Going through Newcastle the other month, I out of habit went to visit Forbidden Planet, for comics but mainly for the toys and stuff. I came across what is possible one of the best lamps I have seen, I am of course talking about the LED Pacman ghost lamp. Now what makes it particularly interesting is that it comes with an infra-red (IR) remote control that can be used to change the colour as well as set a number of effects such as a fading and strobe effects. »
Intro After my last post with the Meggy Jr displaying the weather, I wanted to write a standalone app for the Meggy Jr that doesn't connect to a PC and does a little more than just display data that's being sent to it. So, I decided to implement a... »
For my birthday my girlfriend got me a Meggy Jr! it’s an awesome build-it-yourself handheld based on the arduino platform with an 8by8 pixel RGB screen. I initially thought about creating a sort of Pacman clone, I got so far and then got bored of just copying a game that’s been done half a hundred times. So…instead I decided to have the Meggy Jr alternately display the temperature and an icon representing the weather. »
A few months ago on KickStarter I sponsored a project called the Gameduino, an add on shield for the Arduino, advertised as a game adapter for the Arduino. This is an awesome little device that has 32Kb of RAM, brings support for VGA output, stere... »
In an earlier post I mentioned briefly about using pySerial to send data to and from the arduino using Python, in this post I'll go through a bit more about how to set this up. First you'll need pySerial, which can be downloaded from here. For win... »