DorkbotPDX people doing strange things with electricity

Last week I wrote firmware to control el wires by MIDI.

Hand-Eye Supply will be using it for their float in this year's Starlight Parade.

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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! :-)

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

I recently published a new AltSoftSerial Arduino Library. It's meant as an alternative for Arduino's normal SoftwareSerial library, for more demanding applications that need simultaneous data transfer.

Using Elco Jacob's ShiftPWM Arduino Library. Probably the cheapest possible way to drive lots of RGB LEDs!

(EDIT: added PCB files)

EDIT again: documentation is now available here.

My ongoing effort to learn Final Cut Pro X......

Laen's extra SMT adaptors are mighty handy....