trials and errors https://www.breakcontinue.com I have neglected my blog for quite a while. The Blogger platform that I have used before is good, but it is not exciting to go there and make new blog entries. I wanted a better, easier, natural way to edit and maintain the blog. By natural, I mean something... Sun, 06 May 2018 15:23:57 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2018/05/resurrection-of-the-blog.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2018/05/resurrection-of-the-blog.html I have a project in mind for a long time now. To make a time lapse video of tree in my backyard. I cut it branches (6-8’ each) in the spring and by the end of the summer it grows it back. It is amazing. Was not sure what camera... Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:58:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2014/12/great-serial-camera-for-electronics.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2014/12/great-serial-camera-for-electronics.html A very good friend got an invite and bought the OnePlus One phone. Yes, you need and invite from somebody who has an invite code available. The invites are given at some time by OnePlus team to individuals who already own the device and sometime randomly thought their online <forums.... Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:34:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2014/08/oneplus-one-phone.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2014/08/oneplus-one-phone.html Couple of weeks ago I programmed a clone of the Tetris game for the FEZ GameO console. Here it is running in my GameO Emulator: The game is a NETMF application written in C#. You can find it here. A fellow maker and inventor Ryan O’Hara is running a Kickstarter... Sat, 07 Sep 2013 13:44:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2013/09/rgb-123-16x16-and-arduino-mega-playing.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2013/09/rgb-123-16x16-and-arduino-mega-playing.html There were some talks on the community forum pages about this device for awhile. I have been waiting for it with a great anticipation. Finally, a week ago we got the official announcement. Not only that, but GHI Electronics is also running a KickStarter campaign where they offer KS only... Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:21:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2013/07/new-netmf-device-game-o.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2013/07/new-netmf-device-game-o.html I have been supporting some project on KickStarter recently and I would like to mention some of these projects on this blog. First one that I am excited to get my hands on is CoAction Hero board: This is a very nice little board. Here is some of the technical... Wed, 08 May 2013 21:37:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2013/05/kickstarter-coaction-hero-cortex-m3-arm.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2013/05/kickstarter-coaction-hero-cortex-m3-arm.html I wanted to have a good game for my Gadgeteer Game Console. Rick Dangerous is an old classic game that I played long time ago and really liked. Fortunately there is a clone of the game in C - xrick from BigOrno.net. Quote from BigOrno: Way before Lara Croft, back... Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:13:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2013/01/rick-dangerous-port-for-netmf.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2013/01/rick-dangerous-port-for-netmf.html A while ago I made a module (Chucky) that allows to connect a Wii classic controller to a Gadgeteer mainboard. Finally got some time to build a mounting rig that attaches to a Wii controller and allows you to put all necessary modules. The goal was to make it easy... Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:49:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/06/gadgeteer-game-console-using-wii.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/06/gadgeteer-game-console-using-wii.html It has been awhile since I posted about my POE Module for Gadgeteer. It works great and I am happy with it in general. I am also looking at some other designs for v2. It is work in progress. Meanwhile here is the schematic for v1.0. Enjoy! Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:44:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/06/gadgteer-poe-module-schematic.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/06/gadgteer-poe-module-schematic.html Great news! I just got Welcome email from MAKE. I got accepted to the MAKE Beta Team! A number of makers around the world has been selected to beta-build some projects that might get into the MAKE Magazine. https://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/15/make-beta-team-join-us/ I am very excited about it and looking forward to build... Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:15:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/04/make-beta-team.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/04/make-beta-team.html If you have visited my blog before, you most likely know that I have built several modules for the Microsoft Gadgeteer platform. So far I have only tried simple modules (with the exception of POE module). What I haven’t tried yet is a DaisyLink module. DaisyLink module is a special... Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:34:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/02/gadgeteer-daisylink-protocol.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/02/gadgeteer-daisylink-protocol.html This is a proof of concept for Arduino based Gadgeteer DaisyLink module.The Gadgeteer DaisyLink protocol allows to chain up to 126 various modules on one socket. The protocol is based on I2C-based EEPROM interface. In this picture I have two modules chained on one socket. The first module is GHI’s... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:11:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/01/arduino-daisylink-module-for-gadgeteer.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/01/arduino-daisylink-module-for-gadgeteer.html Andrew Duthie (aka Devhammer) is working on a very cool project involving infrared helicopter, Kinect and Gadgeteer. He needed a module for Gadgeteer to control his helicopter. Here is what he came up with: You can find more details on his blog and in this thread on TinyCLR. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:41:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/01/ir-led-array-module-for-gadgeteer.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2012/01/ir-led-array-module-for-gadgeteer.html I like the Iron on Patches that you can get from Adafruit. I don’t own any but I still like them. Lahack.com created a script that will generate a wall of skills image using Adafruit’s patches. Here is mine: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:13:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/12/show-your-skills.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/12/show-your-skills.html Some information started to show up on the forum. It is about a new mysterious (well, not as mysterious now) offer from GHI Electronics - FEZ Cerberus. For now there is only this image available: It looks like GHI is very serious about supporting Gadgeteer and I am sure this... Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:41:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/12/fez-cerberus-on-horizon.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/12/fez-cerberus-on-horizon.html A friend from work gave me a really nice present this Christmas - Bulbdial Clock Kit made by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. This clock is excellent addition to my collection of Ice Tube Clock and Monochron Clock. I have really enjoyed building it. It looks so cool with all its... Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:43:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/12/diy-chronodot-for-bulbdial-clock.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/12/diy-chronodot-for-bulbdial-clock.html I am a big fun of the Microsoft Gadgeteer (if you have not figure it out by now :) ). Right now there is pretty much only one company in the US that is actively developing Gadgeteer modules and boards - GHI Electronics. So I follow that company very closely.... Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:28:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/11/duinoproto-bridge-between-gadgeteer-and.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/11/duinoproto-bridge-between-gadgeteer-and.html I wrote about FEZ Hydra in my last post and now we have all the details. It is 100% open source including hardware design as well as the port of .NET Microframework that can be compiled using GCC toolchain. According to Gus Issa, this board was designed with three main... Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:21:00 -0500 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/11/fez-hydra-100-oshw-net-gadgeteer-module.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/11/fez-hydra-100-oshw-net-gadgeteer-module.html The news has been on the forum for awhile now, but now we have a full image of the board. Other side: And what is the most exciting is that everything is completely open source. Here is the quote from Gus Issa: GHI has seen the great value in open... Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:58:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/11/new-gadgeteer-main-module-from-ghi-200.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/11/new-gadgeteer-main-module-from-ghi-200.html Are you a Gadgeteer? posted a nice unboxing video of the FEZ Spider Starter Kit,which I own as well. Although mine didn’t come in a nice plastic box, but I was one of the first 5 to get it a month earlier of the official shipping date. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:49:00 -0400 https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/10/are-you-gadgeteer.html https://www.breakcontinue.com/2011/10/are-you-gadgeteer.html