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A project log for Teapot in The Garden

Imagine a teapot filled with an infinite number of fortune cookies. If it usually gave good advice, would you do as you are told?

glgormanglgorman • 07/26/2025 at 01:30•0 Comments

Here we go.  Now I need to find the documentation for the GPS module that I bought at Fry's, something like 10 or 15 years ago, and hope that it still works.  

In any case.  Here we have an FTDI USB to TTL-serial converter, a 2x20 I think LCD display, and a Parallax power module that I think can output 3.3V, or 5V, or a couple of other voltages, not sure what.  Just in case I need more juice or if I try to throw a naked P1 chip into the mix.

On the software side, in addition to the code base that I have been working with, while working on the chatbot routines and the solar calculations, I also have access to the source code for my very own C++ version of "Propeller Debug Terminal," which I made available on Git, all the way back in 2019.  This application is known to work with FTDI serial converters and can be used to provide USB connectivity to any device that can make use of a suitable serial protocol.  In this screenshot from 2021 (I think), I was using the application to interact with the built-in FORTH interpreter that exists in every P2 chip.

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