Anyone have a spare wireless PCMCIA card?

jwhite · **Joined:** Wed May 18, 2011 8:01 pm **Posts:** 21

I've got some new code for the LED sign board I'd like to try, and it'll require that laptop to have network access. I threw away my last wireless PCMCIA card just last year, thinking I'd never need it...

If you were more clever than me and still have a spare one, the laptop is right by the weld shop; you can just slot it in.

Cheers,

Jeremy

smittex · **Joined:** Sat Apr 23, 2011 11:07 am **Posts:** 189

There is a white plastic box in the shelving area named "pcmcia cards" that have several. Its on the 2nd rack in on the left, 1st or 2nd shelf down. There are also some add-on antannae in the appropriately named boxes in that area.

Booka · **Posted:** Sun Oct 16, 2011 2:02 am

And if that does not work, I can get handfuls of A, B, AB cards, name the manufacturer and I will bring em in.

jwhite · **Joined:** Wed May 18, 2011 8:01 pm **Posts:** 21

smittex wrote:

There is a white plastic box in the shelving area named "pcmcia cards" that have several. Its on the 2nd rack in on the left, 1st or 2nd shelf down. There are also some add-on antannae in the appropriately named boxes in that area.

Thanks - I grabbed an orinico and that looked promising. Of course, it would work in the classroom, but not down by the led sign board where I needed it.

Luckily, Jude was kind enough to unroll 100' of cat 5 so in the 3 minutes I had left tonight, I was able to stand outside, and remotely drive a little blue space ship around our 'screen', all using a Nook's display.

Woohoo!

Cheers,

Jeremy

DanBackslide · **Posted:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:15 pm

Rock!

So who's doing the writeup for Make: and Hackaday?

jwhite · **Joined:** Wed May 18, 2011 8:01 pm **Posts:** 21

DanBackslide wrote:

Rock!

So who's doing the writeup for Make: and Hackaday?

Hmm. What's involved in a writeup? Also, not sure we're quite done yet. I'm hoping to be there on Wednesday and be a bit more social about it. Last few times I was low on time, and so just frantically ran in and out.

Now I'll hopefully have a full space war game to show, along with any messages, colored any way we like, we want to display.

I think there are some alternate strategies being kicked around (I know Jude has been doing a lot of thinking about it), so it probably makes sense to confab at some point. At the least, I should document what I've done to this point, in case others care to try. (I have been regularly updating the source tree; https://github.com/knitfoo/geled, but something a bit more human readable might be nice).

Cheers,

Jeremy

pyrodogg · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:21 am

Speaking of hackaday has anyone seen this?

http://hackaday.com/2011/10/15/remote-c ... ed-matrix/

jwhite · **Joined:** Wed May 18, 2011 8:01 pm **Posts:** 21

pyrodogg wrote:

Speaking of hackaday has anyone seen this?

http://hackaday.com/2011/10/15/remote-c ... ed-matrix/

No; very interesting. They've been at it longer than us, though. We should connect with them; we've got a fair degree of overlap.

Cheers,

Jeremy

DanBackslide · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:22 pm

Hive13 has 56 ShiftBrite modules in their window. How many do we have right now? Whatever it is I'll bring in my string, that'll add another 50!

jwhite · **Joined:** Wed May 18, 2011 8:01 pm **Posts:** 21

DanBackslide wrote:

Hive13 has 56 ShiftBrite modules in their window. How many do we have right now? Whatever it is I'll bring in my string, that'll add another 50!

We have 85 in a 17x5 configuration; another string from you would be awesome! I'm planning to be there tomorrow night, although will probably have to leave on the early side.

They've also spent way more than us; those modules are $4 per pixel.

Cheers,

Jeremy

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