Group:Not Just Arduino
This is the wiki for "Not Just Arduino", a user group for people who want to learn, share and experiment on all microcontrollers.
Our next event will be on 14th January at 7PM in the quiet room at London Hackspace.
Note that Eugene will run then a PCB / etching workshop from concept to prototype:
- How to build your circuit using Fritzing, make a schematic, and the circuit board diagram.
- How to prepare a copper-board, add a photo-resist layer, expose, develop, etch and drill
Report on our 6th Event here: Not Just Arduino Event 6
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: MONDAY 17th December 7pm in London Hackspace's quiet room
Programme tbc soon
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 |
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 )
- 434Mhz RTTY transmitter Transmits text over the air and is picked up by software defined radio, would like some help with taking it further.
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
- 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
