ARDUINO TO NINTENDO DS INTERFACE
– February 6th, 2010
[Hounjini] was poking around at the Game Boy Advanced bus of his Nintendo DS lite and figured out how to use it to connect an Arduino to the DS. For testing he’s soldered an IDC plug to the cartridge cover pin interface but this only requires four connections. The Arduino can both send and receive data from the DS lite as shown in the example videos after the break. The data access is made possible by making the Arduino look like a controller that the DS is happy to talk to.
via ps2cover
CODE: DELAY() VS MILLIS()
– February 5th, 2010
INTRODUCING ILLYCLOCK – ALARM CLOCK IN A COFFEE CAN
– February 5th, 2010
“The electronics is based on Wiseduino (Arduino clone with DS1307 real time clock on board), with a LED matrix shield sitting on top. The shield is built with 74HC595 shift registers that drive two bi-color (red, green, and orange by subtraction) 8×8 LED matrices.
The clock uses a rotary encoder with button as the only user input.
The functionality is simple and intuitive:
- time is shown as hour and minutes;
- clicking the button will show, using the symbol of a bell, the state of the alarm (enabled or disabled);
- double clicking the button will show the alarm time and allow the user to set the alarm hour and alarm minutes (toggle between the two by clicking the button); increment the numbers by rotating the knob;
- holding down the button will allow the user to set the time;
And here is an original feature: three hours before the alarm will sound, the time is shown in orange; one hour before the alarm will sound, the time is shown in red. So just by squinting at the clock, one can realize how much longer one can sleep.”
via TimeWithArduino
GALATEA, ROBOT PROGRAMMED VIA ARDUINO
– February 5th, 2010
Are you into robotics? You should then take a look at the Galatea project byFrancisco Javier Suvires. He has been working with this for some time, his original platform was not programmable from the Arduino IDE, but after a conversation at Campus Party 2009, he got convinced about the potential of using our IDE to create code for his machines. A bit more than a week ago he sent me this video:
You should check out the rest of his video material on Youtube and visit his blog. He’s got quite a nice collection of robots both autonomous or remote-controlled.
ARDUINO SHIELD FOR ARDUINO. NO, REALLY.
– February 5th, 2010
“Core2duino is — seriously now, no joke — an Arduino shield containing a second ATmega microcontroller and full complement of I/O pins. The two chips in this Young Frankenstein-esque assemblage coordinate over the I2C bus, providing, at least in theory, more processing power, more I/O, and perhaps a degree of fault tolerance. In reality, we’re pretty skeptical, but do have to give them props for a great Instructable, detailing the whole process start to finish with Eagle CAD files, board etching and drilling, and advice on where to score free Cosmopolitan magazines (it helps “if you know any women,” we’re told).”
via ps2cover
JANUARY 2010 WAS A BUSY MONTH
– February 4th, 2010
It’s been a month -almost- since I was posting anything to the blog. It has been a busy time looking through things in the server. The team is working hard preparing the NYU March meeting, as Massimo mentioned on the Uno Punto Zero post:
In march, during the NYU spring break, we’ll meet up at ITP in New York to exchange notes and test our assumptions followed by a social event somewhere in town (we’ll have more details about this as we are organising it right now)
Massimo coordinates the action, making sure the event will run smoothly, ITP -the school Tom teaches at- has approved the use of their facilities for the meeting, and we are now working with the specifics of who does what. There are at least two independent teams (one Italian and one Spanish) making video documentaries about Arduino and we hope they will make it to NY to interview both the team and the event participants. Massimo is also coordinating the press for the event, just drop us a line if you work for any kind of media and are interested in documenting the event. We will try to schedule you in somehow.
There has been a lot going on during the silent month. I think it is worth letting people know about it.
Arduino 0018
Dave released Arduino 0018 after a month-long testing process. This latest revision of the software is not just a bug-fix from 0017, but includes a lot of feedback from the developer’s list, as well as from the teacher’s one. Go here to download the latest IDE’s version.
I you want to influence Arduino’s IDE development, you should subscribe to one of those two (or both) discussion lists. There is really a lot of people participating of the creation of the next Arduino, but your opinions are for sure good for us to improve our software, hardware, and documentation materials.
Server operation
The Arduino server reached record levels in performance. We registered almost 14.000.000 hits (344.932 unique visitors) just by moving the downloads from our webserver to a second server. We upgraded to a new version of the OS and will upgrade the forum software. The forum searches are now operated by Google (who already had indexed everything) and the blog is always updated to the latest version.
There is still a list of things to be done, but with the server at its full power, things are much easier. Now we can concentrate in improving the wiki with some requests to make easier the making of new pages, create translations and so on. Give us your opinion of what should be made first on the forum.
Contests
Like every other month, one of our distributors comes out with a new contest to invite you guys to share your creations with others while getting a chance to get some free gear. This time, Libelium, one of Arduino’s distributors in Spain, is launching their 3rd Arduino contest. Last year the level went pretty high, I am looking forward to see this year’s outcome to this contest.
Events
One of the reasons I had no time to post on the blog during the last weeks is that I was teaching at Valencia’s Polytechnical University – Arts and TechnologyMaster course (Spanish only). Valencia is one of those places known for being really touristic.
However, there is much more than sandals and sun-glasses in the city. I found out there is a collective dedicated to promote open culture that runs theGeneratech events’ series. If you are interested in gender and technology, this is your place. You should take a look at their promotion video, but also these posters #1 y #2 (I am not posting them here because of their explicit content).
Press
The Swedish specialized press has finally discovered us. December’s edition of the magazine “Elektronik” , that is delivered free of charge to anyone that requests it inside Sweden, published a small note about Arduino and last week came out with an interview. Unfortunately it’s just in Swedish, but I think Google translate makes a nice job if you want to see what it says.
CONTROL YOUR IPHONE USING AN ARDUINO (RECOTAMA STRIKES AGAIN!)
– February 3rd, 2010
from MAKE:
When we last covered recotana’s Open Sound Controller (OSC) library for Arduino (ardOSC), he had an Arduino talking to an iPhone using the OSC protocol. The project worked quite well, however you had to manually connect the two together by specifying their IP address. Now, by adding an implementation of Bonjour, the Arduino can link up to the iPhone automagically, allowing one to easily get on with their mixing.
When we last covered recotana’s Open Sound Controller (OSC) library for Arduino (ardOSC), he had an Arduino talking to an iPhone using the OSC protocol. The project worked quite well, however you had to manually connect the two together by specifying their IP address. Now, by adding an implementation of Bonjour, the Arduino can link up to the iPhone automagically, allowing one to easily get on with their mixing.
BUILDING A LASER TRIGGER FOR YOUR CAMERA
– February 3rd, 2010
Another Camera-Related (jack-input oriented) Arduino Trigger. Nice Images. ++
You can tell it has been written by a photograph: very good pictures!
Via [photocritic.org]
Laser trigger for camera via Arduino
PYTHON: INTERFACING WITH AN ARDUINO
– February 3rd, 2010
ARDUINO + LAPTOP TOUCHPAD
– February 2nd, 2010
Yeah. It is what it seems to. Here’s the code & tutorial to hack a laptop touchpad and use it with arduino.
Clear nice pictures, thought.
Clear nice pictures, thought.
thanks for the link to [electoday] user M150. the full thread at [allthemods.com] from japala user.
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