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Micro Monday – I2C, TC74 & Xbee
Posted on January 10, 2012 | 3 CommentsTonight at the first Micro Monday of 2012, we learned the basics of I2C communication using the Arduino Uno and the TC74 I2C temperature sensor. Mack (f00bard) led us through... -
Extreme Makeover: Lab Edition (Day 1)
Posted on December 4, 2011 | 3 CommentsFamiLAB has finally moved into the new space, but it needs a little techie touch so we decided to go to town. Day 1 we focused on getting the RFID... -
Clocks, I2C, Serial and You
Posted on July 12, 2011 | 1 CommentI bought a bunch of parts awhile back with the good intention of building a bright, blue LED clock for my desk at work. Unfortunately, I got side tracked and... -
Wait, what’s that? An award nomination?
Posted on June 29, 2011 | No CommentsOne of our members, Ian, was recently nominated for the 2011 Forty Under 40 in the Orlando Business Journal. Check it out here. Ian has been doing a lot of... -
Velleman IR Light Barrier Kit Review
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsSo I’ve been teaching myself to solder using various kits from Adafruit, Sparkfun, and our local store, Skycraft. This kit is from Velleman and I bought it over at aforementioned... -
Lab Audio System
Posted on May 17, 2011 | No CommentsChorca sent this out to the mailing list, but it bears repeating because its awesome: Last night I was up at the lab with sirwolfgang and we worked on his... -
Make it Tweet Challenge
Posted on May 16, 2011 | No CommentsOver at the lab there are rumblings of the next big project that we’re going to work on. Sure, there are a ton of contests, challenges, and open problems in... -
famduino gets a voice
Posted on February 6, 2011 | 1 Commentimport twitter import os from time import sleep from pipes import quote api = twitter.Api(consumer_key='', consumer_secret='', access_token_key='', access_token_secret='', input_encoding='utf-8') sid_file = open('/home/familab/sid.famduino','r+') cache_sid = sid_file.readline() if cache_sid ==...