Knit EL Wire Dress

Posted on July 5, 2016 by admin

EL wire knit dressPhotography, Dan Lim. Model, NvS

Breeyn McCarney and I shared our EL wire knit dress at Maker Festival Toronto at the Reference Library – it was lovely to chat with so many people!

I first tried knitting EL wire in January, 2013 while working on the sponsor installation at Sagmeister’s Happy Show in Toronto. The installation involved hundreds of meters of EL wire and there was just enough sitting around for me to check the feasibility of a small swatch. It worked and was amazing, so I shelved the idea for future exploration.

EL wire knit Swatch
Knit EL wire swatch from January 18, 2013

Towards the end of 2014, my friend Beatriz Juarez asked if I wanted to contribute on article an fashion and technology to her amazing fashion magazine Herringbone. I decided it was time for another collaboration with my dear friend Breeyn McCarney and EL wire had to be involved.

I ordered more than 100 meters of EL wire and began knitting in November, 2014 – few things are as pleasing as a spool of EL wire. It took me about 4 days to knit the top in a scallop lace pattern – I love lace. While I was knitting, Breeyn embroidered a beautiful continuous-line rose on a transparent skirt to create an impressive floating effect.

Oh, el-wire – you're so good to me! Up to no good with my new spool o'awesome. #elwire

A photo posted by blacksanta_69 (@blacksanta_69) on

It’s hard to say with any certainty, but I believe the density of the knitting makes the EL wire knit dress the most EL wire used in a single fashion item – a little more than 100 meters were used. This is possible because the “haute couture” outfit is not meant to facilitate walking – it is an art piece that was designed to be photographed and plugs into two high-powered inverters. Probably, it would be possible to make it wireless using A LOT of battery powered inverters, but that was never necessary and it would appear dimmer. UPDATE: after some research it looks like I was beat in both volume and history by Kurt Wold’s Lightrobe.

The dress has been subjected to 2 fashion shoots. First, with Andy Lee and model Taryn for Herringbone and again for the artist NvS shot by Dan Lim. Photographing EL wire is a challenge – professional photography involves a lot of sculpting with light and EL wire needs darkness.

Here’s a tip for shooting EL wire: during the shoot with Dan Lim, a short in the dress almost sunk us. It was Dan’s ingenuity that saved the shoot; he had some high-powered UV strobes on hand and we were able to light the dress better with the strobes – the EL wire is actually turned off in the photo at the top!

EL Wire Knit Dress bodice detailPhotography, Andy Lee. Model, Taryn

EL Wire Knit Dress full bodyPhotography, Andy Lee. Model, Taryn

EL Wire Knit Dress skirt detailPhotography, Andy Lee. Model, Taryn

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Team Capybara

Posted on June 2, 2016 by admin


Source files for anyone to use:
Team Capybara PDF
Team Capybara 3 inch Adobe Illustrator
Team Capybara 3 inch EPS
Team Capybara 3 inch PDF

When my friend Breeyn texted me that two capybaras escaped from the High Park Zoo, my immediate response was, “Fuck yeah! Good for those guys!”. Inspired by the idea of cute giant rodents running around Toronto, (and the super lame 2008 Twilight Team Edward/ Jacob meme) I wanted to create a Toronto themed #teamcapybara logo. The logo was made in a few hours on the evening of May 24. I created the logo for fun, not profit, and decided that I would declare it copyleft.

My friend Renée sent me a note on FB the day after I designed the logo musing how funny it would be if she made t-shirts for her son’s field trip; they were going to High Park to search for the escapees. I was super amused by the idea and sent her the files – she printed amazing buttons at People Power Press, since Ts were impractical. Seeing the kids wearing the buttons in photos really warmed my heart.

Here’s Renée’s photo of the buttons, which ended up all over the place:

It was when I updated my profile image and noticed a few others on facebook do the same that I realised the logo got some traction – I was so honoured. I designed the logo to be shared – I wanted it to go viral. I thought it was cute when I was making it and that delighted me.

