Lillering

This coat of arms is a circle of flowers (Lillering). Green PCBs and oak wood are a nice combination. There is five shift-register to control LEDs.The Arduino’s original shiftOut() function is quite slow. I had to simplify it to make it work with my configuration without noticeable flickering. Board Arduino Pro mini 16Hz Atmega328 5v.Continue reading “Lillering”

Coat of arms of the accountant

I like history and I like medieval European coats of arms. Of course, nowadays, their design has its own rules and order. But when I have searched the early ones and found some. They can look wild. So I thought to make some mixed ones — medieval combined with modern electronics. The hardware part isContinue reading “Coat of arms of the accountant”

Depiction of women in heraldry

St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch’s (1462-1491) book of heraldry, containing 1,626 coats of arms of prominent people from the laity and the clergy, mostly from the southern region of Germany. This heraldic book was probably prepared in the Heidelberg workshop of Hans Ingeram for an unknown customer from the area between the Neckar River andContinue reading “Depiction of women in heraldry”