Microchip and Digilent handed over a chipKIT 32-bit Arduino-compatible board and Wifi shield to give away this week. Leave a comment on this post with a project idea, and these boards could be yours on Thursday.
The chipKIT uC32 is based on the popular Arduino open-source hardware prototyping platform and adds the performance of the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller.
The uC32 is the same form factor as the Arduino Uno board and is compatible with Arduino shields. It features a USB serial port interface for connection to the IDE and can be powered via USB or an external power supply.
On our conference call with Microchip it was hinted that a fully open source IDE and compiler for the chipKIT are going to beta testers soon.
The chipKIT uC32 is available for $34.99 and chipKIT Wifi shield for $49.99 from Digilent.
The chipKITWiFi Shield is an interface board designed for use with Digilent’s chipKIT line of microcontroller boards. The WiFi Shield makes use of the Microchip MRF24WB0MA WiFi module and provides chipKIT microcontroller boards the ability to connect to and communicate via IEEE 802.11 compatible wireless networks.
Me please
How bout one ?
I’m thinking a WIFI connected garage door opener
I’m in
quadrocopter controller, as a replacement for an arduino based board.
Wifi Controlled Home Automation System
The fully open source IDE/compiler download is ready here
Note this is a release candidate, although we don’t expect to change anything before final release unless a complete show stopping bug is found.
*Brian
Quadrotor with onboard measuring instruments that stores data locally and then sends data to webapp when connected to WiFi.
Could be good to make a midi file player (with multi-tracks support) with web interface for controls.
I would go for a web-based DMX interface, so I can control my DMX effects directly from my laptop / smartphone via WiFi.
Could be a remote data logger as it seems to have SD card on board.
I’m thinking in home surveillance, so it can send e-mail and take pictures in case of and intruder
I was just looking into scanning laser range finders after reading this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUeKKvKEvYI I wonder if that 32bit pic would have enough Umppffff to handle a robotics or UAV range finding type application? Anyway, that’s what I would use it for….
Would be a cool add on to connect my Raspberry Pi to the “real” world and make a home automation system.
I was thinking of wiring this up my water supply system from a tank to my apartment. Cold use it to trigger the valve to open at a certain time from my smartphone. And maybe have a digital fuel meter hooked up to I to display the reading of how much of water has filled in my tank and then turn it off.
All through my hand dandy smartphone. Sowhen I’m out and I cant fill my talk during the water supply timings . I know most people would say I could use a float valve… but my tanks are too slim for standard float valves
This can be helpful to the next revision of my abovelinked project OSSDAS. With the help of the Wifi shield which itself has breakout for micro-SD as well, I can use the wireless feature to communicate with laptop/PC to get stats from realtime and logged data from the attached micro-SD card.
In the earlier(existing) design of the project, data is logged only to attached SD card and optionally showed in attached LCD. If you need to view recorded data you need to remove the memory card and insert in PC. But with the help of the Wifi shield I can implement a communication between PC directly without even touching the hardware.
And if I’m not wrong, with this “chipKIT 32-bit board and Wifi shield”, I need to implement an analog frontend and RTC section separately rest everything can be done by within this.
Cheers.
How do I edit a comment here? I meant to use this link: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/autonomous-robotic-plane-flies-indoors-0810.html
Web based audio streaming. Give it a playlist it handles the rest.
Where I live in the winter you are limited on the days that you can use your fireplace. There’s a website that you can visit to check if it is a ‘no burn’ day, but that is cumbersome and annoying. I’ve been planning on building a wifi-based setup that would sit on top of the mantle, poll the website daily, and provide an indicator light showing at a glance if we can use our fireplace or not.
Since obviously that wouldn’t use too much of this product’s capabilities, I will likely also use it to perform other automation tasks. Its low energy usage would likely serve well as a local server for other projects, rather than having to have a desktop running and wasting electricity.
Too bad these modules don’t work in access point mode :-) You could let people connect to it, and have them play a ‘physical’ game with their phones. But, it still is possible if you carry a router with you.
The first thing that comes to mind, is what Mc Do did somewhere: put a giant screen on a square, make some pong software and let users control it via the internet. You could do something similar with a LED matrix.
