It was time to replace my mid-tower Pentium II soho router running OpenBSD with something smaller. There has been quite a bit of interest in the community about single board computers, such as soekris and alix and I decided to dive right in. Single board computers are just that, everything you need for a basic [...]
Archive for May, 2008
May 26, 2008
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LED sign matrix and C#
By Andrew Konkol in UncategorizedFor Maker Faire I built a LED display using 10 BetaBrite Prism signs. Everything I used was store bought and nothing custom. The general idea was to capture motion video using a webcam and display it on this matrix of LED signs. However, after receiving the hardware this became impossible noting the 3-4 second delay [...]
May 6, 2008
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Maker Faire and why I was busy.
By Andrew Konkol in UncategorizedI was asked to join the Microsoft Coding4Fun team this year at Maker Faire. The project I came up with was multiplexing several stock store bought signs and display full motion video from a webcam on them… Unfortunately it’s almost impossible to do full motion with stock parts, so it evolved into a “LED photobooth.” [...]