DorkbotPDX people doing strange things with electricity

repost: http://www.suspectdevices.com/blahg/arm/bacon/austin-likes-bacon/ ‎

Cameron and I had a refreshing change of attitude and latitude, last weekend.

Dorkbot Austin let us introduce them to the Maple Bacon which was well received.

Thanks DorkbotATX!

The IDEA is this:

taking an 8x8 LED Matrix... having it display a letter in a 5x5 section of the display(top left corner lets say) then displaying below it the corresponding Morse-code - . - where 2 leds == a dash, 1 led == a dot, and then a blank led to separate each dash/dot... then hooking up a small speaker to out put the Morse-code audibly...and scroll through the alphabet and digits 0-9 prefer using a Teensy as it would make a nice smallish package :)

Really just need help with how to write the sketch to display the different parts together all at once...

--Huck

Repost from http://www.suspectdevices.com/blahg/arduino/two-small-sketches-that-will-not-work-on-your-arduino-mega2560/

Scott tested and programmed my hand-soldered Bus Pirate at the meetup last Monday. Apparently it works. Not sure when I'll actually use it, but nice to know it'll be ready to go....

Just wanted to post a high quality photo of the Bus Pirate board, Dorkbot PDX version.

Thanks Greg, Scott, Jim, Monty, Jared, and everyone else who had a hand in making this happen! :-)

I delivered some Bus Pirate kits at the last DorkbotPDX meeting and I'm about to ship the kits to those that mail-ordered them. So I figured you might find some instructions helpful.

(reposted from http://www.suspectdevices.com/blahg/arm/very-good-very-nice-very-easy-i-wish-you-could-smell-this/")

For a while we have been working with a board that Cameron created called the Maple Bacon (http://github.com/soycamo/maplebacon), as well as a logging and wireless shield that we are calling the Baco-matic5000. The Maple Bacon is a clone of the LearLabs Maple Mini (http://leaflabs.com/docs/hardware/maple-mini.html). The point in recreating it was that LeafLabs did not stock it directly and that the only supplier was a chinese fab. It made more sense to redesign it and run it through the DorkbotPDX group pcb order and if we needed anything faster to go through Sunstone.

Thanks to Russel for this awesome battery, and of course Elco Jacobs for writing ShiftMatrixPWM.

Been thinking a lot lately about abandoning the arduino cult inductions in their current form or at least abandoning the arduino platform itself. I may replace the dork-board with the tad and use that as the basis or I may go somewhere completely different.
I am not sure.
Most of my designs have been better suited to wiring (especially the wiring-S) and my active work is based on the maple platform which by years end should be merged with the wiring platform. If i offered a critique outlining what is wrong I am sure I would get smacked down so I will leave it up to whatever positive thoughts come from here. I think its time to stick a fork in it and turn it over.
What do you think?