Yet another idea: use it as a stand-alone module to check your email, let you know when someone has made a new tweet, put reminders on there. I’ve made an arduinome some time ago (that’s an 8*8 button and LED matrix), which would go perfectly together with this setup. ‘Connect’ some lights to some events, click on the button and maybe a text to speech module could read you your email! (but that might be pushing it a little). I think this chipkit would even fit in the box :-)
If the IDE/library set would be as simple as the arduino one, I could actually build this in my limited time.
And, I’m still thinking of network security, but I’m afraid that this is not really the device suited for that job. Because it doesn’t do AP mode, or works in listen mode that won’t really work. But hey, that’s not really the target of such a device. Nevertheless, hacking is cool :-)
me please!!
Due to the high performance, several I/Os, and thanks to the WiFi shield, it could be perfect to drive a house automation system, with remote control and security system over Internet.
It should be able to work in stand-alone, or managed mode over WiFi.
I’m a young student and i watch DIY stuff and open hardware from several month, I had never started in because I don’t have any board.
If i get this one i will produce my wireless ntp alarm clock with customised 7 segment with rgb led that i dream of from time to time.
Really hope to get one to start my maker career.
I know it’s hardly original, but I’d like to setup a device allowing me to log atmospheric conditions and possibly also different concentrations of gases in the air. Ideally this would be powered by a beefy LiPo battery so I could sit it somewhere and it’d quietly log away all the data. That wouldn’t use a huge amount of the power available alone so it’d also be fun to measure noise pollution and light pollution (the latter only really applies at night).
This would be great to control my large 3D LED table. The 32bit 80MHz uC can handle processing and visualizing sound without having to offload it to a pc like what has to be done when I use an Arduino. The wifi shield would cut down on the need for cables to run back and forth to my server.
With the chipkit uno32 ADC one could measure a vibration sensor on a factory machinery and transmit wireless data using the wifi shield. This way one could measure / monitor machinery vibration within ethernet or internet.
I think it would be a good module to build a green house automation module with,
monitoring conditions and controlling vents, watering etc when required.
I’m posting the FASTSPI library from AVR to PIC, and want to make a wifi controlled ARTNET LED/lighting driver :)
I’m building a micromouse and this board will be perfect for prototype the different part of the circuit and the algorithm used for solve the maze additionally the wifi module can be used as a wireless telemetry unit.
I’ve been looking into artificial neural networks recently, with the goal of using them with Arduino to make a learning robot. This setup would be much better, as I could have more sensors, possibly including a camera. Also, the faster speed and 32-bit operations could make onboard calculations much easier. WiFi could facilitate wireless debugging.
GREAT , I love this
I would love to use this for my next project –
a remote WIFI homeautomation system controlling light.
The board has to act as webserver
To be controlled from my Ipad.
I’m gearing up to put an IR LED pulse monitor outside on my smart meter for live power usage feedback, but I need a wireless way to connect it back to systems in the apartment. These guys, although mainly the wifi shield, would be great!
A remote webcam to watch the wildlife around my house by night. (boars, badgers,foxes,etc…).
This could posibly be used for my remote biff (for those not in the know, that is a mail-arrived alert system – named after a dog). our mailwoman seems to like chaostheory combined with timerelativity, resulting in us never knowing when mail arrives.
Totally implement that security system for the hackerspace with this, and a few other pieces. Reed switches, optical switches… Maybe a solenoid on a deadbolt.
anything can be done with this toy!!
I would love to use this as the main controller for a wireless home automation project that I’m working on. The board would interface over Wifi and send commands via XBees to coordinate various peripherals around the house. I’ve always wanted to play around with 802.11 Wifi on embedded systems as well.
I’m currently making a very small and affordable autonomous robotic “car”, combining some projects I’ve done in the past. It will have a basic ultrasonic sonnar, some proximity sensors, GPS and 9 DOF inertial sensors to navigate. It will also probably feature a low resolution camera to try and mimic an experiment made in the 90’s of a self driving car controlled by a neural network. I’ve already tested the performance of PIC32’s with a picqueño and a fairly complex neural network for gestures recognition. I loved the experience of programming the PIC32 thanks to the peripherals library so a PIC32 will be the brain of the robot. The wifi shield would come in very handy for controlling the thing with a mobile phone or computer, being able to transmit video to a more powerful device for even further processing if neccesary.
