Making Things
Today, I sent off my proposal for the 2010 Maker Faire in Newcastle. I should find out in January if I've been accepted. It'll be the same Compukit UK101 exhibit as last year, plus some new goings-on with the Arduino and maybe some other 8-bit chips.
Meanwhile, I have acquired an STM8S Discovery development board for the ST Microelectronics STM8 CPU. It was less than a fiver from Farnell. I'm considering an LPCXpresso from NXP, too, but of course that's a 32-bit ARM chip. In the lab, I have put together a 40-bit LED display based on five 8-bit shift registers (74HC595). At Dorkbot Bristol, I worked with David Henshall on a wire-bending rig that ended up featured on the Make magazine blog:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/curious_wire_bending_machine.html
Meanwhile, I have acquired an STM8S Discovery development board for the ST Microelectronics STM8 CPU. It was less than a fiver from Farnell. I'm considering an LPCXpresso from NXP, too, but of course that's a 32-bit ARM chip. In the lab, I have put together a 40-bit LED display based on five 8-bit shift registers (74HC595). At Dorkbot Bristol, I worked with David Henshall on a wire-bending rig that ended up featured on the Make magazine blog:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/curious_wire_bending_machine.html