DSO Quad for Dummies">
I just recieved my DSO Quad from Boxtec/Seeedstudio. Because the documentation of this product is not really .. "ideal" I thought I write my steps down. 10 Years ago I used Oscilloscope for my daily job, however those were analog ...Read More
DIY Project Box">
I was looking for a nice project box for my StripInvaders project. But either the box was ugly, too expensive or too small. Luckily I found this website: http://boxmaker.rahulbotics.com/. Their slogan is:
Give us dimensions, and we'll generate a PDF you ...Read More
3D RGB LED Panels">
After several month of working on my PixelInvaders 3D RGB Panels I finally reached my goal: a huge and easy to assemble RGB LED Panel.
Besides the hardware, the control software was a big task. I created PixelController, a modular software ...Read More
Paul Stoffregen was kind enough to send my a free Teensy 2.0 sample board to analyze the Arduino serial latency issue - and this board is shocking small:
We wrote a very simple firmware to perform some basic benchmarks - Paul ...Read More
I use Processing to control my Arduino - an easy and working solution. However if you need to send alot data to the Arduino, you'll notice a 20ms delay between sending (120 bytes) and receieving (16 bytes) a serial message. ...Read More
The current bottleneck for my Rainbowduino project is the serial latency of the Arduino FTDI USB-Serial chip (currently 20ms round trip time from Processing to Arduino and back). There are some OS specific driver tweaks to improve the latency - ...Read More
I just released a new version of the neorainbowduino "package". It contains firmware for the Arduino and Rainbowduino and a new Processing library. Now you may control your rainbowduino's from Processing!
Unfortunally you need to patch your arduino wire library:
utility/twi.h: ...Read More
I bought two Rainbowduinos from seeedstudio and wanted to play a bit. A Rainbowduino is basically a 8x8 led matrix driver with a I2C interface. This image shows two rainbowduinos, each with a 8x8 RGB Matrix, in action:
I used my ...Read More
RDM880 RFID module">
My Bus Pirate v3 just arrived today, together with a 13.56Mhz RFID module. I bought the stuff at the seeedstudio webshop.
I had to update the Bus Pirate to the v4.1 firmware and v4.1 bootloader (and resolder the LED's). The Bus ...Read More
As the Photo Frame Hack Wiki contains a lot of scattered information I thought it would be nice to update the libst2205tool to v1.4.1.
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Changelog v1.4 - v1.4.1
✩ applied Metan's patch, src
✩ segfault on ...Read More
I tried several different Linux distributions (Gentoo, Debian, OpenSuse...) on my laptop, but every distribution suffered from the same problem - the maximal LAN throughput was around 5-7 kb/s... The laptop use a Realtek LAN NIC:
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., ...Read More
I tried to reuse some parts of my dead notebook. After watching this video, I tried to attach a PS/2 Cable to my Synaptics based touchpad, which is quite straightforward.
Here are some pictures:
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