Reboot
It's been nearly 2 years since my last post, so I figured I should actually update this again. I've continued to take pottery classes and make awesome stuff, but my bigger current obsession is combining crafting and programming via microcontrollers such as the Arduino. For my first venture into this realm I wanted to do a small project just to get familiar with Arduino and working with electronics. I haven't done anything with circuits since high school physics (Lego Mindstorms in the robotics class during my masters doesn't count; there was no wire or resistors or anything like that), so I had to relearn pretty much everything to do with electricity. Anyhow last fall I followed a tutorial for an Arduino-powered sound-reactive LED strip . The only tweak I made was changing the threshold for noise; the tutorial assumed a louder environment than the quiet office where I mounted this. We had holiday music playing in the background at work, so this was part of our decorat...