Step one. Stay calm. The MicroView will work again… If your like me, you have at least one other Arduino laying around to do this. Most any Arduino can be setup to be a programing tool. Check out the whole tutorial on the Arduino website about what an ArduinoISP is and how it will save […]
I’m teaching a workshop at Toorcamp! Do you want to make an automated cat feeder? Have you played with Ardunio or a Raspberry Pi? Maybe you’ve never used either. This workshop aims to teach the basic skills of setting up a Raspberry Pi Linux computer and working with Input and Output (GPIO). Using a Raspberry Pi […]
Last year I was asked to repair the Minnesota RollerGirls T-Shirt Cannon that failed mid-season. I created a temporary fix, just in time before the game. The repair got us talking about the future of T-Shirt launching technology. What would make this cooler? How can we improve this technology to make Launcher 2.0? Minnesota RollerGirls’ […]
Back in February 2013 I started teaching my Raspberry Pi 101 class. After the first class I think I had Pi on the brain, I was scheduled for a quick weekend trip out of town with my girlfriend, and she was due to leave her two cats behind. She said that she was going to […]
