Group:Not Just Arduino

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

3nd EVENT MONDAY 5th November 7PM in Hackspace quiet room

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 5th November 7pm (venue TBC)

Programme: Git Hub - Documenting / versioning workflow by Tim Presentation of @Projectfungus by Howard + working on our Arduino projects

Read the report on our 2nd event

Read the report on our 1st Event

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

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!

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)

LED Notification board for the LHS workshop + Skype visualisation Status - Adapted from this project. Documentation: researching RSS Notifiers like the Gmail Arduino notifier (Marc)
RFID reader/writer : RFID module Kit 13.56 Mhz SPI Write and Read For Arduino (Necati )

You can find the RFID module on ebay around £12.50 - £14
I bought the one below but it looks like run out of stocks
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RFID-13-56Mhz-Module-Tags-SPI-Interface-Read-Write-for-Arduino-UNO-R3-Mega-MCU-/170859728113?hash=item27c8088cf1
Source Code : http://www.rcubestation.com/drivers/rfidcardset_sample.zip
The one below is the same from another vendor
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RFID-module-Kit-13-56-Mhz-with-Tags-SPI-Write-and-Read-For-Arduino-/200828954356?pt=UK_Sound_Vision_Other&hash=item2ec256a6f4