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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>BlinkM &#038; Arduino 3D models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a really quick 3D model of BlinkM, if anyone needs it.  It&#8217;s accurate to ~0.1mm.

- blinkm.skp &#8212; BlinkM SketchUp model
- rgb_led_piranha.skp &#8212; Piranha RGB LED SketchUp model
And here it is plugged  into the awesomely done Arduino Diecimila model by Jon-Paul from the Google 3D Warehouse.

SketchUp is pretty great, but I found a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/06/23/blinkm-arduino-3d-models/</link>
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		<title>How To Do Big Strings in Arduino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arduino makes it pretty easy to store &#038; use character strings, but those strings compete with your variables, so you can&#8217;t do as much.  Here&#8217;s how to put big strings into read-only program memory and use them.
Lots of sketches can have big strings in them.  Maybe you&#8217;ve built a little command-line interface or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/06/19/how-to-do-big-strings-in-arduino/</link>
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		<title>Get on the BlinkM Bus with a BlinkM Cylon</title>
		<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 Arduino [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/06/17/get-on-the-blinkm-bus-with-a-blinkm-cylon/</link>
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		<title>ThingM &#038; BlinkM at Maker Faire!</title>
		<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 &#8220;Experiments with Smart LEDs&#8221;. Basically we&#8217;re showing off BlinkM, the projects that led up to BlinkM, like my experiments with Smart LEDs, some future products we&#8217;re working on, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/05/02/thingm-blinkm-at-maker-faire/</link>
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		<title>FunGizmo&#8217;s colorful tiny breadboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just received some colorful tiny mini-breadboards from FunGizmos.com.  They are pretty great.  Now quickie ideas prototyped with Arduino can be even smaller than the &#8220;1¢ Arduino under-shield&#8221;.

They appear to be the same quality as the other breadboards I have, just different color  plastic.  I can already tell the colors will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/04/28/fungizmos-colorful-tiny-breadboards/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;WiiChuck&#8221; Wii Nunchuck Adapter Available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to hook up a Wii Nunchuck to an Arduino but don&#8217;t want to cut up the cord on  your Nunchuck?  Yeah me too.  So I made some of these:


It&#8217;s a small PCB that adapts the Wii Nunchuck connector to standard 4-pin header. I call it the &#8220;wiichuck adapter&#8221;. It plugs directly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/18/wiichuck-wii-nunchuck-adapter-available/</link>
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		<title>BlinkM for Obama on BoingBoing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yay, BlinkM made it onto BoingBoing!

&#8220;Homemade Obama &#8220;hope beacon&#8221; with LED light thingies&#8221;
It&#8217;s a pity there isn&#8217;t a movie of the poster in action.  I&#8217;d like to see how the light script they programmed into the BlinkMs looked.
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		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/06/blinkm-for-obama-on-boingboing/</link>
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		<title>Bezel for Sparkfun&#8217;s &#8220;Monome-like&#8221; Button Pad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

This is a laser-cut acrylic bezel for Sparkfun&#8217;s Monome-like Button Pad PCB and Button Pad.  These 4&#215;4 Button Pads are great: big chunky buttons with a PCB that can take an RGB LED. JMG is making a &#8220;monomuino&#8221;, a Monome work-alike using this pad and an Arduino.  And he&#8217;s extending the Monome functionality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/31/bezel-for-sparkfuns-monome-like-button-pad/</link>
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		<title>BlinkM Hello, Video Guides, Example Code</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a BlinkM:

BlinkMs are &#8220;smart LEDs&#8221;, 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&#8221; wide.  You talk to it over I2C, a serial protocol [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/25/blinkm-hello-video-guides-example-code/</link>
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		<title>WineM lights, a BlinkM predecessor</title>
		<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 &#8220;smart LED&#8221; that did its own tri-color PWM. I didn&#8217;t want to build a real-time system to control the PWM of several hundred [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/24/winem-lights-a-blinkm-predecessor/</link>
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		<title>In Processing, size() matters for Serial ports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Allen of Machine Project is teaching an Arduino course using some of the notes from my Bionic Arduino class.  He and his students were seeing in Windows XP &#038; 2000, when trying to getting Processing to talk to Arduino, the cryptic error:

  gnu.io.PortInUseException: Unknown Application
        [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/14/in-processing-size-matters-for-serial-ports/</link>
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		<title>Intro Arduino class at Machine Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Allen, instigator of Machine Project, is holding an Intro to Arduino class in a few days.
It&#8217;s called &#8220;Intro to Microcontrollers with Arduino&#8220;. 
It will cover many of the same topics covered in my previous Spooky Arduino and Bionic Arduino courses.  So if you&#8217;re near L.A. and want to have some fun programming computers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2008/01/02/intro-arduino-class-at-machine-project/</link>
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		<title>Bionic Arduino Class notes 3 &#038; 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The final set of class notes are up for the &#8220;Bionic Arduino – Intro to microcontrollers with Arduino&#8221; class I taught at Machine Project.

bionic_arduino_class3.pdf (4.9MB PDF) 
bionic_arduino_class4.pdf (6.6MB PDF) 

Also all the examples sketches are up on the Bionic Arduino page too.
The class was a lot of fun, as we got to focus on Wii [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/11/24/bionic-arduino-class-notes-3-4/</link>
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		<title>Bionic Arduino Class notes 1 &#038; 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The class notes are up for the class &#8220;Bionic Arduino – Intro to microcontrollers with Arduino&#8221; I&#8217;m currently teaching at Machine Project.

bionic_arduino_class1.pdf (7.7MB PDF) 
bionic_arduino_class2.pdf (9.2MB PDF) 

The Bionic Arduino page will be updated with more content and the last two set of class notes will be published in a week.
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		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/11/15/bionic-arduino-class-notes-1-2/</link>
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		<title>The 1¢ Arduino under-shield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The various prototyping shields available for Arduino are a great, sturdy way to add a breadboard.  The Boarduino is another nice way to securely attach an Arduino-like device to a breadboard.  But if you already have an Arduino and a solderless breadboard, you can attach the two together with an amazing bit of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://todbot.com/blog/2007/11/14/the-1%c2%a2-arduino-under-shield/</link>
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