Archive for the ‘electronics’ Category
Maya + Wii Nunchuck + Arduino + Processing…..
After watching the behind the scenes features to the latest Star Trek, I was struck by a couple of things. First, how JJ Abrams created that heightened sense of energy by constantly drumming on the camera during takes. Second, how the guy at ILM (sorry didn’t catch the name) had an accelerometer on his desk [...]
New 6-bulb Lamp
just a 6 bulb lamp I made…
one rgb pixel…
Just one quick rgb pixel photos..
Arduino Mood Lamp
A reactive mood lamp based on arduino
Clock Update
New parts are in! I’ve got some small PIC microcontrollers to handle hardware PWM for the lights while allowing serial input to define the brightness values. I don’t know how to do that yet, but the theory is there.. HA. Also I’ve got in some all important male and female headers so I can build [...]
First Test of the Sunrise
So I finally got everything together to test the sunrise light bar. I’ve got a microprocessor to do electronic dimming with a rudimentary timer, the high intensity LED bars and a darlington array to handle the higher current loads.
Basically in order to dim LEDs electronically you have to generate a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) [...]