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Do / Don't Do
Last night's lesson: you can't just decide to reverse the placement of the power source after the circuit has been wired.
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And so it begins.
The first section of six that comprise the center portion (the grassy areas) of the National Mall from 14th Street to Union Square at the foot of Capitol Hill.…
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How to translate Arduino demos into BrickPixel demos
When looking for examples of lighting control using the Arduino, you will usually find code that uses the on-board LED as the light. The control logic in the code is what's needed,…
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NaMaLiCS Tutorial Part 8, H_Flicker_OnOff
YAY! This is the last of the NaMaLiCS tutorials. Now that the core control of the system is working, loop(), and there is a template for pixel effects, cranking this out was easy.…
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NaMaLiCS Tutorial Part 8, G_Fade_OnOff
Well...it's been an interesting week of development for NaMaLiCS. When I added the fade effects, the wheels fell off and I've had to rethink, redesign and recode core parts of the program.…
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NaMaLiCS, Getting ahead of myself
But...I couldn't resist. The video is a little small, but if you look closely you can see the light animation occurring across two sections connected by the BrickPixel magnetic connector.…
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NaMaLiCS Tutorial Part 7, F_Toggle_OnOff
The full code for this lesson [A_NaMaLiCS_WorkingCode_01.ino] is attached as a zip file. This time we're adding the toggle effect. It is similar to the blink effect in that a pixel's brightness is…
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NaMaLiCS Chaser Lights
Bwahahaha! The NaMaLiCS program I posted in Tutorial Supplement 3 CAN!! do chaser lights, unlike what I thought when I wrote Tutorial Part 6, E_BLINK. Ya just have to get the numbers right. See...…
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NaMaLiCS Tutorial Supplement 3, a working version for blinking lights
Since I've been discussing the code by inserting bits of tutorial between code snippets, it might be a little difficult to tell what is actually in the program.…
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NaMaLiCS Tutorial Part 6, E_BLINK
The Prologue: If you've made it this far in the tutorial series…CONGRATULATIONS!! and…I apologize. The thought struck me today that the audience I've been writing for is…me…or at least folks like me.…
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NaMaLiCS Tutorial Supplement 2, pixelState (or...are we there yet?)
This is an updated version of the B_GLOBALS tab. Sorry, no pictures or video this discussion, just dry text. // = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = // NOTE:…
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NaMaLiCS Tutorial Part 5, D_LOOP
This the control center for the NaMaLiCS program. There are two sections in the loop. The first controls how the lights initially turn on (toggle, fade or flicker) and the second controls what…
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NaMaLiCS Tutorial Supplement 1, Magnetic Connectors
When switching from programming the BrickPixel 9-LED testbed to verifying the program with the larger National Mall testbed, I have to swap what the BrickPixel shield is connected to.…
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Are there / will there ever be...
in Brickstuff Merchandise, a t-shirt with the Brickstuff logo? I would love to have one or two to wear at LEGO events. You could even have some catchy /goofy quips go with it,…