Introduction to Arduino at BarCampBrighton2
Photo by Nicholas Zambetti
Lincoln Smith, a Sussex University researcher, will be doing a session or two on Arduino, the open-source electronics prototyping platform aimed at artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
He’s going to purchase a number of the boards and bring them along to BarCamp where you’ll be able to quickly write your first “Hello World” and then get hacking. Just look what one enterprising person did with some Linden Lab schwag from the recent Wired Sussex Jobs Fair…
Lincoln will sell the boards he brings at the end of theweekend (£18.51), but they will be for general use until then.
If you’d like to install the IDE and have a bash at doing some coding or buy a board at the end of the ‘Camp, please leave a comment here so he can gage interest and know what to bring.
You can download the IDE (Linux, Mac & Windows) from the Arduino site at http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software.
For ideas, help and inspiration have a look in the Arduino playground.
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Sweet! I’m interested (longtime MAKE reader, never fiddled with a PIC or an Arduino).
Problem: I haven’t coded anything more than a dumb shell script in about 20 years. Am I going to be wasting Lincoln’s time?
Dave Ph
This is a talk that I’d definitely like to attend too!
Absolutely no one can waste my time on this one. Come one come all!
I am not planning to present anymore than a brief introduction, followed by hands on work… here is a board, install the software, make it do something.
It will be a exercise in “hurdle removal” for anyone even marginally interested in transitioning from screen output to motor output.
If you have an Arduino or experience, please bring it along and pitch in.
Yep, I’m interested. I’m a long-time electronics tinkerer, but not for a while. I used to solder light sensors & mics to my Commodore 64 and have it talk to passers-by (err, like my mum) as a wee laddie.
Since this bit of kit has usb and a number of outputs, it is just the sort of thing to hook-up a WOPR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOPR) blinkenlichten display…something I’ve always wanted :-)
I could provide a decent soldering iron and an old multimeter if some hw is required?
Linc has suggested doing a brute-force lock picker with this (I’m thinking of doing a total-newbie lock-picking session, one of my old and dubious interests)..which could get, ah, interesting.
Ian.
I’m definitely going to come along to this session. Looks like fun!
Sweet, I’m certainly interested. I’ve been meaning to pick one up for a while and am super enthusiastic after reading this post today: http://www.botanicalls.com/twitter/
Using arduino a potted plant can post twitter messages when it needs to be watered!
I’m very interested too. Haven’t done any electronics since school, but the Arduino looks like it’ll take a lot of the pain out of it.