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Comment on iPhone ambient light remote by Marcus Ficner

Marcus Ficner — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:25:31 +0000

Hey Tyson, sorry for replying so late!

I’m glad that you ask, I even haven’t mentioned this part in my post. There’s an example project on the BlinkM’s Website (http://thingm.com/fileadmin/thingm/downloads/BlinkM_Examples.zip) called BlinkMCommunicator. Just upload it to your Arduino and it will handle the communication via I2C. How to connect the BlinkM to an Arduino is described on page 12 of the datasheet (http://thingm.com/fileadmin/thingm/downloads/BlinkM_datasheet.pdf).

Comment on Windows Phone 7 development in a virtual machine by Marcus Ficner

Marcus Ficner — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:32:09 +0000

@Jonathan: Although Microsoft states that it is impossible to run the emulator in a virtual machine (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637317(v=vs.92).aspx#BKMK_VM) it worked out of the box for me. However, since the release of Mango you’ll get a very annoying warning every time you launch the emulator. It seems to be the best solution to debug and test on an actual device.

Comment on Windows Phone 7 development in a virtual machine by Heiko Behrens

Heiko Behrens — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:30:04 +0000

You saved my day, Marcus! Thanks a lot

Comment on Windows Phone 7 development in a virtual machine by Jonatan Larsson

Jonatan Larsson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:11:25 +0000

Big thanx for sharing your experiences!
I’m about to start develop for WP7 in VMWare Fusion on a MBP. I’ve found some other posts saying it’s not possible (for example: http://bit.ly/mWphAj). Did you have to tweak anything else, or did the development environment work out of the box?

Comment on iPhone ambient light remote by Tyson

Tyson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:00:39 +0000

Marcus,

Nice Work! Thank You for creating this tutorial.
I just have a quick question:

What ‘Firmware’ and Libraries do you have ‘Uploaded’ on your Arduino board to handle the i2C communication and BlinkM commands? And what Pins are the BlinkM connected to on the Arduino Board?

I have a similar set-up using Arduino Fio and Xbee Wireless following this example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9etKD2y-Zk, but I was unsure how to communicate with the BlinkM’s. Currently works great, although I just have an RGB LED on the PWM Pins. Would love to plug-in a BlinkM, or MaxM.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank You

-Tyson

Comment on Windows Phone 7 development in a virtual machine by James

James — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:26:10 +0000

Marcus, AWESOME post. Great sol’n to an irritating situation. I found another proposal but that didn’t work for me. Thanks for your effort!