I started seeing a lot of this:

I almost opened an online shop to start selling t-shirts and merchandise and stopped just short. I came super close to opening a Cafe Press shop; when I saw my logo on all the preview products I was sold. The jerks blocked me based on concerns about copyright. I think their concerns are baseless, cowardly and establish a dangerous precedent. But, it did force me to evaluate whether I should sell merchandise. What’s interesting is that while they were blocking me, shady people were setting up their own shops – I know of a few; the attempt to block me from selling my design ensured rip-offs and that the wrong people profit.

Ultimately, I decided it was wrong and tacky to sell merchandise; the world doesn’t need more tatty crap with a logo on it and profiting off something I did in an evening is not right – it has a sad desperation that I disagree with. Also, I have no idea where or how the t-shirts are produced, and that’s a concern.

I decided I would rather leave the logo out there – if people want to profit from it that’s their choice, but I’m against it. I decided I would send the file to anyone who asked for the artwork and respond politely to everything – all responses/ messages. If people want to take the design to a local shop and get it printed, that’s amazing and very different than opening a shop – I’m all for that and supporting a local press is a great thing to do.

Here are some interesting things that have happened.

  • On FB somebody asked if a t-shirt could be made. A stranger offered to make t-shirts for this person. When I suggested I could also make the shirts he suggested we DM him with the cheapest price so he could decide – that’s when I concluded, “screw it – I’m not doing this”
  • People friended me because they liked the design
  • Strangers took the files and started selling their own t-shirts without asking me about it
  • Someone asked if they could open a shop
  • I decided that anyone who asked for anything would get the logo artwork – better to have high quality floating out there

Here are some things I’ve concluded:

  • Selling someone else’s art is bad – stealing or otherwise
  • People feel they own viral art – I’m okay with this, it’s just strange
  • You should resist the urge to profit off of things you do for a lark
  • People mistake indifference for endorsement
  • The urge to sell tatty crap when people demand it is nearly overwhelming

Finally, and most importantly, I wanted to acknowledge that the original influence is obviously the blue jays logo. I’m a proud Torontonian, although I’m indifferent to baseball, and the logo has always been a part of this city for me. One reason I don’t want to profit from the #teamcapybara logo is out of the pure respect I have for the original design. The original design is a masterful logo. I’m enamoured with the precise and beautiful linework. I love the logo and I’m amazed at the creativity of the interpretation of a blue jay. The original and 2012 version (the inspiration for #teamcapybara) are amazing! A design is more than the specific implementation of a piece of art – it is a system that defines the elements of art (and principles); line, shape, form, color etc. It is not my design to profit by.

Here’s more about the Jays logo

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Cheating at Street Fighter IV with an Arduino

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Major Callisto

Ibuki Cheat Sketch on Github

Single button Kasumi Suzaku followed by a single button Hashinsho

I’ve never really been much of a gamer, but Street Fighter has a special place in my heart; I think back fondly of playing the SFII arcade box at the Panzerotto Pizza joint in grade 7/8.

On a nostalgic whim, I decided to download it from Steam and see what it’s like now; it’s fucking hard! I’d love to blame my controller, but I think years of not really being into video games and getting older has left me with a fraction of the dexterity I once had. I can really only do many of the moves by mashing the crap out of the controller. Enter the Arduino Micro.

For the past few years I’ve been increasingly obsessed with the convenience of using the Arduino as a USB Keyboard – any of the ATmega32U4 based Arduino-like boards can do this. (Leonardo, Micro, Trinket, Due, Zero, etc) Creating hardware that appears as a keyboard to your computer is very convenient. The alternative would be opening a serial connection or tunneling into the hardware device using a wireless technology such as wifi – both approaches are unreliable and cannot be done using the friendlier programming/ scripting languages (javascript for example). Conversely, almost any language allows for trapping keyboard based events; it’s a fairly important part of computing.

Anyway, I made a small button board using the Arduino Micro as a keyboard. Each button (I only had 3 tact switches laying around) is mapped to one of the 11 moves of my character of choice, Ibuki.

Practice has suggested that the fastest the Arduino Micro can broadcast each keypress and still work is about 15ms – plenty fast.

The sketch is fairly simple. There are a set of functions for each of the joystick actions (Full, half and quarter circles) and functions to represent the different key presses (punch/ kick light, medium, hard and all). Each of Ibuki’s special moves are combinations of directional moves and keypresses.

