COLORCLOCK

I would like to make the ColorClock code base more robust, so I decided to leverage some of the work I'm doing in my real job and...

Ten years in the making and ColorClock was deployed at Burning Man 2024 🥳

The outer ring cycles through the whole spectrum over 24 hours, the second to the outer ring cycles over one hour, the inner ring cycles...

I was cleaning up my code of magic numbers and added a few #define  statements for the frequency values. But after uploading the program...

My big puzzle for the week has been how to lay out the final circuit board. There wasn't enough time to have a board printed...

It looks like using a multiplexer as a PWM expander is not going to work. As previously discussed, in order to wire up three RGB LED...

IO Expander Analog Write Fails Me Although the code for the IO expander compiles successfully, it doesn't produce the expected variable...

In order to bring ease to the final phase of hardware testing, I thought it important to plan out the layout of the prototyping breadboard.

The mystery of the missing package A couple weeks ago I was tearing my house apart to find a package from Adafruit that I remember...

Every software hurdle feels like an epic journey. My latest challenge was learning how to set build flags. Background I have a class...

In the previous construction design we had a simple lean-to structure where the participant would be sitting under the diagonally...

This week I've been navigating the balance between my artistic vision and feasibility of execution for the user interface of the piece....

I have decided on a multi-stage approach to development where each iteration has increased functionality to the previous. This diagram...

It's been a productive weekend for ColorClock design. My collaborator / partner and I have decided on a form that we are happy with and...

WSL 2 cannot interface with the serial ports on my PC and it makes me sad. Because that means I can't use WSL for the one use case I...

“It doesn’t matter how slow you progress so as long as you never stop.” I think my grad school advisor shared this with me. Maybe that...

Once upon a time I was intimidated by the command line. Today, I get annoyed when I can't use Vim. 🐰 Progress is happening. In 2014,...

When starting out, avoid getting caught up in the details of implementation, and instead invest your energy in preparing to show up. 🐰...

ColorClock is an RGB LED art installation that challenges conventional time representation through color variation, shedding light on...

This diagram illustrates the first iteration of the design. The host computer is a Raspberry Pi which runs the code to interface with the...