Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
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Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#2Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself.
Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino that you know of?
Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#3Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself. Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino that you know of?
The AeroQuad is an interesting implementation.
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/aeroquadan-arduinopowere...
Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#4Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself. Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino that you know of?
The Garduino has been garnering interest with gardeners in my city: http://garduino.dirtnail.com/
Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#5Summary + meta-summary from watching the Arduino community for a few years:
Because it's cheap, and because it's awesomely simple to use. It's a hobbyist's dream come true.
If you're interested in some of its uses, just look back through Make magazine's site. Loads and loads and loads of projects appear there.
Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#6Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself. Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino that you know of?
I ordered a sanguino kit and learned to solder at the same time :)
If you're interested in learning the whole parts procurement process, you can also buy a PCB of pretty much any arduino-based board with no components, then pick out the components you want yourself and solder away.
Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#7And because it's so popular, there are a bunch of libraries and tutorials for it. It also abstracts or designs away a lot of the tedium in programing micro-controllers.
The net effect? It's like python for hardware.
Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#8Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself. Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino that you know of?
This Daft-Punk-inspired helmet I made is controlled entirely by an Arduino Duemilanove (http://vimeo.com/10684953).
It's fairly complex as far as Arduino Projects go (it involves timer interrupts, a Serial Peripheral Interface with shift registers, and a homemade PCB), but hey, I managed to do it, and I didn't have a lot of prior experience with either C or hobby electronics.
Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#9At first, I loved it because it's pretty cheap, and I could just plug it into my USB port and start coding, without having to worry about making a programmer or buying a USB/Serial interface.
Now, I love it because it's pretty cheap, and it has full GCC toolchain support, so I don't have to use some proprietary IDE.
Re: Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers
#10Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself. Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino that you know of?
This guy built an awesome scooter display with voltage monitoring, temperature, GPS, speedometer --
http://www.janspace.com/b2evolution/arduino.php/2010/06/26/s...
There's also some interesting stuff if you poke around hackaday.com