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How the Black Mage's Eyes work part 3 by DukeofDummies, journal

How the Black Mage's Eyes work part 3

May 28, 2019

Now that we have the code and the LEDs, we need to talk about the controls. I've been pushing this off big time because explaining how to do this well is hard. Really it's going to take practice, because with my current version I have 17 expressions that can be called at will and that is a lot to take in. I started off with five, and that wasn't enough. I upped it to nine, which was better, but I was just one expression short of what I really wanted, and when I added a system to add the 10th expression I had 7 other spaces left to fill so... I added a lot. The general outline is I have six buttons total. 4 are on top that work like a Dpad,

How the Black Mage's eyes work Part 2 by DukeofDummies, journal

How the Black Mage's eyes work Part 2

Apr 12, 2019

Next, we're moving to the code. https://github.com/dukeofdummies/BlackMageEyes/blob/master/README.md The link above is to the code (github is the best way to share code) If you want to take a look at the code I go into detail there. but I'll dig a little deeper into Adafruit's neopixels here and try to be a bit more beginner friendly. If you've done any work with simple LEDs in the past you might know that getting patterns is... tricky. If we look at the example below, we have 3 green LEDs with 2 different ways to wire them. Let's say we want to turn off the first LED. If we shut off the first LED if we wire them in series... we shut off

How the Black Mage's eyes work by DukeofDummies, journal

How the Black Mage's eyes work

Apr 3, 2019

Well with Anime Detour officially over and a very successful test of the new eyes, I thought it's about time to to give people a rundown on how it works, what I used, and a peek behind the code. The code is going up onto Github, but I wanted to see if I couldn't get the wiring diagrams and parts list here, because I think it's a bit more user friendly. And infinitely better formatted than 20 Facebook posts. First off, List of materials used. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3634 One strip of side glow Neopixel LEDs. Really any set of Neopixels should work the same, this strip as of April 2019 has the highest pixels per inch though. One old

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About Evil-Ed-1

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Jan 23
United States
Deviant for 18 years
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Current Residence: Brevard County, Florida
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Favourite genre of music: ummm... I like them all
Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams
Favourite style of art: I prefer sci-fi/fantasy stuff done in a realistic style.
Operating System: XP Pro
MP3 player of choice: IPhone
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Skin of choice: Mine :-)
Favourite cartoon character: Yacko Wacko and Dot, Zim, Marvin the Martian
Personal Quote: "All your friends are doing it...it will make you look cool"

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Davinci, Raphael, Michael Whelen

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WATCHMEN!! Buckaroo Banzai, Batman Begins, LOTR, Boondock Saints, Serial Experiments Lain

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Blue Oyster Cult, NOFX, Slightly Stoopid, Loreena McKinnet, many others

Favourite Writers

Heinlein, L. Neil Smith, Poe, David Weber, John Ringo

Favourite Games

Guild Wars, Batman Arkham Asylum, Jedi Knight series, Infamous, Portal

Favourite Gaming Platform

PC, quickly being replaced by the Wii.

Tools of the Trade

Nikon D80, PC running XP, Photoshop CS3

Other Interests

Photography, Sculpture, Computers, Books, Motorcycles, metal smithing

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Evil-Ed-1

Jul 18, 2012

Vacation is almost over :-(

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Lots of changes over the last few years. I'm horrible at updating journal entries, 2 years since my last journal update. Back in Maine for vacation. We decided (due to airfare costs and their tendancy to grope passengers these days) to drive to Maine with our 2 children. Quite an adventure driving across country with your family, very National Lampoons Summer Vacation in feel. We've spent almost every day at the local swimming hole teaching the kids to dive down to the bottom for rocks and to do underwater flips. Been playing around with a new Swann HD video camera with an underwater housing so I may post some clips soon of the fun had by all

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Evil-Ed-1

Jun 22, 2010

Vacation!

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Ahhh, back in Ellsworth Maine for vacation. I love it up here, beautiful countryside and clear air! I'll be heading out various places for hikes and pictures over the next 2 weeks. Hopefully we'll get some nice shots with the new 18-200mm VR lens. Going to try out some tips and tricks I read about on www.kenrockwell.com recently for using polarizing and neutral density grad filters. Stay tuned for the next batch of photos.

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Evil-Ed-1

Jul 10, 2009

Life, death, and all that jazz

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Well, we're back in Maine for vacation. It's been a very odd year, and not too pleasant.    Dad passed away in January finally falling victim to the many complications of peripheral circulatory disease. He was rushed to the hospital on Christmas eve with sever stomach cramps and it turned out they had to do emergency surgery to remove part of his intestine. While he was still out from that they had problems with his kidneys shutting down and over the course of the next 3 weeks performed dialysis repeatedly to try and clean the toxins out of his system. He never really regained consciousness after his initial surgery so we didn't ever get to