- CompareEM - an MS-Access tool to compare two Access databases and generate VBA to migrate one to the other.
Visit Juneau!
Best king fishing April/May. Best silver fishing Aug/Sept. Best weather usually June/July, but the only thing you can really say about Juneau weather is that the weather guy is almost always wrong.