For those of you who attended Adobe MAX 2010 or followed it online, you already know the good news. For those of you who haven’t, just brace yourselves. BlackBerry announced the fact that they are going to produce a tablet rival for the iPad. It will be called the PlayBook [...]
In the previous part of the blog post series you’ve constructed the actual 8x8x8 LED cube itself and mounted it onto the mould you used or the build. In this section I’ll show you how to wire up the cube. A first question is why did I choose this dimension [...]
So now that you’ve ordered all the components and are probably waiting for deliveries to come in, let me continue with explaining how you are going to build the actual LED cube itself. Building the cube The most important aspect of the LED cube is the fact that all the [...]
OK, so now I’ve got your attention, let’s get started with this tutorial on how to build the Arduino based LED cube. First of all I must say that this tutorial is specifically aimed at building an 8x8x8 cube with single color LEDs. Things are going to be quite different [...]
A few weeks ago I was thinking it had been a while since I’ve done something with physical computing. I had created a mobile application that controls my BTicino domotics system, as you can see pin this video. Then I created a mobile remote controller for a physical maze game, [...]
So this year was my first year at the gotoAndSki(‘Switzerland’) conference and I didn’t quite know what to expect. Well, besides being part of an awesome speaker list that is… First thing I couldn’t help but notice is the beautiful location, in the middle of the mountains covered with snow. [...]
I’ve been quiet for quite some time now. There are 2 reasons for that. The first one is simply because I have been busy on a couple of projects and just didn’t find the time to write another blog post. The second reason is that I wanted to wait and [...]
Tonight I got one of the “coolest” emails you can get: I’ve been invited to give a session at gotoAndSki(); Switzerland on January 26th, 27th and 28th, 2012, which is really awesome. Unfortunately I haven’t been to this conference before, but I’ve heard very nice things about it and let’s [...]
This week is ColdFusion Developer Week, which means that you can follow numerous online sessions about various ColdFusion topics. Just take a look at the schedule below and enjoy the wonders of Rapid Application Development with ColdFusion. Getting Started with Web Application Development Using ColdFusion http://adobe.ly/CFWeek01 Monday 10AM PDT Working [...]
As a longtime Flex developer I’ve always been used to having binding expressions to do one or more of the following things: Bind the value of one input field to a data model Bind the value from a data model to an input field or label Bind the value of [...]
Today I was discussing the Validator classes on the Adobe prerelease forum with a couple of other Flex developers. The Flex Validator classes are pretty good for some basic validation and give you a fly-over error message (which you can customize) and a red component outline when the validation fails. [...]
