(Copyright Vectorbelly Webcomics) While the rest of the world is preparing for super sportsing, I’m taking the opportunity to tinker. This post is a continuation of the GaSiProMo challenge I took part in a while ago. Today’s update brings in the next stage of that project with my OsRAM LED display: better packaging. The goal here is to …
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Day 30: final day
This post is part of the GaSiProMo challenge. You can read more about this here. I’ve got most of the bugs ironed out in my display interface, but not all have been squashed in the driver portion. In other words, the method in which I can input text into the OsRAM is working nicely …
Day 15: display testing
This post is part of the GaSiProMo challenge. You can read more about this here. So I have my display working sort of. It’s definitely showing good old ASCII characters. Here’s a quick video of it in action: You can see my code at GitHub. I’m quickly realizing that I will need a more …
Day 6: early firmware testing
This post is part of the GaSiProMo challenge. You can read more about this here. Things are progressing nicely. I have the display fully wired now to the Mega. It’s a spaghetti mess, but it’ll work. I have the serial port on the Arduino working nicely for debug. I also did a fair amount …
The state of the Arduino ecosystem
*** The following is a “bitter old engineer” rant. You’ve been warned. At this ripe old age, I have come to value most the quality of a toolchain. I’ll go a step further and say that the coherency and consistency of the umbrella that toolchain inhabits is a most prized quality. And what spurred this revelation? …