Archive for the ‘avr’ Category
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I've been done with the first speedometer prototype for a few weeks now, so it's time for a tiny follow-up post. Short version: it rocks! Clear, readable, accurate, useful, gets comments. So far, it hasn't skipped a beat even with all the vibration from the TS1.
The thing on the left ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
There were a few snags, but no show-stoppers. Damn, those 0603 parts are tiny.
The backlight turned out better than I had ever dared to hope, and the warning light is BLINDINGLY RED. Which is good, considering the things it will be warning you about.
I have no idea if the inputs ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
My day is shot. The boards came in the mail today. I ordered two, and they sent SIX. The LCD fits, everything lines up... so far, so good. Incredible service from SparkFun/BatchPCB!
Ohhhh, so happy. :)
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Fortune smiles upon me! I got an email from SparkFun today saying my PCBs are done and in the mail. That's 9 business day turnaround from BatchPCB! I don't know what happened to the poor bastards on the forum, but it sure didn't happen to me.
Of course, now that I'm ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
No, not that game of Life. Make's game of life kits were all over the blogs yesterday, which gave me an idea (and wasted an hour or so of my life).
Go go Nokia 3310 LCD. Framerate on this "game" is about 3fps because it is optimized for ease of coding, ...
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