Apologies for the delay. I've been meaning to update the original post talking about Magiquest wands and home makerness, but haven't had time until now. I did manage to find an improved tactic to the statistical confidence path I went down using only a Raspberry Pi and LIRC to decode. The hero of this story is really Michael Flaga, who extended Arduino-IRRemote to include … [Read more...]
Magic Just Means You’re Not Seeing The Source Code
Warning: This post gets pretty detailed and bit-twiddly. So, if your eyes glaze over at the site of code, you may want to read my post about good things going on in comics, instead. Spoiler Alert: My Kids Are Nerds There used to be a place called Magiquest at the local mall here in the Western Suburbs of Chicago. It was, basically, a LARP for kids - think Harry Potter meets … [Read more...]