by Carlyn Maw on February 16, 2011, no comments
Reblog of my CRASHspace post: http://blog.crashspace.org/2011/02/the-cinefamily-valentines-day-led-heart/ So this past weekend we participated in the Cinefamily Pajama Party screening of Electric Dreams. There was dancing, smashed-monitor-into-val…
by Carlyn Maw on February 1, 2011, no comments
Keepon, the adorable bot meant to help autistic kids with its jovial dance moves, seems to finally be getting a cheaper version. The original cost $30,000 and did a lot more than dance. Actually, we got to play with it a little bit at CES a couple…
by Carlyn Maw on May 19, 2010, no comments
via designboom.com
by Carlyn Maw on January 9, 2010, no comments
Article up on Crash Space blog about ripping apart an LCD screen and harvesting the power supply.
by Carlyn Maw on November 10, 2009, no comments
Or – why yes you can solder with your hair down standing in heels while drinking red wine with PremaSoul preforming live in the background… but you might put an LED in backwards! (Don’t worry, it works now) This cute little owl circuit was from …
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…
by Carlyn Maw on August 29, 2009, no comments
via burlingtonfreepress.com The lights are on this…
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…