Blogs about LED

• Oxford Raspberry Jam: April 2013

  Pete Wood

  Lots of cool projects shown at the April Raspberry Jam including a giant Video Wall, a Pi Controlled Car and a Kids Electronic Message Phone

• A Weekend Introduction to FPGA Programming

  Andrew Back

  Chip Hack was a two day workshop that ran over the weekend of 20th and 21st April and provided an introduction to FPGA programming for complete beginners.

• mbed App board and LPC11U24

  pauljclarke

  I’m not a stranger to the mbed and have written about it a few time now. However with the new Application board available I wanted to give it a go and see if i could use it for a real project. But I’m not one for taking the easy route, so lets try new and different!

• PiGo Sneak Preview

  Andrew Back

  A first look at the upcoming modular expansion system for Raspberry Pi.

• Raspberry Pi + iRacer + Bluetooth + Makey Makey = Cheese Controlled Car (CCC)

  conoro

  We had a lot of fun this Christmas using a Raspberry Pi and MaKey MaKey to control a Bluetooth RC car called the i-Racer.

• Quick2Wire Hardware Beta

  Andrew Back

  Back in March I spoke with Romilly Cocking of Quick2Wire about the Raspberry Pi experimenter's kit they were developing. The first two boards from the kit have now gone into beta testing and this post takes a closer look at them and covers initial hands-on experience.

• Diary of a Field Sales Engineer

  Mark BVM

  It's a glamorous life isn't it? Well a bit of a curates egg actually. It's certainly a roller coaster ride. That project you were assured you had in the bag suddenly goes quiet. No one answers your calls. Is the project dead or has someone else pipped you at the post? Ask anyone in sales and it's a familiar tale. The customer spreads his enquiry far and wide and in so doing uses the field sales engineer as a free consultancy service or occasionally a spy, to find out what his competition is up to. Whizzing round the country (and some time the globe), meeting all manner of people and all types of business, no, the life of a Field Sales Engineer is never dull…

• Coconut Pi: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development Project

  gohew

  We are a team of Undergraduate Engineers embarking on an exciting journey into the embedded realm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development. Follow us on our facebook fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/coconutpi or stay up to date as we post our fortnightly blog updates to Designspark! Our team is also open to suggestions and opinions from the Designspark Engineering community. You can either comment on our blog posts or just scroll through our daily pictures and updates on our facebook page and leave a helpful comment or suggestion for us to consider in our development process!

• Prototyping Arduino Shields with Surface Mount Technology

  Andrew Back

  This post takes a look at using a SchmartBoard Arduino prototyping shield with 1.27 mm pitch SOIC devices.Having decided that a high-resolution ADC shield would make a useful addition to my Arduino to