Miscellaneous distractions and diversions.
A brief note about the dead Arduino that I mentioned in the comments of my last post: I received a replacement Arduino, did some troubleshooting, and determined that there were multiple problems. I’d been using the original Arduino successfully to…
Yesterday I found an interesting advertisement. A Berkeley student was moving out of the area, and was selling his entire collection of electronics and robotics parts for $50. Of course I had to pick it up, so I’m now the…
I’m beginning to really hate wire-wrapping. Sure, it’s easy to make modifications to the wiring, and the finished result will be nice and sturdy, but it’s SO SLOW to build! Now that my board is getting pretty full, it’s hard…
I recently took a break from BMOW’s multi-tasking support to work on something completely different. (Actually, I have a multi-tasking demo working in the simultator, but it doesn’t work on the real hardware yet.) The “something different” was a robo-flower:…
While hunting for my soldering iron, I found my first digital electronics project gathering dust in a box. I thought I’d thrown it out long ago, so I was happily surprised to see it. It’s not much to look at–…
Here’s a job that sounds reasonable enough: connect an 8-wide dip switch to a pair of 7 segment LED displays, so that the 8-bit binary number on the dip switch is displayed as a 2-digit hex number on the LED…
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