Recently I was doing some woodworking and wanted to try fuming a small test piece of oak with ammonia. The fuming process darkens the wood and gives it a nice aged, gray look. To speed the process up, I decided…
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Immersion Heating with a Vacuum Tube
Tagged with: 6v6, Ammonia Fuming, Immersion Heater, Oak Fuming, PID Controller, Therm, Vacuum Tube
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Luma Controller Development
The Luma Controller takes any audio input, calculates and analyzes a FFT of the spectrum, and sends commands out to a network of Luma nodes. This board duplicates the functionality of our music analysis software, but with greater flexibility and…
BeagleBone Black Soft Power-Off
The BeagleBone Black is an ARM-based device and doesn’t have ACPI support like most x86 systems. ACPI generally handles triggering shutdown and other power management events on x86 systems, so this functionality is missing on the BeagleBone. We can easily…
DIY Vacuum Tube Amplifier
This past winter I designed and constructed a stereo vacuum tube amplifier based off of the TubeLab SimpleSE design. Since many people asked about it at Maker Faire Detroit, I thought I would post a link to the build photos…
Maker Faire Detroit
Thanks to everyone who came to check out our booth at Maker Faire Detroit this year! We will have some new posts on the blog about our new Luma lighting nodes, the Therm PID controller, and our thermal-printing photobooth in…
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SSD1306 and Python with the BeagleBone Black
The SSD1306 is an OLED display made with SPI and I2C interfaces. With a simple Python library I adapted (a modified version of py-gaugette), it is easy to render text, images (from bitmaps of pretty much any format), progress bars,…
Next-Generation Luma Nodes – Build Timelapse
The next iteration of the Luma node has been fabricated and assembled! The new node incorporates 3 10W RGBW LEDs, controlled with constant-current buck drivers and an ATTINY2313 microcontroller. Like all Luma nodes, up to 32 nodes can be daisy-chaned…
Protofusion Arch Linux ARM Mirror
Protofusion now hosts an official mirror of Arch Linux ARM! The mirror is hosted on Protofusion’s main server, which is colocated in Dearborn, MI. Mirror selection is geoip-based, so if you use Arch Linux ARM in the Michigan/Ohio/Midwest, you’re probably…
Installing WebVirtMgr on Arch Linux
WebVirtMgr is an awesome simple web interface for managing virtual machines on Linux. Unfortunately the installation process is not simple at all, and the documentation is a bit lacking. There are also a few issues which are documented only in…
Protofusion at Maker Faire Detroit
If you’re in the Detroit area this weekend, check out the Protofusion booth at Maker Faire Detroit! This year we will be indoors so all of our lighting will be much more visible. We’ll have our new Luma nodes up…