DorkbotPDX people doing strange things with electricity

Using Elco Jacob's ShiftPWM Arduino Library. Probably the cheapest possible way to drive lots of RGB LEDs!

After two years of service my outdoor air temperature sensor blinked out last week. Moisture was the culprit as shown here:

Various readouts in my SensorServer system lead me straight to the problem through a half-dozen layers of software. How cool is that?

Honestly, I'm more interested in how we know and trust complex measurements than knowing the temperature outside.

"http://www.dorkbotpdx.org/workshop/arduino/cult_induction_rev8"

RSVP at http://suspectdevices.com/workshops.html

Last night I finished assembling and uploading a sketch over USB to Demiduino. At half the dimensions of an Arduino, Demiduino is a small, portable, and affordable Arduino compatible with the Leonardo bootloader.

Reblogged from http://www.suspectdevices.com/blahg/arm/my-33-linux-box/

Want to add a bit of extra sparkle to your holiday decorations? This workshop is a great place to start. No prior electronics or sewing experience are required.

When: December 18, 2011 from 1-5pm

Where: ADX, 417 SE 11th Avenue

Cost: $25

Register here: http://glowingornaments-eorg.eventbrite.com/

Please bring:

- Scissors

- needle nose pliers, if you have them

Conductive thread, fabric, and electronic components will be provided.

Bytebeats radically reduce the already austere chiptune music to one-line formulas. When wrapped with a dozen more characters of C code these formulas will feed your sound card endlessly. Musicians speak of discovering bytebeats, not composing them. I've used a bytebeat dubbed Crowd as the background score for a one-day film shot yesterday. Note that I include the entire discovery in the film's credits (disrespectfully broken into two lines.)

Kragen has written a good summary of the short history of bytebeat with links to catalogs, videos, analysis and especially interactive tools for exploring them.