Arduino

  The ArduGame packs all of the power into a small handheld unit that allows you to make your own simple games. The OLE display is responsible for much of the power since it can store many of the graphical images be stored on a memory card that it can read directly. The current game is [...]

Controlling audio with a micro-controller can be difficult, really difficult. The Wave Shield, from LadyAda, makes it simple. There is a bunch of sample code on the LadyAda website to get you up and running fast once you build the kit. The Wave Shield is just one component that will be integrated into an interactive piece that I will be documenting over the next few weeks for Make. I will reveal

  Melka demonstrates how to use a Nintendo Nunchuck to control 3D Studio Max with the help of an Arduino microcontroller. The code is available so that you can play with it yourself. "Here’s my setup under windows : - Arduino using a WiiChuck adapter from todbot (thanks kurt ^^) and the WiiChuck library from Tim Hirzel - Data [...]

Daniel andrade show you how to build a simple temperature sensor using one LM35 Precision Temperature Sensor and Arduino.The circuit will send serial information about the temperature to the computer.It is a nice example to hookup on your future projects by changing the source code as you need.Link Related PostsLED Calculator with Rotary Quadrature Encoder Sharp IR on [...]

TheOther1 writes:I bought a Sharp GP2Y0A21YK0F Distance Sensor to use in my robot. It was very easy to see the data returned in a serial console window, but I thought it would be cool to see the distance in zones represented by colors from a tricolor LED. Then you would not need to be connected [...]

  If you’re asking yourselves how to connect a solar panel to an Arduino you will find this project useful. Hook a solar panel to your Arduino: [Link] Related posts Voting Pads System based on ATmega88 (0) Solar powered DragonFly robot (0) PIC16F877 and 4×5 keypad (1) LCD RSS Weather Reader (0) Getting Started with PICAXE Microcontrollers (1)

  John Ryan on the Arduino forums says: Here’s 2 ATMega168’s sharing one 16mHz resonator, one reset switch, two 10k resistors, one 220ohm resistor, and two LED pilots. I used a mini USB adapter and uploaded the LED blink test to both chips, and as Paul [Badger] suspected, they are perfectly synchronized - I’ve tested numerous resets, [...]

  Ladyada released this great tutorial on how to connect a parallel LCD to an Arduino. I’m sure this will prove useful to many people, because more and more projects are LCD based, and until now there wasn’t any good tutorial out there on hooking up an LCD. I don’t know if you noticed too, but [...]

This project consist of an 8×8 LED grid controlled by the Arduino. The result is a particle effect, a particle that bounces around the LED matrix. But the arduino only has 13 outputs, so you can only control 13 LEDs? Well, the author discovered that trough Charlieplexing which is a complicated mode of wiring LED’s [...]

The author writes: I developed this infrared remote control decoder for Arduino on my Arduino-compatible STK500 evaluation board for Atmel’s AVRs. The sketch is pretty much standard C code so porting to non-arduino dev systems is almost immediate. Infrared remote control receiver for Arduino: [Link] Related posts Gmail Light Cube - New Email Notifier (0) DIY Knight Rider Light [...]

The author writes: The brain of the system is really on the arduino or the web page the phone requests. . . The phone just passes any data it sees back and forth. . .For the phone app to run, it needs the URL of a server and the path to a web page. Once that [...]

Leah Buechley created in cooperation with Sparkfun the next generation of e-textile modules for the Wearable Electronic DIY enthusiasts: the LilyPad-Arduino set. To introduce Leah Buechely might not be needed for our regular readers and everyone interested into Wearable Electronics just so much, Leah is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado and a member of the Craft Technology Group. Her research interests in electronic textiles, wearable computing and human computer interaction paved her way to create the now famous LED tank top. Since then, Leah continuously developed further her tool kit for e-textiles which resulted in the latest and most sophisticated DIY kit for e-textiles I have ever seen before, the LilyPad. The LilyPad is designed with large connecting pads, to create an interface between small electronic components and textiles, to be sewn into clothing. Various input, output, power, and sensor LilyPads are available. Sparkfun started in 2002 fro

Mucho se habla del software libre. Quizás sea porque suele ser gratis, o mucho mas barato que el software privativo.Sin embargo, existen otros movimientos con la misma finalidad como "Arduino", de los que no se habla tanto. Arduino es la aplicación al hardware de la filosofía del software libre. Arduino es un microcontrolador, es decir, circuito integrado que nos ofrece las posibilidades de un pequeño computador. Existen muchas alternativas de microcontroladores, pero lo que diferencia a Arduino del resto, es su carácter libre.Es decir, comprando las piezas adecuadas, y siguiendo las instrucciones que puedes descargar de su pagina, puedes montarte tu propio microcontrolador Arduino a muy bajo coste, un coste muy inferior a otros microcontroladores similares comerciales.Además, al igual que el software libre, lo mejor de este proyecto está en su comunidad de desarrollo, que libera cada proyecto que se realiza. De forma que una vez montado (o comprado)

These Gesture Controlled Lamps use the Arduino Microcontroller to detect movement and adjust the lights accordingly. If you want to get your hands on a free Arduino microcontroller have a look at the latest uC Hobby giveaway. “Gestures in front of any lamp affect all the lamps. The lamps all show the same display, but it depends on which lamp generated the triggering event. For those of you new to the project: the concept is “action at a distance”, the lamps all react in unison regardless of distance (well, within a few hundred meters). Technically, quite complex: uses AD5206 digipots, Zigbee radios and Arduino minis, all held together with some elaborate software.”