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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Thing-a-day, Day 11: ‘Physical’ drum loop machine
Todays project is another little experiment in different ways to interact with the Arduino. It was inspired by a project I saw a while ago, which consisted of these blocks that you could bang on, that then remembered that beat … Continue reading
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Thing-a-day, Day 10: Black light
Today, I invented a black light. This could be useful for things such as hiding messes when someone you want to impress comes over, shooting film noir during the day, or growing mushrooms. It works by selectively emitting radiation that … Continue reading
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Thing-a-day, Day 9: Servo as input device
I thought this would be pretty fun; by reading the voltage from the center pin of the the servo’s potentiometer, it can be used as an input as well as an output device. Basically, you get a bunch of extra … Continue reading
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Thing-a-day, Day 8: Smaller things
I was really tired last night so I worked on some smaller things and cleaned off one of my tables. I also wrote a little script to convert images so that they can be displayed on my LED array, however … Continue reading
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Thing-a-day, Day 7: Finished driver and demo software
I didn’t like how the thing was working out under parallel port control, so I bumped it over to an Arduino clone that I had. I’ll post directions next; there is a really simple way to do the circuit that … Continue reading
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Thing-a-day, Day 6: Driver for Tri-color LED matrix
Ok, the driver for the matrix LED display is mostly finished. This works by actively scanning each row of LEDs, and is driven by a computer so it will be possible to display changing images. To be completed are the … Continue reading
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