The Arduino Due is a pretty impressive hardware platform for experimenting with the SAM3X8E ARM Cortex M3 controller. But I also like the flexibility of C++ and the comfort of Visual Studio. So lets do a away with the Arduino IDE and setup a lean embedded development station for some baremetal ARM development.
UnitN is a game concept that has been on my disk for a couple of months now. I’ve included a gameplay video in the read-more section. Since I’m not sure if I’m ever going to complete it I thought I’d just park it here for now.
This Simple, Lightweight, Universal Time-Tracker is an easy to use GUI for time-tracking. It’s completely scriptable which makes it an easy fit into any backend! If only I could find a suitable acronym to name it…
A tiny, portable and extensible C++ Tweening framework. Inspired by the Flash based Tweener API and it’s C++ port CPPTweener. It’s contained in a single C++ header and source file and comes with a all of Robert Penner’s easing equations included.
Finally ! The first version of Paddlenoid is ready for launch. It’s best described as a fusion between Pong and Arkanoid. It’s a free download for Android phones and tablets. It’s even got its own website: www.paddlenoid.com.
This is a tiny demonstration of using OpenGL ES in C++ on an Android 2.2 phone. It’s theme is ‘Faceinspaders !’ which is a small multiplayer game that I’ve been building in my spare time. The demonstration is part of my experiment in trying to port this code, which already builds on Windows as well as Linux to the Android platform.
This is a dutch wordclock. Much of the design was taken from this version. It tells the current time within 5 minutes precision in full dutch sentences. The video also demonstrates a mode where random LEDs light up and fade out again. For when the current time is not important for a while.
Since it’s ‘DeadbugProjects’ there should be a genuine deadbug project on this site. Here’s an RS232 to TTL converter mounted in a 9 pin D-SUB connector.
This is a propeller clock. It is a blade with LEDs which rotates at high speed in order to produce the image of a clock. Its function is based on the principle of persistence of vision (POV) and it’s really one of those gimmicky things that every engineer should build once.
This is the mood light I made a couple of years ago and have been meaning to document. It’s one of my first electronics projects but I still think it came out nicely. It’s the big ball next to the Christmas lights.