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  • Arduino Morse – pt. 3 – then no more

    I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a long time, but didn’t, so let’s do it now. My last iteration of the Morseo project (on Github) includes an example that works with an LOL Shield to write out alphanumeric characters and blink visual representations of Morse code dots or dashes at the same time, to display a message. It’s completely useless but was kind of fun to do at the time, here’s a video of it in action:


    I’m starting to work on some more useful Arduino projects, I’ll try to write about those.

  • Ball of Wax 47

  • What they have done is a desecration

    “What they have done is a desecration, a foolish and vindictive act of vandalism, by which they betrayed all the best and most valiant labors of our ancestors. We don’t want to accept this, because we cannot accept that the people, at least in the long run of things, can be wrong in our American democracy. But they can be wrong, just like any people, anywhere. And until we do accept this abject failure of both our system and ourselves, there is no hope for our redemption.” — Kevin Baker

  • indiepopradio.com

    Reading Carrie Brownstein’s memoir made me think back to 1999 and indiepopradio.com (long defunct — don’t go there).  Maybe I can recreate some of the playlist using youtube, with some help from archive.org.

    I wrote about indiepopradio.com before — it was a low-bitrate Shoutcast mp3 stream run by Portland’s Rich Burroughs.

    Here’s another article I found about it.