I have had this idea since a long time (early studies actually). There used to be a very funny radio show in the very morning (like before 8) – and there was only one day a week I was in my car thaaaat early. I thought to myself how nice it would be to have this show in my radio every day, even if I go out late.
This pack would be perfect for this, as the wifi shield has an SD card! Yeah! So roughly it would work like this: Wifi shield downloads show onto SD card each morning from radio website (it’s available, I checked) and then when I go into the car I have the show ready to listen. Sounds easy, but then I started thinking deeper and it might actually be pretty interesting/challenging. Some thoughts on the actual implementation: How/When to start the board? Time? Ignition? How to play the show? Either built-in speaker (lame, weak) or aux (not weak, but lame), or FM trasmitter (not weak and not lame, but I have no idea how to built one –> challenge accepted :)).
So that’s basically the plan for the kit. Let me have my show each morning, please :)
The central controller and wifi gateway to a detailed distributed security system.
I’d love to have one- so why say more? Please please please please please????
Please pick me!
i would use this with a PIR motion sensor to implement an alarm system whith mail alert and remote administration.
If I had a Millennium Falcon I’m sure this would be a useful upgrade, but alas, once hasn’t come up for sale on Ebay. :(
The next best thing would be hooking this thing up to the electronic security door system at work so I can be lazy and open it from my desktop rather than walking across to the buzzer. Add a camera module and it gets even better! Auto tweeting pictures of anyone daring to enter the building…
Ooo, if I got this, it would be my first PIC based development board. Making it into a standalone Wifi enabled (and possibly controlled) robot would be a fun little project before seeing how low I can go with the chip.
This would make a great hydroponics controller. There are enough GIO pins to control the pumps and valves. Use PWM to control the lighting, and the WiFi for datalogging and remote updates.
Kind of like the NEST controller, but for growing things.
Now I need one…
Lets try again for the custom garden tool. This would be great as it would be wireless!
I did not realize there was another “JTR” that hung around here a lot. I am not him. I just registered as Fibonacci and will use that for future posts.
My apologies for any confusion.
Mate, that scared the s#it out of me. I could not remember posting anything here. I was thinking that I have the wrong sort of plants growing in my hydroponics set-up.
Have a bunch of alphanumeric nixie tubes in a drawer, this would be the perfect oppertunity to put them to good use and create a internet connected nixie tube clock. WiFi could be used for auto synch the clock, show weather info and maybe even display rss / twitter messages :)
I have the chip kit max 32 . If I win the chipKITWiFi Shield I will use it to transition my current weather station to a web interface. I have interfaced two sensors so I still have to finish the driver for the barometer.
I would build a remote monitoring station for weather, It would manage a solar panel, 12v battery, wind speed,wind direction, rain, humidity and air pressure sensors, tied together with a long range wireless modem.
I haven’t tried the chipKIT yet, but heard they are quite capable. Definitely looking forward to experimenting with one of them…
I’d hook a PS/2 barcode scanner up to this and put it in my pantry. Then, whenever we go shopping, we could scan everything in and whenever something goes out, it gets scanned out. With the WiFi, it would send the scanned item’s info over the network to my server, which would track inventory, usage, etc…
Combine these with an FPGA, a high-end DAC, some instrumentation amplifiers and a TFT screen, you get a good portable ECG kit. No more wires dangling to the main computer – the combination transmits all the ECG data to the computer through Wi-Fi. What is it for? Research purposes. Knowing better about our heart throughout a day. Maybe examine the ECG data when you are working out in a gym. A lot more possibilities. :)
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Internet of things WiFi EOS camera controller, w/pan, tilt, zoom. Plus upload pictures.
I’m thinking a wi-fi controlled SWL or Ham station would fit this hardware perfectly!
