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	<description>Random experiments, circuits, code, rapid prototyping, sometimes things to buy, and the odd tune by Tod E. Kurt.</description>
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		<title>Using FreeM with BlinkM MaxM</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2011/03/15/using-freem-with-blinkm-maxm/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2011/03/15/using-freem-with-blinkm-maxm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While FreeM is mostly designed to work with BlinkMs and MinMs, it can be made to work with MaxMs.   FreeM cannot supply the power that MaxMs need (250mA and FreeM can only supply up to 100mA), but there are other ways.  One way to do it is to power the FreeM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BlinkM Battery Pack HowTo</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2011/02/25/blinkm-battery-pack-howto/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2011/02/25/blinkm-battery-pack-howto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Make a long-lasting, rechargeable battery pack for your BlinkM MaxM, BlinkM, or BlinkM MinM using just pliers, no soldering!

BlinkMs are perfect for portable, stand-alone uses.  There are many ways to hook a BlinkM to battery sources.  Here's one way that works for all BlinkMs.



BlinkM Battery Pack: Step 1: Get all the parts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ReflashBlinkM: Update your BlinkM&#8217;s firmware</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/11/19/reflashblinkm-update-your-blinkms-firmware/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/11/19/reflashblinkm-update-your-blinkms-firmware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://todbot.com/blog/?p=906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All BlinkM-family devices can have their firmware updated. This makes them great for tiny development boards for ATtiny processors. ReflashBlinkM is an application that makes it easy to put back the original firmware or update a BlinkM to the latest firmware.

Previously you needed an AVR ISP programmer like the AVRISPmkII or the USBtinyISP. Thanks [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hacking USB HID for Easy Tethered Ubicomp</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/09/22/hacking-usb-hid-for-easy-tethered-ubicomp/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/09/22/hacking-usb-hid-for-easy-tethered-ubicomp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://todbot.com/blog/?p=870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At this years Sketching in Hardware conference, I gave a talk on the general approach I used to create LinkM, ThingM's USB-to-I2C adapter for programming and controlling BlinkMs.  I called it "Hacking USB HID for Easy Tethered Ubicomp" (4.8MB PDF) to give it a form that fit within some of the larger issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ThingM at Maker Faire 2010</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/05/30/thingm-at-maker-faire-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2010/05/30/thingm-at-maker-faire-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 23:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My company ThingM had an official presence at Maker Faire this year.  We were showing off the BlinkM line, including the new BlinkM MinM and the LinkM USB BlinkM controller.  It was a lot of fun.  And packed!


(click any photo to go to larger version on Flickr)

We were in the Maker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wiichuck Adapter on TV!</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2009/02/28/wiichuck-adapter-on-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2009/02/28/wiichuck-adapter-on-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Woohoo, my little Wiichuck adpter for experimenting with the Wii nuchuck made it on TV, thanks to my buddy John Park and Make: TV.  





See the Makezine blog post with the segment, or watch it here:

Maker Workshop - Personal Flight Recorder on Make: television from make magazine on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get on the BlinkM Bus with a BlinkM Cylon</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/06/17/get-on-the-blinkm-bus-with-a-blinkm-cylon/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/06/17/get-on-the-blinkm-bus-with-a-blinkm-cylon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

BlinkMs are a lot of fun by themselves, but they’re also little network devices, each having its own address on an I2C network. Here’s where I think BlinkM can really shine since it makes controlling multiple RGB LEDs pretty easy. For Maker Faire, I wanted to show off this facet by having a single [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>ThingM &amp; BlinkM at Maker Faire!</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/05/02/thingm-blinkm-at-maker-faire/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/05/02/thingm-blinkm-at-maker-faire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 01:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ThingM (Mike and me and some friends) will be at Maker Faire Bay Area 2008 this weekend. Come by and visit us!

Our bench will be about "Experiments with Smart LEDs". Basically we're showing off BlinkM, the projects that led up to BlinkM, like my experiments with Smart LEDs, some future products we're working on, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;WiiChuck&#8221; Wii Nunchuck Adapter Available</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/18/wiichuck-wii-nunchuck-adapter-available/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/18/wiichuck-wii-nunchuck-adapter-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to hook up a Wii Nunchuck to an Arduino but don't want to cut up the cord on  your Nunchuck?  Yeah me too.  So I made some of these:





It's a small PCB that adapts the Wii Nunchuck connector to standard 4-pin header. I call it the "wiichuck adapter". It plugs [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>251</slash:comments>
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		<title>BlinkM for Obama on BoingBoing</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/06/blinkm-for-obama-on-boingboing/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/06/blinkm-for-obama-on-boingboing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yay, BlinkM made it onto BoingBoing!



"Homemade Obama "hope beacon" with LED light thingies"

It's a pity there isn't a movie of the poster in action.  I'd like to see how the light script they programmed into the BlinkMs [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>BlinkM Hello, Video Guides, Example Code</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/25/blinkm-hello-video-guides-example-code/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/25/blinkm-hello-video-guides-example-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/25/blinkm-hello-video-guides-example-code/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a BlinkM:

BlinkMs are "smart LEDs", a type of smart interface component.  A BlinkM consists of an ultrabirght RGB LED backed with a microcontroller with built-in knowledge about 24-bit color spaces, color fading, and color pattern generation. All in a package 0.6'' wide.  You talk to it over I2C, a serial [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>WineM lights, a BlinkM predecessor</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/24/winem-lights-a-blinkm-predecessor/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/24/winem-lights-a-blinkm-predecessor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With BlinkMs available for purchase soon, I figured it would be neat to show what a large collection of them can do.  BlinkMs were created from my desire to have a "smart LED" that did its own tri-color PWM. I didn't want to build a real-time system to control the PWM of several [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Things at ThingM, my Berkeley INFO290-13 talk</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/11/09/things-at-thingm/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/11/09/things-at-thingm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Nov 8th I was a guest lecturer at the "Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces" class at UC Berkeley. It's a physical computing course, about "a new approach to HCI which focuses on the physical interaction with computational media."  The class has both lecture and lab components.  The lab section [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>WineM prototype at NextFest</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/09/12/winem-prototype-at-nextfest/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/09/12/winem-prototype-at-nextfest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

WineM solves the problem of remembering all the information about the wines in a large wine rack, cellar or cabinet, or searching through that data. This smart wine rack makes that information always accessible and updatable.

ThingM will be at Wired's NextFest conference, showing off a prototype of our WineM product.  Come visit us [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Smart Interface Components, my Sketching07 talk</title>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/07/03/smart-interface-components-my-sketching07-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/07/03/smart-interface-components-my-sketching07-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>todbot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

The Sketching in Hardware 2 conference was a blast. So many interesting people and ideas. I wish we could have it every few months.  Mike has his notes and a good summary of this year's Sketching.

My talk was on "Smart Interface Components".  It was a generalization of the things I've been thinking [...]]]></description>
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