ArduinoNight

An initiative to have regular Arduino nights at !RevSpace. For learning, tinkering and maybe starting projects using Arduino's (and shields).

Sunday 30 Jan 2011, 19:00

During the first Arduino night, I (turiphro) will give a short introduction in Arduino's. Then, we will start tinkering with the available Arduino's (bring your own Arduino's!) I'm in no way an expert, so it will be a learning experience for all of us. It is certainly true for the Arduino that getting your hands dirty is the best way to start learning!

Ideas for activities:

• Buying arduino-stuff
• Get some books in (turiphro will bring: Getting Started with Arduino, Making Things Talk

Project ideas:

• Blinking LED! (Hello World)
• Wireless bridge between two arduino's using cheap RF sender and receiver (5,- at sparkfun.com)
• Using ethernet shield to twitter / post on wiki sensor data (plant needs water, someone opens fridge, ...)
• One-Wire sensor bus (FooBar has DS18B20 one-wire temp probes)
• Interface between arcade buttons and mame-cabinet

Hardware (Where to buy)

• http://cgi.ebay.com/Arduino-Nano-V3-0-ATMEGA168-Mini-USB-Cable-/260729249631?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb4ac9f5f#ht_1903wt_1141
• Teensy(++) http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensypp.html
• http://geeetech.com

-- Main.turiphro - 28 Jan 2011