Once More With Feeling.

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more information at http://dorkbotpdx.org/workshop/arduino/cult_induction_rev2

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Happy Birthday to Me!

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I am old. I won’t say how old exactly but I am half way through a few experiments. Life, work. It makes me very happy that three of these experiments will be funded as Tempus Dictum Projects. The Dorkboard. The Benito Serial Programmer The Arduino Cult Induction Series. (Next Induction Sunday June 22) I would… Read more »

Happy Birtday to Me!

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I am old. I won’t say how old exactly but I am half way through a few experiments.

Three of these experiments will be funded as Tempus Dictum Products.

  1. The Dorkboard.

  2. The Benito Serial Programmer

  3. The Arduino Cult Induction Series.
    (Next Induction Sunday June 22)

This is clearly Jasons Fault.

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Write Locally Post Globally

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I like wordpress. It allows me to do much of what I post on the web without having to look at the underlying html and still letting me at the html. In fact I use WordPress to to post on Dorkbots Drupal pages. It is easier than hand rolling html and the new wordpress saves… Read more »

The Really Really Bare Bones Arduino

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This has been reposted on dorkbotpdx.org A few weeks ago I bought the last of the Really Bare Bones Arduino rev A boards from Brian at Wulfden (http://wulfden.org/freeduino/freeduino.shtml) I now have enough boards for one more workshop and then we have to reevaluate the boards which are avaliable. Pictured below is a finished board from… Read more »

Benito#7 The next big thing.

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There were a few lessons that I learned at the Arduino Cult induction workshop that I put together this month. One of which was that I needed to simplify my programmer design on the cable end and not wait until I had a full blown product. Revisiting the original I first revised the ftdi boards… Read more »

Arduino Cult Induction — Follow up part 1.

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First of all I was really happy that so many people showed up and got as far into their construction as they did.

27 people and only one dead board.

I now know that getting all of that done in under 3 hours was a little ambitious. (The pacing was initially based on the photo session at http://www.flickr.com/photos/7175086@N05/sets/72157604783725339/ which took 20 minutes from start to finish)

For those of you who were unable to finish the cable Jacob Hedwig has provided a clear picture of a working cable at