Bald Engineer

TLC5940NT Painter Board This screen shot is an all-layer view of my TLC5940 painter board. The 1st draft featured two TLC5940s, but I decided it made the board too large. Instead, …

This pattern is called Row Your Boat. As one of the strips starts to get brighter, a nearby strip will join in the fading. After completing a fade cycle, they start switching …

Quick schematic in gschem running on OS X. In an attempt to find a free set of schematic and PCB tools for hobby work, I looked back at gEDA. The last time I used it was when the …

Landing on water isn’t easy. In fact, most aerospace engineers never considered it possible. see more Political Pictures

Initially I tried to get a LCD screen working with my Illuminato based Arduino. After a couple of attempts I realized two things: 1. The Iluminato is not ready for prime time. and …

This morning I woke up somewhere in Southern Austria.When I looked outside my window, I found a very heavy snowfall.My local colleagues tell me that we received somewhere between …

After a long time posting to cmiyc.com, an upgrade to Wordpress, and two physical moves I just wanted to make sure the blog still works….

Download: maccaching_build_97.zip(5.3mb) Minor change in how uploads are handled (to correctly support USB). This is the only different from 96.

Download: OSX Serial Port Check (1.2mb) A simple utility that checks for all of your Mac’s serial ports and copies the information to your clipboard.

Nobody at “cmiyc.com” or “cmiyc.org” will send you email. In fact, I don’t even have an outgoing mail server setup. So if you receive emails from me, a spammer is forging my domain …