Wired Panel

I went out and bought more gator clips and wrote up some code so I can give my cork board led panel a test drive.

AND IT WORKS!



8x8 Red LED Matrix driven by Arduino. from Andrew Parnell on Vimeo.

For those of you interested in the code, see the comments section.

I'm sick of YouTube...

Well, more accurately I'm sick of YouTube's horrid quality on videos, so I went to Vimeo to finally sign up for an account over there.

While signing up I came across this (they had it right on the front page):



Lip Dub - Tambureddu HD from Leonardo Dalessandri on Vimeo.


Great for a giggle.

Since I'm talking about music videos anyway...

I might as well share the one I've watched atleast daily since my internet got hooked up at the house:


Admittedly, part of my love for this video comes from the mass amount of naked (albeit censored) people running about in it, but that aside it's an incredibly clever idea. Also, the little details: such as the singing along at 0:44 and the fact that the shirts with prints on them correlate to the various artists in this collab (David Byrne on the yellow shirt, Dizzee Rascal on the red, and BPA on the brown) make this video just amazing.

Higher quality available on Keith Schofield (the director)'s site: [here] (Highly recommend watching the high quality version)

Ima Robot

So, I don't know when, where, or how, but apparently at some point I downloaded Ima Robot's "Creeps Me Out" and it recently started coming up regularly on my ipod (I listen to music very passively. Just set the entire library to random)

The song itself is fairly catchy, but what I really love is the music video by Frank Borin. Giant game of musical chairs for the win!



If the low quality of the youtube video drives you nuts (like it does me) Frank Borin has a quicktime version of it on his site: [here]

Mr. Wurfel

Is Wurfel some language (I've eliminated Dutch and German) for "Waffle" or does it just sound like my Opa (dutch grandfather) saying waffle. I've got to believe that's intentional.

[Via swissmiss]

Free Geek

So, I just moved to Portland... 2 weeks ago.

Sadly, aside from going to work, I haven't left the house all that much.

But while Googling for a place locally that might sell atmega chips (I may need about 16 arduinos in the near future) I found out about this place: Free Geek. It sounds really cool. I'm going tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes.

Cork Board as Protoboard

I'm prepping to do a 1024 LED sculpture, and the suggestion came up of scaling it from 2' x 2' to 4' x 4'. I was concerned that this new size without an equivalent increase in LEDs (which I really am not prepared to do) so I built a sample square foot panel to try the spacing. Of course, I don't have a square foot protoboard (does anyone?) so instead I built it on a piece of cork board. What I really liked about this method was that it allowed me to prototype it as a 2 layer board.





The larger scale actually works a lot better than I anticipated.