//Hashinsho
circleQuarter(FORWARD);
circleQuarter(FORWARD);
kick(S_ALL);

The major drawback with this approach is that it’s not “ambidextrous” – it matters whether you’re on the left or right side. However, SFIV doesn’t really seem great at figuring out patterns with too much specificity, so you can really just mash a bunch of the keys together to do special moves regardless of the side you’re on.

Oh Cammy; get your head on straight!

I still suck at the game. :)

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Handsfree Icebucket Challenge Backpack

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Major Callisto

Hands Free Icebucket Challenge from Christopher Lewis on Vimeo.

My good friend KC Roberts challenged me to participate in the Icebucket Challenge. I made a handsfree icebucket backpack. It’s a little impractical, but a lot awesome.

The success ALS charities are experiencing is surprisingly contentious. Many of the arguments I’ve read against support are trivial, with the exception of animal testing. Since I’m not aware of the nature of animal testing that ALS researchers perform, I have no idea if it’s something that could be avoided. As important as the issue is, I’ve consciously decided that it won’t deter me from offering my support.

I’ve chosen to support ALS Canada because I know that a portion of the money goes towards Augmentative/ Alternative Communication (AAC) device programs. I think the cost and ubiquity of Maker-friendly technology means that we can revolutionise much of the hardware that’s being used. Many neurodegenerative or similar degenerative disease (like MS, Parkinson’s, etc.) result in changes to a person’s abilities over time. I think it would be amazing to live in a world where a maker who has a neurodegenerative disease could fashion bespoke tools and devices to maintain a high level of interaction. I know where to start – with sites like thecontrollerproject.com but I need to work on the rest of the path.

I’ve long been interested in the technology used by persons with ALS. AAC devices are amazing pieces of technology that help people communicate or interact using touch/ motion switches, pupil tracking, headmouse devices, blowtubes, etc. Amazingly, speech-generating devices have been around since the mid-70s!

Knowing how simple many of these devices are, I’m interested to see how the maker community responds to the Icebucket Challenge. An Arduino and a blowtube could be a fairly enabling combination – you can even make the Arduino behave as a replacement mouse, so the difficult part in making these solutions comes from the usability side, not the hardware/ fabrication side.

For the tech, I’m using:
- 6v Lantern Battery
- 9v Battery
- Arduino Uno
- Adafruit MPL115A2
- Keyes Relay Shield (any relay will do)
- Scrap motor from Active Surplus

#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_MPL115A2.h>

Adafruit_MPL115A2 mpl115a2;
int Relay = 3;

int sampleAmount = 100;
int numberSampled = 0;
float sampleTotal;
float pressureAverage;
float triggerDifference = 2;
void setup(void)
{
Serial.begin(28800);
Serial.println(“Hello!”);

Serial.println(“Getting barometric pressure …”);
mpl115a2.begin();

pinMode(Relay, OUTPUT); //Set Pin3 as output
digitalWrite(Relay, LOW); //Turn off relay
}

void loop(void)
{
float pressureKPA = 0, temperatureC = 0;
pressureKPA = mpl115a2.getPressure();

if (numberSampled < sampleAmount){
sampleTotal += pressureKPA;
numberSampled ++;
delay(100);
return;
}
float averagePressure = (sampleTotal/sampleAmount);
float pressureDifference = abs(pressureKPA-averagePressure);

if(pressureDifference > triggerDifference){
digitalWrite(Relay, HIGH); //Turn off relay
}else{
digitalWrite(Relay, LOW);
}
Serial.print(“Pressure (kPa): “); Serial.print(pressureKPA); Serial.print(” kPa”); Serial.print (” Average kPa: “); Serial.println(averagePressure);

//temperatureC = mpl115a2.getTemperature();
//Serial.print(“Temp (*C): “); Serial.print(temperatureC, 1); Serial.println(” *C”);

delay(100);
}

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CSS3 Sketch 2

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Major Callisto

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CSS Sketch 1 – Technique: Masking

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Major Callisto

Earlier, I was checking out Visionare designed by Madeo in the Czech. I was impressed by many of the animations. One thing that caught my attention was the “masking” of the bus that zooms back and forth in the “heart” logo.

