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Big Wheel heads to Burning Man
by Carlyn Maw on August 29, 2009, no comments
Monthly Archives: August 2009
LA Toy District
by Carlyn Maw on August 27, 2009, no comments
The folks in the front left of 245 Winston were especially nice to me today…
Scarlett Runner Beans at Play
by Carlyn Maw on August 24, 2009, no comments
Generating Permutations and Combinations
by Carlyn Maw on August 22, 2009, no comments
One of the things I did when playing around with the HL1606 is write a routine that ran through ALL the colors. I mean all 64 possible permutations both my way and Synoptic Labs’ way to compare. Did I write these out by hand? Um, no. First of all,…
Last significant HL1606 update before the burn…
by Carlyn Maw on August 22, 2009, no comments
I can now get my LED lightstrip to play through a button-calibrated gradient. In the video you can see I’m using an FSR in lieu of a piezo mic for testing. When the strip flashes green after the button press, the chip is taking a reading off the F…
Shave and a hair cut… Color and Time on HL1606
by Carlyn Maw on August 20, 2009, no comments
So I guess I did a cheesey musical Hello World. I mapped a note array and a color array and a time array together and got my light strip to blink. I’m not posting the code because it has some fatal flaws, like no separate control of the rate of la…
HL1606 Digital Manual Control
by Carlyn Maw on August 19, 2009, one comment
So because I like to go simple and low level first I wrote code with Xanders library that would step through an array of colors every time you press a button. The main loop is some single button debounce code (Limor’s from Arduino.cc) and this: [c…
Dwell Magazine Article: 101 Product Design
by Carlyn Maw on August 13, 2009, no comments
We???re surrounded by legions of products, most of them unremittingly lousy. What separates the good from the bad from the ugly? Take out your well-designed pencils for Product Design 101. Story by: James Nestor Illustrated by: Andrew HolderPublishe…
Last Night’s Research…
by Carlyn Maw on August 8, 2009, no comments
The Chipped Tea Cup Changes
by Carlyn Maw on August 5, 2009, no comments
And for today’s trick: Apparently some folks have my chippedteacup.net as my contact web address. Actually they have it as chippedteacup.com so I had to address that kind of immediately. A cracked tea cup from the cupboard, a little photo shoot, a…