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Lasercuts
I spent an hour or two today getting my head around the downstairs laser cutter. After a couple of test cuts on card, and figuring out that everything needed to be scaled down by about 1.5%, I managed to cut … Continue reading
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Blip of Life
Today’s lunch break project was this: implement Conway’s Game of Life on the BlipBox using Processing. The code is very simple, and since the game area is small it doesn’t have to be terribly efficient. Functionality: At any time new cells … Continue reading
It’s Alive!
After a long period of testing and refactoring firmware and hardware, it’s now official: it works! The latest version of the PCB, v9, uses transistors to switch the LED current. This leads to a more stable operation, brighter display, and … Continue reading
New PCBs!
The new PCBs have arrived, hurrah! and I’ve obviously soldered one up to try it out. First results were a bit mixed: the transistor design works, as would be expected, but the LEDs are definitely flickering even with this configuration. … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday BlipBox!
And happy Women’s Day! While migrating the BlipBox codebase from CVS to git I realised that it is 2 years to the day that the repository was created. So it’s our birthday! The new git repository is available here though … Continue reading
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New year, new PCBs
Okay so it’s February already, but things are finally moving again with the project and a few new PCB’s are on order. The previous design that we tried used a MIC5891 serial-input latched source driver. This seemed perfect on paper, … Continue reading
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BlipBox Circuit Design Changes
Due to certain intermittent, but persistent problems with the last batch of PCB’s we’ve decided to make some design changes. This means that BlipBoxes will not be available for sale for yet a bit more time, so apologies, again, to … Continue reading
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New Logo
Our good friend and talented designer Jim Otton has done a brand new BlipBox logo, which now adorns both our blog and website. He’s also done some other designs for us, more of which you will be seeing soon. We … Continue reading
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Boxes Arrived
The new aluminium enclosures have arrived, custom milled and ready to be stuffed with electronic goodies. This means we can now sell a number of ready made BlipBoxes, as soon as we’ve made them that is. Those on the mailing … Continue reading
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Processing
Someone recently suggested integrating the BlipBox with Processing. The Processing language is: an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. This was such an excellent idea that we simply had to … Continue reading
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