Previously, we figured out how to colour a pixel in a certain place. Today, we’ll be looking at some of the ways we can colour a whole bunch of lights by using different programming tools.
(more…)Okay, today’s lesson will be on blinking morse code through Arduino. Morse code is an ancient tongue spoken by grey haired wizards named Tim. It predates the internet, telephones, and radio. Now you, too, can become a master in a few short minutes.
Today we have news about Black Friday week long deals, upcoming classes, and public appearances across the continent. I don’t have a clever picture, so here’s a photo of my manager giving me a hard time.
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of work with LEDs. For an upcoming class called DevFest I’ll be leading a group of ~60 coders in their first steps with Arduino and robotics. This course includes a getting started grab bag of fun electronics, including an LED panel. None of the parts came with any kind of documentation or API. I had to do some reverse engineering to figure out how they worked. This LED panel was both really frustrating and really fun to figure out. How I did it and how you can too
The latest github commit for Makelangelo adds multilingual support that’s both easy for translators and for users. It should work in all right-to-left languages.
You will be asked to select a language the first time you start the program. Any time after that you can see the selection dialog by surfing through the menu: Makelangelo – Preferences – Language will bring back the language selection dialog. After you change the language you will have to restart the program for it to complete update all buttons and menus.
Check the date on this blog post. If it’s very new, you may find that the feature is only available to those who download the github project. Once we have a few languages in the system we’ll start rolling it out to everyone.
If you have any bugs or feature requests, please post them to http://marginallyclever.com/forum.
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