Author Archives: blinkenlightblog

With last month’s experiment I found out that my DSLR does not stick to the advertised 30 frames per second. So I had to investigate this quite a little bit further. In order to determine what is going on I … Continue reading →

After measuring the shutter speed of my DSLR (last month) I started to wonder what else I could I measure with Blinkenlight shield. Then it occured to me that the same technique I applied to power grid monitoring would apply … Continue reading →

Now that I have investigated how to count really fast und even faster here are some afterthoughts. First have a look at the videos. When I created them I already had both counters implemented. Soon after I forgot which video … Continue reading →

Last month I was pondering how to count really fast with an Arduino. Of course this gave some nice pictures too. This month I am really going to push it to the limits. I will optimize it just for optimization’s … Continue reading →

This month I was pondering about counting with an Arduino. Basically I was ticked by the ever reoccurring question how fast an Arduino can toggle its pins. As it turns out this seemingly innocent questions leads to a lot of … Continue reading →

Last year I got a small coax helicopter for Christmas. It is a funny little toy. Unfortunately I nuked it after about two weeks. This month I finally repaired it. After some practice I could not resist to combine some … Continue reading →

Mid of February Hackaday featured quite a bunch of Valentine’s Day hacks. I thought I should give this a try as well. Of course Hackaday featured quite a lot of these hacks after the day. Here is my take on … Continue reading →

In January I noticed in my server logs that others are increasingly linking to my pages. The nicest reference I got so far is as an example for a university program. Professor Andrew Famiglietty of University of Texas uses my … Continue reading →

I hope everyone of my readers had a good start into 2012. My suggestion is to start this year with L.O.V.E. Thanks to my new friends Verity and Gersom from De Koning-Tan Music for their kind permission to use their … Continue reading →

This month I will start with a big thank you to quite a lot of people. My first post got tremendous feedback. I had >10 000 page hits for my blog and >20 000 hits for my Youtube videos. Thank … Continue reading →