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@ngfill94: Those look like just about the right kind. At that price, I guess we should stock them as well!
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That project is called the Crystal Archway, and we wrote a simulation and animation environment in Processing to run it: https://github.com/Blinkinlabs/CrystalArchway It's based on an earlier project that we did, called the DomeStar: http://www.nyc…
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Hi David, Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing it out. We just re-built our website and are working out the bugs- fixed that one now. Just sent you an email. Cheers, Matt
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Oh, hmm. In the python library, we're actually sending two 0x00's and then a 0xFF, and that causes it to output the frame. Can you try that and see if it works for your library? If so, I'll update the docs to recommend that sequence instead. It's v…
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Couple small notes- #1, it is some diagnostic flags that were used during production of the BlinkyTape. There should be 1 byte of data returned, with bits set corresponding to each of the inputs on the BlinkyTape (the button, and the three tiny I/O…
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The rainbow sketch is actually a bit of a trick- it's being generated on the fly, so there is never an image there per se. We can make a PNG to simulate it, though.
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I just asked Jon: https://twitter.com/BlinkyTape/status/479885576221782017 I'll post here if he responds. If not, we can recreate it :-)
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The example is here: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/OKKO/Device-Blinkytape-0.004/example/christmas-blinking.pl Okko is the author of the perl library, and the whole library is available on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~okko/Device-Blinkytape/lib/De…
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Hi Batt, Things have indeed moved around a bit since then! The python example is here now: https://github.com/Blinkinlabs/BlinkyTape_Python/blob/master/BlinkyTape.py BlinkyBoard was the working name for the project before it became BlinkyTape. Th…
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It's possible to add more LEDs, here are some notes about it: -Soldering skills are required (of course!) -Power consumption is already at the maximum for USB, so you will need to add separate 5v power -You can hook the next strip up to the end of t…
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Sorry about this, we must have made a mistake when we put the latest updates on the website. I'll get them back up in a minute. Are there any other links you've noticed that are missing, besides the ones in http://blinkinlabs.com/blinkytape/docs/?
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Who, those are awesome! Thanks for sharing. Thanks for the feature suggestion for PatternPaint. I hadn't considered using it tethered to a computer for light painting (the computer I was using before was way too bulky to carry around), but I can se…
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Yeah, it requires the update function to be called as often as possible, to achieve the dithering effect. It should get a little better if it is called from an interrupt with a fixed timing. I'll see if i can set up a demo for it, its really cool th…
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Oy, hopefully they will add that module to their default install in the future, it seems like it fits their target market.
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It looks like it might involve recompiling the kernel for the device: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http://www.novo-online.de/blog/2014/01/24/busware-cc1101-usb-lite-cul-sti…
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Great! Glad you got it going again!
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Whoa, that's awesome! Happy easter to you, too!
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Hey Jeremy! The HID part is reasonable, it should show up as a USB composite device with both a HID and CDC ACM device (the same as the Leonardo). Does an Arduino Leonardo (or other Atmega32u4 based device) work on this machine? If the BlinkyTape …
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I'm new to MAX/MSP, however I was able to get some rudimentary behavior working tonight: https://twitter.com/cibomahto/status/455932982671732736 The patch is here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Blinkinlabs/BlinkyTape-MaxMsp/master/BlueAndGree…
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Thanks, that's beautiful! Coming up 690 bytes smaller for the ColorSwirl sketch, too!
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Thanks for the pull request!
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It sounds like there is a permissions problem with the serial port. Recent versions of Processing have a fix for it; see if there is an item in the Tools menu called "Fix Serial Permissions" (or similar).
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You're right, that should be a feature of PatternPaint, however the method you described is the only way possible at the moment. There's an updated version on the way that includes this feature directly, though!
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Glad the third one worked. Did the included cable have a problem? Some cell phone charging cables only have the power wires connected, and won't work for data transmission.
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Sorry for the confusion, and hope the drivers work for you. Max and Linux systems don't need a driver for serial USB devices, but for whatever reason, Windows does.
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Are you able to save an animation to tape using PatternPaint, and do they exhibit the same behavior?
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The button is connected to PB6 (PCINT6/OC1B/OC4B/ADC13), which should work as a pin change interrupt. I think the steps are to set a mask for that bit in PCMSK0, enable PCIE0 in PCICR, then write an isr to handle that interrupt. I'll try to get it i…
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I can answer the QT one: the QT libs get installed in c:\Program files (x86)\PatternPaint\, or c:\Program Files\PatternPaint if you have a 32bit system. They must be there, the program wouldn't run at all if they were missing. The c:\QT thing is th…
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Sorry about that, Xan- it's on my list, I'll try to get to it this evening.
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Great, thanks dat. I wish there was a simple way to use the serial library from Qt in Processing, it would make a lot of this stuff less of a pain!