by Carlyn Maw on November 9, 2010, no comments
MacKenzie Fegan is doing a tour of the country for GOOD Magazine. We met with her this morning… ( http://www.good.is/post/playing-with-lasers-at-crash-space/ ) as part of the whole Edge of Progress ( http://www.good.is/edgeofprogress/ ) field tr…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
by Carlyn Maw on August 1, 2009, no comments
This time the video is going through YouTube.
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…
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…