Arduino library for the MGC3130

2015-05-13 06:38 by Ian

This post will cover the theory-of-operation of a driver for Microchip's weird and wonderful MGC3130 e-field gesture sensor. I will be using Microchip's Hillstar dev kit for the MGC3130, a chipKIT Fubarino Mini, and MPIDE. But the library ought to work with any other Arduino-esque microcontroller provided it has Wire.h.

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MurumLux: Overview

2015-05-12 22:20 by Ian

This is a high-level overview of MurumLux (Latin: "Wall of light"). It is a demo piece I built using Microchip's current top-of-the-line microcontroller. The chipKIT team wanted something eye-popping and fun to use for the bay area Maker Faire (May 2015). This is what I rolled for them.

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WebRemote Relocation

2015-03-18 10:09 by Ian

I have consolidated my domain (sapienciaexmachina.com) into this one. This is the first post on the WebRemote category.

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Fixing deficiencies in the Arduino IDE

2015-03-15 18:43 by Ian

In this poast (yes: "poast"), I will show you how to include libraries within libraries in the Arduino IDE and not break functionality elsewhere.

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Armalite M15

2014-11-26 11:19 by Ian

A running log of my Armalite M15 configuration.

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Removing a lodged bullet

2014-11-26 11:16 by Ian

If you hand-load your own ammunition, at some point you will likely experience a lodged bullet. This isn’t a big deal if you handle it correctly. What follows is my experience removing a lodged bullet from the barrel of my Dan Wesson .357.

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Three-minute history of telephony

2014-11-11 12:44 by Ian

This is something I wrote for some coworkers in an effort to describe why the telephone signalling system is full of what appears to be arbitrary cruft and inconsistency. I thought it might be worth poasting.

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How to properly abuse a prioirty queue

2014-10-20 21:16 by Ian

My collection of C++ classes has grown to include a priority queue template. Here is that template, and an example of how to make it do something it wasn't written to do: Calculate statistical mode.

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Durango-Silverton Trip

2014-09-14 00:05 by Ian

Photos from recent trip.

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Crosspoint Audio Router with Volume Control

2014-05-27 08:35 by Ian

I've been needing this part for a long time now. So I've finally gotten around to doing the design work and making a production-worthy module.

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