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Next meeting Venue Change: Bunk Bar SE.
Just a quick note: Next Monday we meet at Bunk Bar on the inner east side, at 7:00pm. You can find a map to Bunk Bar here. Harry Dean Stanton will be waiting for...
View ArticleDorkbotPDX exquisite corpse, at BYTE ME 2014.
Before Backspace closed, we managed to show this off:DorkbotPDX Untitled Exquisite Corpse from breedx on Vimeo.The project will be at the 2014 BYTE ME show on Jan 3rd, at the Afru Gallery.
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USB charging port for an ebike
I ride an electric bicycle that uses a 48V battery for it's energy source and there have been times when it would have been convenient to have a USB charging port (for charging my phone or any other...
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DC Motor Controller for an Electric Bicycle (ebike)
I designed and built a motor controller for my ebike (after the original Chinese-made controller failed). I wrote an instructable about the build here:...
View ArticleArduino SMS device
I'm working on an SMS device that is programmed in the Arduino IDE and uses a tiny chorded keyboard for input, a SIM900 GSM module to accept standard AT commands, and a Nokia5110 LCD to display output....
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Solar Bling
I like to put my projects on Instructables and I wanted to share this recent post.http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Bling/Its 2.5V 10F Super Capacitor, Solar Charged, and Attiny85 charge controller...
View ArticleA Music From Very Short Programs Box
This weekend my friend Jacob S. and I built a Arduino based music box to play Ville-Matias Heikkilä wonderful one-line C code that makes surprisingly complex "Music From Very Short Programs." We used...
View ArticleAnyone recommend a beginner 3d printer?
Hey everyone! I'm the lead organizer for the Portland Indie Game Squad. Our funding project recently surpassed most of its goals – which are all resources being made available to the community – and...
View ArticleProcessing Fundamentals
DorkbotPDX invites you to "Processing Fundamentals".A free workshop at FluxDorkbotPDX is happy to offer a 4-hour intro to Processing -- a graphics programming environment. Students will learn the...
View ArticleRoasting coffee the old fashioned way...
...with a popcorn popper and a microcontroller! More to come...
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Maker Faire 2014
Maker Faire went really well. I had a booth about the new audio library, and we also built a OctoWS2811 LED display for Freescale's booth.Click "Read more" for more photos... This is a large 4320 LED...
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ByteBeats Clean w/ Teensy-3.1
Here's a clean version of the ByteBeats circuit we built last Sunday. I used a Teensy-3.1 instead of a Teensy-2.0, but everything else is more-or-less the same. (I added some capacitors on the power...
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TinyPrime
I'd been meaning to do this for a while, and when I got a bag of colorful little breadboards, it was TIME.This is a rebuild of the TeensyPrime project I built a while ago, using a separate breadboard...
View ArticleThree New Instructables
I've recently posted the following instructables:1) Modifying the output Voltage of an Adjustable AC-to-DC Converter http://www.instructables.com/id/Modifying-the-output-Voltage-of-an-Adjus...2) Hall...
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Node-RED Hacking - Audio Library Front-End
When I started the Audio library, a nice GUI (like Puredata or Max/MSP) seemed an impossibly distant dream. Then, in this forum thread, I learned of the open source Node-RED project.Over the last few...
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Embrace Heart Lighting
Earlier this summer, I worked on a tiny piece of the Embrace sculpture, for Burning Man 2014.Inside were 2 hearts, one made here in Portland by Lostmachine Andy& other burners at Flat Rat Studios....
View ArticleCHURCH OF ROBOTRON
The Church of Robotron is coming to Portland, OR. We will be open the Last Wednesday of September (the 24th) and the First Thursday of October (the 2nd) starting at 7pm both nights at the Diode Gallery...
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Windows 10 Preview Build 9860 *finally* fixes USB Serial
I am happy to report Windows 10 Preview build 9860 fixes the long-standing USB serial bugs, which impact nearly all Arduino compatible boards.The driver loads automatically. No 3rd party INF is...
View ArticleThis is how we disappear - projection notes
I’ve been meaning to document my work on this project for about year now. TBA 2014 reminded me it is time to actually do it! So here it is:For the past year and a half I’ve been working with a dance...
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Making nRF8001 (Bluetooth LE) and SD cards play nice together
Been working on making Adafruit_nRF8001 and the SD library work together. Details are on this forum thread, and also this one.
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