Group:Not Just Arduino

Hi there, this is wiki for "Not Just Arduino", a brand new user group for people who want to learn, share and experiment on all microcontrollers.

2nd EVENT MONDAY 22nd OCTOBER 7PM at London Hackspace (see events section for details)

Feel free to add all relevant info to this page.

contact: Marc and Dean or just ping the mailing list

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Summary

• Building an active user group around Arduino and micro-controllers
• Organise workshops and talks where we can all share and learn skills
• Bi-monthly events where we can bring our projects demo them and / or get help

Events

• Next event: Monday 22nd October 7pm in London Hackspace

Contribute to the minutes of the events [1]

Event format

It was suggested at the last event that people (beginners or not) should bring the projects they're working on and we could have something informal around that where people team up, and mentors give feedback. Please contribute to the discussion on this group mailing list if you want to comment on this format.

• Read the report on our 1st Event

Friday 5th October 7PM - 19 participants

Skills

Skills that the group has or are happy to share.

Name	Electronic Skills	Programming Skills	Platform	Prepared to mentor
Dean	Basic	Learning Basic's	Arduino	Yes - Set Up in Windows
TheHypnotist	Analogue-basic, Digital-medium	C mostly now	os/Linux ARM/Atmega328/MSP430	Yes
Ulisses	Basic	Advanced (C like)
Shane	Basic	basic C,	Will try
Mentar	Analogue-basic, Digital-medium	Arduino, C, C++, S4A	Arduino, AVR, PIC	Yes
TimS	Basic	C, Make	ATMega326 (AVR)	Yes
Riccardo	Basic	Arduino, Programming, Basic C,	Arduino	Can try
brendan	Basic	Very basic	Arduino	Can try

Name	I would like coaching support in	At Level
Add Your Details here	??	??

Training

Training will be determined by the needs of the user group meetings. Members of our group will offer mentoring, though we might find some kind of trade system (skill-share, beers, travel-cost...). We need to be able to provide a mentor during sessions to help those who have difficulty getting off the ground - without tying the mentors up too much. Beginners will help each other and when progress will take over some part of the training.

Each project should be listed here, to source help and document what they have done/learned: if not documented directly it does not exist.

Mentors (tbc)

• Mentar
• Morris - TheHypnotist
• Nneil
• Dean Forbes Basic Setup
• add your name here!

Projects

Please list here your projects using micro-controllers here

• Weather Station - to feed into openweather map and cosm (Deanforbes)

• Sousvide Water Bath - Precision water heater using PID controller (Deanforbes)

• Robotic Arm with Kinect 3D "Vision" - Have arduino control a robotic arm and have input from Microsoft Kinect's infrared depth sensor to guide the arm to pick stuff (Ulisses)
• Build a simple ethernet driven relay (2x) - anyone wanting to join in is welcome, we will learn the basics as we go along (Dario)
• With basic electronic-circuit training (printing, etching, soldering), would eventually like to build a Nanode (Dario)

• Object detection - begin with RFID and then go on to explore other options with longer ranges (Kieron)

• Autonomous Rover Project - a robot that can put out a room and plug itself in to a power socket (ambitious)

• I attempted to interface a microcontroller and a timed mains outlet and let out the blue smoke - it's on my User page. User:TheHypnotist

• Build a self-balancing robot example- anyone who wants to join is welcome (Riccardo)

• Motion-sensing greeting bot (brendan)

• LED cube controller (brendan)

Suggestions

• Using AVR-GCC, Make and AVRDude i.e. progamming Arduino's using C instead of being reliant upon the Arduino IDE.

• Using hardware programmers.

• Graphical Programming for Arduino see "Interesting Links" below

Recommended Reading

The Hackspace library has some decent Arduino books:

• Arduino Cookbook
• Beginning Arduino - By Hackspace member Mike McRoberts (Earthshine)
• Arduino Playground
• Ladyada Arduino

etc...

but please add here suggestions.

Interesting Links

Add your links here with a small description.

Alternative platform for Arduino

• http://hackaday.com/2012/10/07/freesoc-for-when-you-need-68-io-pins/
• http://hackaday.com/2012/10/09/single-sided-arduino-is-a-great-introduction-to-pcb-etching/

Graphical Programming for Arduino

• http://seaside.citilab.eu/scratch/arduino

• http://www.modk.it/

Motion Control

• http://openmoco.org/

PID

• https://github.com/br3ttb/Arduino-PID-Library

• http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2011/04/improving-the-beginners-pid-introduction/

• http://hackaday.com/2012/01/05/ospid-the-open-source-pid-controller/

""Programmers""

• http://blog.makezine.com/2012/10/08/a-fine-example-of-dead-bug-style-circuit-wiring/