Multi proyectos 0107

Push the button: Kokoromi’s Gamma game challenge, which we saw earlier this week, challenges game designers to build an entire gameplay mechanic around a single button. What can be done with a single hardware object – a self-contained, one-button invention? We’re looking for creations that answer that question, inspired by games (and encompassing hardware games and hacks), but also extending into interactive art and musical and visual instruments.
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From CDM post

from libelium post

For the third consecutive year, Libelium organizes the Arduino Open Hardware Contest in order to award the best ideas and projects made with Arduino.

After the previous editions, this year we have decided to create just one category: “Amazing Arduino”.

We are looking for the most spectacular and unusual projects developed with Arduino.

Cool way to get Game controllers imput without hack too much the interface (and preserve some bool components). + some commercial help from the (incredibly cheap) bluetooth Usb Dongles.

Via Hackaday
Circuits@Home has put together some libraries that make it easy to use gaming controllers with an Arduino. They interface through the USB host shield.
This means that PS3 controllers connect via USB through a cable or a
dongle. With the Wii remote things get a little more interesting. A Bluetooth dongle
is used to make the connection wirelessly. What we have here is a cheap
and easy way to add Bluetooth connectivity to your projects either
through the USB Host shield, or by building your own hardware with the schematics and code that are available from Circuits@Home.
There are several pages that walk you through the protocols using as
well as a demonstration video you can see after the break.

From MAKE.
Thom wrote in to share his impressive open source operating system*, Pyxis OS. Based around the Arduino hardware platform, it adds some pretty impressive features, such as the ability to run programs from an SD card, read/write to a FAT filesystem, and easily display graphics and GUI elements on a color LCD. It looks like it could be lots of fun to play with, and if you want to peer under the hood, a great way to learn how to build complex systems on tiny microcontrollers.

Boom!
Pyxis OS RELEASED

Massimo Banzi, author of Getting Started with Arduino and co-founder of
the Arduino Project, is presenting a workshop at the upcoming
Interaction10 conference in Savannah, GA on February 4, 2010.

read MAKE full entry-

Using an old suitcase, a laptop, X10 home automation parts and an Arduino set-up, this guy managed to build a fully-functional magic mirror suitcase.  Basically, it’s an interactive mirror which reacts to it’s environment using various sensors…BUT it can also be used to view stock updates, weather forecasts, and more!

Check out the full tutorial instructable!
via [hacknmod]Tag Technorati: mirror, bag, joke, halloween, carnevale

Arduino Mega doing wavetable osc function with ADSR envelope. Coplex yet clever use of analogIn(s). It’s a nice project held by neutronium (blogging as well on Physical Guitar synth project) Cool.
Code provided on the arduino forum post. The all project is to modulate / mix / output control signal for VCF
via [Neutron-synth]

Nice Instructable to get your G1 talking Serial to Arduino.
via [hackaday]

UPDATE:  check this Amarino project kit concisting in an Android App + a Arduino library to get you ready listening to the physical word.

via [DIYDrones]

Crazi spinning HardDrive Clock from Hacked Gadgets Forum contributor NatureTm.
No code provided (yet?)

“The first interrupt just records the time that the slot reaches the sensor and sets the position to zero. [It actually sets the position to the offset value since the sensor isn't at 12 o'clock and I like to think of 12 as pos 0.] Now I can tell how long a rotation takes and how long it has been since the last completed rotation.”
Via hackedgadgets (read the original forum post here).

Andreas form Malta shows us how to connect and use Arduino with a standard PS2 Keyboard, a nice step by step instructable-style post.

  

After some soldering he basically uses PS2Keyboard library overwrote withPS2KeyboardExt2. Nice.