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donblair "Yeah! It's fun to picture this device being used in the mode of an old-fashioned 'light meter' held next to an infragram camera and which accounts..." | Read more » almost 10 years ago
donblair "Here she is! IR sensor hasn't yet been placed, but here's the basic idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI041unDNr8 " | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Hi Jeff -- great idea! That's how they currently do it on the mchck.org design, too. For reference, students could use the LeoStick Eagle design f..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Thanks Jack! Great to hear re: your surface mount experience. I'm looking forward to trying it out myself. I haven't ordered a stencil -- but tha..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Hi All, Great discussion here. It sounds to me like designing the breakout board for the Visualight would be an excellent student project, and co..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Awesome! FLIR-tin' with greatness, here. " | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Great question! :) We are currently developing appropriate sensor technology, and will soon investigate. " | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Hi! Sorry for the delayed reply -- been a bit crazy with other projects, but still excited about this! On reflection, rather than add extra power..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Woohoo! Quick replies / queries: Do you have a link to the Visualight schematics? I should check them out, as Jeff was hoping to use their more..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Jeff -- ah, I see -- good point! I don't think I'm finding the proper Visualight schematic ... file:///home/chronos/user/Downloads/strip_02-schema..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Alright, I've changed the design to use a 32u4 processor (like the Leonardo), based on the Adafruit Flora schematic. The layout isn't quite finish..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Cool, I just added a screw terminal footprint, and a footprint for a resistor -- so now it's also a thermal fishing bob device (the board layout in..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "... this is sort of 'mission creep', but: if we add a footprint for a screw terminal and an extra resistor, we could connect up a thermistor -- and..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Woohoo! Sure thing -- I'll ask Ray re: his process (and if he has any spare components lying about), and get an ETA on ordering a PCB (from OSH Pa..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "For what it's worth: I just added a header to the board to break out pins A0,A1,A2,D3, D5, D6, SDA, SCL (the I2C bus), VCC, and GND -- so that folk..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "So I went ahead and mashed up the Rayshobby design with the Sparkfun breakout -- note: Squarewear runs on 3.3V, so the 3.3V version of the IR chip ..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Also, if it helps: there's an Eagle schematic for the associated breakout board for the IR device on Sparkfun, here: https://www.sparkfun.com/pro..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "This is cool! Quick aside: a friend in Amherst makes an open source board, "SquareWear", which is a wearable electronics device that has an RGB le..." | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair "Update: Amherst College has posted a follow-up on their Facebook page, here: https://www.facebook.com/amherstcollege/posts/690441407761 " | Read more » about 10 years ago
donblair ""this is worse than it looks" -- hahaha! indeed -- but you snatched aerial imagery awesomeness from the jaws of muddy lens malfunction defeat and c..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
donblair "(... and in case the resultant HTML is at all useful, it's here: https://github.com/Pioneer-Valley-Open-Science/infragram-js ) " | Read more » over 10 years ago
donblair "I've got your code working locally, and it's gorgeous. Just to play around, I tried adding in some of your video instructions as explanation on th..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
donblair "HOLY COW. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
donblair "Hi Chris -- great stuff! Changed the color bar in an attempt to match yours (haven't yet implemented the max / min values, yet), and added some ex..." | Read more » over 10 years ago