BurnerJeremy

News - Enginursday - RFID techno… | about 5 months ago

This is correct. Up-voting to possibly save someone a future debugging headache.

A quick and easy way to insure initialization is like so: int someVals[5] = {}; //c++ only

News - Engineering Thursday: LED… | about 8 months ago

A few friends and I built this for burning man 2011. It consists of 63 mirrored acrylic panels cut by the plastic supplier which we hand drilled and welded. All electronics are custom (this was designed before the WS2801 was so easy to get). It runs by itself, but has a control panel with an arcade stick, buttons, and a big red button. Gamers knew how to access the easter eggs (Konami code anyone?) Tetris, Snake, Master blaster, and even a wedding proposal!

And some prototype images

News - March Caption Contest | about 2 years ago

If I can’t stay in your seat, can I at least keep this box?!

News - Christmas Orders | about 2 years ago

Nice one… subtle, but funny :)

News - A Monster New Product Pos… | about 3 years ago

I was just about to post the same thing. This has been the case since the FIO was posted.

News - Laramie Trip Recap | about 3 years ago

Of course they are completely legal fireworks.

Product SEN-10061 | about 3 years ago

It looks like you could grab the serial signals before the on-board MAX3232 so you wouldn’t need an RS232 level converter.

News - Modkit and the Kickstarte… | about 3 years ago

I’m a little older than you guys, but straight up LEGO (and later LEGO technics) is definitely one of the reasons I am an engineer.
Anything we can do to get kids excited about math/science/engineering gets a huge thumbs up in my book!

News - Avast ye Hackers! | about 4 years ago

As soon as you guys need a c/c++/c# Game programming Jedi I’m your man!

News - Burning Man Wearable Comp… | about 4 years ago

Camp JellyFish will be bringing our car: http://www.jellyfish12000.com/About.html which has a fully programmable and interactive 4800 LED art piece on the top. All custom electronics.
Our camp (shooting for ~3:30 and C) will also have a prototype art piece. Currently it consists of 6 modular panels each containing a programmable string of 16 RGB LEDs for 96 total lights. Each LED has it’s own PCB with an ATTiny25 and supporting components. Each string/panel has a header PCB with an ATMega328/168 which can either run built in animations or accept USART data over a differential link. Next year I’m hoping to be a funded playa installation.
Some videos (nothing too new) of various stages of design here: http://www.youtube.com/burnerjeremy
Lots of SparkFun bits and pieces (connectors, Sipex RS485 xceiver, etc.) were used on both projects!