The final post in the Frustromantic Box series deals with the software side of things.
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The Frustromantic Box, Part 3: Electronics
In this series’ third post I describe the electronics involved in the Frustromantic Box.
The Frustromantic Box, Part 2: Assembly
The Frustromantic Box is my implementation of Mikal Hart’s Reverse Geocache Puzzle. In Part 1 of this series I gave an overview of the project and its parts list. This post describes how I cut the pieces and put them together.
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The Frustromantic Box, Part 1: Intro
A few months ago, Hack A Day featured an ingenious hack called the Reverse Geocache Puzzle by a gentleman named Mikal Hart (please note that “Reverse Geocache Puzzle” is Mikal’s trademark – my unabashed clone of his project will hereafter be known as the Frustromantic Box). As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to build one. It took a lot longer than I thought it would, but I had the finished product ready in time for my wife’s Christmas present. She still hasn’t opened it, so I have to be a little cagey here.
I’ll describe this project in a series of posts. This post – the first – will go over the high-level design of the box.