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I'm in the process of porting my instructional programming environment from Windows to Mac (10.8). That's Processing, Arduino, Pytho...

I posted this today on an ed tech listserv and figured it's worth getting out here, too. The Raspberry Pi is ready for prime time ...

If you need to get your files out of a Time Machine backup but you don't have a Mac, look no further. Get a computer with Linux on it. I...

I looked on this list of working wifi adapters for one to try out and found the Linksys  WUSB100 adapter worked out of the box. I just ha...

I just re-imaged the Raspi with a new Raspbian "wheezy" image supplied on the raspberrypi.org website . They said it would be fast...

Both pins are digital pin 3. The right one goes to the EL Wire and the left one can go to whatever you want! I was wiring up momentary ...

Now that the buttons are working I'm excited to make this project into a wearable suit, specifically a Halloween outfit. I modified the ...

Just trying to figure out the options for having my students this year program EL Wire for a dance performance, I wanted to f...

No new learning today but I added one to yesterday when I brought the Raspberry Pi over to some friends' house for what was supposed to ...

So the hardware here is an Arduino Duemilanove with an EL Escudo sequencer and 3 lengths of 3m ELWire . I'm controlling the Arduino ...