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Polar Giraffe Control Board
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Enter the Polar Giraffe!
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Binary Epoch Clock on EEVBlog Mail Bag #546
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CreepinEyes: Last-Minute Halloween Decorations
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OpenSource.com
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Introducing: EpochPOV
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Challenge Accepted! Binary Epoch Clock 1D Pong Mode
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555 IC XXL
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Who Ya Gonna Call?
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Epoch Clock Kit Review on tronixstuff!
Gasp! An Update! Yes, it’s true. We’re still here and after coming back from a nice and much-needed vacation, we’re ready to start doing cool stuff again. First off, and update on a previous post. I recently put together a PCB to hold the important control elements of the Polar Giraffe. Many Thanks to OSHPark for another quality board! PGControlBoard with Arduino Pro Mini installed
Read more…No, we’ve not genetically spliced a polar bear and a giraffe. Although, we’d be interested to see what that looked like… Regardless, I present, for your consideration, the Polar Giraffe! FunctionalTest_1_small Ah yes, the name. Well I had a typo in the main project folder on my NAS device, so the project is known to the file system as “.
Read more…Just got a nice review from the great David L. Jones over at EEVBlog in Mail Bag episode #546 Jump to around minute 6 for our kit.
Realizing that Halloween was only a few days away, I thought to myself “Self, your house has no Halloween decorations, and thus, is Lame.” Being the crafty (and cheap) electrical engineer that I am, I took stock of my…stock…of electronic widgets and bits. After some thought, I decided on a couple of beady little red eyes peeking out of various windows would be appropriately festive, somewhat creepy, and very easy to through together.
Read more…Last month, Dan and I went to the Open Source All the Things event in the Research Triangle Park and had the pleasure of meeting Jason Hibbets of both Red Hat Software and OpenSource.com. Jason gave us a lot of great advice but also asked to considering contributing to OpenSource.com - which we, of course, couldn’t turn down! So, if you’d like a little behind the scenes look at the beginnings of Maniacal Labs, head on over to OpenSource.
Read more…We would like to introduce a new product. Okay, not really a new product, but a completely different use for the Binary Epoch Clock Kit that we already sell. We’ve been hinting at it for a while now but we are proud to finally announce EpochPOV, a custom firmware that turns your Binary Epoch Clock into a fully functional Persistence of Vision - or POV for short - display with a 32 pixel resolution!
Read more…Last night I got to show off our Binary Epoch Clock kit on Adafruit’s excellent Show-And-Tell weekly Hangout. There was a great turnout with tons of cool projects and I’d like to thank Adafruit again for letting me join in. Check out the whole show. There were a ton of great projects (I’m at 2:26): Towards the end of my time, Limor Fried noted that the only thing it needs now is a 1D pong mode and I am rarely one to pass up such a challenge… So this morning I came up with this:
Read more…555KitTestCircuit A few days ago, I saw this kit from Evil Mad Scientist (by way of Adafruit). My first reaction was more or less �… That�s brilliant!� I love projects that have a healthy dose of wackiness as part of the recipe.
Read more…Friend of Maniacal Labs, Josh, is a huge Ghostbusters fan. How much, you ask? This much: Ecto Mini Why yes, that is a Mini Cooper Ecto-1. A couple weeks ago, Josh emailed me asking if it was possible to get en Epoch Clock Kit with blue LEDs.
Read more…John over at tronixstuff.com has a review of our Epoch Clock kit. He offers a great walk-through of the un-boxing and building experiences, complete with pictures. He also offers a great explanation of Unix time. A big thanks to John for his consideration of our product! And, of course, we’re glad he liked it! (tronixstuff.com is based in Melbourne, Australia and was started in 2010 by John Boxall. The site features electronics kit reviews, Arduino tutorials, and other assorted projects.
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