Game modding with pen and paper

I have lots of good memories from youth camps. Some involve playing Donkey Kong and Mario Brothers while sitting on trees. Another classic video game was Asteroids. When I recently read an article in a German magazine about building an Asteroids clone with an Arduino and an OLED, lots of old memories resurfaced. The source… Continue reading Game modding with pen and paper

Adding a display to rfid time tracking

More than a year ago, I blogged here about using RFID to track presence times in the BORM ERP system. I used the system a lot since then. But the BlinkM was really limited as the only immediate feedback channel. To use it with multiple users, a display was needed. The default Arduino compatible displays… Continue reading Adding a display to rfid time tracking

LED debugging the stereowrap hardware

I found out earlier that 5V is not enough to drive the shutter glasses. With my breadboard setup for stereowrap, I fed 12V to the op amps from an external source. Now that I moved the thing to a strip board, I added a step up converter that generates 12V from the 5V available on… Continue reading LED debugging the stereowrap hardware

Reviving my vintage 3d shutter glasses

Many people don’t even know that there were 3d rushes before the one that’s currently fading. In a previous one, some ten years ago, I bought a very expensive ASUS graphics card with shutter glasses. It was really cool for gaming with the 21 inch CRT, but nothing compared to the graphics of today’s games.… Continue reading Reviving my vintage 3d shutter glasses

Arduino code to interface the MS5607B Intersema barometric pressure sensor through i2c

It was not quite as easy as I anticipated to interface the MS5607B sensors that I had sitting around for quite some time now. Sure, wiring them up is a lot easier. Although I still don’t like soldering SMD. In the end, it worked out, and the code can be downloaded with the links below.… Continue reading Arduino code to interface the MS5607B Intersema barometric pressure sensor through i2c