Christmas Lights 2021!
You may recall last year I took my first step into Sequenced, animated Christmas lights with some arches and simple light strings. I had some grand plans this year to follow up, but as usual my plans came up against reality pretty rapidly. What I've learned from the past, is how to design a project in phases, in case you don't have the time or the budget [...]
Musical Jack O’ Lanterns
This year for Halloween decorations, I built and sequenced a music and light show featuring Jack O' Lanterns.
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Getting it wrong
I've been working on a particular project for the past five years. I had this great idea for a Christmas ornament and I wanted to see it realized and on my Christmas tree. [...]
I wrote a Nintendo Game
About six months ago, I wrapped up my formal schooling and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering. My final course was a Senior Project where I got to [...]
Holiday Lights Display
Like you no doubt, I've come across animated holiday light displays on YouTube, and occasionally around my neighborhood, and looked on with some envy. Not this year! This [...]
3D Printed Laminar Fountains
I have come across laminar flow fountains a few times in my life. The earliest I can remember is the jumping fountains at Epcot when I was a kid. More recently I wanted to [...]
Emulator in a GamePak™
Way back in October or something, a coworker of mine asked if I had a glue gun he could borrow. He was in town from the UK for a couple of months, and was interested in [...]
Bash Command Prompt Flair on a Mac
A couple of months ago I was going through Apple's Introduction to Swift, wherein they mentioned that Swift's support of unicode allowed that you could use emoji as variable [...]
Weekend Project – Ghost Message!
Many years ago, I thought it'd be a fun idea to have an RGB panel that would display game sprites on demand, connected to the internet, so people could display a sprite on [...]
How I added a custom commentary track to a movie
A couple of years back, one of my favorite podcaster/writer/tour-de-forces, Andy Ihnatko released a commentary track for the 1954 holiday classic White Christmas. It's a [...]
Programming AVRs using a USBasp on a Mac
I loaned out my trusty USBTinyISP to a friend a while back and it was easier to go find an alternative than to coordinate schedules. So I bought a USBasp - another type of [...]