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Dic
19

GSM Controlled Star Light: A xmas tutorial for Intel Galileo

christmas, Featured, Galileo, gms, gsm, shield, wifi shield Commenti disabilitati su GSM Controlled Star Light: A xmas tutorial for Intel Galileo 

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We recently posted on Intel Makers Community the first of a series of educational tutorial focused on Intel Galileo Gen 2. Our team worked on  a smart Christmas star able to receive sms and change pattern according to it. The bill of materials contains also an Arduino GSM Shield, a Proto Shield and some flexible  LED  strips:

To kick off a festive mood, we decided to adapt a typical Scandinavian tradition. In December, many people will decorate their homes by hanging large paper stars inside their windows. The stars usually have a single bulb inside that casts a warm, welcoming glow.

We thought we’d try to make this tradition a bit more merry by making it interactive. By sending text messages, we will change the blink pattern and color of the star.

This project is a fun and easy introduction on how to use the Intel Galileo Gen 2 board and the Arduino GSM shield. After making this tutorial, try modifying the code to change the patterns or taking the functions to insert GSM connectivity into your own projects.

Happy Holidays!

Follow the link and make it as well!

 

Dic
11

Arduino Gift Guides that fit anyone’s piggy bank

arduino, arduino store, christmas, Featured, gift, guide Commenti disabilitati su Arduino Gift Guides that fit anyone’s piggy bank 

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Last week we published our gift guides presenting you a list of products  available on the Arduino Store and divided by topic for Kids and people interested in IoT, Home Lab and Fashion Tech.

Now we’d like to give you some suggestions for gift ideas fitting anyone’s piggy bank:

Gifts Under 15€

Arduino ISP

isp-arduino
It’s a tiny AVR-ISP (in-system programmer) based on David Mellis’ project FabISPand useful to anyone needing more space on the Arduino board

 


 

Flashing Card Set – Merry Resistivities by Bare Conductive

merry

The Merry Resistivities Set contains all the materials you need to make three flashing greeting cards using Electric Paint. This fun activity is great for makers of all ages.


 

Minipov by Adafruit

minipov

A simple POV toy for beginners who are looking to learn how to solder, how to program microcontrollers, or make LED blinky toys. Because the programmer is built into the kit, one does not need a special “microcontroller programmer”.


Arduino Proto Shield

protoshield

The Arduino Prototyping Shield makes it easy for you to design custom circuits for your next Arduino project. You can solder parts to the prototyping area to create your project with extra connections for all of the Arduino I/O pins.


 

Make Robot Notebook Moleskine

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Pocket Moleskine Notebook – Fresh from the Maker Faire comes our exclusive mini-Moleskine (5.5″x3.5″, 30 pages) notebook, available with Robot logos.


 

Gifts Under 30€

Getting Started with Arduino – 2nd Edition

gettingStarted

This classic book to start tinkering with Arduino gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you work with them right away. From getting organized to putting the final touches on your prototype, all the information you need is here!


 

Arduino Case + Breadboard Wires Kit

arduinoCase

This lasercut (in Officine Arduino), wooden case is perfect to host your project and store electronic parts. It features two drawers, a confortable surface for a standard breadboard and the space for two Arduinos to be hooked up. It’s stackable, perfect for teaching material or group work.


Arduino UNO

ArduinoUno

If you want to make any beginner happy, this is the perfect gift. “Uno” means “One” in Italian and is named to mark the upcoming release of Arduino 1.0. The Uno and version 1.0 will be the reference versions of Arduino, moving forward. The Uno is the latest in a series of USB Arduino boards, and the reference model for the Arduino platform.


 

Lumi Red or Blu

LumiRed

Lumi is a new DIY alternative to screen printing.The process works on cotton, linen, silk, rayon, canvas, and any other natural & absorbent fiber. Once finished, your print is permanent and can be machine washed without fading.


 

Blend Micro by RedBearLab

blendmicro

Arduino At Heart Blend Micro is RedBearLab first integrated developement board, they have “blend”ed Arduino with Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (aka BLE or Bluetooth Smart) into a single board. It is targeted for makers to develop low power Internet-Of-Things (IoT) projects quickly and easily.


 

Gifts Under 60€

Arduino Esplora

esplora-retail

The Arduino Esplora is a ready-to-use, easy-to-hold controller that lets you explore the infinitive possibilities you have in the world of sensor and actuators, without having to deal with breadboards, soldering or cable. There is no limits to the sensors applications! Adding a LCD module you can make your personal videogame!


 

Bare Conductive Touch Board

bareconductive

Touch Board can turn almost any material or surface into a sensor by connecting it to one of its 12 electrodes, using conductive paint or anything conductive. It’s designed as an easy-to-use platform for a huge range of projects, whether it’s painting a lightswitch on your wall, making a paper piano or something nobody’s thought of yet.


