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I'm working on an alarm clock that requires me to do some math in order to turn it off. Thinking about extending it with an automated french press with heating element to have a cup of coffee ready for me.
I just discovered this today (and yes, on mefi). And I don't see what's wrong to share it with the fellow hackers here.
In deference to the 'old hats', they do make this community in to what it is, a place where some pretty cool stuff gets posted and discussed at a fairly high level.
I personally see absolutely nothing wrong in people posting stuff that is new to them, for every 'poster' there must be 10's if not 100's of people to who it is news as well.
Just because you already know everything there is to know doesn't mean that that goes for everybody else too.
One way around this is to have a karma threshold for displaying submissions, that way the 'old hands' if they so choose could blind themselves to whatever the newcomers to on 'their' view of HN without any interference.
And it would stop people from taking 'revenge' on the submitter of this story the way it is being done right now, which I really think is not becoming of HN.
Have some room for each other please, and do not kick people for doing the same thing that you did yourself in the not so distant past.
I got into AVR programming before hearing all about the Arduino. I don't really understand the appeal since an AVR development platform is quite simple to put together for a lot less money than an Arduino board. I also prefer Freeduino since it's open source: http://www.freeduino.org/
More seriously, Arduino is open source too.
Does anyone here have any cool projects to show off? I would love to see what people here have put together... I'm working on an alarm clock that requires me to do some math in order to turn it off. Thinking about extending it with an automated french press with heating element to have a cup of coffee ready for me.
I do the electronics & programming stuff, it's an awful lot of fun. Plus I got to go to TEDGlobal for a day :)
Does anyone here have any cool projects to show off? I would love to see what people here have put together... I'm working on an alarm clock that requires me to do some math in order to turn it off. Thinking about extending it with an automated french press with heating element to have a cup of coffee ready for me.
Does anyone here have any cool projects to show off? I would love to see what people here have put together... I'm working on an alarm clock that requires me to do some math in order to turn it off. Thinking about extending it with an automated french press with heating element to have a cup of coffee ready for me.
http://www.matthewforr.com/index.php/how_to_make_an_led_ardu...
Does anyone here have any cool projects to show off? I would love to see what people here have put together... I'm working on an alarm clock that requires me to do some math in order to turn it off. Thinking about extending it with an automated french press with heating element to have a cup of coffee ready for me.
Not Arduino (I use mainly PICs at the moment 'cos they're cheap and simple) but my current hardware project is working with my friend Felix on his Machines (music making sound art machines): http://felixsmachines.com/ I do the electronics & programming stuff, it's an awful lot of fun. Plus I got to go to TEDGlobal for a day :)