It is possible to mask using CSS3 – I believe there is a “clip-path”, but it’s a little dodgy and not used here. Instead, it looks like the animation was created by putting all the graphics on an angle (-45deg in my case) and rotating a container (45deg in my case). The graphics just move in and out of a container with the overflow hidden. It’s a simple, but well thought out solution.

Below is a version without the rotation on the sky.

Car by Carnivius from 8-bit RoboCop in his car

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See the original sketch: CSS Sketch 1

<style type="text/css">
	.mask{
		box-sizing:border-box;
		margin:0 auto;
		width:500px;
		height:500px;
		overflow:hidden;
	}
	.sky{
		width:200px;
		height:500px;
		background: -webkit-linear-gradient(-45deg, white, skyblue ); /* For Safari 5.1 to 6.0 */
		background: -o-linear-gradient(-45deg, white, skyblue ); /* For Opera 11.1 to 12.0 */
		background: -moz-linear-gradient(-45deg, white, skyblue ); /* For Firefox 3.6 to 15 */
		background: linear-gradient(-45deg, white, skyblue ); /* Standard syntax */
		transform:rotate(45deg);
		-ms-transform:rotate(45deg); /* IE 9 */
		-webkit-transform:rotate(45deg); /* Opera, Chrome, and Safari */
		position:relative;
		left:150px;
		overflow:hidden;
	}
	.notrotated{
		transform:rotate(0deg);
		-ms-transform:rotate(0deg); /* IE 9 */
		-webkit-transform:rotate(0deg); /* Opera, Chrome, and Safari */
	}
	.ground {
		background: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, brown, peru); /* For Safari 5.1 to 6.0 */
		background: -o-linear-gradient(bottom, brown, peru); /* For Opera 11.1 to 12.0 */
		background: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, brown, peru); /* For Firefox 3.6 to 15 */
		background: linear-gradient(bottom, brown, peru ); /* Standard syntax */
		height: 250px;
		left: -111px;
		position: relative;
		top: 206px;
		transform: rotate(-45deg);
		-ms-transform:rotate(-45deg); /* IE 9 */
		-webkit-transform:rotate(-45deg); /* Opera, Chrome, and Safari */
		width: 600px;
	}
	.road{
		width: 600px;
		height:30px;
		top:10px;
		position:relative;
		background:DimGray;
	}
	.dash{
		border-top:3px dashed GoldenRod;
		width:600px;
		height:20px;
		position:relative;
		top:13px;
		box-sizing:border-box;
		animation: roadDash 0.05s infinite linear;
		-webkit-animation: roadDash 0.05s infinite linear;
	}
	.car{
		background:URL(http://www.majorcallisto.com/wp-content/uploads/robocop.png) no-repeat;
		width:96px;
		height:30px;
		position:relative;
		top:-33px;
		left:0px;
		animation: carDrive 10s infinite ease-in-out 2s;
		-webkit-animation: carDrive 10s infinite ease-in-out 2s;
	}
	@keyframes carDrive{
		0%{
			left:0px;
		}
		5%{
			top:-40px;
		}
		10%{
			left:200px;
		}
		20%{
			left:150px;
		}
		25%{
			top:-30px;
		}
		30%{
			left:200px;
		}
		40%{
			left:220px;
			top:-40px;
		}
		50%{
			left:190px;
			top:-38px;
		}
		80%{
			left:300px;
			top:-28px;
		}
		90%{
			left:260px;
		}

		99%{
			left:650px;
			top:-40px;
		}
	}
	@-webkit-keyframes carDrive{
		0%{
			left:0px;
		}
		5%{
			top:-40px;
		}
		10%{
			left:200px;
		}
		20%{
			left:150px;
		}
		25%{
			top:-30px;
		}
		30%{
			left:200px;
		}
		40%{
			left:220px;
			top:-40px;
		}
		50%{
			left:190px;
			top:-38px;
		}
		80%{
			left:300px;
			top:-28px;
		}
		90%{
			left:260px;
		}

		99%{
			left:650px;
			top:-40px;
		}
	}
	@keyframes roadDash
	{
		from {left: 0;}
		to {left: -15px;}
	}
	@-webkit-keyframes roadDash{
		from {left: 0;}
		to {left: -15px;}
	}
</style>
<div class="mask">
	<div class="sky">
		<div class="ground">
			<div class="road">
				<div class="dash">
				</div>
				<div class="car">

				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

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CSS3 Sketch 1

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Major Callisto

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Car by Carnivius from 8-bit RoboCop in his car

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Broke-Ass Mario Kart – Build Log 02

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Major Callisto

New Motors!

