(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/29/day-29-thing-29-one-more-thing/) Today I “made” my 12 year old son program his own robot on his own computer. It’s not a thing necissarily but a culmination of things (1,10,24,and,26). I didn’t take photographs of him doing it but I had him download the arduino platform and then walked him through running the blink example… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Thing A Day 2008
Day 28: Thing 28: Charley plexed display
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/28/day-28-thing-28-charley-plexed-display/) Today I made the software for some hardware that I built a while ago. The origional question was if I got 15000 leds for next to nothing and it costs 4-15 per 8×8 array (with the 4$ solution also needing 4 to eleven additional parts) to drive them are we getting anywhere?… Read more »
Day 27: Thing 27: The last of the 4 led arrays
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/27/day-27-thing-27-the-last-of-the-4-led-arrays/) And then there were 4. Since this is finally the end of this particular resin. I also went to get the right casting resin. Now to wire them up….
Day 26: Thing 26: PC Based Arduino Programmer.
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/26/day-26-thing-26-pc-based-arduino-programmer/) Since Aidan’s main computer is my old Del Lattitude running XP I realized that I should build a programmer for his system as it has a serial port. Basically its a max232 in a translucent plastic box with a buffer to drive some blinking lights so you know things are transmitting and… Read more »
Day 25: Thing 25: AntiSocial(ism)
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/25/day-25-thing-25-antisocialism/) I went to radio shack about a month ago and bought an utrasonic distance sensor made by parallax called a ping))). I have been feeling cranky and anti social lately so I thought I should make something that didnt want to be bothered. I am considering adding an air horn for people… Read more »
Day 24: Thing 24 — Mouse Whiskers (touch sensor)
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/24/day-24-thing-24-mouse-whiskers-touch-sensor/) Two weekends ago Aidan and I went to radio shack and he was looking at these $9 bug bots which have a sound sensor, two touch sensors (antennae) and 6 legs. He was very interseted in both the walking mechanism and the touch sensor. We decided that we should add one of… Read more »
Day 23: Thing 23: DELETED!!! (Button and screen)
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/23/day-23-thing-23-deleted-button-and-screen/) After the last two days of disaster I got a new board in the mail. It has one of the new atmel USB avrs on it which I would like to work with instead of the the ftdi chipset for programming avrs and arduinos. Rather than attempt to do another complicated and… Read more »
Day 22: Thing 22: The $15 Wiring Board
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/22/day-22-thing-22-the-15-wiring-board/) Since I had so much trouble yesterday porting with getting the bootloader on a new processor I though I should try something easier (these are things that I have been meaning to do for some time so it seemed appropriate to try them on a timeline). Recently someone published the code for… Read more »
Day 21: Thing 21 — Fred 644 (an attempt to port Arduino to another processor)
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/21/day-21-thing-21-fred-644-an-attempt-to-port-arduino-to-another-processor/ ) I wound up on the bus for much of the day so I took my laptop and ported the arduino “Core” to atmel’s Mega644 which has 4 times the memory of the new arduino as well as almost twice the number of pins avaliable. When I got to the bootloader I… Read more »
Day 20: Thing 20: Arduino on a (simm) Stick
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/20/day-20-thing-20-arduino-on-a-simm-stick/) In response to a conversation I had with “lady ada” in which she asked me “what is an arduino?” I have been pushing the question “What isnt?”. I have a bunch of stuff that I have built around the simstick platform which I wanted to reclaim so I put a 168 on… Read more »