Getting Physical

Look here…..

http://www.adafruit.com/

Adafruit Industries is a small company that sells kits and parts for original, open source hardware electronics projects featured on www.ladyada.net as well as other cool open source tronix that I think are interesting and well-made.

Five really good intros lessons

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Hacking/HomePage

Hacking the board

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage-0007

Learning the stuff with code examples.

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~fwinkler/590E/Arduino_workshop_sensors.pdf

http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Labs/Servo

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson0.html

This lesson won’t teach any electronics, really. Its more for making sure that everything is setup and /ready/ for the future lessons. It will verify the Arduino is working as intended and that the computer you are using is compatible.

http://todbot.com/blog/spookyarduino/

more code examples…

http://www.electronics-lab.com/blog/?cat=30

LilyPad is a wearable e-textile technology developed by Leah Buechley and cooperatively designed by Leah and SparkFun. Each LilyPad was creatively designed to have large connecting pads to allow them to be sewn into clothing. Various input, output, power, and sensor boards are available. They’re even washable!

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1139161553

Details of board plan

http://todbot.com/blog/2006/07/11/arduino-breadboard-shield/

You can build your own Arduino shield with a solderless breadboard in about 10 minutes and 10 bucks. It’s not nearly as full-featured as Tom’s prototyping shields, but it’s great way to quickly add a solderless breadboard to Arduino.

http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/Tutorials/ArduinoBreadboard

This tutorial is about building an Arduino compatible breadboard with an ATMEL8 AVR microcontroller and FTDI FT232 breakout board from Spark-fun. The two skematics this is based on are here and

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/TiltSensor

The tilt sensor is a component that can detect the tilting of an object. However it is only the equivalent to a pushbutton activated through a different physical mechanism. This type of sensor is the environmental-friendly version of a mercury-switch. It contains a metallic ball inside that will commute the two pins of the device from on to off and viceversa if the sensor reaches a certain angle.

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/arduino/

Here is a cool project from Spain featuring an Arduino POV and some 433Mhz Wireless modules. This project includes an IR sensor to auto-calibrate the display timing on each complete loop. This allows for very accurate precision and stability when drawing on the air! This Arduino POV is based on a old floppy disk enclosure and a old CD-ROM driver and an old car-radio for the main DC motor. Cheap and fun! I’m improving the wireless code to control text from PC to the board remotely connecting together to a USB port.

http://regexp.bjoern.org/archives/000189.html

The board has six Phidgets (aka 3 pin Molex C-GRID) connectors which are routed directly to the Arduino’s A2D ports. It also breaks out 8 bits of digital IO to .1″ headers and provides the all-important reset switch and status LED.

Eagle files are here: phidget_shield_v1.sch | phidget_shield_v1.brd

http://www.phidgets.com/

Phidgets Inc is happy to introduce a new PhidgetMotorControl HC . The PhidgetMotorControl HC allows you to control the velocity and acceleration of up to two high-current DC motors. It provides a generic, convenient way to interface your PC with DC motors and other devices. It requires an external 9 to 15VDC Power Supply.

http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/category/category/code/arduinowiring

When you’re making a microcontroller circuit that drives a high current load like a motor or an incandescent light, it’s not uncommon to make a mistake and create a circuit that draws too much electrical energy on startup and causes the microcontroller to reset itself constantly. To debug this, it helps to put a routine in your startup() function so you can see when the microcontroller has started up. For example, I often blink an LED three times in the startup. If the LED blinks three times then stops, I know the microcontroller has successfully run the startup and gone into its main loop. If it blinks constantly, I know the microcontroller is continually resetting, so there’s a problem.

http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?product_id=2009

cool kits .Touch Sensor Force Sensor Slider Sensor Light Sensor Rotation Sensor

http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/category/category/code/processing

http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/code/category/code/arduinowiring/46

Processng examples…

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/UltrasoundSensor

The PING range finder is an ultrasound sensor from Parallax able of detecting objects up to a 3 mts distance. The sensor counts with 3 pins, two are dedicated to power and ground, while the third one is used both as input and output. This is a good example with code.

http://static.flickr.com/31/65531405_fa57b9ff66_b.jpg

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