editplus – a giant tool

no hardware work to speak of due to the release of GTA IV last night and band practice tonight. i have been writing up the readme.txt and some of the midi library i plan on releasing when the project is completed. i’m really doing my best to comment everything so well that my cat could [...]

you meet the nicest people on a honda OR: how the arduino steals your sleep

still being new to arduino and physical computing in general… what was supposed to be the simple task (is anything ever…) of getting the 1×16 lcd up and running in 4bit mode was anything but. i learned a few little nuggets that may be helpful to others in the future. this is for the arduino [...]

Overview of the guitar hero midi controller.

below is the quick rundown of what i hope to accomplish and how i intend on doing it. hopefully i’ll be taking pictures and making posts as i progress. to anyone reading this, my code may not be the best, but it will work! i’m certainly open to any help/suggestions/improvements/ideas. now onto the project…
Abstract:
create a [...]

Overview of the LED room lighting project

this here is my most recent project. until recently i have been a casual tinkerer. an engineer by trade, i enjoy taking things apart and grew up on legos. a friend at work introduced me to the arduino and after lusting after them for a little while i took the plunge.
starting with only a self-taught [...]