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Awesome, any idea of quantity you can produce? Must buy a case of each, you could call it Arduino Light Ale
I think it works out at 650ish liters a week!
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I'm halfway thru a project right now, does anyone know of an easy way of dimming a !kw lightbulb?
Right now I'm using a relay and while it works it doesn't allow me to dim the bulb - ie it's not fast enough for PWM.
Right now I'm using a relay and while it works it doesn't allow me to dim the bulb - ie it's not fast enough for PWM.
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I'm using an Arduino Nano to control some B&Q home automation devices (light switches, plug sockets etc). It uses a £10 433mhz transmitter/receiver pair from the electronics/gadget shop we're not allowed to mention and plugs into a nettop I have. From here you can send commands via UDP to emulate a remote control to switch off/on lights etc. You can receive signals from other remotes but I'm not doing anything with these yet - I'm busy writing an Android app at the moment so I can control things via my phone (I can already via a browser but I want to do it properly):
Going to move it to some stripboard at some point next week with sockets for the Nano so I can remove it easily.
Going to move it to some stripboard at some point next week with sockets for the Nano so I can remove it easily.
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Em3bbs looks like a good project 
Instead of writing an app I would look at using HTML5 instead so it's compatible across all mobile devices, you can then load the HTML5 up within an app if you must 
You might find this of some interest, instead of using your Arduino Nano which is great for proto typing but not so great for a long term project. You can build an Arduino for £5 on stripboard and then use your Nano to program it. (This is exactly what I've done for my Brewduino Project)
http://www.instructables.com/id/Stripboard-Arduino/
Instead of writing an app I would look at using HTML5 instead so it's compatible across all mobile devices, you can then load the HTML5 up within an app if you must You might find this of some interest, instead of using your Arduino Nano which is great for proto typing but not so great for a long term project. You can build an Arduino for £5 on stripboard and then use your Nano to program it. (This is exactly what I've done for my Brewduino Project)
http://www.instructables.com/id/Stripboard-Arduino/
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Cool Components and Oomlout, then SparkFun and LadyAda for the more exotic stuff
Im looking to get into the Arduino side, looking for some advice here!
Any tutorials, my programming stops at DOS and BASIC and was so many years ago I even bothered trying to learn HTML. Are there any decent tutorials? I actually have an arduino as part of my MakerBot (retired) but its not getting stripped down.
Are there any others out there with at least a dozen analogue pins? I intend to create a temperature logger (Live hopefully) for my reptile room. I would like to be able to expand it once the bare bones is laid out. I would eventually like to have it update automatically over my network and keep live graphs and historical graphs for every single vivarium.
I currently have about 15 vivariums, and would really like to have a hot side and cool side temperature measurement (and eventually humidity) is this possible from a single arduino? Or would I need multiples and is it possible to have them work together running from a single PC?
Seems rather specific, but enviromental monitoring systems are incredibly expensive, especially for how many data points I want!
Any tutorials, my programming stops at DOS and BASIC and was so many years ago I even bothered trying to learn HTML. Are there any decent tutorials? I actually have an arduino as part of my MakerBot (retired) but its not getting stripped down.
Are there any others out there with at least a dozen analogue pins? I intend to create a temperature logger (Live hopefully) for my reptile room. I would like to be able to expand it once the bare bones is laid out. I would eventually like to have it update automatically over my network and keep live graphs and historical graphs for every single vivarium.
I currently have about 15 vivariums, and would really like to have a hot side and cool side temperature measurement (and eventually humidity) is this possible from a single arduino? Or would I need multiples and is it possible to have them work together running from a single PC?
Seems rather specific, but enviromental monitoring systems are incredibly expensive, especially for how many data points I want!
I'm using an Arduino to build an Automated lawnmower as my main uni project for my 3rd year.
Consists of:
2 x 37D 5A Motors
3 x SR04 Sonar Sensors
3 x Current Detectors
1 x Arduino Demi
1 x SaberTooth 2 x 5A Motor Driver in PWM mode
Having great fun with it!
Below is a Sample vid from a while ago in development
Motors have some torque! And i made the base and wheels from MDF
Consists of:
2 x 37D 5A Motors
3 x SR04 Sonar Sensors
3 x Current Detectors
1 x Arduino Demi
1 x SaberTooth 2 x 5A Motor Driver in PWM mode
Having great fun with it!
Below is a Sample vid from a while ago in development
Motors have some torque! And i made the base and wheels from MDF
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After going round in circles trying to find alternative methods I have arrived here at the Arduino for a project.... is anyone still using them?
(this appears to be the official and dead thread)
I still tinker, moved on to using Particle.IO now instead though.
What project are you working on?
I haven't used an arduino in nearly 2 years. I just looked up particle.io as I had not heard of it before now. Might get a board to test. I have been doing some development lately on the electric imp platform. Have you tried any of there boards for any projects?
@Whoop also interested to know what kind of project you are planning
I've not built anything for a while but my last two projects were:-
An Atari Star Wars controller yoke. I used the Arduino to act as a joystick to read the potentiometers and fire buttons. This works really well. Almost like the real thing.
Christmas lights jumper. I added a few dozen neopixels to the inside of a christmas jumper and use the arduino to control them. Simple but works.
I've never done anything with IoT.
An Atari Star Wars controller yoke. I used the Arduino to act as a joystick to read the potentiometers and fire buttons. This works really well. Almost like the real thing.
Christmas lights jumper. I added a few dozen neopixels to the inside of a christmas jumper and use the arduino to control them. Simple but works.
I've never done anything with IoT.
Hiya,
A vague overview of the project is a geometric pattern made out of WS2812B addressable LEDs with a variety of preset patterns programmed into an Arduino Uno (though I may hit memory issues and need a Mega), simple chase, burst, sparkle type stuff for effect (or maybe nearer christmas some ********** and stuff).
However I want to trigger them via a shielded input on the IO pins of the Arduino and control it via a standard DMX controller.
I'm not letting my zero knowledge of Arduino code hold me back.
A vague overview of the project is a geometric pattern made out of WS2812B addressable LEDs with a variety of preset patterns programmed into an Arduino Uno (though I may hit memory issues and need a Mega), simple chase, burst, sparkle type stuff for effect (or maybe nearer christmas some ********** and stuff).
However I want to trigger them via a shielded input on the IO pins of the Arduino and control it via a standard DMX controller.
I'm not letting my zero knowledge of Arduino code hold me back.