Content tagged with arduino
[MAKE] Fun with micro-controllers!
some Arduino PR - neither the project shown here nor the info are all that useful, but its a placeholder until i get some better howtos up -sd
Submitted by seandockray on 2 October 2006 - 5:28pm.
CALL: Games for 5 Joysticks
TELIC Arts Exchange is putting out a call for games that are designed for 5 joysticks.
(We have a homemade system for playing the games that you can see here) Submissions will be due by Election Day 2006. Selected games will be initially exhibited as an event in November (a video game screening, if that's the right word).
Submitted by sean on 3 October 2006 - 12:03pm.
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RF Link between two Arduinos
This tutorial shows how one Arduino can send data wirelessly to another Arduino. This can be accomplished in a number of ways, but I am showing how do to it using these 315MHz RF Link modules. When I bought mine it cost $11.95, but the price has gone up to $13.95. There are probably much better choices at the $20 range - these RF Link modules can only broadcast from transmitter to receiver, as opposed to creating a network of inter-communicating microcontroller. But if you're fine with one-way communication across an open space, then the RF Link is fairly easy to use - you just pretend it's a physical serial connection. (if a "serial connection" doesn't sound easy to you, then have a look at this tutorial).
Submitted by seandockray on 11 May 2007 - 2:19pm.
Arduino/Microcontroller Workshop #1
2006 Oct 16 - 5:00pm
2006 Oct 16 - 7:00pm
Etc/GMT-7
Microcontrollers for beginners, using the Arduino platform (bring yours!)
More Arduino resources
These five tutorials do a good job introducing
1. Blink an LED with Arduino
2. Reading a button
3. Read a variable resistor
4. Read a button and send to a PC and here is a super simple Processing program to receive
Submitted by seandockray on 14 October 2006 - 2:20pm.
Arduino Tutorial: Read Button and Send Data to PC
/* Basic Digital Read
* ------------------
*
* turns on and off a light emitting diode(LED) connected to digital
* pin 13, when pressing a pushbutton attached to pin 7. It illustrates the
* concept of Active-Low, which consists in connecting buttons using a
* 1K to 10K pull-up resistor.
*
* Created 1 December 2005
* copyleft 2005 DojoDave
* http://arduino.berlios.de
*
*/
/* Sean Dockray added three lines to demonstrate sending button presses in to a PC! */
int ledPin = 13; // choose the pin for the LED
int inPin = 7; // choose the input pin (for a pushbutton)
Submitted by seandockray on 16 October 2006 - 4:25pm.
Arduino Tutorial: Use PC to Blink an LED
/* Blinking LED (This code is for Arduino!)
* ------------
*
* turns on and off a light emitting diode(LED) connected to a digital
* pin, based on data coming over serial
*/
int ledPin = 13; // LED connected to digital pin 13
int inByte = 0;
void setup()
{
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output
Serial.begin(19200); // initiate serial communication
}
void loop()
{
while (Serial.available()>0) {
inByte = Serial.read();
}
if (inByte>0) {
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // sets the LED on
} else {
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // sets the LED off
Submitted by seandockray on 16 October 2006 - 4:31pm.
Processing tutorial: Read button presses from Arduino
import processing.serial.*;
Serial port; // The serial port
void setup() {
size(200, 200);
println(Serial.list()); // list all available serial ports
port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[2], 19200); // initialize serial communication
}
void draw() {
background(0);
while (port.available() > 0) { // while there are bytes available to read from the serial port
int inByte = port.read(); // read the byte
if (inByte==0) {
fill(255);
rect(width/4,height/4,width/2,height/2);
}
}
}Submitted by seandockray on 16 October 2006 - 4:43pm.
Processing tutorial: Send data from program to Arduino
import processing.serial.*;
Serial port; // The serial port
void setup() {
size(200, 200);
println(Serial.list()); // list all available serial ports
port = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[2], 19200); // initialize serial communication
}
void draw() {
background(0);
if (mouseX>=width/4 && mouseX<=3*width/4 && mouseY>=height/4 && mouseY<=3*height/4) { // if the mouse is over the square
fill(0,255,0);
port.write(1); // write a 1 to the serial port
} else {
fill(255);
port.write(0); // write a 0 to the serial port (note: this is inefficient because we'll send lots of redundant data to the serial port... try to only do it when we're going to send a new value!)
Submitted by seandockray on 16 October 2006 - 4:51pm.