Photographing progress of hydroponic tomatoes. This project is applicable to other crops but tomatoes present the challenge of constant pruning for side shoots (suckers) to keep branches from breaking.
The rover is designed to simply photograph Tomato plants so the progress of the plants growth can be documented and analysed by botanists in a social network inspired infrastructure.
The system employs an application processor to scrub and tag the photo data and an MCU to handle stepper motor and position encoder input.
The unnecessary details:
The rover works with an application processor (raspberry is great) for a small camera module but needs help with the sled and arm mobility.
The Horticultural Enhanced Roving Botanist H.E.R.B (cute name if a bit forced) travels on a track and sled system next to the PVC tubular water channels. The location of the sled is critical and the Raspberry has to process image data from colour data (outline/depth filters) which would keep the raspberry from handling interrupts from position sensors while the sled is in motion.
H.E.R.B would take pictures of the tomato plants, pinpoint discoloured leaves, new growth and try to determine if a side shoot is present. The idea is to have the photos automatically tagged for trouble or attention and send the photos around the world for experienced botanists to analyse.
I would like the Raspberry module to simply produce coordinates for the PIC32 to respond to. The pic will be in charge of stepper motor control and feedback from quadratic encoder input so the camera arm and sled can be operated while the raspberry is busy formatting the image data (Incase the Raspberry were to simply stop listening to the quadrature encoders while in photo mode)
The next phase will be to add a tool to H.E.R.B in order to facilitate automated or remote assisted pruning of side-shoots and damaged leaves so the tagged photo will have coordinates to its origin for H.E.R.B to revisit the precise location.
The design calls for H.E.R.B to store photo data for uploading while the rover is docked in order to assure autonomy. WIFI would be employed to obtain location and photo data en-route and even call the rover back for whatever reason.
The photo data is processed into smaller photos containing relevant information instead of very large photos that may be out focus or obstructed and the application has to determine focus and whether it is not obstructed while moving the camera arm so offloading the stepper/encoder operation to a nice PIC32 greatly simplifies design while maintaining a goal for quick and fluid movement.
Looks like a great platform
I’d love to experiment with the chipkit to hook into the CANBUS system in my car to sniff & log the signals, reverse engineer the security protocol and eventually control and add devices to the CANBUS like haptic feedback in the steering wheel and seats. The wifi would definitely come in handy for connecting to the home network for programming and data dumps.
I need to create a control panel to drive 15 meters of digital led strips with LPD8803 ICe to light up a room. There is already a library created by adafruit to interface a LPD8803 circuitor the arduino. The problem is that the normal arduino only have one SPI port and I would like several to also interface a WiFi shield in order to control the system via a web interface or maybe an Android application! I cannot really go with an Ethernet shield because the hole in the wall for the control panel was made back when I renovated the whole basement. I did not thought of that particuliar feature back then…
Th control panel will have a small LCD screen and a few push buttons to browse between features. There will also have an ultrasonic range finder to detect the presence of a person in front of the panel so the LCD’s backlight can be turned off when not needed.
The 15m of strip will be mounted around the whole room on the top of the walls, just below the ceiling.
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A lot of useful projects can be build using this kit. For the beginning maybe a simple projects and later to a more sophisticated project. It may have some limitation(which yet to be experimented). But overall, i believe it can support most of em. Moreover its shield capability, will allow for extra sensors and other devices to be added to the kit.
Wifi Controlled Doggie Treat dispenser
Would be great for monitoring how much electricity and hot water is
used, together with monitoring how much energy the HVAC and heat pump use.
Ie a great little platform for home energy optimization!
As everyone today owns a wifi phone or tablet, I am thinking that the board could make a nice wifi enabled storage device. You just connect your device to it via wifi and get your files(PDF , mp3, whatever).
As I’m a contributor to the minibloq project, I’d like to add support for PIC32 to it.
I’m just waiting for the sources to be released with the new beta.
Also support for the Wifi shield would make a nice addon to minibloq.
