Group:Not Just Arduino
- Meetings: Every other Monday 7pm at London Hackspace (free & drop-in event)
- Join our mailing list: Not Just Arduino
- Twitter: @notjustarduino
- Github: Join our GitHub group
- Flickr: Post your photos on our group
Group meeting every 2 weeks for people who want to learn, share and experiment electronics and microcontrollers. Expect demo, talks, Arduino news and jamming. Beginners welcome.
News
- Next event: 17th June 7PM at London Hackspace: 447 Hackney Road E2 9DY
- Read the report on our last event
Talks
Our members would like to hear about these topics. If you want to come talk to the group or if you are just interested into attending a session please add your name on the page. So far we have 2 speakers who volunteered on Accelerometers and Low-level ATMEGA overview.
Workshops documentation
- Documentation on the Arduino Clone workshop by Michael Margolis on 9th May:
- 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
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
- Contact: Marc and Dean or just ping our new mailing list.
Past events
| Event Number | Agenda | Event Number | Agenda |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8th October 2012 | 11 | 11th March 2013 |
| 2 | 22nd October 2012 | 12 | 25th March 2013 |
| 3 | 5th November 2012 | 13 | 8th April 2013 |
| 4 | 19th November 2012 | 14 | 6th May 2013 |
| 5 | 3rd December 2012 | 15 | 20th May 2013 |
| 6 | 17th December 2012 | 16 | 3rd June 2013 |
| 7 | 14th January 2013 | 17 | |
| 8 | 28th January 2013 | 18 | |
| 9 | 11th February 2013 | 19 | |
| 10 | 25th February 2013 | 20 |
Training and Skills offered
Skills that the group has or are happy to share.
Training will be determined by the needs of the user group meetings. Members of our group 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.
| Name | Electronic Skills | Programming Skills | Platform | Prepared to mentor |
| Bradley Wood | Basic | Intermediate | Arduino UNO, Pro Mini, et al, MacOSX | Yes |
| Mentar | Analogue-basic, Digital-medium | Arduino, C, C++, S4A | Arduino, AVR, PIC | Yes |
| Paul Maidment | Basic | Advanced (Software Engineer) | ATMega328 and dev boards. Linux/Raspberry Pi | Yes |
| Robert | Basic | Basic C | Arduino UNO | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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
Current Projects
Please list here your projects using micro-controllers here (if you're project is listed here, please update the status and info!)
- Laser tag game - A multiplayer game of laser tag, utilising infra red transmitters and receivers (think TV remote control), water pistols (gutted and internals replaced with electronics...and lasers.)
- LEDLightCubeFamily - A set of 3 (or more) LED driven light cubes that communicate over RF, respond to sound/music and can adjust their colour via accelerometer driven tilt. --Bradwood (talk)
Previous/Incomplete Projects
Please clean up this section -- move your active projects under the above heading or delete those no longer relevant.
- 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)
- 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
- HackSpace Robotics Development Platform - we are restoring an old robot arm to make it part of a robotics platform. People are welcome to collaborate User:Mentar
- 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)
- 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.
- 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"
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 on this page with a small description.
