In July, I left on a trip that took my friend and I around the world. While traveling, I kept a blog of the trip at trip.cmiyc.com.We visited New Zealand and Australia during winter. After that we spent a week swimming and sunning on beaches in Bali. Then we made some quick stops to Tokyo, Bangkok, and Egypt. In Egypt, we got to ride camels and see the Pryamids. While in London, I met with another friend for a few days before visiting Budapest and Ireland. Pictures can be found on my Picasa Albums. Now that the trip is over, it is time to get back to work. 🙂
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, I wanted the ability to mount the painter boards around the LED’s shadow box. This should make routing all the wires much easier.
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 colors. There is a random strobe thrown in there as well. The first 10 seconds are with a diffuser (piece of paper), the last 10 seconds are without. The final panel will use a diffuser.
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 project first started, years and years ago. I was happy to see that OS X had a set of fink packages for the gEDA suite. After figuring out how to get X11 in Leopard (since I didn’t include it when I installed 10.5) and install fink, getting gEDA going was a snap. The user jluciani in the Arduino forums has provided some free pcb footprints he has used from previous projects.
Landing on water isn’t easy. In fact, most aerospace engineers never considered it possible.
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