Currently minibloq supports most original Arduinos and some clones, blank AVR’s,
and the Maple boards (STM32 ARM M3), but other micros like PIC32 are definitely on
the Todo list.
http://blog.minibloq.org/
Home Automation System
In our area we have a really big problem with wild bores. They come during the night and destroy all the crops, mainly corn crops. I am thinking about a solar-powered project which includes a cheap PIR motion sensor and can detect any movement around the location. If movement is detected the project should emit some loud noises, flash a high-power LED a few times and signal this alarm using WIFI to alert me in my house about the incident.
We have a youth hostel in a remote part of Iceland. No one is living in the house during the winter time and sometime the weather there can go very bad and the window break or the basement gets flooded.
I would use this platform to create remote sensing application that can tap into the local WiFi to report back to a server through a TCP/IP socket or send regular updates to a webpage.
I don’t have much use for the wifi shield at this time so it is better that someone who could use both parts gets this. Of course if microchip / Diligent would hand me a MAX version there would be an increased chance that I might do something with my PIC14E – > PIC18 -> PIC24 -> PIC24E /dsPIC33E -> PIC32MX USB stack. :)
Using a GPS receiver in a window, I would create an NTP server with GPS base station WiFi link to all devices in the home and local vicinity including the home control system, Nixie and other clocks, entertainment system, Android and iPhones phones, fiducial time stamp overlay for video surveillance, low-power FM WWV-like radio time broadcast, etc. The system would be the home time reference point.
I’ve been trying to create a airborne data logger, which will be launched with the aid of helium filled balloon. I’ve met problems with my wireless communication link from my cheap nrf24l01 radio modules, and have limited computation power for error correction on my existing ardunio.
The Chipkit board seems to be a good drop in replacement for my design without major code changes, and the Wifi shield looks like a potential candidate for my wireless link. I might consider the ability of deploying multiple WiFi access points on the ground to increase my link coverage as well! Not to mention the microSD slot will be very useful to log the data sent, and be used to compare with the received data for debugging purposes.
Make over our vegetables watering system with wifi monitoring and controlling. Different zones, intelligent rain watching and others :)
Home automation, including an android interface for smart phones and tablets. All open source hardware.
And making that without using a IDE, code written on MPLAB X.
Control a stop light for live systems status. Maybe a Klaxon, Bell or other loud audio device to announce status changes.
I would replace the Teensy/WiFly set-up I use to control my garage door. I could then add door sensors, temperature sensors, and line voltage monitoring. This could then send notifications to my Android phone alerting me to any unusual activity.
I would use this as a wireless network detector and logger, which logs the MAC address and other info.
the other idea would be a a wireless midi controller, where you can have multiple midi inputs, and send it to a pc connected to the network running soft synths
I use pcb like this but only based on STM32 processor as gateway from WiFi to MiWi (MRF89XA) for home automation system. Other modules controls via RF network and master device contain WiFi module (MRF24), GSM/GPRS module (Telit GL865) and RF module (MRF89XA) as coordinator. End device (sensors, cameraa, etc.) connect over RF.
I’d like to implement an automotive data logger: the ChipKIT with WiFi shield would be mounted on a vehicle and gather data from several sensors, when arriving at a central it will download collected data.
My kid’s RC car cannot be controlled programmatically. Using this interface I would replace the receiver and could drive it from a desk via computer. I’m thinking about transferring a webcam’s image back to the computer. It would be an excellent toy enhancement for the kid, and fun for me to build it! :-)
I’d like to use this to connect my brain to the toilet to auto-flush all my bad project ideas.
I’m currently working on a remotely controlled and metered Power Distribution Unit (for monitoring server and factory machinery power usage – also turning them on and off) – some kind of high current and voltage relay board (using solid state relays). Maybe relaying some control/status information via RS485/I2C bus also will also fit in.
I taught myself everything I know about electronics through MIT opencourseware from the lectures of Prof. Walter Lewin in Electricity and Magnetism. I learned Circuit Analysis from the book “Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Cirtcuits” by Prof. Anant Agarwal and also from the book “The Art of Electronics”. I learned PIC from PICKIT1 and PICKIT 3. I am now playing with dsPICs and ARM Cortex M3’s from NXP.
The best project that I can think about of is to PLAY the heck out it and learn as much as I can!
