Making on Vacation with littleBits
I wrote about our recent vacation adventures – including some Maker fun – over on the Make Magazine blog. Check it out!
Tag: Arduino
Fireball HD – New Features & Lots of Fixes
For the last day of our summer vacation (after returning home from Cancun!) I dove back into the Fireball HD code for the first time in over a year. We… Read more »
POVARD Kit Build & Review
When we attended Maker Faire, I bought Adam a POVARD kit (Persistence Of Vision ARDuino) at the same time I bought the Drum Kit kit for my youngest son and the Solder:Time watch (for… Read more »
June 23rd – PegBreadBoard
I was showing a coworker the latest pics of the car wiring harness project and he used the word “breadboard” referring to my big pegboard project case. I realized I… Read more »
June 5: It’s Alive!
This is a 3 node I2C network with one master and two slaves. The board with 4 side LEDs is the master. The side LEDs indicate Slave 1 TX… Read more »
All Hardware Functional!
The Joystick has sound effects (Star Wars & Star Trek sound files on the Waveshield) mapped to the directional axis and some of the buttons. The red button with the… Read more »
Hacking the Helicopter Keypad…
I bought this Hughes Helicopter keypad off eBay in 2007 for my son’s “control panel” – at the time it looked cool, but I had no intent of trying to… Read more »
Houston, we have a CASE!
Something about getting the project into a case makes it feel very real to me. So without further ado, a picture! I’m made the liquid crystal wiring long enough so… Read more »
Integrating the components…
Up to this point, I’ve been working on individual smaller prototypes. I’d built a WaveShield + Mega prototype, a Liquid Crystal + Duemilanove prototype and I’d built my “modules” for… Read more »
Moving past the breadboard…
I wanted to get the Control Panel off the breadboard at some point and kept trying different layouts on a big pcb. Then I realized that the project is likely… Read more »