My Bus Pirate v2go just arrived this morning and I was eager to try it out. There is some documentation on Hack-a-Day on how to use the bus pirate with HyperTerminal. However, all of my electronics stuff is on the other side of the room from my Windows desktop. I use my MacBook for programming [...]
Things have been quite here lately – but think of it as the lull before the storm! Coming soon to a blog near you: USB Power Shield Prototype The PCB has finally been produced and is on the way. Expect to see a fully functional (*fingers crossed*) version in the next few days! If the [...]
After a few hours of clumsy and inept coding, I managed to scrape together a basic windows console application to send data over serial. Right now it just asks you which COM port the Arduino is on (usually COM3), and then you hit enter to turn the lights on/off. All that’s actually happening is the [...]
Please see the WootOff Lights Project category for the most up-to-date posts about this project. Occasionally, Woot has extravaganzas where they post item after item in what is known as a woot-off. Little .gif lights spin round and round to alert visitors to this spectacle. Playing on this, Woot occasionally sells physical woot-off lights. They [...]
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