Archive for August, 2008

Don Knuth Speed Paint

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Sorry Prof. Knuth!!

Sometimes PS doesn’t realize the pen is connected to the computer.  When this happens, I can’t use pen pressure to handle opacity, or to handle thickness.  So I basically end up with this =s  To fix it, I have to go to the pen’s control panel, make a change, change it back to the original setting, then reopen PS.  I’m too lazy tonight so that’s what you get.  15 mins.

I needed to make his head taller.  He’s a genius, after all.

I tweet therefore I am. new iteration

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

UPDATE: My portfolio site has moved to http://robertxcadena.com/

Ok, i’m calling it quits on this one for now:

i think i’m also renaming it to Being and Tweet, as a play on heidegger’s being and time. This disintegration of the self feels more like heidegger than descartes. so there you are.

i may work on it some more since i want the colors to be more saturated, and maybe i’ll work on the thumbnails, but my eyes are hurtin’

Command line compile Arduino on Windows

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Here’s how to compile your arduino programs using the command line in windows xp.  I took the Makefile from the Arduino forum, but modified it because it didn’t work for me, probably due to my using Arduino 0011.

1. Make sure you have Arduino 0011 installed and that you can upload and run the blinking LED sample program.

2. You need make.  Install cygwin.  I have gnu make 3.78.1 installed.

3. Download this Makefile.

4. Create a directory somewhere and a file called “main.pde”.  Use the blinking LED program from the Getting Started section of the Arduino website.

5. Put the Makefile there

6. Modify the Makefile to suit your project.  Instructions are in the Makefile

7. Run make, it should build the stuff

8. Run “make upload” and your program should be uploaded to the board.  You can have auto-reset with Diecimila, but you have to modify avrdude.conf, which is in INSTALL_DIR/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf.  The Makefile has instructions for how to modify avrdude.conf

Happy physical computing.