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*Our next event will be on the 20th of May 7PM at the new hackspace: 447 Hackney Road E2 9DY | *Our next event will be on the 20th of May 7PM at the new hackspace: 447 Hackney Road E2 9DY | ||
*[[Not Just Arduino Event 14| Read the report on our last event]] | *[[Not Just Arduino Event 14| Read the report on our last event]] | ||
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**[https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpywkq7d4p3cnxg/Minimalist_Arduino_workshop.pdf Step by step guide] | |||
**[https://www.dropbox.com/s/jpyv1miyetktmbx/Arduino%20clone%20workshop.mp3 Sound recording] | |||
**[http://flic.kr/s/aHsjF2ruJn Photos] | |||
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Revision as of 13:15, 10 May 2013
This is the wiki for "Not Just Arduino", a user group meeting every 2 weeks for people who want to learn, share and experiment on all microcontrollers.
News
- Our next event will be on the 20th of May 7PM at the new hackspace: 447 Hackney Road E2 9DY
- Read the report on our last event
- Documentation on the Arduino Clone workshop by Michael Margolis on 9th May:
Past workshops documentation
- Video of Michael's talk on bootloaders can be found here, plus photo of talk and software cloner here.
- Solder stencil / toaster oven SMT with Arduino clone boards
- PCB / etching workshop run by Eugene
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: MONDAY 8th April at 7PM in London Hackspace's quiet room
Past events
| Event Number | Agenda |
|---|---|
| 1 | 8th October 2012 |
| 2 | 22nd October 2012 |
| 3 | 5th November 2012 |
| 4 | 19th November 2012 |
| 5 | 3rd December 2012 |
| 6 | 17th December 2012 |
| 7 | 14th January 2013 |
| 8 | 28th January 2013 |
| 9 | 11th February 2013 |
| 10 | 25th February 2013 |
| 11 | 11th March 2013 |
| 12 | 25th March 2013 |
| 13 | 8th April 2013 |
| 14 | 6th May 2013 |
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 | |
| Bradley Wood | Basic | Intermediate | Arduino UNO, Pro Mini, et al, MacOSX | Yes |
| 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 )
- 434Mhz RTTY transmitter Transmits text over the air and is picked up by software defined radio, would like some help with taking it further.
- Harry Potter Clock - A christmas gift for my girlfriend, uses Arduino, Raspberry Pi and a USB modem to 'magically' point to where I am. It's finished now but I wrote up my experiences and the design of it on my website if anyone's interested in reading about it and learning from my mistakes! (Alastair)
Suggestions
- Using AVR-GCC, Make and AVRDude i.e. progamming Arduino's using C instead of being reliant upon the Arduino IDE.
- There's a lovely, supported Makefile at http://ed.am/dev/make/arduino-mk (project page http://dev.ed.am/arduino-mk)
- 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
- TronixStuff Arduino Tutorials
etc...
but please add here suggestions.
Group order
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
Motion Control
Weather Station
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/User:Njh/Wired_Weather_Station
PID
Programmers
Tutorials
Logo designs
You can still contribute to the perfect NJA logo quest.
As for now we received 3 logos (3 by Perry, 1 by mentar, 2 by Ian) but other members said they were interested in creating their own designs.
Please add your creations to this mailing list thread so all members can see them and comment:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/not-just-arduino/oPrMdG62xAA/discussion
For inspiration you can compare to what the other London Hackspace subgroups have done:
Music Hackspace logo http://bit.ly/Sstcvz
Video Hackspace logo http://www.videohackspace.org/
Graphics Hackspace logo https://twitter.com/ihackgraphics
