Month May 2009

Steve with BMOW 1 at Maker Faire

Aftermath

Photo by Joe Pankow Oh ye gods! Crazy, nutty, insane. The past few days have been among the strangest of my life. I think I’ve had my 15 minutes of fame and then some. First there was the article about…

BMOW 1 CPU block diagram

BMOW Project Summary

Crazy day today! Maker Faire setup begins tomorrow, and BMOW is featured on wired.com, and is the #1 Top in All Topics story on Digg! Oh man, this poor server is getting hammered. Many people have asked for high-res photos.…

Maker Faire banner

Faire Preparations

Four more days until the Maker Faire, and preparations have reached a fever pitch. I was interviewed by a Wired reporter on Friday, and a photographer is coming tomorrow to get pictures of me in my “workshop”, which should be…

Rewired Uzebox circuit on the breadboard

More Uzebox

Finally, I got the Uzebox to work! I’m not quite sure what made the difference, though. First, I tore apart my earlier breadboard setup, and rebuilt the circuit from scratch, as neatly as I possibly could. Then I scrapped my…

Bare-bones Uzebox on a breadboard

Uzebox

I’ve decided to build a minimal Uzebox. The Uzebox is a software-generated video game system based on an open source hardware design. It uses an ATMega644 microcontroller with 4K RAM to synthesize a composite video signal and sound on the…

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