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Minipovs are fun to make, and ever more fun to hack

Sylvia — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:58:37 +0000

One last mini episode this winter, all about Ladyada's own MiniPOV3 hand-held persistence of vision display kit you make and program yourself! This was a really fun episode to make.

Super Simple RIFF musical instrument for Arduino

TechNinja — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:01:14 +0000

Welcome to the official project page for Super Awesome Sylvia's RIFF for Arduino. If you haven't, be sure and check out the official blog post and video for this project here!

The learning version of the code for the RIFF can be downloaded directly in it's raw format from github here:

Get the code!
(paste this directly into the Arduino IDE)

Super Simple Adjustable Strobe for Arduino

TechNinja — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:55:22 +0000

Welcome to the official project page for Super Awesome Sylvia's Adjustable Strobe for Arduino. If you haven't, be sure and check out the official blog post and video for this project here!

The learning version of the code for the Super Simple Adjustable Strobe can be downloaded directly in it's raw format from github here:

Get the code!

Robot Adventure: Part 1

Sylvia — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:37:27 +0000

Hi everyone! You'll all be amazed to hear, I finally made a robot! (With my dad...).

I've always wanted to make a little buggy bot that goes around the house doing stuff.. so.. here he is!! Sorta...

He's got a long way to go. My dad says we have to start simple, or it'll never get done... I still think it needs lasers first. How else will it fight the evil dust bunny empire???

Lighted Piano Project

TechNinja — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:19:54 +0000

These are some documentation shots of a project I've been working on for the past few years.. Using a MAX6955 LED controller communicating through a parallel port bit-banging the i2c protocol from a custom piece of software I wrote to feed a midi file through one note a a time to light that specific key, and wait for the key on the piano to be pressed.