Recent content by DRock

I just drew up this hand sketch of how I would like the switches to work. As I said before, electronics are not one of my strengths so I am hoping someone can verify that this will actually work. The numbers at the bottom represent the pins that are supposed to be pulled HIGH if that switch is...

Nothing out on the ice yet, just testing in my living room so far. I attached a picture of my setup on my laptop to give you guys a sense of scale. I just walked about 15' away in my room and it was not steadily flashing, 20' and it wouldn't flash at all...from 5'-10' it flashes constantly...

Thanks! I wasn't quite sure what to search for but I will do that right now. EDIT: After a little research, do I need to add the 10k and 22k resistors to my schematic and breadboard like in this schematic? Thanks!

Hey everyone, I have two breadboards setup with the attached circuits and I am using these transmitter and receiver chips, http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10533 and http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8945. I want to trigger an LED on the receiver side to flash once a mercury switch is tripped on...