I just had to reblog this post from Shock and Awwww… there’s Total Control Lighting sewn into the black skirt one of the women is wearing on the front page of the article.

I have received many emails from people who are using Total Control Lighting, and my Arduino library in particular, to do neat things. Benny and I thought it would be nice to develop a community for people to share ideas, help, and source code so I’ve decided to try …

I have completed a Total Control Lighting C library for embedded linux single-board computers, such as the BeagleBone, BeagleBoard-xM, and the Raspberry Pi, which support Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus. The library is available to download from bitbucket.org. There are a few sample programs and some documentation included with …

It’s time for a couple of software announcements:

1. A new version of the Total Control Lighting Arduino library is now available (version 1.2). It includes support for the forthcoming Total Control Lighting Developer Shield (see the README for details), a new color designer example, which lets you dial …

I recently found out that the total control lighting arduino library was not working with the new arduino IDE (version 1.0). I looking into it, found, and fixed the problem. The new arduino tcl library is now available for download. The code can of course be obtained from bitbucket …

I love mercurial for version control. I find it intuitive to use and simpler to integrate into my workflow than git. I also love that bitbucket allows me unlimited private repositories as well as public repositories. Bitbucket has become the place where I keep my code backups, both private and …

I have updated the tutorial I wrote on using Total Control Lighting with an Arduino. This new version of the tutorial makes use of the open source TCL Arduino library I wrote to make the process easy. Now everyone can quickly get up to speed, after all, only 342 days …