Monthly Archives: January 2012

Planes on a Snake

This past weekend was the 4th annual Global Game Jam, and we hosted a site in the triangle again. I was an organizer this year, but I still had plenty of time to jam, creating Planes on a Snake with … Continue reading

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Speeding up LPD8806 show() without hardware SPI

If you’re using LPD8806 LED strips and you can’t use the hardware SPI port (e.g., when using an Ethernet board), there are two other options in the Adafruit library: the default mode and ‘slowmo’ mode. The default mode is decent, … Continue reading

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Reducing code size on Arduino Ethernet boards

The Ethernet library grew in size several KB from 0022 to 1.0, which is a big deal when you only have 32 KB to play with. You can save about 2 KB by compiling out DNS support: Wrap the following … Continue reading

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Faster Arduino development

I’ve been using Arduino boards for a bunch of random projects lately. They may not be as inexpensive or as small as throwing together a microcontroller and a resonator on a piece of perf board, but they’re a lot faster … Continue reading

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Return of the fooding

Weekly fooding has finally started back up. The evening had some new converts to green beans almondine, and the spiral baked ham turned out very nice. I followed a recipe from Emeril Lagasse, making a cherry-orange glaze, and cooking with … Continue reading

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Global Game Jam 2012

I’m happy to announce that we will be hosting a Global Game Jam site in the NC Triangle area again this year, January 27th to the 29th at Joystick Labs in downtown Durham. Sign up now at http://globalgamejam.org/sites/2012/triangle-game-jam. More information … Continue reading

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