Archive for the ‘Arduino’ Category
Jürgen has a shop. He makes large steel objects. Very large objects. I asked him whether he'd make a nice little box for my Sonos remote. He sighed. "A case for such a teeny tiny little thing?", he asked. "Yep", I replied.
He delivered. Stainless steel. Lovely. Top slides on. And off. A nice birthday present. [...]
My original Sonos pause switch, while good in itself, has experienced a large number of revisions: Simon Long added infra red capabilities to it, and has since revisited the code to such an extent that the functionality of the IR remote is almost overkill. I say "almost" because the remote now has far more functions [...]
mbed is a tool for rapid prototyping with micro controllers, somewhat similar to the Arduino project. I've written about Arduino before, so first some comparative pictures. (Left Arduino, right mbed.)
I've included the Ethernet shield on the Arduino because the mbed has on-board Ethernet.
Programming the mbed is done in the cloud. Where Arduino has an IDE [...]
A short while ago I wrote about a Sonos pause switch I created based on an Arduino. However, I wasn't terribly happy about that for a couple of reasons:
Once in a while, the Sonos S5 it was talking to wouldn't respond anymore, or rather it would respond, but always with a fault code. (See below [...]
The phone rings, and I grab for the nearest Sonos controller, power that up, wait a few seconds until the wireless connection is there and hit the pause button. If I can't find the iPod controller, I may have to start the Sonos desktop controller application to then hit pause. While I'm trying to cut [...]
Amazing what kind of (bizarre, crazy or just plain fun) ideas some people come up with: a chap uses an LCD photo frame he's displeased with to create a digital clock.
The clock (i.e. the photo frame) displays pre-created images of the time, and he uses an Arduino micro controller to press the 'next photo' button [...]
This instructable shows you how to make your Arduino into an R/C interface that you can use for just about anything requiring remote control, including an R/C lawnmower:
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This looks like an interesting Arduino-compatible board:
Thought I would submit this ultra low cost, stripped down strip-board Arduino I've been playing about with tonight.
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