I decided to source more reliable motors than the ones I found at Active Surplus. I love Active, but they have an “as is” policy on a lot of their used equipment that made me nervous. Also, some of the motors were missing pretty essential things like brushes and they don’t have any fixtures on them to easily attach to a chassis or hubs to attach wheels.

I reached out to wheelchair repair companies around Toronto in the hopes of finding something more reliable. Wheelchair motors are incredibly heavy, so you could easily spend a few hundred on the shipping costs alone.

I shot off e-mails to about 10 companies, but I only heard back from Jay Wenmann at MEDIchair. MEDIchair and Jay were incredibly helpful, so I owe them some love. Jay said that they had motors in stock, but they could still be swapped into a chair, so they were fairly pricey – $250 each! He suggested that if I waited, I could probably get a pair with tires for about $200! Sure enough, Jay contacted me a few weeks later with an incredible deal on a beautiful pair of used motors.

MEDIchair is located out in Oakville, so I signed out an Autoshare car and drove to meet Jay in person. I asked Jay if he would be comfortable with other people contacting him in future to see if he had more motors. He said that he often had motors that were viable to resell and might even be less expensive than the ones I got – that’s an amazing resource – Jason Wenmann, Positioning and Mobility Technical Specialist, 905-825-5335, or jason at halton dot medichair dot com!

The two motors I got were caked in mud, dirt, dog hair and coffee stains. Similarly, my bike is covered in coffee stains, so I felt a connection to the unknown previous owner. I imagined how the motors would have fit into someone’s life and all the things that the motors enabled that individual to do. I felt they were cherished artifacts, so I spent a good hour or so scrubbing them down – they cleaned up real good!

The motors perform well enough with 12v, but they rip at 24v. I’m using 2x12v sla batteries (like car batteries) per motor connected in series – the voltage gets added for a total of 24v per motor. I calculated the speed with 24v, without a load, to be about 5.86 mph or 9.4 kph – walking speed is about 5 kph. I was especially pleased that I calculated the speed using PI on PI Day. Here’s how I calculated the speed:

  • Count the revolutions per 30 seconds
  • Multiply by 2 for rpm
  • Calculate the circumference using the diameter and the formula πd
  • Multiply the RPM by circumference for the distance per minute
  • Multiply the distance per minute by 60 to get the distance per hour
  • Convert to the appropriate distance unit. In my case, inches to miles and kilometers

The motors have a brake built in that’s engaged by default. Jay and I tested the motors before I left MEDIchair and we determined that the brakes release when you push a minimum of 15v through them, so you need a lot of power for the brakes to unlock and turn. I’ve seen online that many wheelchair motors allow the brake to be removed, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with these.


The first “chasis” for the Kart was built using wood from the blue pie trebuchet that was part of the CTT Pi Fighter 2 project. The motors were attached to angle steel brackets that were bolted into the wood plank. Unfortunately, the brackets extended beyond the back of the wood plank and the wood itself was very dry and kept splitting. The front wheels were two small furniture castor wheels that were screwed into a piece of wood and affixed to the front of the plank.

I noticed early on that the rear portion of the chassis was facing a lot of torsional stress. The angle brackets that extended beyond the rear got twisted fairly quickly with the ridiculous torque of the motors. I added a piece of wood to help support the brackets, but the wood split apart because of the screws and dryness.

On Saturday, March 22, 2014 I sent the following text message to my partner:

I remember laughing with giddy delight when I was first on the kart and it moved – I made a powered vehicle!

The second run of the motors was on the sidewalk in front of our office. Sitting on the kart, I flicked the switch on my “flux capacitor” and the kart took off. The kart hit a tiny bump in the pavement and the front wheels were knocked off, but the motors are so powerful the kart didn’t even slow down. I hurriedly reattached the wheels and tried again – the entire back of the chassis basically blew apart under the torsional stress. Then the front wheels blew apart. I had to start again. As lovely as recycling the old wood is, I had to work with better materials.

