Author: dmcole | Date: July 1, 2009 | Please comment
So, I’m going to use Henne’s transceiver for an LED matrix. You coulda probably guessed, if you’d thought about it for a minute or three.
Anyway, I fell back on my – ahem – process: first, draw the circuit in Adobe Illustrator and then build it on a breadboard.
(I have been asked in the past why [...]
Author: dmcole | Date: March 7, 2009 | Please comment
In 2007 I played around with the PICAXE, a microprocessor sold by a non-profit in the United Kingdom that comes loaded with a BASIC-like interpreter (you can read more about it here and here). I built some lighthouse beacons and a railroad crossing light using the device. It had one drawback: I had to write [...]
Author: dmcole | Date: March 3, 2009 | Please comment
It isn’t that I was dying to have a blog — in fact, I’ve tried to stay away from blogging for years.
A few months back it became clear that this electronics thing wasn’t going to go away. I was, in fact, going to be building more circuits over time and perhaps even designing them. I [...]