As per usual, I got distracted and changed my mind about the Hackaday design challenge. I decided that it would be cool to have a general purpose AVR board with a voltage regulator and motor controller. I drew up a version last night with large prototype areas, but I think I will change it tonight to have a smaller prototype area, and a cage-clamp style connector.
Here is a preview of the initial board.
In an effort to keep track of the projects that I want to work on, I created a little list. See the “My Current Projects” link over to the right—>
OK, quickie. Here’s the library for a Hackaday logo in Eagle.
Here’s my new blog, blah, blah. We’ll see how often it gets updated. The new WordPress online interface should help with that though.
Hack A Day is having a design challenge/contest so I decided throw my hat in the ring. Since the management at my work put the kibosh on lunchtime BZFlag, those of us who are adolescent-at-heart have been looking for a new game to play that doesn’t involve the company network. I came up with the idea of “Cubicle Tag”, where everyone wears a small PCB with an IR transmitter and receiver. One board is designated as “it’ and beeps or flashes, something annoying to make you not want to be “it” anymore. Pressing a button on the board will send an IR signal, which will set a receiving board to be “it”. So it’s kind of like laser tag, but less laser and more tag.
Here is a preview of the PCB.