With those boards, I could build my own neo (http://www.neo-direct.com/) for writing session during my dayly commutes. All text files will be stored on a micro SD and the WiFi would be used to auto-backup the files to my server. Fun to make, fun to learn and fun to use !
I’m thinking of using it to collect data on the status of multiple servers and read some data to send it to the BI system of the company where I work.
I would use this to monitor my wood fired boiler and hot water tank to calculate the amount of heating left in the tank and alert me when it is time to re-fire the wood boiler. In addition, I would activate the circulator pumps to keep the tank from over heating when the boiler is running full tilt. And/or I would a water well monitoring system that would automatically switch between water wells when one runs dry. In both cases, the wifi would allow me to monitor the system remotely without having to run cat-5 cable through my 130 year old farm house ( a daunting task! ).
Thanks
Hack a remote appliance…toaster oven, oven, etc. so you can remotely control it from work to start dinner…
The PIC32 w/ wifi is a great idea. The chipKit folks should have looked into making it compatible w/ Google’s IOIO boards as well…
Now that’s a great setup.. It would be a good start for a web-based 16 workstation monitoring system I’d like to setup on it’s own.. Web based stats on unit temperature, and power status would be cool.. that and maybe even expand it to include a i2c controlled relay bank to hard reset the workstations as well..
Remote access to home automation and security system.
I would use the chipkit and the wifi shield for a wirelessly controlled rover used to explore hazzardous environements that can be controlled by a phone.
I’m in please
I’m building a bill-of-material display system. The factory where I work builds several different products. Parts for the products are stored in a central warehouse. There are some parts that are common to all products, but the quantities of the parts required varies from product to product. The system I’m building will have small LED displays below the part bins. You’ll be able to enter the product you’re building using an LCD touchscreen. Once you select the product, the host (Chipkit32) will instruct the appropriate LED displays to light up. Naturally, the BOM for each product will be stored on the host. The host will communicate with each display over a serial 2-wire connection. New BOM data or BOM updating on the host will be done over WiFi from a PC.
chipKit 35$ + WiFi (50$) more than android with touch screen and WiFi. Easy make android application and control BOM on normal device.
I will use it to control the garage lights and garage door opener.
It will be hooked up to the garage door opener relay out, to catch regular 433MHz operation, it will intercept the indoor opener button so the door can be opened via smartphone/wifi, and it will interface light sensors to know when to turn on the garage lights.
This guy this guy!
A system for turn on or off appliances in a house, and can monitoring consumption in watts of the equipment, all wireless.
This would be used to control a quadcopter with an android phone.
I’ve into beekeeping. My vision is to instrument the beehives with inexpensive electronics to be able to monitor bee productivity and health (things like load cells to know weight, temp & humidity inside the hive, maybe even auditory spectra).
I’d like to build a home monitoring system for domotics with wireless control via pc or smartphone
I would use it to control my multi-layer prototype pcb maker that I am currently developing – when you are making a series of prototypes, and don’t want to order in bulk or wait a long period of time. It will be released as open source.
I used it’s smaller brother, the Uno32, to connect all my smoke detectors to my MacMini to have me send push notifications on my iPhone in case one of them went off and I’m not home. I also have several temperature sensors installed that alert me in case of unusually fast changes.
I’d like to extend this to a way where I can check the status remotely via a mobile web page (that’s where the Wifi shield would come in handy) and maybe even add a camera image to the mix to check if there is actually a fire in my appartment. I already have a small camera module that I’m currently trying to hook up to the XC9572XL dev board I bought from Seeed a while go.
I’m trying to develop an alarm system for my uncle’s greenhouses, last week he was robbed by someone who tore away all the power lines in order to sell the copper so I will like to make a network of PIR sensors and switches to monitor whether someone breaks in or manholes are open.
I’m thinking in connecting it all with 433mhz gear and send the data over sms and internet pairing it all with some ip cameras.
I’d be looking to port a webserver to the board.
currently I have one for the Arduino up on GITHUB but it is for the old style Arduino
Then I would be looking to port this:
Arduino Mega: Direct R/W of a Nand Flash memory chip
http://hardcoreforensics.com/blog/2012/01/02/arduino-mega-direct-reading-of-a-nand-flash-memory-chip/
80Mhz might just make a decent nand-flash reader at a lower cost that commercial units.
