April 14, 2008 by Duncan | permalink
We have been working with Tinker.it here in London in organising a few workshops around Arduino. The first is on Interactive Lighting and will involve a mix of presentations on current state of the art and building some simple protoypes. Guest talks include our own Francesco Anselmo, Massimo Banzi from Tinker.it and Daniel Hirschmann from Jason Bruges Studio. The giveaway swag to all attendees include a DMX controller and a DMX shield for Arduino.
For more info and to book a space jump to the workshop web page. This workshop is at Arup in London on Sat/Sun 10/11th May.
October 15, 2007 by Duncan | permalink
I'm wishing that I could attend all of this workshop but the best i can do is a bit at the start and the end.... H3: RFID is the second of a series of hardware hacking workshops in London organised by tinker.it. Massimo Banzi (Arduino founder www.arduino.cc) facilitates the event with Matt Biddulph (www.dopplr.com) The event will be held at the Arup offices and is ideal for anyone wanting to explore RFID and Arduino. The entry fee even includes an RFID kit to take away to show off your prototype. For more info visit the event page. Hopefully the first of many.
March 23, 2007 by Duncan | permalink
Finally got the Arduino BT PIR working and installed in Central Saint Martins and pushing data to the data server. Some photos are on Flickr and more will follow. The Arduino code used is here and a processing app to view the data being sent over the BT serial here. I ended up using a Perl script on the live installation. I will post that once I extract it from the installation.
August 09, 2006 by Duncan | permalink
Would be nice to use this processing library to represent temperature in an environment - *how fast the fire is burning*.
August 09, 2006 by Duncan | permalink
Have had a frustrating day with this accelerometer - cannot figure out the code calculating the actual acceleration in Arduino - see forum posting.
August 09, 2006 by Duncan | permalink
A great example of how people are using Arduino as an input conduit to design product.... uses a home made pressure sensor (conductive wire grids separated by foam) around a punch bag as the input device, the ouptut is a 3D model of the object to be made. Great video, love the soundtrack.
August 09, 2006 by Duncan | permalink
July 31, 2006 by Duncan | permalink
Arduino - LearnArduino - tutorial on setting up arduino board and ide. Am getting ready for arduino tutorial with Artificialtourism next week. Received boards today from Italy - excellent turn around, just ordered them last week and they were with me this morning - nothing like tearing open a ups package to find a nice little circuit board. Took the usb printer cable out the printer (which is wireless anyway...), downloaded the ide, extracted the usb / serial drivers, plugged it all together and hey presto - the little green led lights up and says *hello world* (well, it wakes up, the next step is to get it saying hello world). Lets get some LED's flashing....
July 31, 2006 by Duncan | permalink
Daniel Shiffman � The Nature of Code - coursework on intro to processing - nice examples.
July 31, 2006 by Duncan | permalink
Arduino Xbee, Zigbee wireless sensor and actuator iterface forwarded by Gonzalo and a potential avenue to explore for bop prototypes. BUT, would need to think about all the apps needed to get the real benefit of the *wirelessness*. The radio removes the need to wire together two communicating arduinos but thats it. To get a network setup and running would need to source methods for multihop networking etc.
