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Maker Faire

rokickirokicki Posts: 1,000
edited 2012-05-24 14:51 in Propeller 1
Great job on the booth at Maker Faire, Parallax!

I was the guy wearing the Propeller System Module around my neck, displaying
four-color Conway Life for blinking lights. I got a lot of compliments and questions
on the device, so thanks to Ray for making the hardware! (All I did was attach
three AA cells and an Altoids tin cover; the three batteries lasted both days
running full-out with maximum brightness.)

I planned to code most of it in assembly, but ran out of time, so the actual
generation code was running in Spin; turned out to be fast enough at the
resolution I was running. I did hack up Ray's display code so I could update
the screen fast enough.

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  • RaymanRayman Posts: 14,827
    edited 2012-05-24 11:17
    Cool! Glad to hear PSMs are still out there and being used. Thanks. Gives me motivation to get started on PSM2.
    BTW: Love to see a photo, if you have one.
  • rokickirokicki Posts: 1,000
    edited 2012-05-24 14:51
    A photo is most of the way down on this page:

    http://forums.parallax.com/content.php?70-How-was-Maker-Faire-Bay-Area

    I'm the scruffy-looking dude in the blue hat; you can see the display of your
    PSM in that pic.

    I'll take another pic when I get home . . . and probably post the code too.

    Having an onboard display *really* increases the utility of the device, so much
    so that I plan to use this thing for almost everything propeller for a while.

    I'm not properly protecting the device at all at the moment; I just mounted it
    with standoffs to an altoids tin lid. I'll probably "enclose" it with a paperboard
    construction to help prevent this until I figure out a more permanent home.
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