So, heh, I didn't see that little video icon that is at the top of every blog post editor until just now So without any further ado, here is my project in action! players.brightcove.net/.../index.html
This morning, I put the finishing touches on my project: The Crazy Countdown Timer. This project emulates the cheesy "time bomb" that is often seen in movies. The hero finds the bomb, and then is faced with the decision of which wire to cut.The ...
Part of my crazy countdown timer is that I want to detect if someone is moving it, so I need to work with the accelerometer. So I created a new app and made it tic-toc between 2 spokes on the star LEDs. This is mainly to show that the app is sti...
I've incorporated the use of a timer to my countdown timer. This makes the clock much more accurate. I basically copied the millisecond_delay function and modified it a bit so that it would time for a second while updating the clock display. It ...
Now that the clock hardware is working, I can add a lot of functionality just by coding. It didn't take long to modify the code from my previous blog post to make it display a proper time value, and to make it into a countdown timer. At thi...
I gave up on the button issue for the time being, and started from scratch with a new project file to work on my clock display. I created a new project pretty much using the exact steps as outlined in the document XL_STAR_Introduction.pdf ...
I created a new application from scratch today, using the demo as a guide. To save reinventing the wheel, I copied a lot of the LED functions from the demo. I also copied the buttons function, changing the global variables to just use one variab...
I did a bit of soldering tonight to add headers to the XL_Star board, as well as to a couple of display options.This will allow me to hook the board up to the displays so I can then start programming them... and I'm hoping I can make them do some fun...
It's been a while since I last posted. The update is that there is no update!I've been spending my time getting a few other things done (mostly work stuff). I'm confident that today is the day to get 2 of those projects completed, with another projec...
As it turns out, the communication issue was a very simple one - there is an on/off switch near the top usb port that needed to be "off" and my board had it "on". It's possible I may have moved it when I took it from the package. Note to element...
This is the story of the world, isn't it? Lack of communication being the root of all problems... To sum up what I've done so far... I installed all the software and drivers into a VirtualBox virtual machine running Windows XP, using the ea...
Today I received the XL_STAR package at my door, from UPS. Unfortunately UPS charged me an extra $15 - an insane amount of money to get a free package across the border - but hey, small price to pay for geeky goodness! (ps, I highly recommend av...
Welcome to my blog! This is where I will be writing everything to do with my Summer of Design project for the XL_STAR development board from element14.com. My plan is to build a charge controller which maintains a battery using a solar pane...
