1/12/05

Just cranking on the site. I hope to have My Night In The Hospital up really soon…(it’s next). I figure I’d post it in the rants section.

1/8/05

Attendance was 7,000…good game, some great fights (I miss hockey!!!). The Stealth ended up losing, but the good news was that the Spy Girls weren’t around to belittle the sport of lacrosse.

1/7/05

Added the Firmware Code today. Going to see the San Jose Stealth tonight for their opening night. With no more NHL, Lacrosse is a good second fix. Trouble is, I don’t think Lacrosse is here to stay. Opening night and there are PLENTY of available tickets….heck, they aren’t even opening up the upper level yet. Looks like it’s going to be an empty arena.

Here’s an awesome photo of an open board with 7 pegs in each of the 7 color modes. And here is another picture showing the top and the power switch.

The Pegs for The Wedding Board were quite the work. To this date, over 100 Pegs have been constructed in various forms. They turned out to be quite the development board for the Atmel ATTiny12 microcontroller. Here is a closeup of the microcontroller side of the Peg. This PCB is small enough to fit inside an RCA plug and still have room on the back side for an ISP connector.

The Pegs are “programmed” through power cycling numerous times at a fairly rapid rate. Although possible to do by hand, a “Programmer Board” was included with The Wedding Board. In addition to being able to simultaneously program 3 pegs, there’s a mode-chart, a mode selection switch and a push-to-program button. Here is the “Programmer Board” photo.

Still confused what this all does??? I put together several videos. Head to the Wedding Board area, or go directly to the Movies section.

I am pleased to announce the completion of Cribbage Board #10. It has taken 3.5 years of hard work and dedication.

The first completed Wedding Board was “shipped” on 4/16. The second was “shipped” on 6/12. Documentation was assembled and completed on 6/25 (for a design contest).

Check back soon for more pictures and documents and videos of the completed Wedding Boards.

Thanks to all those that have helped and offered support along the way (especially Steph…for thousands of reasons).

Special thanks to:

• Shannon Gomes (firmware)
• Stan Haladus (CNC metalwork).