I have been working on a rewrite of the monitor. There were a couple of deficiencies which would have impeded development later on. The new monitor uses generic I/O functions for devices, and builds a device definition table in RAM which contains the...
So. Progress is being made. Painfully slowly, but progress nonetheless. The internally sprung finger prototype is up and running, as you can see in the video. I'll make a whole hand next... The reason for the slow progress is quite serious unfortunately....
last night i was able to (after many hours of searching" power the robot on with a key command using SERIAL, i haven't had any luck with python, and I'm not sure if jade or turtle bot will work with my mac. I'm exhausted but i figure ill put in a few...
The v5 prototypes have shown some reduced sensitivity on the antenna input. The symptom has been S/N numbers in the GPGSA sentences about 10 dB lower than other units show. Turns out that the problem is caused by a lack of bypassing on the AP2331. I'm...
Project Log 7:14:29 hourse - Brasilia Timezone - 18 of septemberDunno if someone cares, but I will start taking Saturdays and Sundays to do absolutely nothing. I'm getting absolutely exhausted from the work I'm doing (not this one, of course).And to...
I bought beautiful staff - punched tape reader (Left) and writer (Right)They uses standard 25mm tape. Writed has 8-bit mechanism. Reader can eat 8, 7 and 5 bit tapes with two different sizes.Waiting holidays to tear down and repair. They should...
Summary about 6:00 pm, Monday, January 21, 2019 Something has gone wrong, and my NodeMCU board may be bricked. I have spares, but I will fail to get the project done in one day, as I had hoped. Deets While fiddling with the commands and starting...
Video: I've made some progress on the firmware - the SD card interface is now fully functional. Also, the display font that came with the Pico C SDK SSD1306 OLED example was missing some characters, such as punctuation symbols. I substituted this...
Having easy and simple to use technology that gives you exactly what you need, when you need it, is great. But it can be even better if you can use that technology in arduous and demanding situations where possibilities are limited, if not exhausted....
I started to show the Perceptoscope to people around the interactive arts and hacker scene in LA. It was a nice safe way to demo, get feedback, and begin thinking about how to improve. Along the way, I got introduced to the gang from Two Bit Circus,...
So I managed to get a residency at the Supplyframe Design Lab in Pasadena, and hurriedly got to work on a prototype on day one!(Note that I am writing this up a week after starting and I am completely exhausted, so mostly pictures.)First up, 3d print...
As often happens, a new usage for something uncovers issues. That happened when I went to add the ability to print a banner to my retro-computer. Up to this point the printer interface had never had to print anything harder than a few...
So this is my first log, I've been busy with work, and spending time with my SO. I've been able to get my prototypes I'm going to work on built, the main thing now is software. I'm going to start slow, just sending (hopefully it works) one whole file...
When I said "From a great height..." Thats exactly what I meant.It feels like many years ago, and it might well be by now, that I told an enthusiastic-sounding social worker if he didnt want to listen I'd just go over his head, and over their successive...
Right now the prototype suffers from two distinct problems. One is that there's some crosstalk of the LED rastering on the audio. That I believe I can solve by simply routing the audio line so that it doesn't cross under any of the raster lines. The...