Group:Not Just Arduino

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

NEXT EVENT: MONDAY 3rd December 7pm in London Hackspace's quiet room

MINUTES-ETHERPAD LINK FOR TONIGHT'S EVENT HERE

Feel free to add all relevant info to this page.

contact: Marc and Dean or just ping our new mailing list.

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: 5th EVENT MONDAY 3rd December 7pm in London Hackspace's quiet room

Programme:

• Part II of TimS' GitHub presentation
• Update Group project: LED Notification Board2
• working on our Arduino projects

Past events

Event Number	Agenda
1	1st Event
2	22nd October 2012
3	5th November 2012
4	19th November 2012

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
Dave	KISS digital, copy analogue	Good C, C++;	Arduino, AVR	Sure
Robert	Basic	Basic C	Arduino UNO

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!

Group Project

Let's work as a group on a micro-controller project!

We are building a new LED notification board for the workshop, adapted from Solexious' project.

We're using this project as a learning platform for the new Not Just Arduino members.

>>>> Please add your links, suggestions, code, specs on the project page

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)

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

• 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)

• remote-controlled hot air balloon/zeppelin (Qpnaosc)

• Skype LED board status notifier (Marc)
• RFID Reader & Writer : RFID module Kit 13.56 Mhz SPI Write and Read For Arduino (Necati )

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.

Group order

• Teensy
• Atmel chips

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/.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone

Raspberry Pi breakout boards

• http://picru.st/
• http://pi.cs.man.ac.uk/interface.htm
• http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk/Raspberry/Buffer_Board.html

Graphical Programming for Arduino

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

• http://www.modk.it/

Motion Control

• http://openmoco.org/

Weather Station

http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/User:Njh/Wired_Weather_Station

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/