The Evolution of ColorClock

Check out the ColorClock development journey 🌈 ⏱️

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Rebecca Jennifer Rashkin

Back In Development

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Leveling up ColorClock with testing, tooling, and better software design.

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We Did It

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Ten years in the making and ColorClock was deployed at Burning Man 2024 🥳 It worked the whole week and I didn’t even need to break open the backup electronics box 😅

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It’s Alive!

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Our scheduled live demo pushed us to finish the project just in time. The event was a success and I even got to play teacher again 👩‍🏫

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Mind Your Parens

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My lesson on why you should always use parenthesis in preprocessor directives.

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The Optimal Solution

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This week I contemplated the optimal solution for the circuit board layout.

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Another Futile Effort

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My slow burn realization that I won’t be able to use a multiplexer as an IO expander for RGB output.

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Smooth Operation

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My experiments with an IO expander, level shifter, and a lesson learned.

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Persistence Makes Progress

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Behold! The first design of the of the fully populated solderless breadboard!

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Goodbye Windows

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A mystery solved, a Linux partition, and we’re officially listed!

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Build Flags? Please?

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Every software hurdle feels like an epic journey. My latest challenge was learning how to set build flags.

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Throw Some Shade

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We decided to extend the shade portion of the structure to give the participant more space.

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Navigating Vision vs Feasibility

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Finding the balance between artistic vision and feasibility of execution for the user interface.

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An Iterative Approach

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My multi-stage approach to development.

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ColorClock Design is Shaping Up

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After a weekend of rapid fire brainstorming discussions, we have decided on an overall physical design of the project.

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A Tale of the Lost Serial Ports, and the Linux Environment that Could Have Been

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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 cannot interface with my computer’s serial ports and it makes me very sad 😭

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Test Early. Test Often. Refactor if Necessary.

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I’m learning the importance of incremental development.

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Arduino CLI Induced Flow

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Once upon a time I was intimidated by the command line. Today, I get annoyed when I can’t use Vim.

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Getting Started? Just Show Up

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When starting out, avoid getting caught up in the details of implementation, and instead invest your energy in preparing to show up.

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Top Level Block Diagram

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An illustration of my top level design using a Raspberry Pi.

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