 

Intel Edison

edison

The Intel Edison is an ultra small computing platform that will change the way you look at embedded electronics. This kit also includes a Arduino Breakout, which essentially gives your Edison the ability to interface with Arduino shields or any board with the Arduino footprint.

 

Arduino Yún

arduinoYun

Arduino with onboard Wi-Fi connectivity and a Linux computer. Great for IoT projects. The Arduino YÚN is the combination of a classic Arduino Leonardo (based on the Atmega32U4 processor) with a WiFi system-on-chip running OpenWrt-Yun.

 

Remember

FREE SHIPPING to European Union for all orders over €100 (below 3Kg overall weight). Should you need delivery by Dec 24th, we strongly advise you to place the order before Dec 15th. FREE SHIPPING is available from Dec. 2nd 2014 until Jan 6th 2015. Read more about the shipping policy.

Dic
01

Control your Christmas lights with sms and Arduino Yún

arduino, Arduino Yún, christmas, Featured, lights, temboo, Yun Commenti disabilitati su Control your Christmas lights with sms and Arduino Yún 

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December is finally here and we can start thinking about indoor or outdoor decorations for the holiday. Christmas lights are an excellent way to light up any event and a user on instructables wanted to be able to control the lights remotely with text messages.

Check his 12-step tutorial  and take a look at the bill of materials:

  • An Arduino Yún – You could use another Arduino with a Wifi Shield though.
  • A Protoshield with (or without) a tiny breadboard
  • A regular breadboard will work as well, but will be less compact.
    If you want to solder more, you can just use a small circuit board instead.
  • A 5V relay
  • A piezo buzzer
  • Wires
  • A battery operated Christmas decoration (It’s not even Thanksgiving, so I’m using a Halloween decoration)
  • A Temboo account
  • A Twilio account

 

  • ArduinoYun-lights
Screen Shot 2013-12-20 at 11.08.07 AMDon’t let your Arduino just gather dust in a drawer after the 25th. Learn from this video and you’ll be well on your way to letting it also gather data on how many times that drawer gets opened as you try to remember where you stored the New Year's decorations.

Read more on MAKE

Dic
11
Screen Shot 2013-12-10 at 4.48.36 PMThere’s no better way to show your geek cred on Christmas than hooking up your Christmas tree to the internet. While it’s certainly not a new idea, I was eager to try out my own spin on it this holiday season. The Lonely Christmas Tree lights up whenever you receive an email, hopefully adding a little cheer to your holiday season.

Read more on MAKE

Dic
06

Making Fun: Color-Hunting, Christmas Tree-Controlling CheerBot

arduino, BeagleBone Black, cheerlights, christmas, computer vision, Electronics, Robot, Robotics Commenti disabilitati su Making Fun: Color-Hunting, Christmas Tree-Controlling CheerBot 

cheerbotsmallI built a robot that controls the my Christmas lights and Christmas lights around the world by roaming my house looking for colors and tweeting them to the Cheerlights service.

Read more on MAKE

Nov
10

Hack ur Baubles – A circuit board to control Christmas lights

arduino, christmas, Mega328, ULN2003 Commenti disabilitati su Hack ur Baubles – A circuit board to control Christmas lights 

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Dr. Megan Smith and [krazatchu] have cooked up a circuit board to control Christmas lights. It’s Arduino compatible, based on the Mega328 and has a microphone, audio line in and a light sensor. It can switch 7 strings of lights with the ULN2003 transistor array. It also has Infrared for communications, to work with a TV remote or to talk among themselves to coordinate lighting events (it will be using some code from firefly project: http://www.lumipendant.com/ )

Hack ur Baubles – A circuit board to control Christmas lights - [Link]

Dic
25

500mm Foam Polyhedral Bi Plane

2150kv, biplane, christmas, esc, foam, scratch build, servo, xmas Commenti disabilitati su 500mm Foam Polyhedral Bi Plane 

My 500 mm Foam Bi Plane Christmas day 2012 Le Bons bay New Zealand
Took the camera off after this flight as its 19 Grams to much for the tiny bi-plane.

Scratch built for Xmas day. It was fun little plane for the day. It was a bit windy for it so without ailerons a few crashes, nothing that couldn't be taped up however until the ESC caught fire :)

Span 550mm with flip ups
Airframe weight 74 Grams Extruded Polystyrene and Bamboo 
Batts 52 Grams 180mAh Nano Tech's
Motor and prop 52 Grams
RX 10 Grams
ESC 9 Grams eith wires and connector Hobbyking SS Series 8-10A
2 X 6 Gram servos
AUW 209 Grams
Wing loading around 11 Oz/ft² assuming you count both wings as wing area for a bi-plane. Some say the effective wing area is 75% of the total giving around 15 Oz/ft²
Rudder and elevator (no ailerons which was s shame) 

Lots of lift from chunky wings, its over powered with a 44 gram AXN-2208-2150 2150kv you could induce a roll with the throttle. The polyhedral flip ups were not big enough I suspect, and it was windy but is flew Ok, the beach is a good place to crash, landed in a tree at one point the big motor kicked her free however. 

