Archives for the Month of January, 2010

Make:Electonics by Charles Platt

I want to recommend this book as highly as I can: clear, well-illustrated, well-written, informative, intelligent, fun, and full of neat stuff. I actually feel twinges of jealousy reading through it. Platt walks you through Ohms law all the way up to 555 timer chips, sound distortion, and picaxe controllers. It’s awesome. If you’re [...]

openFrameworks code samples

Yes, they are all broken because of the addons. No, there’s not really anything I can do about it at this point. The addons changed after I wrote the book and until there’s a second edition, it’s a glaring eyesore and believe something I rue daily. However, there’s plenty that you can do! On XCode [...]