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	<title>My 2µF &#187; robert</title>
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		<title>RGB LED Ring V2 + ShiftPWM &#8212; super smooth color fading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electronics.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The supplied demo code uses a variant of binary code modulation / bit angle modulation (MIBAM). That is perfectly fine and very cpu efficient for keeping a certain brightness level. Smooth fading however does not (yet) work completely satisfactorily. You &#8230; <a href="http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2012/01/20/rgb-led-ring-v2-shiftpwm-super-smooth-color-fading/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>
 
 
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		<title>RGB LED Ring V2 &#8212; sequels don&#8217;t have to be bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AVR]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the successor to my old (and lame) RGB LED Ring project. Now you get 6-bit color depth (per color!) and a lot more bang. Version &#8217;2.0 alpha&#8217; &#8211; an intermediate step to true enlightenment &#8211; uses one LED &#8230; <a href="http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2012/01/11/rgb-led-ring-v2-sequels-dont-have-to-be-bad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>
 
 
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		<title>Weller WSM 1 &#8212; teardown</title>
		<link>http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2012/01/01/weller-wsm-1-teardown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soldering station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teardown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WSM 1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The power supply is just the usual laptop-brick, so nothing noteworthy there. And there&#8217;s really not much inside either. Capacitive touch buttons. Front side of the board. Probably a cap-sense controller. The bottom is even less impressive, except for one &#8230; <a href="http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2012/01/01/weller-wsm-1-teardown/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>
 
 
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		<title>Groundhog Day &#8212; Again !</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Dump.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happy new year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Created with xscreensaver / fireworkx Felicitations etc. pp. Related posts: Happy New Year 2009 Happy New Year 2010
 
 
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		<title>Counting Piggy Bank &#8212; teardown</title>
		<link>http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2011/12/31/counting-piggy-bank-teardown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piggy bank]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short post with some images showing the innards of a Counting Piggy Bank. You push suitable money through the slit and it counts the total. I&#8217;ve already found out that it can be tricked though. You can push &#8230; <a href="http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2011/12/31/counting-piggy-bank-teardown/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>
 
 
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		<title>Energy consumption rant &#8212; again!</title>
		<link>http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2011/12/15/energy-consumption-rant-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dear Diary.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CO2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy consumption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Canada having recently CHICKENED OUT of the Kyoto treaty, I&#8217;ve had a look at my various little power supplies again. I&#8217;m talking about &#8216;wall warts&#8217; / laptop power supplies and the likes. The ones I have are 100% switch-mode &#8230; <a href="http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2011/12/15/energy-consumption-rant-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>
 
 
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		<title>Riding a bicycle at night &#8212; Most bikers are braindead&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dear Diary.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bike]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or will be ! It was at night, it was raining, ice rain at times, the roads were covered with slippery leaves. I met a lot of bikers &#8211; some of them had their lights on. I was still &#8230; <a href="http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2011/12/07/riding-a-bicycle-at-night-most-bikers-are-braindead/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>
 
 
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		<title>Arduino 1.0 &#8212; a few things you can do to save FLASH space</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arduino.]]></category>
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		<title>What does it take to call something &#8216;open&#8217; ?</title>
		<link>http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2011/10/24/what-does-it-take-to-call-something-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Software.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled across this blog post. The writer talks fervently (a small play of words if you translate his avatar from German to English) about the open-ness of KiCAD, especially about the open-ness of the design files. In this &#8230; <a href="http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2011/10/24/what-does-it-take-to-call-something-open/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>
 
 
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		<title>Zombie Meerkat &#8212; The compulsory Halloween project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electronics.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2x red LEDs, 1x RGB LED, 1x ATtiny24, 1x MBI5168, 1x 470R potentiometer, 2x 270R, 1x 10k, 1x 294R resistors, perfboard, wire, solder and a lot of time. The victim: a meerkat sculpture I wanted to &#8216;deal with&#8217; last year &#8230; <a href="http://blog.spitzenpfeil.org/wordpress/2011/10/22/zombie-meerkat-the-compulsory-halloween-project/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>
 
 
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