Not Just Arduino Event 20

Not Just Arduino 29 July

Presentations

• Demo of CheapSynth by the amazing Dave Green. Video here. Specifications here

Events

• Restart Party at Belsize Community Library, July 31st, 6-9pm.
• Hack the barbican Arts+Technoology+Entrepeneurship, 5th–31st August.
• Nineworlds Geekfest 9–11 August, Heathrow.
• Mini MakerFaire Manchester, 10-11th August
• OHM July 31st – August 4th 2013. Geestmerambacht, The Netherlands. The next in a series of camps that have been happening every four years since 1989

Hackspace Open Day

On 18th August we'll have our second Hackspace Open Day from 1pm till late. Some of the NJA members will bring Arduino robots and quadcopters. Can you bring a project to demo? Can you organise a small workshop? We'll also have:

• Amateur Radio Demonstration
• Restart Party
• A BBQ in the yard
• Some music Hackspace devices
• The amazing LHS Bikeshed spaceship-simulator-in-a-caravan?
• Possibly some Liquid nitrogen ice cream and demos

NJA Community

• Join us on Github: Not Just Arduino to centralise documentation about all NJA projects. For some reason on GitHub all users can't request to join a group but have to be added by a owner, so please send us your username! Then you'll be able to add your repos and code! Tell us if you need help.
• Lear how to use this wiki! If you need help ask Marc. Documentation is available here.
• Document your project! Here is a good example
• Follow us on twitter
• Join the Flickr group
• And don't forget our mailing list: Not Just Arduino

Interesting projects

• JavaScript Powered Arduino with Johnny-Five
• Building an Arduino Powered BBQ Thermometer
• Arduino robot controlled using computer

Arduino UNO is used to control servo motors, leds, temp. sensor and other parts. C# application is used for easy control of the robot. Communication between Arduino and PC is established using bluetooth transceiver and bluetooth dongle. Android app "IP Webcam" is used to send video signal from smartphone to C# app through WLAN. Code here.

• Reflashing Arduin UNO's bootloader
• Kinograph – Affordable and scaleable film digitisation

Created by Matthew Epler, Kinograph is an open source project that makes film digitisation affordable and scaleable. It uses components available on the internet, a few 3D printed parts, and a consumer level camera and it produces high quality video with sound.

• 20 Arduino projects of 2013 20 Arduino projects of 2013

20 projects published/released between January and June 2013 with detailed instructions.

• Ketosense – An Arduino based ketosis detector

The instrument´s purpose is to detect the amount of acetone gas that is present in a persons breath.

• AnalysIR - IR Analyzer & Decoder with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and MCU

Windows based IR Analyzer & Decoder for use with Arduino, Raspberry Pi & similar Platforms. Powerful feature set at low cost.

• Pop-up electronic DIY book is powered by Arduino

electronic book powered by two Arduino boards. “The pages [were designed] using recycled materials that I collected during years in London (paper, fabrics, LEDs, resistors, wires, foil paper, glue, cardboards). It [is] powered by two Arduino Diecimilas (Atmel ATmega168): one controls the paper pop-up piano and the other controls the arts and science page. [Meanwhile], the math [section] runs autonomously with 2 3V cell batteries.”

• LED Tetrie Tie

The tie is made out of 80 WS2811 based RGB LED pixels and is driven by a DigiSpark microcontroller. I pulled in this library written in assembly to drive the display and modified this tetris engine heavily to suit my needs. See also Geeky wedding attire.

• List of Arduino tutorials
• Arduino for Absolute Beginners
• Another Game of Life LED matrix

FYI, the LED matrix is a bicolor one (green/red) and has an I2C interface (http://www.adafruit.com/products/902). Using Arduino Uno. here's the code: [1]. Wiring

• Prototyping interfaces - The book

With knobs and motors, wheels and cameras and bits of Play-Doh, a series of elegant interactive experiments provides physical controls to screen interfaces. Prototyping Interfaces, the book, can show you how, all with loads of pictures and examples in free-as-in-beer (for non-commercial use) vvvv. (Preferred pronunciation is “V-4,” generally, in English or German.) The book is in German, and the software is Windows-only, but the videos (and the examples in the book, for that matter) are illustrated visually.

• Point Cloud – Arduino structure by James Leng breathes weather data

Point Cloud is an attempt to re-imagine our daily interaction with weather data

• Self-balancing skateboard/segw*y project Arduino Shield

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Next event

Hope to see you all on Monday 12th August 7PM

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