I rebuilt the chassis using new wood and angle brackets. Sadly, because the motor block is such a strange shape, it’s only attached to the wood with a single line of machine screws – that means that there is room for the wheels to move outward as the kart drives. This puts a great deal of strain on the chassis and will have to be remedied before the kart is finalised.

Here’s a second running of the kart inside. I crashed into a few things in the office.

It travels fast and hard – it’s amazing to ride.

Here’s the kart spinning in a circle of shin shattering doom:

One Motor from Christopher Lewis on Vimeo.

To control the motors, I ordered two Pololu High-Power Motor Driver 24v23 CS circuits. The major concern when working with motors is having enough power and the high amperage that the motors draw. High amp circuits can easily melt wire, heat up, etc., so you have to make sure you have the proper gauge wire and everything is properly rated. Beyond that, there isn’t much to it – don’t cross the streams.

With motors, the amperage changes based on the load. The Motor Drivers have a preferred amp limit – 23 amps or so. Much higher and I’ll need to add a heat sink to keep them cool. This presents a really funny issue that I haven’t got to yet. I can turn the motors on or off, but I can’t use the Drivers to steer until I’m sure it’s safe. I need to be sitting on the kart with my multimeter in my lap and driving it to test the amperage draw. Then I can safely attach the Drivers and figure out how to control them with an Arduino.

I’m working to add a joist between to two motors to counter some of the strain. I got to borrow an Angle Grinder – that was fun. Here’s a video of me cutting angle steel to brace the two motors together. FIRE:

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Broke-Ass Mario Kart – Build Log 01

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Major Callisto

The past few days have been spent testing my motors and hardware for my Broke-Ass Mario Kart project. I’ll be sharing a tear-down of the project at my FITC 2014 Talk, Broke-Ass Mario Kart.

I bought a simple, unmarked, mobility vehicle motor from Active Surplus.

The motor seems to run a little slow. I get about 42rpm with 12v or 64rpm with 24v. By my calculations, that will give me about 2.01kmh and 3.92kmh respectively. The average walking distance is about 4.8kmh, so I’m tempted to go with the 24v, but that’s a little heavy for my goals.

Below is a comparison of the speeds at 12v and 24v.

motor power comparison 12v, 24v from Christopher Lewis on Vimeo.

I’m probably going to use a motor shield to keep things easy, but I was interested in trying to use transistors and a capacitor, as seen here:

From the video, I was able to list the parts and make a rough illustration of the circuit in Fritzing:

- 2x 2n3055 Transistors
- 1x200v 220 uF Capacitor
- A diode “from a microwave” – I’m guessing that means something “beefy”
- A 12v SLA battery
- An Arduino, a POT, etc.

The circuit lets you send a PWM signal from Arduino to control the motor speed. It’s effective, but a little “burny”. At some point I must have shorted my Arduino to GND connection, because the wire started melting, I noticed the Arduino would get super hot if I used a 9v power supply and the diode on the capacitor can not handle 24v – I’ll need something “beefier”. In spite of the burniness, it runs well at 12v with my PC as power supply. Barely burny at all.

Besides all that, it works:

Motor with pot control. from Christopher Lewis on Vimeo.

The PWM circuit is the cheapest controller solution – I think it probably amounts to about $10 per motor, but it’s only 1 direction. I could build a type of circuit called an H-Bridge and try that to get forward and reverse, but I’m content with achieving a functional PWM circuit – I consider that a successful proof of the old, “you can do it cheaper yourself” approach.

Next step is to buy another motor to see if I can get higher RPM and order a motor shield to replace the PWM circuit.

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FITC 2014 – Broke-Ass Mario Kart: Node.js + Arduino

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Major Callisto

I’ll be a speaker at FITC 2014 in Toronto. Get your tickets to FITC 2014.

I’m going to be discussing ways to connect applications to powerful motors to move heavy loads, like a display or a human. The presentation will include a breakdown of a riding, multi-user Kart that uses Node.js, Arduino, wheel-chair motors and controllers. The goal is to help anyone who is an Arduino novice shortcut around some of the challenges and show designers/ developers etc. how easy it is to get off the screen.

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