Mikey made this jumpsuit full of LEDs and he set it up so that he could take all the wires and electronics off. I like the style of the jumpsuit. I grew up taking auto shop in school and I had a jumpsuit that was really great and this makes me want a jumpsuit again!
My solution was to use four layers of velcro, and a rather comfy full body jumpsuit I had purchased from a nearby military surplus store.The hope being that I would wear this jumpsuit frequently and not be limited by the weather or type of event. Its actually worked just as well as I hoped. I am able to wash the suit (detaching the electronics). – Link
Wow, Aaron Propst made an insanely cool arduino time lapse rig! – Link
I bought one of Joe’s GPS units a while back to use on a near space ballon project and still have it kicking around. Here’s the code to get it rolling. – Link
This is going to be awesome. You’re invited to come to NYC Resistor’s Microcontroller Study Group. It’s a group for people who like to play with microcontrollers!
This time we’ll be making brain machines. Come with all your parts and if you need help we’ll have folks there to help you! We’ll also have short presentations on how to be a wiki ninja and how to work with illumilight and resin. We’ll also have a show and tell so if you’ve got something you’ve made, bring it on down!
If you want to stay up to date with the study group. Join the group! – Link
Here’s the info on the brain machine: Video and PDF
Don’t miss the action, the thrills, and the excitement!
What: NYC Resistor’s Microcontroller Study Group
When: October 10th 7pm
Where: Lemurplex – Link
Why: Because Microcontrollers are rad.
I started out this post looking to write a non-Arduino story, but it just wasn’t meant to be. I’m a huge fan of computer generated music, dating back to my days of playing games and composing music on the Commodore 64. I still love that classic SID sound, and was floored to hear it in the new 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake tune, Technology:
(Thanks to Kelsey Ruger for pointing out the videogame sounds in the song and Alex Hillman identifying the SID, likely coming from something like the SIDStation)
I wrote my first music on a C64 with “The Music Shop”, and after hearing this song, I want to get started in SID hacking and make my own SID powered instruments.
Well, I’m sure I’ll have more posts on that coming in the future, but while researching tonight I found myself sidetracked by Toni Westbrook‘s awesome project to bring Guitar Hero to the C64 and the SID.
A closer look reveals that Toni’s programming the ATMega8 chip that he’s got the controller wired into with, what else, an Arduino! Even digging into C64 music projects, I still ended up with an Arduino post.
Here’s an ambient orb you can make with an arduino. How big could we make an ambient orb?- Link
A-Bog’s got a writeup of code he grabbed from the sparkfun forums to get the arduino to talk to their compass. – Link
Sparkfun’s compass is cute, but a tad spendy. – Link
Hoeken had mentioned a $15 dollar digital compass and I found the link to get the compass, I bought one! – Link
Here’s a little circuit to play with it. – Link
Aaron Propst made a stepper motor controller with his arduino. This vid gives you an idea of how to control steppers with an arduino. Click through for the details. – Link
I found this cool site with lots of Wii and Atmel AVR controller hacks called Wind Meadow. There isn’t really much info on who runs it, other than some posts by ‘Chad’, but there are some great tutorials. Out of all the great hacks and projects worth looking at is definitely the ‘Wiimote Controlled Firefighting Robot’. ‘Chad’, also has a great tutorial (code included) showing you how to hookup a Wiimote to a microcontroller. If you’re wondering why there is so much interest in doing this vs just buying an accelerometer, it’s because the Wiimote costs $39 and there are lots of goodies inside including a 3 axis accelerometer which is $40 alone from most electronics sites. Anyway, check out the site when you have a chance.
