Category Archives: hardware

Tom Sgouros demos my Arduino buddies at Maker Faire

Posted on May 12, 2008 by Brian Jepson

Inspired by SocialBomb, a few of us AS220 geeks have started working on a similar project: Arduinos that pair off and get happier the closer they are together. The first iteration of this is the Arduino Buddies, but eventually, we’ll … Continue reading →

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Pondering the stack

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Brian Jepson

I’ve got a lot of interesting stuff queued up, but I lack the time to play around with it. But I promise to get to them soon and blog/twitter/flickr/blip.tv all about them: Chemistry set I’ve been helping out with the … Continue reading →

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A hard drive crash with a happy ending

Posted on November 26, 2007 by Brian Jepson

Yesterday afternoon, I returned to my desk to find my Mac frozen. When I rebooted, the hard drive started making horrible noises, so there was no question that my 200GB Hitachi drive had crapped out. Fortunately, Time Machine had my … Continue reading →

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Arduino-powered pumpkin

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Brian Jepson

I was planning to make a MiniPOV Cylon Jack-O-Lantern, but I remembered I didn’t have a MiniPOV at home. I placed an order for one to remedy this, but I figured the order wouldn’t get here in time for Halloween, … Continue reading →

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Generate the Atari Rainbow Effect

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Brian Jepson

Remember the classic rainbow effect in so many Atari games and demos? I dug around for some information on how to do it, and distilled it into a mini howto on the recently launched Hackszine Blog. So break out your … Continue reading →

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My First Make Controller Project

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Brian Jepson

I’ve been working on a little piece of code to pull down RSS feeds and display them on a small LCD attached to the controller. It’s pretty basic now; it just looks for stuff inside of <description> tags and pulls … Continue reading →

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Help Build and Play a Video Game System This Afternoon (12/6/2006)

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Brian Jepson

I recently picked up an XGameStation Pico, which is a small video game system you can build and program yourself. I’m going to be coming up to AS220 around 2:30pm, and I’ll set up a little work area where I … Continue reading →

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Visit the Hacks Booth at the Maker Faire

Posted on April 17, 2006 by Brian Jepson

If you’re going out to the Maker Faire, be sure to drop by the Hacks booth and say howdy. I’ll be bringing some goodies related to a few of our hacks books, and there will be plenty of toys you … Continue reading →

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OpenSPARC

Posted on February 15, 2006 by Brian Jepson

OpenSPARC Goals: “To significantly increase participation in processor architecture development and application design by making cutting-edge hardware IP freely available.” Getting the obvious Bart Simpson reference out of the way quickly (how long do you figure before they reword that … Continue reading →

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My First Soldering Project in Years

Posted on May 7, 2005 by Brian Jepson

I just hacked a PS/2 keyboard plug into my Commodore 64 30-in-1 Direct-to-TV joystick. It’s really easy. Here are the instructions I used, and Here are the pictures I took.

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