Monthly Archives: January 2009

Programs for generating old school sounds

Posted on January 31, 2009 by smackaay

Since I’ve started playing around with writing games again, I’ve been interested in old school sounds. These things can be hard to come by these days since a lot of the older sounds were pure square and triangle waves. I … Continue reading →

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Wrote a little game… Astrosmasher

Posted on January 30, 2009 by smackaay

Well, out of boredom I’ve created a little game called Astrosmasher. Nothing special really, I just wanted to see if I could make a game look like an old Atari game. I think I succeeded in some ways Astrosmasher is … Continue reading →

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Temperature and light, several days

Posted on January 21, 2009 by smackaay

Well, It’s been a number of days since I built the unit and all’s been tested. Here is a picture of some of the data from my living room over the past several days. The purplish is the temperature and … Continue reading →

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Temperature and ambient light tracking

Posted on January 17, 2009 by smackaay

So, since I’m really bored I decided to build a device that tracks ambient temperature and light levels. While this may not seem very interesting, I suspect the relationship between the two, while not directly linked, will be interesting especially … Continue reading →

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Making a conductive adhesive

Posted on January 13, 2009 by smackaay

Well, I was trying to solder some extra thick peizo material, having very little luck when I realized that this could be solved very easily with some sort of conductive adhesive. So I set out to make some. I’m posting … Continue reading →

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Some documentation on an LCD display

Posted on January 7, 2009 by smackaay

A while back I bought some lcd displays from a dude on Ebay. After I recieved them I found that I couldn’t find the appropriate documentation. Well I found some documentation so I post it here for posterity or if … Continue reading →

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Playing around, drawing a valve.

Posted on January 7, 2009 by smackaay

I was a little bored today so I decided to draw a valve. While the dimensions are entirely drawn from my head and the valve itself wouldn’t be very efficient, I like the look of gas compressor valves. It took … Continue reading →

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