Status: Active, In Progress (Updated: 4/18/2013)
Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmiyc/sets/72157633185131473/with/8653034709/
This Quadrotor project is a collaborative effort between Mike Kurdziel and I. The unique twist on this collaboration is that he is located in Menlo Park, CA and I am in Austin, TX. We’re collaborating remotely while doing most of work on the TechShop locations in each of our towns.
BoltDepot.com sells a huge variety of fasteners which can be useful in hardware projects. One of the resources they provide is a Illustrated Guide to Fasteners. This is a great way to find the name of the screw or bolt you need to hold your hardware projects together. A printed copy is going into my toolbox.
The concept of “cut copy and paste” goes back to a time when people hand wrote all of their documents. The modern concept was introduced to the computing world by Xerox PARC and Apple’s Lisa / Macintosh Now nearly every piece of software offers some level of copying and pasting, including CadSoft’s EAGLE Schematic and PCB software.
Editing video has been something I enjoyed doing since High School. There I used my first tape-based NLE video system to make a Jeopardy episode where I played both a contestant and the host. In the skit I got into an argument with myself. Of course that was long before tools like Final Cut, After Effects, or even digital video cameras existed. Now anyone can do cheap effects for fun.
Speaking of cheap effects, using a little bit of Final Cut Pro X magic and a piece of green paper, I was able to achieve this effect:
Why am I working on this? Stay tuned… (you can probably guess where that’s going.)
Users of the ATmega328 based Arduino boards will recognize that the analogWrite() function doesn’t actually do anything analog. It just sets the duty cycle of a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal. The (new) Arduino Due board, which I have had limited time to play with, actually sports two Analog DAC channels.
Using a very simple for() loop, it is possible to generate a sawtooth waveform using these channels.
