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  • Video from Maker Faire New York 2011 October 01, 2011

    Video from Maker Faire New York 2011

    This year at Maker Faire has been with a high focus on robotics, and in this video I have tried to capture a wide variety of the projects that was shown off at the faire.

  • New bootloader file for ATmega8L January 16, 2011

    New bootloader file for ATmega8L

    When using the LCD I/O Backpack with the ATmega8L-8AU, you need a bootloader that runs at 8 MHz.

  • Alternative programming cable for LCD I/O Backpack January 15, 2011

    Alternative programming cable for LCD I/O Backpack

    A little over a month ago, I saw a post at Let’s Make Robots about making your own “FTDI” cable equivalent.

  • RFID Readers with Netduino January 03, 2011

    RFID Readers with Netduino

    Up until now, all I had done with the Netduino was blink the built-in LED, but after seeing a question on the Netduino forum regarding two RFID readers I had laying around, I got inspired and did a few tests.

  • Converting between 2mm and 100mil pin spacing January 02, 2011

    Converting between 2mm and 100mil pin spacing

    For the post about RFID readers with Netduino, I had to use the ID-20 reader from ID Innovations that has very short pins with 2mm spacing and not the breadboard friendly 100mil spacing.