At the recent BlackBerry Jam Americas conference, developers who filled out a survey about their experience at the conference were given Arduino boards for open source prototyping. The wireless device manufacturer handed out Arduino Uno boards with the hope of generating interest among third-party developers in developing coupled hardware and software solutions potentially with BlackBerry […]
Category Archives: Arduino
Guitar Hero wireless foot pedal talking to the Arduino
Tom wanted to operate the panning of his webcam via foot pedal. The solution he came up with was to use the old Guitar Hero wireless pedals. He reverse engendered the PlayStation protocol to allow his Arduino to communicate with the pedals. What he ended up with were 2 wireless pedals with linear position reporting. […]
Imagination Labs #SMWsocialobjects Arduino badge
Jack Chalkey, Creative Technologist with Imagination Labs, has posted an outline of their Arduino based project for Social Media Week. The project was conceived by several lab members who returned from EMFcamp 2012 with some tech and an idea for badges. “The tech was badges (more like lanyards) with an onboard Arduino Leonardo, RF module, […]
Mechanical Donkey Kong
Martin designed the Arduino controlled mechanical Donkey Kong game. The game area is laser cut, while Mario is mounted on a metal rod, which is controlled via two servos, allowing it to move around and jump. Controls are read by the Arduino through a NES controller. Via Hacked Gadgets
Tuitwall displays Tweets on LED matrix
tuitwall is a project that will allow you to show Tweets in a LED matrix. It’s based on an Arduino, an ethernet shield, a LED matrix that has its controller, a Holtek HT1632C and a PHP backend that interfaces with Twitter. Its designer Santiago Reig explains: “The webpage, written in PHP, allows a user to […]
Visualizer Arduino shield up and running
Matseng soldered his Visualizer Arduino shield. You might remember these PCB as the with the cool dithered “eye” artwork on the back. The shield shows the state of the each Arduino pin – ‘Hi’ or ‘Low’: It seems like both the hardware and firmware is ok. I just had to lower the value of a […]
A look at the Teensy 3.0 testbed of nails
SJaak refers us to this article by Paul Stoffregen about how they test new Teensy 3.0 boards using a “testbed of nails.” Essentially the Teensy 3.0 crew has developed this testing interface which gives them a way to test every new board by bringing it into contact with the test jig’s pins. The result is […]
Reverse engineering remote control helicopter IR protocol
Kerry reverse engineered the infrared remote control protocol used by a Syma S107G remote controlled helicopter. He took the remote control apart, probed it with a scope, and analyzed the signals: This tiny remote control helicopter is a rather amazing toy. Not only its movement is very stable, but the rotor speed, forward backward movements […]
GSM GPS shield for Arduino
Boris Landoni draws our attention to the GSM GPS shield for Arduino designed by Open Electronics. “The shield is designed and based on the module GSM/GPRS SIM900 or the GSM/GPRS & GPS module SIM908, to make calls, voice and data connections via GPRS. This new version has several new hardware features, that allow maximum customization […]
New Arduino library for NFC shield released
Javier Montaner has released a new Arduino library for the Seeedstudio NFC shield. The new PN532 library uses SPI HW implementation from official Arduino SPI.h library in contrast to the original PN532 library from seeed which uses a dedicated SPI SW implementation in the PN532.h library. You can download the Javier’s NFC library and supporting […]
Arduino IR tachometer
Chris from Pyroelectro has posted this tutorial detailing the use of an IR transmitter and receiver break-beam pair to measure the speed of a fan. The IR components are used in conjunction with the Arduino UNO which processes the break-beam interruption counting with the result displayed on a 16×2 LCD display. You can get the […]
Raspberry Pi stackable Arduino compatible board
Osbock let us know about his Raspberry Pi stackable Arduino compatible board design. An Arduino is gently introduces to a Raspberry Pi header. Most will find the UART connection the easiest way to communicate between the boards. A header is available for the Fastrax UP501 GPS, DS3234 real time clock, Micro-SD card slot, and a […]
Arduino-IRremote multi-protocol IR library
Ken Shirriff has posted an Arduino-IRremote library. “This IR remote library lets you both send and receive IR remote codes in multiple protocols. It supports NEC, Sony SIRC, Philips RC5, Philips RC6, and raw protocols. If you want additional protocols, they are straightforward to add. The library can even be used to record codes from […]
embedXcode IDE covers multiple platforms
Rei Vilo has developed embedXcode, a Xcode 4 template for embedded computing boards, that supports Arduino, chipKIT, MSP430 LaunchPad, LeafLabs Maple and Wiring boards/platforms. “It relies on a set of modular makefiles, so adding support for a new board/platform is easy. The makefiles can also be used with any standard IDE, for example NetBeans. I […]
Theater light show project
Here is a light show project from North Street Labs built for the Hippodrome. They built 7 large LED panels that are controlled trough an RS-485 link. Each panel has 86 RGB LEDs and an Arduio controlling them. The build is well documented if you want to try this at home. Via Hacked Gadgets.
Web browser Arduino interface tutorial
Luca wrote another tutorial on interfacing the Arduino with a ENC28J60 Ethernet controller. This tutorial covers how to control an Arduino through a web browser. This is his 7th tutorial in the ENC28J60 series, if you are interested in Arduino web interfaces check out the earlier tutorials as well. When I published my first example about using […]
panStamp wireless open source modules
panStamp is an open source project created for the enthusiasts interested in measuring and controlling things wirelessly. panStamps are small wireless boards specially designed to fit in low-power applications, simple to program and simple to work with. They allow for direct connection with your sensors to make then available wirelessly. panStamps are NOT WiFi modules. […]
Simple input devices source and examples
Need a way to sense or measure something? This list of simple input devices has source and examples for capacitive sensors, PS2 scroll mouse, PS2 keyboard, push-buttons, and resistive touchscreens. Via the forum
Arduino WiFi shield
Arduino fans can now take their hacking projects to a new level with the release by the Arduino crew of their WiFi shield. The shield is designed around an Atmega 32UC3 32bit microcontroller which controls the WiFi stack and the HDG104 from H&D Wireless. The Arduino communicates over SPI with the Atmega32. They use an […]
Clock with 180 RGB LEDs on home-etched circuit board
An Arduino-based clock with 180 RGB LEDs. The LEDs are driven via 12 TLC5925 1- channel constant-current addressable drivers. Its built on doublesided copper clad board using Toner transfer method. The routes aren’t smaller than 0.44mm and all vias are made for 0.8mm drilling (truly DIY). Just around 5 vias are under a component and […]