Oct 012010
 

A couple weeks ago I won an auction on Ebay for a Sparkfun 4×4 Button Pad and it’s corresponding Breakout PCB.  Here are a couple of pictures of me soldering up the board.  I still haven’t decided on the type of circuit I am going to use with the board.  In the end, I will [...]

Sep 212010
 

Here’s a simple and cost effective way to keep your Bus Pirate safe from those evil solder blobs that sometimes live on your desk. What?–You don’t know what a Bus Pirate is! The Bus Pirate is one of my favorite tools and has been money well spent. Head on over to dangerousprototypes.com and read all [...]

Mar 152010
 

I had always wanted to make a simple persistence of vision toy.  A persistence of vision toy, usually known as a POV,  basically consists of a bunch of LEDs connected to a microcontroller.  This microcontroller turns the LEDs on and off at a high rate.  The rate at which they blink is so high that [...]