My Virtual Life

After this post on my donkey update  I learned some things, much of it from Adafruit Support on the forum in this thread . First I was ...

Adafruit Feather M0, with MusicMaker and PWM/Servo FeatherWing stacked, running the Head Move Donkey code: plays "Donkey Serenade...

V3.1 in the enclosure. Ignore the external speaker--it's a vestige. Ready to tidy up for V4. As I said in my last post on this proj...

Cauldron V3 in-process. The large speaker will be removed--replaced by the small green on in the enclosure. The red FTDI Friend a...

I have been neglecting my Arduino interests in favor of amateur radio recently. So, I bought a book "Arduino for Ham Radio." One...

This chapter ends with the concept for another robot, this time one that responds to light with photoresistors. I decided not to go all the ...

Design change:  I have ruled out the CR1220's (not enough battery life, too hard to change), and the CR2032's (too bulky). +Becky St...

This is an ongoing saga. I got the idea to put the neopixel tiara on an actual tiara for my granddaughter's Nursery School graduation in...

This was a fun project.  The final tiara project its for my granddaughter's pre-school graduation. I would have done a mortar board, bu...

Here's the latest, from  +Make:  Electronics. Experiment 18 uses 3 single digit 7-segment displays, 3 4026 decade counter chips (1 for e...

It's finished. See video The final steps were: desolder the floating wire on the LED+ desolder the GND wire, cut it to the same len...

I got the LEDs to work. I verified all the other connections I tried a 5mm LED in the circuit instead of the LED sequin I desoldered--no...

I drilled the hole in the case for connecting the Trinket.  From the webs, I ascertained that I needed about a 1/16" bit (.0625 for a ....

OK. Problem 1 is that, despite  +Phillip Burgess  ' warning, I soldered the Piezo to the Trinket before I wired it correctly (in my defe...

When last we saw this, I was waiting to get replacement 3D printed parts back from the service I used. The first print was missing the handl...

Here are some of the great things that happened in 2014 (maybe the best year ever): I found Adafruit ! +Adafruit has made my life better. ...

This is my next project, from a tutorial on the Adafruit Learning System .  I enjoyed working with the Pro Trinket in the Donkey project, so...

In 1978, I bought a wind-up donkey for my daughter, then an infant. The donkey moved its head while playing “Donkey Serenade.”  I...