I promise to take some photos of my current projects this week.  At least, the ones that aren’t secret.  Shhhh.  I’ve been sketching out some ideas for some new microcontroller-driven effects modules.  If my sketches prove to translate realistically into the real world, I should be able to make some pretty unique devices.  So unique, [...]

Seems like all of the other geeky blogs online are jumping on the Arduinome bandwagon, so I might as well.  Just kidding.  I’ve been eyeing up the Monome since it first came out.  I was even on one of the first waiting lists for the Monome 40h, but when my turn came around I didn’t [...]

Finally, someone has shoehorned the Atmega 644P into the Arduino development circle.  Zach Hoeken of NYC Resistor has managed to put together an update to the Arduino 0012 Development Suite and design a new Arduino-style board to allow the use of the 644P’s superior I/O support and enhanced Flash/RAM.  The Sanguino, as Zach calls it, [...]

I found NKC Electronics by accident while searching for Arduino kits on eBay. I ordered their USB Arduino Decimilia-compatible “Freeduino” board kit and assembled it a few days ago. I’m impressed! It works great and they pre-solder the surface mount FTDI USB-to-Serial bridge for you. They kept the form factor for Arduino Shields along with [...]