About DorkbotPDX

Dorkbot PDX has crawled out of the womb and is in the now permanent (revolutionary) process of defining itself. We meet on an regular, informal basis every other week, but you can find out more on our meetings page. In the future, we plan to hold larger events, so sign up for the mailing lists to find out what's going on. We welcome you to join us at our gatherings and to bring something interesting to view or ponder. Hands-on items (electrical, mechanical, digital, aural, visual, or other) are highly encouraged!


A better bug zapper?

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 01:39 — MoonRabbit

For years now, I've been buying "bug zappers" - you know, they have a blacklight and a charged grid that attracts and electrocutes insects. Trouble is, they're cheaply made and the light fixture part always fails after about a year.


Convincing the dorkboard to output as a USB keyboard

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 16:34 — sindicate

Is there a was using the DorkBoard and the benito to output as a HID USB keyboard? I want my dorkboard to output keystrokes when it receives an interrupt on one(or more) of the pins.


Looking for Mark from the "beat off" at Holocene, Still want to work on the CaStep with me?

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 02:48 — Cutter Filtoff

Hey Yall,

I'm looking for a gentleman named Mark (if memory serves me) the I met at the beat off. Mark, if you're out there, please get in touch with me, cutterfiltoff@gmail.com . By the way, your entry at the beat off was sweet.

Thanks!

Cutter


The Evil Benito Mouse

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 00:00 — Laen

To take advantage of the Benito's small size, I've zapped mine with a piece of software that, when plugged into a computer, causes the mouse to jump about randomly.

The size of the jitter can be adjusted by setting the "STEP" constant. 10 seems to be a pretty good number to make it seem like there's something wrong with your mouse. Anything larger, and it's pretty obvious that you're being messed with.


A voltage control circuit.

Mon, 09/29/2008 - 01:32 — apollo21
A voltage control circuit.

New pin arrangement

Mon, 09/29/2008 - 00:13 — apollo21
New pin arrangement

A test board

Thu, 09/25/2008 - 13:19 — apollo21
A test board

LCD - almost working

Wed, 09/24/2008 - 19:32 — paul

I'm getting close to making the LCDs work from Ben's Micro 2700 POS terminals (several of them are still up for grabs). Here's a photo.

More photos and technical details below...

First, I cut out almost all the chips. Here's a photos taken before I chopped all the chips off.

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