March 2012
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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...
February 2012
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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...