Group:Not Just Arduino

• Meetings: Every other Monday 7pm at London Hackspace (free & drop-in event)
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• Twitter: @notjustarduino
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• 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. Contact: Marc or just ping our new mailing list.

News

• Next event: 12th August 7PM with demo of TouchKeys, a DIY touch sensor kit for keyboards currently on Kickstarter by Andrew McPherson

• Read the report on our last event

Past demos and workshops documentation

Minimalist Arduino

• Demo of CheapSynth by the amazing Dave Green. Video here. Tutorial here
• Video: demo of Raspberry Pi-powered pollution monitor "AirPi" by its creators Alyssa Dayan and Tom Hartley at NJA #19

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• Documentation on the Arduino Clone workshop by Michael Margolis on 9th May:
  • Step by step guide
  • Sound recording
  • Photos
• 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

Past events

Arduino Clone workshop

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	17th June 2013
8	28th January 2013	18	1st July 2013
9	11th February 2013	19	15th July 2013
10	25th February 2013	20	29th July 2013

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.

Training and Skills offered

Skills that the group has or are happy to share.

Group Project

We are building a new LED notification board for the workshop, adapted from Solexious' project. Visit the page for specs and get involved.

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)

• 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

• Teensy
• Atmel chips

Interesting Links

Add your links on this page with a small description.