Background My cousin inherited a vintage Danish telephone (meets USA signal spec apparently) from our grandmother but lamented that she had no land-line to actually use it. Still, it would make a wicked cool addition to her nightstand. So I was… Continue Reading
– I never got this working fully but maybe there are some bits here you can use – The story I got a BBB and started with Derek Malloy’s awesome tutorial so I could finally put my awesome blinkery to work… Continue Reading
This is a full 4,096 color 8×8 LED matrix based wristwatch with software-driven 4-bit PWM for each channel at 60 full PWM sweeps per second. Background I wanted to see how much performance I could squeeze out of the then-newly… Continue Reading
An artsy night-light that glows with the phases of a Puerto Rican sunset. Background For a few summer months I managed to trick a beautiful blonde dancer into hanging out with me for a while. In my bewilderment I made a night-light… Continue Reading
An oversized scanned-matrix display using 10mm LEDs. Background When Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart announced the Rally To Restore Sanity and/or Fear, my politically zealous brother wanted to add some flair to the party. We devised a satirical protest sign… Continue Reading
Sometimes you just need a wristwatch, and sometimes you come across a bunch of super-sweet retro LED displays pulled from calculators of yore. I mean, what else am I going to do with my time? Background Back in late 2009… Continue Reading