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  • 10 things to do with a new Arduino

    Posted on Thursday December 31st, 2009 at 09:00 in arduino

    Matt over at Liquidware posted an evolution of simple introductory sketches for those fresh to the world of Arduino. A good starting point for those who find themselves with a new board, the examples require no additional hardware and demonstrate/c...

  • Christmas Tree responds to Twitter mentions

    Posted on Tuesday December 29th, 2009 at 05:00 in arduino

    Alpay Kasal's Twitter-enabled "Twistmas" twee tree responds to specific keyword mentions by lighting corresponding ornaments - After designing a Twitter based installation for GE Healthcare, I looked forward to putting some Arduino's and LED's to ...

  • USB Hourglass random number generator

    Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 11:30 in arduino

    This is my new, favorite random number generator (old favorite: lava lamps): It watches falling sand in an hourglass with an optical sensor. That data is sent via the Arduino USB output to the PC where it's analyzed. This entropy is useful for all...

  • Multiple Peggy2s displaying serial video

    Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 04:00 in arduino

    Ian from weezey.com wired up a couple of Peggy2 light emitting pegboard kits to an Arduino and with a couple of tweaks to some existing code managed to get the display to run across both units. [via hackaday] The code changes were actually quite ...

  • Solarbotics Ardweeny

    Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 17:00 in arduino

    Our finely-wired friends at Solarbotics have released their latest Arduino kit, the Ardweeny, "the smallest Arduino you can build yourself with through-hole components." I love the backpack PCB concept which puts the support electronics for the ATm...

  • An operating system on my Arduino? Say it ain\'t so!

    Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 19:30 in arduino

    This looks like an interesting development: Youtube user ArduinoWill claims to have managed to shoehorn an operating system onto the tiny microcontroller system, called Pyxis OS. The above demo shows it loading a text file and a bitmap image from ...