Getting some Hextronic 24 Gram 1500kv for these smaller models as recommended by 


Getting into flextures, not enough flextures ind RC models in my opinion. They work well and don't backdrive the servos like metal wire, fine on these tiny planes. 

Note the bamboo push rods, which weigh nothing.

Cooked the ESC by the end of the session as the two 180mAh Nano Tech's ran dry I taped on a 1300mAh, to heavy to many amps.

Might build a little plane like this for indoors with a tiny motor  like a C10 2900kv which is around 8 Grams .

Indoor foamy spec
Yank and bank bi-plane 50 Watts should get around 150 - 200 Grams of thrust so plenty 

Air frame 60 grams 
50 Watt Motor  C10 Micro brushless outrunner 2900kv  and 4.75 x 4.75 prop 12 Grams
Battery Turnigy nano-tech 460mah 2S 25~40C Lipo Pack 33 Grams
ESC wires ect Hobbyking SS Series 8-10A ESC 9 Grams
AUW 134 Grams














Gen
04

Christmas Cheerlights

arduino, cheerlights, christmas, iobrdige, x10, xBee Commenti disabilitati su Christmas Cheerlights 

This year I joined a few other guys in the Cheerlights project.

CheerLights is an ioBridge Labs project that allows people's lights all across the world to synchronize, stay linked based on social networking trends. It's a way to connect physical things with social networking experiences and spread cheer at the same time. We are all connected.

Whenever anyone tweeted @cheerlights or #cheerlights and a color, my house lights (just the deck icicles) changed to that color.




I was a bit of a rebel and decided to change to the tweeted color just for 1 minute instead of just leaving the lights constantly to the selected color. After 1 minute the stockplus program for GE G-35 Color Effects Lights written by sowbug (https://github.com/sowbug/G35Arduino) took over.


I couldn't resist not using the random mode: these lights are just amazing, and the effects are REALLY cool.

My setup was wireless. I used an ioBrigde module, xbee radios and an arduino to accomplish this.






The other cool part about this year's Christmas lights is that they were programmed to start/stop via a cronjob. I used the ioBridge x10 board and a bunch of x10 devices to accomplish this.

Cronjob entry:

-bash-3.2$ crontab -l

30 15 * * * /oracle/start_cheerlights > /dev/null
00 21 * * * /oracle/stop_cheerlights > /dev/null

Bash script:


#!/bin/bash
#Upastairs
curl "http://www.iobridge.com/widgets/static/id=XXXXXXX&value=1"
#Downstairs
curl "http://www.iobridge.com/widgets/static/id= XXXXXXX&value=1"


*change value 1 for On and 0 for Off.


I also setup an IP webcam to keep an eye on my cheerlights remotely.
For more info on how you can build you own check http://www.cheerlights.com/
This year I joined a few other guys in the Cheerlights project.

CheerLights is an ioBridge Labs project that allows people's lights all across the world to synchronize, stay linked based on social networking trends. It's a way to connect physical things with social networking experiences and spread cheer at the same time. We are all connected.

Whenever anyone tweeted @cheerlights or #cheerlights and a color, my house lights (just the deck icicles) changed to that color.




I was a bit of a rebel and decided to change to the tweeted color just for 1 minute instead of just leaving the lights constantly to the selected color. After 1 minute the stockplus program for GE G-35 Color Effects Lights written by sowbug (https://github.com/sowbug/G35Arduino) took over.


I couldn't resist not using the random mode: these lights are just amazing, and the effects are REALLY cool.

My setup was wireless. I used an ioBrigde module, xbee radios and an arduino to accomplish this.






The other cool part about this year's Christmas lights is that they were programmed to start/stop via a cronjob. I used the ioBridge x10 board and a bunch of x10 devices to accomplish this.

Cronjob entry:

-bash-3.2$ crontab -l

30 15 * * * /oracle/start_cheerlights > /dev/null
00 21 * * * /oracle/stop_cheerlights > /dev/null

Bash script:


#!/bin/bash
#Upastairs
curl "http://www.iobridge.com/widgets/static/id=XXXXXXX&value=1"
#Downstairs
curl "http://www.iobridge.com/widgets/static/id= XXXXXXX&value=1"


*change value 1 for On and 0 for Off.


I also setup an IP webcam to keep an eye on my cheerlights remotely.
For more info on how you can build you own check http://www.cheerlights.com/


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