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!

My ongoing effort to learn Final Cut Pro X......

Laen's extra SMT adaptors are mighty handy....

Update: This code was committed to Arduino's github repository on Dec 16. It should become available in the next version of Arduino, eg 1.0.1.

Recently I built electronics for Lostmachine Andy's fire effects on his awesome pirate ship for Burning Man.

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I recently got around to making a color fading el wire driver, which actually tries to shift the color by changing the AC frequency.

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At the Open Source Bridge hacker lounge, Ward Cunningham was talking about borrowing a Mac Mini to run his Txtzyme Sparkles at an art show.

Rather than go home at a reasonable hour, I thought it'd be fun to try implementing all the math directly on the Teensy++, using only the Arduino IDE. Making it run was easy, but doing the math as fast as the computer+USB was quite a challenge.

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Recently I've been working on ThunderBridge. Here it is at SOAK last weekend.

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