This is my explanation of my project to control a Gameboy printer with a Parallax Propeller. I found the code and schematic by Joe Grand to interface a Parallax Propeller with the Gameboy Printer. I had an extra WiiChuck adapter that I thought would work with the Gameboy Link Cable, but I had to sand […]
I made this project in about two hours. It is a mini volt meter from Adafruit in a 3D printed case in the shape of a grenade with banana jacks for connecting test leads or probes. It can be used to test batteries or circuits in electronics projects. It can read voltages from 3V to […]
I wrote the other day about a Perler bead hopper for a Perler Bead “printer” that Scanlime is working on. Well, she responded on her blog with much more explanation: http://scanlime.org/2011/02/perler-bead-robot-ideas/ I had a lot to write in response to that. Here is my response: I really like the technical challenge of this project. I […]
I was looking at Scanlime’s( http://scanlime.org/) 3D Printed Vibrating Perler Bead Hopper: http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/5407791891/in/photostream/ and I was thinking how best to sort out the different color beads. I thought that if scanlime used one main hopper with the color sensor( http://www.flickr.com/photos/micahdowty/5447634276/ & http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8663 ) and one hopper for each color. There would need to be a […]
I decided that it was too hard to write animations for my LED Cube. So I wrote a Processing program to generate the code for it. All you have to do is load the program and click on the green LEDs(circles) to turn them on and when you are done with a frame of animation […]
So I was watching Weekend Projects a about two and a half months ago and saw how to make a 3 by 3 by 3 LED cube. I thought, “Hey! I could do that with my Arduino!” and I did. Basically, I can turn any individual LED on or off. I started with soldering together […]