My efforts and other failures with microcontrollers.
I’ll see what I can learn. I look at this as a hobby. And Beagle Bone Black works. I have rev B BBB, and rev 3 Arduino.
I will be spending what time I have to spare on this. Along with comments, on mistakes and good ideas.
As you can see, I haven’t done much. I am learning at this early stage.
I have some electronic experience.
Win 8.1 did its best to block me from loading the drivers for Adafruit microcontrollers, but I got it done anyway. Back in XP it was easy to load drivers, not anymore.
I received a few days ago my order for the MetroX kit from adafruit.
I’ll be doing some things with it, and posting photos of the experiments.
November, 2023
Moved to a new web host. Changed the domain name.
Nov 29
Articles/posts and categories installed. Working on the graphics and menus.
January, 2022
Jan 3 Happy New year !
August, 2020
Aug 31
I don’t seem to be doing anything with this web site, so I will probably remove it.
July, 2018
Jul 26
No progress in finding time to work with my microcontroller gear. I may take this site down due to lack of my enthusiasm.
April
Apr 5
I didn’t do much again. However, I did use El-wire to light up a shirt for a sf convention. Apparently Windows 10, my computer anyway, doesn’t like gemma, nor flora. I’ll try again when I have more time.
March
Mar 31
I haven’t had much time to do anything… Win 10 apparently doesn’t like the early gemma and flora I have.
I had problems getting a connection to the gemma on my Win 8.1 laptop, so I switched to a flora. That worked.
For some reason I could only get the one NeoPixel Ring – 24 x WS2812 5050 RGBLED I had to work with 11 LEDs. It had been out in a store room and likely broke due to temperatures from 19-25F. Since I had only one ring that size, I chose to use the Wire Light LED Strand – 12 Green LEDs + Coin Battery holder in the right lens. Both from Adafruit.com.
I toned the brightness down to 25 out of 255 for the ring. These are photos of various colors from the ring. I used part of strandtest and another sketch. My laptop crashed, so I’ll have to dig around and find the sketch I used.
It took hours of fighting Windows 8.1’s attempt to ‘protect’ me and ‘help me’ with completly wrong error messages, but I finally got the drivers to load for Adafruit Arduino,Trinket, and Gemma.
