Arduino
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This post shows something really simple, but I decided to share it here as it took me some time to track down. On Saturday I received the 3D model of an ABB industrial robot – the IRB 6620 I mentioned last week – from Tom Eriksson. He's used a number of tools – including Fusion […]
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This is without a doubt the coolest office Autodesk has anywhere in the world. Pier 9, on San Francisco's waterfront, houses the Autodesk Consumer Group, including the Tinkercad and Instructables teams, as well as members of Autodesk Research and visiting artists-in-residence. And it has the most phenomenal workshops, kitted out with cutting-edge technology. I'd been […]
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This one came as a (very nice) surprise: Autodesk has collaborated with Circuits.io to provide a new tool called 123D Circuits. Here's the announcement along with some media coverage. 123D Circuits is a handy, web-based tool that allows you to create, share and collaborate on circuit designs such as those you'd use with an Arduino […]
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As mentioned in the last post, I had some fun ripping apart laser pointer key-rings and repurposing their laser diodes to (at last!) use my Arduino to blink something a bit more interesting than LEDs. This project is really just about blinking lasers using the switches inside a joystick – nothing very complicated. I'm not […]
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Over the long July 4th weekend (always a great time for me, being based in Europe, to catch up on projects free from interruption) I dusted off my Arduino and started playing around with it again. My goal was to hook up my Zippyy arcade joystick to find out how it might be used to […]
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After blinking LEDs with an Arduino Uno R3 and its younger step-sibling the Digispark, I decided to give the same treatment to their beef-cake second cousin, the Netduino Plus 2. James Maeding had been telling me to take a look at the Netduino for ages, so when I ordered some parts for my (optimistically speaking) […]
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I talked about some of the fun I've been having with Arduino in this previous post. I eventually added a pushbutton and a potentiometer to that particular circuit, modifying the code to watch for a hardware interrupt – to blink the LEDs only when the button is pressed – but also to apply a variable […]
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I've started to find time to start playing with the Arduino Experimentation Kit I bought myself for Christmas. So far, I've just embarked on the first two example circuits provided with the kit. The first one blinks an LED, the second blinks multiple LEDs in sequence. Hence the name of this post, which I've borrowed […]
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One of the ulterior motives (although you might really consider it a mere side benefit) for my recent trip back to the UK was to pick up the Christmas presents I'd bought for myself on behalf of my wife and kids. 🙂 The first – one of the new Raspberry Pi Model B's with 512 […]