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Don's Projects: DIY Arduino Ambilight using ShiftBrites
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2011/09/diy-arduino-ambilight-using-shiftbrites.html
Wednesday, September 21, 2011. DIY Arduino Ambilight using ShiftBrites. The first challenge was to construct my own ShiftBrite Shield. They can be purchased from Macetech's store. It may be important to point out here that the ground from the ShiftBrite Shield is connected to the ground of the Arduino. This is necessary for the clock to work. Also, make sure you don't send any voltage down an Arduino port or you could damage your device. On to the software. For my setup, I'm using boblight. On Fedora to ...
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Don's Projects: Building a clock to help kids tell time
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2015/02/building-clock-to-help-kids-tell-time.html
Sunday, February 22, 2015. Building a clock to help kids tell time. My daughter is about 2 1/2. She loves learning about colors, shapes, animals, dinosaurs, and all sorts of other things. However, she's still too young to understand how to read a clock. But now is a good time to start teaching her. We wanted a clock that would change colors based on what it was time to do: play quietly, go to bed, get up and play, pick up toys, and so on. Here is the result:. To work, I found Hive13's project on GitHub.
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Don's Projects: February 2015
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2015_02_01_archive.html
Sunday, February 22, 2015. Building a clock to help kids tell time. My daughter is about 2 1/2. She loves learning about colors, shapes, animals, dinosaurs, and all sorts of other things. However, she's still too young to understand how to read a clock. But now is a good time to start teaching her. We wanted a clock that would change colors based on what it was time to do: play quietly, go to bed, get up and play, pick up toys, and so on. Here is the result:. To work, I found Hive13's project on GitHub.
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Don's Projects: Field Day - Shooting a 1 lb propane tank with an AR 15.
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2011/10/field-day-autumn-2011-try-to-hold-field.html
Friday, October 7, 2011. Field Day - Shooting a 1 lb propane tank with an AR 15. Field Day Autumn 2011. Posted by Don Howdeshell. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Updated DIY Arduino Ambilight. Field Day - Shooting a 1 lb propane tank with an A. Awesome Inc. template. Template images by Dizzo.
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Don's Projects: Making VMs play nicely with hosts (by passing URLs)
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2014/02/making-vms-play-nicely-with-hosts-by.html
Friday, February 21, 2014. Making VMs play nicely with hosts (by passing URLs). I've recently moved to Linux (currently Mint) as my primary desktop at work and I need to run a Windows VM in order to use Outlook. I'm running Outlook 2013 in Unity mode and kept getting aggravated that when I clicked links it would open the link in Chrome on the VM and not in Chrome on my host OS. Make sure the virtual machine's configuration allows the guest to open host applications. So we'll start with the server code...
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Don's Projects: Updated DIY Arduino Ambilight
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-have-updated-my-diy-arduino-ambilight.html
Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Updated DIY Arduino Ambilight. I have updated my DIY Arduino Ambilight! After using my DIY Ambilight for a few days I got tired of plugging in and unplugging the power supply to the ShiftBrite shield, so I finally broke down and added a switch to turn it on and off. Now that I've been using it for a few weeks, I'm tired of having to turn it on and off manually every time I want to watch TV. This relay requires 3.5V to activate and less than .25V to deactivate. I couldnt agree m...
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Don's Projects: February 2014
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2014_02_01_archive.html
Friday, February 21, 2014. Making VMs play nicely with hosts (by passing URLs). I've recently moved to Linux (currently Mint) as my primary desktop at work and I need to run a Windows VM in order to use Outlook. I'm running Outlook 2013 in Unity mode and kept getting aggravated that when I clicked links it would open the link in Chrome on the VM and not in Chrome on my host OS. Make sure the virtual machine's configuration allows the guest to open host applications. So we'll start with the server code...
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Don's Projects: October 2011
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2011_10_01_archive.html
Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Updated DIY Arduino Ambilight. I have updated my DIY Arduino Ambilight! After using my DIY Ambilight for a few days I got tired of plugging in and unplugging the power supply to the ShiftBrite shield, so I finally broke down and added a switch to turn it on and off. Now that I've been using it for a few weeks, I'm tired of having to turn it on and off manually every time I want to watch TV. This relay requires 3.5V to activate and less than .25V to deactivate.
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Don's Projects: September 2011
http://dhowdy.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html
Wednesday, September 21, 2011. DIY Arduino Ambilight using ShiftBrites. The first challenge was to construct my own ShiftBrite Shield. They can be purchased from Macetech's store. It may be important to point out here that the ground from the ShiftBrite Shield is connected to the ground of the Arduino. This is necessary for the clock to work. Also, make sure you don't send any voltage down an Arduino port or you could damage your device. On to the software. For my setup, I'm using boblight. On Fedora to ...
