Hello all,
Well I have been lurking around here for the last week or so. Checking out all the gear and stuff.
I remember when I was a kid. I build a LED chaser with the ubiquitous 4017 Johnstone counter. I had red, orange, green and even a pink led in there. I would turn out the lights and just watch them in the dark. Ode to be a kid again.
Well with blinky flashies you never get to old, you just want more of them.
So what brings me here. Well actually I here cause I'm a techie guy into micros USB PICs etc. Some of you may have crossed paths with me on other forums or in my past work with TE (TEC computer before the place got raided by the cops) and Newfound Electronics (WARP-13 PIC programmer).
I sort of found myself in this world when somebody posted a question on the microchip forum and DMX came up. DM what? I thought. So I googled it and thought fair enough could be interesting to play with. So then I starting looking around for equipment etc and came across the Velleman k8062. Didn't buy one after reading about all the problems. Instead I mocked one up and wrote my own firmware for it, plus a receiver and voila! The man has blinky flashies. There are some posts on other forums and in the opendmx wiki about this project but as no one here seems to be using this substandard controller I wont bore you with the details.
So now I have some plans for world domination. Well not really but I have tons of PICs and LEDs and a soldering station. Maybe I will do something for Christmas this year. Got some ws2801 thingies from Sparkfun and hope to wire them up soon. And then there is the old 8x8 led matrix from the good ol' TEC days, just waiting to be loved again.
So anyway, Greetings and stuff. Maybe I can be of use around here or maybe not. Let's see.
-Jim
Well I have been lurking around here for the last week or so. Checking out all the gear and stuff.
I remember when I was a kid. I build a LED chaser with the ubiquitous 4017 Johnstone counter. I had red, orange, green and even a pink led in there. I would turn out the lights and just watch them in the dark. Ode to be a kid again.
Well with blinky flashies you never get to old, you just want more of them.
So what brings me here. Well actually I here cause I'm a techie guy into micros USB PICs etc. Some of you may have crossed paths with me on other forums or in my past work with TE (TEC computer before the place got raided by the cops) and Newfound Electronics (WARP-13 PIC programmer).
I sort of found myself in this world when somebody posted a question on the microchip forum and DMX came up. DM what? I thought. So I googled it and thought fair enough could be interesting to play with. So then I starting looking around for equipment etc and came across the Velleman k8062. Didn't buy one after reading about all the problems. Instead I mocked one up and wrote my own firmware for it, plus a receiver and voila! The man has blinky flashies. There are some posts on other forums and in the opendmx wiki about this project but as no one here seems to be using this substandard controller I wont bore you with the details.
So now I have some plans for world domination. Well not really but I have tons of PICs and LEDs and a soldering station. Maybe I will do something for Christmas this year. Got some ws2801 thingies from Sparkfun and hope to wire them up soon. And then there is the old 8x8 led matrix from the good ol' TEC days, just waiting to be loved again.
So anyway, Greetings and stuff. Maybe I can be of use around here or maybe not. Let's see.
-Jim
