Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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LED Badges
Just after getting back from 27c3 in early January Jeffrey and myself got talking about a project for TOG’s Paddy’s Day hackaton. Our general idea was to create a little badge with LEDs in the shape of a shamrock. We were hoping for something small, light and bright with lots of LEDs. I said that…
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Engineers Week 2011
Next week I’m helping to run a number of events in TOG for Engineers Week. I’ll be helping Jeffrey with his free Arduino 101 – Learn to Blink on Tuesday, the Soldering Workshop on Saturday and I’ll be giving a new LED Dot Matrix Display Workshop on Sunday (I hope to do a write up…
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Small 16×16 RGB LED Display
The photo shows a prototype of a small 16×16 RGB LED matrix display that I worked on during 27c3 in the Hardware Hacking Area. The display is made up of four 8×8 RGB LED modules which are only 32mm by 32mm which doesn’t give much room to work with. Each module has it’s own TLC5947…
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I Come In Peace
I’m attending the 27th Chaos Communication Congress – We Come In Peace conference in Berlin for the next couple of days. I plan to hang out in the Hardware Hacking Area for most of the conference. I brought lots of Mini Mood Light v1 kit’s, which I’ll be selling for €15 at the conference, along…
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Linux development environment for TI LaunchPad
The MSP430 LaunchPad development kit from Texas Instruments is very interesting. It includes a development board, two DIP micro controllers, a Mini USB cable, four headers connectors, a crystal and two stickers. But the most exciting part is that you get all this for $4.30 from TI. I’ve also been using the LaunchPad to program…
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