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The TimeCycle and the beginning of catching up

by Carlyn Maw on September 13, 2009, no comments

I’m back and every day slightly less dusty. Here are some initial pictures of the TimeCycle. There is a flickr group that will be aggregating pictures from others in the camp who spent more quality camera time with our lovely vehicle. That group w…

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…

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…

Questions about the latch pin…

by Carlyn Maw on July 31, 2009, no comments

So the way I have the inputs now is: * S (PWM for fading, etc) to Arduino PWM/DigitalPin 10 (yellow wire) * D (Data Pin) to Ardunio DigitalPin 3 (white wire) * C (Clock Pin) to to Ardunio DigitalPin 4 (green wire) * L (Latch Pin) to Ardunio Digita…

Hello World on the HL1606 LED Light Band

by Carlyn Maw on July 30, 2009, one comment

So this inaugural post goes out with a big hello to John Cohn and our Burning Man tribe working on the Ferris Wheel Art Car, as well as to Alan Eyzaguirre for introducing me to this great site here at Posterous. Finally, more time on content, less…