This is the first in a series of articles about using microcontroller devices with e-paper displays for displaying dynamic calendars. Standards can be a wonderful thing. At their best, they let computer hardware and software inter-operate between multiple vendors. Take calendar standards, for example. With the iCalendar standard, you can send a meeting invite from […]
I was successfully able to get the classic game “Zork” and the Z Machine engine that drives it running on an Adafruit ItsyBitsy M4 Express. Despite its small size, the ItsyBitsy M4 Express contains one of the most powerful processors available on an Arduino today, the ATSAMD51 32-bit Cortex M4. With this powerful tiny device […]
I found the personal compass project at Instructables.com quite interesting. Basically, a personal compass works like a regular compass, but instead of pointing to magnetic north, it points to a particular location of personal interest. Maybe it is pointing to the place where you were married, perhaps where your childhood home is. All this compass […]
It’s been a month since my last post about my Arduino music player and remote. This is a music system geared towards performers, like magicians, ventriloquists, jugglers and the like who perform a one man/woman show and need an easy way to queue up and play music and sounds. It uses two packet radio Arduino devices, […]
Yes, there are plenty of bluetooth enabled speakers that can be used with a smartphone to play music remotely, however, I was looking for a music system geared towards performers, like magicians, ventriloquists, jugglers and the like who perform a one man/woman show and need an easy way to queue up and play music and […]
I created this digital version of the hot potato game using simply a Circuit Playground board from Adafruit and a lipo battery. The code is in Adafruit’s github repository as a pull request at the moment. The program utilizes the accelerometer in the board to determine when the board is being thrown and caught, and […]