About:Y-aji

Awesome.. Just awesome..

I was recently contacted by my congressman senator Durbin. After major internet providers threw everything they had at the unaware representatives, they have switched sides. The FCC is currently not going to regulate the internet.

I find this both baffling and frustrating as the government wants to mediate everything else in the world. But nevertheless, I figured I would throw out the message I received from my state representative.

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So recently, I have been playing around pretty heavily with shift registers. I had managed to shift data OUT pretty easily, but taking data in has proven a bit more difficult than I had expected.

There is a wonderful tutorial on http://www.arduino.cc on the 4021 PISO shift register (http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ShiftIn) however, having already been working with the 595 shift register for sending data to outputs, I decided to pick up a number of 74HC597N’s and just couldn’t get them to work. Continue reading

It’s done! It’s done! After what seems like a lifetime of work, I have finally completed my first major project from beginning to end with arduino and figured I would share the process. I started off with a really simple version of this, which illustrated hours and minutes, but no seconds. This was great, but made it difficult to illustrate how the device worked when I would share it with students who would have to wait a solid minute before anything changed. Continue reading

One of 8 posters in a set showing different areas of the original level of super mario brothers. The 4 characters in the upper right are cutouts and have sticky tack on the back so students can move them around as they like on the board.

This allows the students to interact with the advertising and will potentially bring alot of attention to them. We’ll see soon enough!

They love this stuff. Bringing the call of duty. I want to take just a moment to emphasize the extreme difficulty of making a unique poster without the use of guns or violence on a game based entirely on explosions and shooting.

Time to finally put up my donkey kong poster. I recreated it to emphasize multiplayer..

Let me know what you think!

Gamers lounge halloween promo.. Kind of rushed and boring, but done, nonetheless.

Jet Grind Radio! How I miss this kind of innovation. Poster for the Dreamcast 10th anniversary.