Project Launch!

This week, Northern Lights announced the launch of my latest project, The Kuramoto Model (1000 Fireflies). There’s also a kickstarter page where you can buy one of my LED creations. Here’s the blurb for the project:

During Northern Spark, a dusk-to-dawn outdoor urban arts festival in Minneapolis, up to 1.000 bicyclists will use customized, interactive blinking LED devices outfitted with microcontrollers and radio units that allow them to mutually and observably synchronize with others, as do certain species of firefly

Hope to see you in Minneapolis! And check out the 1000fireflies blog for updates.

ATtiny85 - programming using an Arduino

Proud owner of three new ATtiny85 chips, I set out to program them using my Arduino. I didn’t have a dedicated programming device, so I chose to follow the promising tutorial for Arduino-based ATtiny programming published by MIT’s High-Low Tech group.

The tutorial is very helpful, but along the way I encountered three problems not mentioned there, and I thought I’d share them here for anyone having trouble.

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