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J. August Luhrs

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DeathVibe

Monday 05.13.19
Posted by August Luhrs
 

Final Project: Deathwatch 3.0 and Kickstarter Plan/Design

Monday 04.29.19
Posted by August Luhrs
 

DeathBeats // DeathBloom

Monday 03.25.19
Posted by August Luhrs
 

DeathWatch 2.0

  • Hassles

    • Circuit Playgrounds

      • I remember now how much of a hassle it is to upload code onto a circuit playground….

      • only works if you don’t mess up the drivers/bootloader, and then you have to press reset twice when the uploader is scanning the COM ports

    • OLED Display Adafruit vs Amazon

      • helpful Amazon review

    • Vibration Motor Button

    • Bitmap maker

      • en.radzio.dxp.pl LCD Assistant

      • couldn’t figure out what the height and width of the pixel array was, it wasn’t the height and width of the image, or the number of bytes per row/# of columns in the array

      • convertio.co/bmp-xbm issue with drawXBM

      • what the hell did I even do, I don’t know

        • logo maker

        • BMP maker

        • converter

        • u8g2 documentation drawXBMP

        • PROGMEM

  • 2.0 feels like an improvement overall, but aspects of the first I like better

    • graphics

    • fabric pattern

    • motor

    • r/l buttons

  • next

    • clean XBM

    • random randomSeed

    • adjust timer

    • see how the vibration feels

    • fix text “months” ex.

    • battery lilypad b/c I forgot how much I hate plugging/unplugging JSTM plugs

  • Slides outline

    • old one

    • circuit

    • bitmap / font

    • layout plan

      • no exposed wires

      • really tough to layer the highways

    • hoop

    • silicone coating

    • battery pack (upside down stich mad)

    • vibration motor stopped working, the transistor leg had broken off, but thought it had to do with the resistance of the long GND stitch, so took it out and when I realized it was the leg, decided to just throw a wire in there since it wasn’t going to show anyway, then cut the transistor legs and just soldered them to a new transistor, and b/c the legs were so close I dabbed some liquid electrical tape (it was 5am, i was so done)

    • then sewing the top two and bottom two, then them together

      • simple stitch

      • invisible ladder stitch

    • 730am

    • desk

      • whole spool of thread

Monday 02.25.19
Posted by August Luhrs
 

Week 1: Simple Circuits

Sorry, this week’s blog post will be super underdeveloped, as I had to move apartments all week and only got started on this today. Some brief notes:

  • I originally wanted to put the Lilypad LEDs all up and down both sides of my jacket’s zipper, and either have an elevator light sort of effect (where the LEDs would only light up as the zipper passed them) or have the whole series light up when the jacket was fully zipped. Unfortunately, my LiPo seemed to have gotten damaged in the move, and my other LiPo recently had the same issue with the wires detatching (and I’m too scared to try and solder it back), so I had to resort to the coin cell holder. That plus my lack of time made for a bare-minimum project.

  • I haven’t made a project with a zipper switch in a couple years, and I forgot how tough it is for the zipper to get over the thread if you make it too bulky. In retrospect, I should have made the contacts a lot neater, to allow for the zipper to glide over better. As it is right now, the zipper has a lot of trouble moving smoothly, and the effect suffers as a result.

  • I hate this thread. I usually use adafruit conductive thread (can’t remember if it was 2 ply or 3 ply), but since I ordered from sparkfun, I figured I’d try their thread out. It was constantly kinky and knotty (and not the good kind), and it even broke my poor needle threader thing :( will only use as a last resort from now on.

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Sunday 02.03.19
Posted by August Luhrs
 

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