- Google Android python development with ASE (Android Scripting Environment) Over the holiday period, Sarah and I went visiting at her mum’s in Ipswich. Now, I’m not saying that they lack technology down there or anything, but there was no internet connection. None whatsoever. Zilch. Nada. Eeek! What’s a techie guy meant to do in that situation? I didn’t have a laptop or notebook with […]
- Electronic Robot Car – L293D – 5v Motors – ATTiny – AVR The other day, well actually quite a lot of days ago, Thomas, one of my twin boys, asked about making an electronic car. It seems that they might be making an electronic car at school soon, and he wanted to get a head start … awww, bless him, he’s only 8 🙂 So I thought […]
- Flashing LEDs – Audio Meter – AVR ATTiny – Guitar Pickup Wiring – Sound Following Circuit You just gotta love the title, eh? 🙂 Recently I’ve been working on modding my guitar, in particular add some flashing LEDs to the guitar innards. I’ve got another project on the go too, but I’ll save that for a later post when I’ve finished it. Anyway, the effect I wanted was to have the […]
- The gig was awesome! It’s Sunday, and yet I’m still buzzing from Friday night’s gig. Everything went really well … … erm, apart from breaking a string in the first song, the guts of my guitar’s jack hanging out, breaking a ground connection on the pots meaning the LED flashing unit stomped all over the guitar sound (so I […]
- It's almost gig time … Yeah, it’s almost time to play. The band have been together now for, ooh what is it, something like seven or eight months, and we’re finally getting there. Two days time and we have our first gig, albeit one in front of a friendly audience. I’ll tell you the full history one day, but for […]