Category Archives: Arduino

Multi-turret water cannon

Posted on July 26, 2012 by joat

I’ve been holding off on posting about this until I got some time to finish it up, but now seems like a good time since it was mentioned in a community blog post. I didn’t capture a proper video of … Continue reading →

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Speeding up LPD8806 show() without hardware SPI

Posted on January 17, 2012 by joat

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

Posted on January 16, 2012 by joat

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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Infected Omen Light Box

Posted on September 20, 2011 by joat

I pulled an all-nighter and designed/fabricated a LED edge lighting box plus etched plate in advance of the Gears 3 launch. The original plan was to slide an unused junk android tablet in and show some numbers from the stats … Continue reading →

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