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Mazetrix Update
I received the pcbs for Mazetrix and started the build. After 4 1/2 hours of troubleshooting I realized that I connected the SCK line to the wrong pin and finally managed to get AVR Studio to recognize...
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I spent about 4 hours programming last night trying to simulate the physics of a rolling ball on the AVR. I think it turned out pretty well: Here’s the timer interrupt that services the analog to...
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Steampunk PDA – Again
I have been convinced to add the Steampunk PDA back to my list of projects I am allowing myself to work on, so the list currently stands as Deskpet, Mazetrix, PDA and notebooks. I ordered the...
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Portable Electrick Storage Device – Mark I
My daughter has swim meets every Saturday morning from 7am until around 1pm. During this time she is actually swimming a total of about 4 minutes, so the entire family tries to stay occupied the rest...
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I was working on creating a puzzle a couple of weeks ago and needed sets of a dozen 5-letter words that all “interacted” in a certain way (sorry, don’t want to give away too much). One of the software...
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Something useless for xmas
I needed a ~$5 gift for family xmas this year, and was at a loss. Then I remembered the Useless Machine from Make, also known as a “Leave Me Alone Box.” I had a $5 box from the thrift store, a smaller...
View ArticleSimple Embedded Architecture for Robot Learning and Emotion
I’ve been working on a paper about robot learning for over a year now, more as a place to organize my thoughts than anything else. This paper outlines some ideas I’ve been having about how to implement...
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Beagle Box
I got a BeagleBoard for Father’s Day. My plan is to put the BeagleBoard, the Pico Projector and a battery in a small box, write some ALife software and carry around a virtual world. Tonight I started...
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Beagle-Book Update
Doesn’t look a whole lot different, but I’ve added a small cooling fan for the DLP and it’s been rewired to run from a single 5V@2.6A wall wart (sorry for the shoddy cell-phone pic) :
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Digital Gaming Table Quick Prototype
I’ve been fascinated by the digital gaming tables I’ve seen on the net for a while now. This weekend I got the bug and decided to see what I could do with just the stuff I had lying around the house. I...
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I’ve been interested in puzzles for a while. I’m more interested in making them than solving them. Being an engineer, I tend to break things down and attack things systematically, so here’s my attempt...
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