Arduino videos

Joe Grand and Bre Pettis bring you another Awesome Electronics Workshop. This week learn about the Arduino, an open-source microcontroller board.

I made a program in VB that reads TF2's console log and tracks kills, deaths, and suicides by me. It's main function is to count the number of kills I make in each life and send that number to the Arduino. I hooked up five LED's to the Arduino and they display that number (roughly realtime) in binary. It's nothing too spectacular, but I just thought someone would get get a kick out of it. ------ Source code :: www.filefront.com ------ Holy crap, apparently this was on Hack-a-Day. I feel ...

This is another Arduino/Serial Communication project of mine. This project involves the communication between the Arduino, Applescript, a compiled C program, and iTunes. This project displays a green LED if iTunes is playing a song and a red LED if it is not. This is a basic project but is intended for the advanced user. You will find more information and source code at www.missionduke.com

Check out makershed.com for a complete line of Arduino products. This is the 3rd installment of my Aduino How-To Tuesdays. This week I am going to cover using another basic part, the potentiometer. I will also cover connecting a servo to the Arduino. Servos can be hard to control, but not with the Arduino! That's just another reason why I love this little micro-controller.

More information at makezine.com Today, I am going to show you how easy it is to connect, and use, a Memsic 2125 Accelerometer from the Maker Shed. This sensor is able to detect tilt, acceleration, rotation, and vibration with a range of ±2 g. It can be used for making balancing robots, game controllers, musical instruments and more. I'll get you started...what you do next is up to you!

Use an Arduino microcontroller to sense invisible electromagnetic fields using wire, a resistor, and an LED. Aaron ALAI's EMF detector project is awesomely simple to make and fun to use. An upgraded version can be built using an LED bargraph for more 'meter-like' functionality. original project can be found here - www.aaronalai.com additional info, and Arduino sketch - blog.makezine.com audio/video by Collin Cunningham

Learn how to modify the classic Rumble Robot toy with an Arduino. Thanks go to Dino Segovis for this Weekend Project from Maker Faire.

I had some little solar panels laying around and wanted to see if they would power the Arduino. They did. So, I wanted to see if I could make a sun tracking circuit to autonomously follow the sun throughout the day. So I did. Here is the result.

More information is available at blog.makezine.com This week I am going to be starting a series about getting started with the Arduino. A few weeks ago I posted a quick how-to on using a force sensor and received a lot of positive feedback. This led me to the idea of a creating a series of how-to's about our favorite little micro-controller, the Arduino. We have lots of Arduino's in the Maker Shed www.makershed.com

A camera platform is controlled using Arduino and an acceleration sensor. maple.ces.kyutech.ac.jp

This week I made a project with parts from the Arduino Starter Kit. I skipped over building the Proto Shield from the kit, since I made a how-to a while back. Otherwise, it's a simple build that doesn't require any soldering. Check out makezine.com for more information and the code. blog.makezine.com

I was about to buy an accelerometer to play with. But I realised I already had one at home: Why not use the accelerometer in the Nunchuck? So I googled and found a really good how to here (with source code that can be modified to two servos): todbot.com , it was possible! Have a look att this PDF from that site: todbot.com I didn't want to destroy my nunchuck so I made a basic "adapter" out of cardboard and aluminium foil. Well, it's ugly but it works. Someday I'll buy another nunchuck just ...

It's Tuesday again! This time I made a Danger Shield for my Arduino. You can read more about it at makezine.com

Instead of chaining multiple guitar effects in search of a new sound, I decided to mod just one. Using an Arduino microcontroller board + digi-pot chip, I was able to add a variable gating effect to a fuzz pedal. source code + more infos here: blog.makezine.com video, audio, & riffs by Collin Cunningham

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This is definitely the coolest project I've done with my Arduino. I've basically turned it into a monitor (driving the Sparkfun RGB LED Matrix Backpack controller), and it is paired, via serial-USB, with a Python program which is pumping scaled-down frames from an AVI file to the Arduino in real-time. So it's television - on an 8x8 pixel display!

In this video-cast, Steven demonstrates basic Arduino skills for newbies (and he's one of them). In this video, Steven un-boxes the Arduino Starter Pack from Adafruit Industries. Learn more at: www.giveusoneminute.com

www.robotshop.com Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming ...

demonstration using the arduino to read a wii nunchuck, and displaying the joystick position on a small oLED the arduino code is based on the example found here: www.windmeadow.com more at www.pr0jects.com

Using an Arduino Diecimila board to let a Nintendo Wii Nunchuck control a camera mounted on a "pan&tilt" mechanism with two servos. Nunchuck's accelerometer (an ADXL330) is used to move the camera. If the Nunchuck's "Z" button is pressed, the camera position is locked. Sketch at: www.ideavirus.it

Introducing the first robot which uses LEGO NXT components (motors, wheels, ...) and which is not driven by the standard NXT "brain" but it is instead driven by Arduino ( www.arduino.cc ). More information: www.arduino.cc www.scribd.com www.scribd.com Comment here: www.arduino.cc

The Arduino based tank is controlled with the TouchOSC app for the iPhone to send OpenSoundControl signals to Processing which translates the signals to serial and sends it out via usb to an xBee module...which in turn get's picked up by another xBee module on the Arduino Tank. The Arduino tank is using an Ardumoto motor driver shield and has a LiPoly battery charger connected to a solar panel for easy charging. For more information and all the Source Code, check www.ProjectAllusion.com...

Get started with the LilyPad Arduino! It's a sewable microcontroller that lets you embed lights, sounds, sensors, and much more into your wearables, perfect for clothing and accessories. In this video I'll show you how to attach the LilyPad and power supply to each other, and upload a basic program that blinks an LED. Next time I'll show some more advanced topics including hooking up a sensor and using it to change the circuit's behavior.

My first Arduino project, floating a permanent magnet using an electromagnet that pulls it up. The power on the coil is regulated by an Arduino Duemilanove board. The only sensor is a Hall effect sensor at the bottom of the electromagnet. Detailed description at mekonik.wordpress.com more pictures at mekonik.wordpress.com

"drool" is a midi interface based on arduino that i'm working on. it's a drum sequencer operated with a crank. the whole thing is still beta, but i added a tempo-detect and autoplay, which means you don't have to crank all the time and can use your hands to manipulate the rhythm. the data is send as midi to ED / electro drums. still alpha, but supposed to become a real instrument as soon as possible. 8 midi-triggered solenoids on a diy cajon. see and use it at "machs-dir-selbst", ackerstraße ...