{"id":251,"date":"2009-10-07T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T16:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:31:51","slug":"larson-scanner-on-arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/07\/larson-scanner-on-arduino\/","title":{"rendered":"Larson Scanner on Arduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php\/larsonkit\">Larson Scanner<\/a> project, I finally broke out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\">Arduino<\/a> and ported the code from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/source\/ix\/larson.zip\">ATtiny<\/a> to the <a href=\"\/projects\/arduino\/larson-scanner\/LarsonScanner.pde\">ATmega<\/a>.  (The Arduino IDE runs fine with <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/12\/uninstall-sun-java6\/\">openjdk-6<\/a>.)  I&#8217;m sure the power usage is terrible, but I wasn&#8217;t after long battery life.  I wanted my very own <a href=\"\/projects\/arduino\/larson-scanner\/dscn1805.avi\">Cylon eye<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/projects\/arduino\/larson-scanner\/dork-final.jpg\" alt=\"DorkBoard running the Cylon eye\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since I was successful with porting the code and <a href=\"\/projects\/arduino\/larson-scanner\/dscn1804.jpg\">wiring up the Arduino<\/a>, I figured I&#8217;d see if the tiny Arduino-clone called the <a href=\"http:\/\/dorkbotpdx.org\/wiki\/dorkboard\">&#8220;DorkBoard&#8221;<\/a> would <a href=\"\/projects\/arduino\/larson-scanner\/dscn1807.jpg\">work<\/a> with it <a href=\"\/projects\/arduino\/larson-scanner\/dscn1806.avi\">too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the weekend I grabbed a AAA-battery holder and hooked that up so the eye is untethered from the USB power source.  Next up, coding the pesky self-awareness.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2009 &#8211; 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the Larson Scanner project, I finally broke out my Arduino and ported the code from the ATtiny to the ATmega. (The Arduino IDE runs fine with openjdk-6.) I&#8217;m sure the power usage is terrible, but I wasn&#8217;t after long battery life. I wanted my very own Cylon eye. Since I was successful with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}