Comments on: Shift powered pumpkins

By: macegr

macegr — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:42:14 +0000

Or at least that would have been the right code if the comments weren’t filtered. Here’s the unmangled version: http://pastebin.com/f49488d12

By: macegr

macegr — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:38:48 +0000

@george: The candle flicker effect is pretty simple. Move up and down in brightness by a random amount, but not too far. The following function writes an individual flicker effect to all the ShiftBrites in a chain. You just run the function as many times as you want; loop it forever to get neverending candle.

void runCandleFlicker() {

int flicker;

for (int j1 = 0; j1 1023) flicker = 1023;
if (flicker < 100) flicker = 100;

LEDChannels[j1][0] = flicker;
LEDChannels[j1][1] = flicker*2/3;
LEDChannels[j1][2] = 0;
}

WriteLEDArray();
delay(random(20,70));

}

By: george

george — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:33:38 +0000

pics or its not true! just kidding… howd you do the flicker effect?

By: jason

jason — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:03:56 +0000

i think the chops should stay!

By: macegr

macegr — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:06:39 +0000

Haha Jakob, I see what you did there with the black on black text at the end of your summary. As I said in the article, the mutton chops were a joke for my friends. I shaved off part of my beard and then cued up the Shaft music on my phone and walked into the kitchen. I assure you that right now, my face is devoid of all hair.

By: austin cosmetic dermatology

austin cosmetic dermatology — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:21:38 +0000

Awesome! I want to try it on my pumpkin.

By: tMH

tMH — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:28:20 +0000

simply fuckin awesome

By: napalm

napalm — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:08:38 +0000

Yo kirov, love it or shove it baby!

By: aztraph

aztraph — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:48:12 +0000

hey kirov, I know where you can stick your LED’s

By: eee

eee — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:06:46 +0000

had to double take that headline.

thought someone solved an energy crisis.

By: RT (Panzer Time!)

RT (Panzer Time!) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:01:13 +0000

That pumpkin looks like one of the cats from Azumanga Daioh.

By: xrazorwirex

xrazorwirex — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:45:49 +0000

At first glance I thought this read “shit powered pumpkins” and thought “FINALLY someone’s putting those damn kid’s vandalism to good use”….

Oh well..

By: TRB

TRB — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:17:05 +0000

Hah thats so weird. We just went over shift registers in Electronics 201 today. pretty simple indeed.

By: wdfowty

wdfowty — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:57:29 +0000

i’m definitely enjoying the midi ghostbusters theme. lol. this is a pretty cool idea, would be better if it was synced with the song on loudspeakers, like those christmas light arrays that blow people’s minds.

By: kirov

kirov — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:46:02 +0000

woo look at me i can stick LEDs into a pumpkin