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Fun Kits Continuing in January

Date: 
17 January 2010 - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

A dozen Game of Life kits were built by thirteen people on Sunday. Every one who came had fun and every kit was blinking by the end. Some photos are up: one set and another set. There's also a video of the joining of all twelve kits to form a 16x12 matrix.

Now each person has a board with 16 LEDs attached to a microcontroller which can control them individually. So, as a follow-up of sorts, we're building programmers next month. They will let you install your own firmware into any of Atmel's popular AVR chips using any computer with a USB port. You're welcome to join us if you have one or more of the following:

  • An assembled Game of Life kit
  • Some other microcontroller project
  • Interest in microcontrollers and no project (yet)
  • A funny hat

Once again, no experience or tools are necessary. Just go register before we run out of seats or you run out of time! (Sales end January 7th)