This past Wednesday Adam and myself got to test my Steppers with the H-Bridge he made to drive them. Took a little work to get it stepping correctly, but it finally worked. MakerBot said this morning on twitter that 3 Gen electronics would be in stock soon, but I’m debating pretty heavy on getting them [...]
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Posted in Arduino, Random I/O on Aug 27th, 2009 No Comments »
John Gordon used an Arduino he purchased from Adafruit, which he’s now calling Spaceduino, put it on a weather balloon with some other gear (tracking, camera, etc), and sent it up.
Hello Lady Ada! Love your site, your blogs, and all your cool gear. My first project with equipment from your store was this… [...]
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Posted in Arduino, Projects on Jul 21st, 2009 No Comments »
My Serial LCD from Sparkfun arrived yesterday. I was surprised as to how simple it is to get these working. 3 wires and a few lines of code is all it takes for the basics. I’ll use this for mode selection and general information output, as well as debugging.
So far, I’m happy with the board. [...]
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Posted in Arduino on Jul 9th, 2009 No Comments »
I found this project over on the Arduino Forums. It’s the Halfluck Automated Brewing System (HABS), and it’s very well documented. Take a look at his site for the code, photos, and everything else.
More photos after the cut.
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Posted in Arduino on Jul 7th, 2009 No Comments »
I found this awesome Light Tracker over at stigern.net (via ArduinoFun) . It’s pretty impressive.
He’s using 4 photoresistors, and 2 servos and of course an Arduino, to get the job done.
There’s more info, including a Fritzing diagram and some code on his website.
Here’s the head he built:
I plan on having B166ER do some light tracking [...]
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