Today, I was in my sweatshop (also known as my workspace) soldering LEDs to the 3V LED panel from the seeed studio kit. I finally had an excuse to abscond with the hubby’s helping hands. At first, I tried to use a second circuit board to hold up all the LEDs but it was a fail. […]
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Playing Around with Felt and Components
Today, I started working on an E-Feltie hair tie. Besides being a cute girly crafty project, I also wanted to play around with basic components and adapt them for E-Textiles. While I was able to do so with regular LEDs with no problem, the battery holder from a chain store was another matter. One of […]
Getting Ready for New Jerseys first Mini Maker Faire
I think we may be done with the snow and I hope I did not just jinx us here in New Jersey. Spring means Min Maker Faires! Yeah! New Jerseys first ever Mini Maker Faire will be the Greater Newark Mini Maker Faire. The faire is hosted by the Newark Museum and will be on Saturday […]
Trenton Computer Festival 2014
We had a blast at the Trenton Computer Festival! We hope you did too. It was a pleasure meeting everyone who stopped by the booth. Many of us reminisced when TCF was so big it was indoors and outdoors and there seemed to be hundred of vendors in the Flea Market. The attendance was always […]
CPLDCPU dives deeper into the PixelBit
Tim over at CPLDCPU blog and author of the light weight ws281 libraries takes a deeper look at the PixelBit. According to his test he has found that “the timing is virtually identical to the WS2812B timing. This means that the light_ws2812 library is able to support these devices without any modifications.” Check out CPLDCPU […]
LED CHUTIES at World Maker Faire 2013
Early in 2013 as Fourth of July approached Lee and I started to wonder if we could use LEDs as a “firework.” Could we take the pyro out of pyrotechnics? With the varied colors and types of LEDs we became confident that we could create a night sky full of colors. But, could we create […]