Flash now talking to breadboard prototype

Posted by patrick in Arduino, Combining Technologies, Flash & More, Merapi, PersonalJul 29th, 2009 | 5 Comments

The Guys from Merapi pointed me towards their AS3-only branch on SVN.
It took me while the get my test running, mainly because I forgot to use the registerClassAlias function in flash, which ended up in Java not recognizing my messages.

After a succesful test, I quickly hacked a swf-module that could be loaded into version 2 of the Ukulele Chord Finder ( version 1 can be found at http://www.ukulele.nl ) that we have under development.
So now we can talk to Merapi Straight from the browser.

I also managed to turn the Java Side of the Merapi-Bridge into a Mac application.
So here’s a video of the things I made.

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First breadboard prototype finished

Posted by patrick in Arduino, Combining Technologies, Flash & More, MerapiJul 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Well, it took a lot of wires but here’s the first breadboard prototype:

The Arduino with Protoshield and Breadboard with ledmatrix

The Arduino with Protoshield and Breadboard with ledmatrix

On the left we have an Arduino Decimila with a prototypeshield on top.
The prototypeshield contains a max7221 ic 2 capacitors and a resistor.
The breadboard contains 64 leds in a 8×8 matrix.
I was aiming for a 4×16 setup, but there was no way I could get the wiring done on one 1 breadboard.

The 8x8 ledmatrix

The 8×8 ledmatrix

So far this is just a worked out example of : http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/MAX72XXHardware

The Arduino is now running a simple loop.
Next stop is writing an intelligent layer like firmata.
So more to come soon……

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prototyping of ukulele arduino and merapi started

Posted by patrick in PersonalJul 13th, 2009 | No Comments

I Just started to prototype the ledUkulele.

I got myself a max7221 IC and hooked it up to the arduino board.
I’m now thinking of good way to wire the 4*16 matrix
basically a 8×8 matrix but the physical postion of the odd rows is behind the even rows.
Designing this matrix on a breadboard sucks (too many wires), so I need to come up with a better way without soldering.  (suggestions welcome)