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Last night I attempted PM Yoga for Beginners. It was my first time trying Yoga and I was suprized at how dificult basic contortion of your body is. Some of the moves I was not able to do because I hurt my knee last month, and other moves I could not do (properly) because I lacked flexibility.

I suggested that Brittany and I try to alternate nights of Yoga and the Gym (classic cardio/weights), so we will try that for a while.

Last night I also had a major breakthrough in my carputer, when I found the receiver to my wireless gamepad that I have embedded into my steering wheel. As a result of car manufactorers dislike for putting lots of wires through the steering column to the steering wheel, the controls on a steering wheel are usually put through a resistive network and then fed through a single wire back to a controling box that decodes the signal. What this boils down to is that each control on the steering wheel has a different resistance, but not individual wires to connect to.

I wanted to use the buttons on the 2004 Cadillac steering wheel I put on my ‘92 STS so I had to build some custom circuit boards to put in the switches that gave me two contacts per swtich. I then connected the contacts from each of the circuit board to a wireless gamepad from Logitech. This allowed me to connect the switches, without any wires to my carputer.

Well up until last night I had not been able to find the receiver for said wireless gamepad. Now I have found the receiver and on the drive to work today I was switching through the songs like nobodies business.

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