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Welcome to Turtlesarehere.com

(Latest Update: 11 January 2012)

My humble web site started with the development of an underwater camera housing for the Pentax 750Z, but has subsequently grown to include a Pentax A20 underwater camera housing, Dive Photos, a page on making Printed Circuit Boards, a Data Logger, my CD Welder, and an optically aligned PCB drill.

In recent times I have been busy working on the Buddy Locator, a navigation aid for recreational SCUBA diving. See the image on the right.

You may recall that some of this work was originally posted here on Turtlearehere.com. As the project has developed from an excuse to go SCUBA diving into a commercial proposition the original material has been revised and significantly extended. It has been re-posted under the development pages at aquacoustics.biz, the home of the Buddy Locator.

The Buddy Locator has progressed from a large and ugly developmental brick into a sleek, effective and reliable device that is smaller and lighter than a cell phone.

The Buddy Locator is shortly to be subjected to a three month period of user field trials before commercial production. It is anticipated that the device will be available for retail sales in 2012.

I’ve also been busy working towards a post graduate degree in fire engineering (see Turtlesarehere.com/Glass) so my time for diving and project development has become extremely limited. My apologies for delays in web site updates.

If you’ve got any questions, suggestions, or critical comments I’d be very pleased to here from you. Just click left here Click to email me.

I’ve had quite a few inquiries about my data logger software - particularly in regard to the SD Card routines. Click here to download the Atmel Assembler Code and circuit diagram.

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