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Using an Arduino with C#
I am currently working on a project, in which, I need to be able to set different configurations from a computer and have them sent to an Arduino. I would also like the program on the computer, to be able to find the Arduino automatically without any input from the user. Both these requests seem very reasonable and I know I have seen other projects with such features in the past. With this in mind I went to Google to see if I could find how I would be able to accomplish this task myself.
One of Read more [...]
Southern Point of New York
If you were to travel all the way to the south end of Staten Island, you would end up at the southern most point of New York. Also, at this point called the Conference House, an historic house named to honor and commemoration of the famous peace conference of 1776.
Both places are right in my backyard and are very beautiful. When you see it for your self, you forget that your still in the city. As you can see below, Staten Island Has a lot to offer.
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Adafruit Trinket PS/2 to USB Hacked Converter
First I want to start by saying this. The harder the challenge, the greater the reward. I also want to take this time to apologize to Ladyada, the staff at Adafruit and the creators of the PS/2 Arduino library. I thoroughly hacked away at your code and made one hell of a mess of it. Thank you for your hard work.
Intro:
Now that, that's over, I want to reflect on my first statement which I said, "The harder the challenge, the greater the reward." What I'm referring to is the small memory size Read more [...]
NeoPixel Shield Fun and a Robot Sim!
Back at Maker Faire, I picked up a few cool things to play with. One of these things was a Adafruit NeoPixel Shield for the Arduino.
For those who don't know, the NeoPixel is an addressable LED that Adafruit Industries sells. The shield (that I got) is a board with 40 of these LED's on it. The thing that makes this device (and LED's for that matter) so wonderful, is that it only requires a three wire connection, those being positive (+), negative (-) and data. This means that you can use as many Read more [...]
Maker Faire 2013!
The title says it all! Today was the first day of World Maker Faire and what a day it was!
The day started out a bit on the rainy side, but the rain was short lived and at about 10:30 the skies cleared up and Maker Faire was in full swing.
I started to day off by loading up on some cool stuff from Maker Shed, so expect to see some projects with some of that stuff to come soon. Aside from hardware I also picked up a few books for the liberty as you can never have too many books.
After my Read more [...]
Off To World Maker Faire 2013
This Saturday and Sunday (9/21-22), there is going to be an event called World Maker Faire, to be held on the NYC World Fair Grounds. I am very excited to say that I will be going! I went to this show last year and had a really good time, thought this year I plan on starting earlier in the day and staying longer.
There is just so much to see and do, I’m hoping I learn some cool things and maybe come home with a few new toys 🙂
Adventures, Mario
Adventure, Fun, Maker Faire, Me, News, NYC
Hidden in my backyard – Silver Lake
I have lived on Staten Island my whole life, but despite that, there are still many different places on this Island that I have not been. This is true for a lot of Islanders, as there is just so much here and a lot of it is not well known.
Today, with a friend, I went and visited a place I never knew existed called Silver Lake Park.
Silver Lake Park is not a place that is hidden away, but in fact, is located at the crossing of two main roads on Staten Island. The reason I never knew of it was Read more [...]
Light Knight 0.7!
It's only been a few days since I released V0.5 but after some playing of the game and a little feed back (two people 🙂 ) I have made a few changes and I fixed a whole lot of bugs.
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The first release, I found to have even more problems then I thought it would have. I patched some very quickly and just updated the link one the first post but I found I had other issues. This leaves me now with V0.7 the second release of Light Knight.
The plan is to first try and see Read more [...]
C++, Programing
Beta, C plus plus, C#, Fun, Game, Puzzle, windows
Light Knight
Find Version 0.7 Here!
I was able to complete my beta game faster then I thought, so now it is ready to be tested by others.
The name I have chosen for the puzzle/game is Light Knight. Though I might change it in the future, I based the name on the movement of each player and the effect of lighting up empty spaces.
The Rules:
The rules to this game are pretty simple and they are the following.
Two players will start on either side of the board
Each player has a color, Player 1 Read more [...]
I’m making a Puzzle!
Its been a few days since my last post, so I thought I would share some info on one of the projects that I am currently working on.
Over the past few days I have been watching a show called Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle. In short, its a show revolving around different puzzles and unlocking the power of the human brain. I found the show to be very entertaining, and I also found the different puzzles they played to be fascinating.
Some of these puzzles that were displayed are not very possible to Read more [...]