Tag Archives: arduino

And this is why you make really sure which USB port you’re writing to

Posted on March 16, 2015 by paulwallich

(Update: Mostly fixed. If reflashing a Printrboard from the bootloader on up interests you, see the next post.) I was getting ready to print a nice big dragon on my Printrbot, but I knew it was going to take several … Continue reading →

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Arduinos need more power pins

Posted on March 12, 2015 by paulwallich

And ground too. This morning I was fresh out of available breadboards. So I made my own power distribution strip out of an IC socket that was lying around on the workbench.  Took a couple of the zillion clipped-off component … Continue reading →

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My office is too small for a mobile robot

Posted on February 24, 2015 by paulwallich

Why four-wheel drive is a bad idea for ostensibly simple bots Continue reading →

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Like kids in a candy store

Posted on December 18, 2014 by paulwallich

This morning I had a short meeting with the Cardboard Teck Instantute (aka Ben Matchstick and Pete Talbot), who have a residency at Generator next month.  These guys are so good at building toys, games, vehicles, whatever entirely out of … Continue reading →

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The encrustation of the analog on the digital

Posted on December 8, 2014 by paulwallich

If Henri Bergson had been writing around the turn of the millennium, he would have talked about abstraction violations. In his time, it was about living beings acting like mechanisms. For me this weekend, it was about digital devices acting … Continue reading →

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My hallowe’en costume

Posted on October 31, 2014 by paulwallich

Yes, I’m going as a bar graph. I’m an ex-physicist, a tech writer and a geek, so it’s perfect. I have to admit that after 30 years of working on technical illustrations that ended up on magazine covers and people’s … Continue reading →

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This is going to make Arduino workshops much easier

Posted on August 13, 2014 by paulwallich

Cloud-based arduino editor and programmer. Now I won’t have to tell people to download 100 MB of development environment, make sure they have all the right libraries installed, and so on and so forth just so they can get an … Continue reading →

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