Certainly better than the current Arduino 16Mhz “tank”
I fly RC airplanes, and weather plays an important role. I’d like to build a webserver with a number of sensors (windspeed, temperature, humidity) to help determine when it’s a good time to go flying. Maybe even bounce a laser off a prism to measure visibility for fog issues.
Ideally, I’d power it off some lipoly batteries, backed up by a solar panel. Mount it in a tree near the field, and use wifi to connect to the wireless network that the city provides or SMS/3G for external connectivity.
Ideally, I’d like to add in some sort of capability to detect other flyers, so that you know whether you’ll have company. One option might be to setup the wifi shield as an AP and people can login to the webpage from their smartphone and “login”. In an ideal world, motion detection would be nice. Maybe a laser trip on the driveway, and either a PIR sensor or camera that detect activity (discriminating from background noise/motion).
I’m thinking a chipKIT 32 would have enough grunt to handle these tasks, whereas an Arduino would struggle with the more advanced processing.
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These combination will make a good mini iPod/iPhone dock smart radio alarm clock. Yes, and it’s internet-enabled too.
The chipkit32 would be used to control lights in my photography studio. The WiFi would interface with my android smartphone and tablet. The software written for the phone and tablet would allow the proportioning of the lights and turning them on/off. That would be a fun project to accomplish this fall !!
I would use it for writing chipkit32-compatible drivers for my QuarterK and Visulizer arduino shields.
I will use it to control the lights in my workshop in the back of my house
ok, how about a portable 2M/70cm and wifi brain for a local area bbs and intranet replete with telemetry and aprs??….That thing looks PERFECT for the job!!! I am already wondering if the removable memory should be 2 gig or 4 gig or maybe more!!!
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Blinking a led.
I would use this to track tubes that pass by on an automation conveyor belt
My friends and I are trying to build reprap 3D printers for schools in New Zealand. One of the things we’d like to implement is network printing – we’ve considered RaspberryPi but they’re in high demand at the moment.
This chipKIT sounds ideal for our project.
Cheers
Nice! for testing prototypes… for monitor events like, power monitor, lighting, solar radiation, etc…
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I am looking to make a slip/ppp gateway for retro computers. IP into the microcontroller and serial slip gateway out.
Pretty nice for an Internet of things… i will use it to stream audio over wifi to recognize voice on the other side… maybe an IP phone with voice recognition capabilities..
I have designed and used a few pyrotechnic firing systems before and I am now using previous knowledge to design a new (hopefully wireless) unit that will be able to trigger pyrotechnics effects for shows wirelessly from a laptop. This would give greater flexibility to the unit. I have tried XBees in the past but they do not work reliably enough or have a long enough range so this unit should be spot on!
I’ve got a digital guitar effect box project going and this would seem like the ideal processor to do the digital audio processing, recording and playback.
I could also use the WiFi shield to integrate a remote control interface into this project for controlling the effect settings, playback and recording loops, etc. from any WiFi enabled device (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.).
How about a WiFi enabled oscilloscope/logic analyser? I already have a chipKITFPGA connection for the gathering of the data, all I need is the WiFi to send the data over.
I’ve actually been thinking about building a wireless interface for your computer- something like the Leap Motion….
Mobile platform for a Zombie Gatlin gun. Need I say more?
http://nashdotnet.org/2012/04/zombie-defens-video/
As the heart of a device for putting up on the bed side for a baby. This will be a wifi-connected multipurpose monitoring and communication device, including infra-red sensor for baby temperature monitoring, microphone to alert when baby cry for a prolonged period, speaker phone for parents to talk to baby over the net, perhaps even from the office they are working. There will also be nicely done LEDs that can generate patterns to catch the baby’s attention or try to calm him down when he’s crying, before baby sitter can respond to the alert.
with this awesome bit of kit, i’d switch my arduino hexapod from bluetooth to wifi control. add a camera and i could entertain (chase) our cat while im at work!