Centipede Shield - also a contest!

Congrats to the winners!

I haven't yet received responses to my private message to the two winners. If you read this, please check your PMs and send me your shipping addresses!

If I don't hear back by November 27th I will select new winners from the existing entries.

I'm still in luck then :smiley: lol

Say--I'm a bit slow on this, but do I understand right that this would allow for 64 buttons to be read basically simultaneously, as well as leaving a few analog I/O pins available? I ask because I'm interested in rewiring a few of the old Thrustmaster FLCS/TQS/Rudder pedals, which would require 6 axes and (count, count) gosh, 30-40 buttons, and I'm trying to figure a way to do it all. I was looking at shift registers, but I'm not sure how well that will work.

Umm, yeah just about.

Mowcius

Have the boards being claimed yet? I'm looking forward to seeing those projects :smiley:

Mowcius

Let me know if they ever go on sale. I think there'd be a decent market for 'em.

Yeah I am waiting for them :smiley:

Mowcius

Sorry for the delay everyone...the winners I chose never responded to their private messages. I apologize that the new winners had to wait so long for this to come to a conclusion.

New winners:

mowcius
Submitted several project ideas, any of which will work with the Centipede Shield. Leans a bit toward the output-only side of things, but I think mowcius will find some good uses.

kokuma
The musical instrument idea looks really interesting, and could require a lot of inputs and outputs. Definitely looking forward to seeing what this project looks like!

I am sending PMs to the two new winners to request shipping information.

Yeah :smiley:

I will be documenting all my projects with it on my website (when I eventually get it online!)

Mowcius

You thinking about selling these? guess i am gonna need one after all for my robot... what fun. And this might be a bit cheaper than making one myself.

Has this been sent off yet? I am eagerly waiting for a play with it. My lasers have arrived now. I will have 40 in a few weeks, fun fun!

Mowcius

It should be there already, but with the holiday shipping delays it might be held up. Let me know when you get it...

Ok brilliant. Yeah everything has been slow recently and that was before we had all the snow!

It'll be sliding its way towards me no doubt :stuck_out_tongue:

Meanwhile, i've been out on my mountain unicycle in the snow :smiley:

Mowcius

My centipede shield arrived three days ago. It's great!

Arghh, I want mine! :stuck_out_tongue:

Mowcius

Did your Centipede shield ever get there, mowcius?

Still waiting, it was after another package that I am still waiting for that you sent it. My package before that was delayed by about 2 1/2 weeks and royal mail still has a backlog in inports as far as I know. Either that or some serious issue somewhere, anyway hopefully it'll come soon!

I have learnt to be patient recently! :wink:

Mowcius

Hehe, mine has arrived ;), and it's brilliant!


More pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mowcius/sets/72157623154190142/

As you can see from the pictures, I used a double right angle socket on the end double row of pins to make it easier for prototyping, especially if it is used in a stack. This can still be used with a cable by using the double pin row as an 'adaptor'.

Just about to try some stuff with it now! :sunglasses:

Mowcius

It is brilliant but I cannot get it working...

I uploaded the example sketch and nothing...

I tried just running the setup and lighting up LED 13 (on the arduino) in the loop code but it doesn't seem to get to that code...

Anyone got any ideas?

Mowcius