The Daily Duino

One of the students in my arduino class this summer painted an awesome painting of the Duemilanove.  It is going to be used as an aid for pointing out parts in the next class I teach.

Another post on Pachube and how easy it is to get setup and going. This post will cover the basic steps on how to get some sensors online!  I will be using my project of two light sensors as an example.  The status of my light sensors are viewable at http://www.pachube.com/feeds/2145 Pachube + Arduino from [...]

Quick update before I zonk out…  Yesterday I setup an account for Pachube and spent all night getting familiar with how it works. Pachube describes itself as a service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to [...]

Finally gotten around to posting some pictures and video from the Flourish Conference, in Chicago IL.  Flourish was a blast, Droops and I had a wonderful time with all the great people that we met. Massimo Banzi at Flourish ’09 from Morgellon on Vimeo. Processing Workshop at Flourish ’09 (pt1) from Morgellon on Vimeo. Processing [...]

There has been quite a flurry of development revolving around the official ethernet shield recently. Here are what I consider a few of the more important changes. Ethernet fixes – There are some connection issues with the ethernet library with regard to incomplete disconnects. Since the wiznet chip only supports 4 simultaneous connections, this manifests [...]

Saw this pop up on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratory’s Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/EMSL) and thought it was worth sharing. Looks like there is a new Arduino in the works… the Arduino Mega?! Here are the “reported” specs… but please keep in mind, this is not official and I could be totally wrong! The Mega is an [...]

Its just like my Diecimilia’s except that when I have a shield on it, its so much easier to change the power supply. (from usb to 9v external) Here is a pic of my new baby along with some other boards.

BEHOLD!… the Arduino USB board has evolved from the old “Decemilia” to the new “Deumilanove”!  Just like a fine wine, the Arduino keeps getting better over the course of time. The new Deumilanove offers a few improvements over previous Arduinos including: automatically selects the appropriate power source (USB or external adaptor), eliminating the need for [...]

The color selector is 3 linear pots that control the rgb values of a square in a window. The window also displays the rgb values. Kinda simple to make, I reused a lot of code from the etch-a-sketch sketch. I am working on my processing book, so my projects should get better. The dot in [...]