Arduino Sunday Mk II - Please register on Facebook
Dominic Morrow
- Register that you are coming on the Facebook Page
- Tell us if you need a kit or not (also on the Facebook Page)
- Tweet, blog, facebook link etc about the workshop to get the word out
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Dominic
Matt Lloyd
http://nottinghack.org.uk/?p=269
From the Blog:-
"Arduino 101 For Beginners – A beginners kit will be available as well
as tuition on getting started with Micro-controllers. As well as group
tuition, one-on-one help will be available from experienced teachers
and hackers who can help you learn more!"
The 101 workshop is going to be lead by John Crouchley, in out big
workshop room. It most likely going to be a repeat of our very
successful first arudino workshop.
The Arduino Sundae power point presentation from last time is still
available for anyone after a sneak peek
http://john.crouchley.com/files/Arduino_Sundae.pdf
As with last time John and others will be on hand to give one-on-one
help as need.
This time we have our awesome looking arudino workshop kits from
oomlout. Might have to grab on myself just for the keyring :)
Don't forget that the help doesn't stop when workshop is over, there
is usually a least one person that knows
arudino's/electronics/programming at our weekly open hack nights, and
we are more than happy to answer questions and help out with projects.
Its why we are all here!!
From the Blog:-
"Arduino 2.0 For Progressors – The new Hackerspace rooms and tools
will be available to you as well as expert one-on-one help. You’ll be
able to make progress with your project as well as discuss all things
Arduino with experts and other enthusiasts in an environment ideally
suited to rapid prototyping!"
This is going to be a little bit more of an informal/1on1 session in
the main hacksapce rooms.
Bring along our own project to work on.
Have a project idea and want help getting started?
Tricky questions about arudino's/electronics/programming?
Again were offering one-on-one help here, ill be going round the room
helping as much as i can and im sure there will be others there to.
I know a few folks have all ready mentioned projects/ideas they are
looking for advice on.
Michael is desperate to get a stepper motor working, so ill be showing
him two methods using first two H-Bridge's then constant current
stepper drivers (off the RepRap)
Russell has asked about switching a relay and control high power stuff
from that? Transistors and MOSFETS's.
Hopefully Dominic can finally sit down and strap an arduino to one of
his Big Trak's
Want to see just how far an arduino can go?
I'm hoping to have my RepRap up and running (no promises), my arduino
based tank and the hackspaces new LED matrix display board.
These will show people just some of the cool things arduino's can be
used to do and also some of the more complex aspects.
Ill be happy to explain these project to everyone and including
sharing source code for our more advance programs to tinker with.
'Repap' Matt
gmjhowe
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> 'Repap' Matt
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I see what you are doing, your gonna be 'parappa the rapper' Matt
before we realise..
Dominic Morrow
Matt Lloyd
'RepRap' Matt
Michael Procter
I think it is actually to avoid an unfortunate 'bug' in David Hayward's
phone.
Michael
Dominic Morrow
Matt Lloyd
'RepRap' Matt
Dominic Morrow
Matt Lloyd
'RepRap' Matt
Dominic Morrow
Michael Erskine
> Well it's a question of batteries really... I'll have to mug an old lady to
> get the money to buy those hefty D cells...
> I did think we'd bought some rechargeable ones (not sure). We DID buy some
> rechargeable AA and AAA cells but they have disappeared from the space :o(
I have 6 NiMh D cells you can borrow (they're from my winter bike
lights that will be retired for BST just in time!
Michael.
Russell
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> Want to see just how far an arduino can go?
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> On 21 March 2011 12:28, Dominic Morrow <nottingh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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Well does an arduino have more processing power than an apollo moon
lander?
Can we build one of those?
Matt Lloyd
http://www.galaxiki.org/web/main/_blog/all/build-your-own-nasa-apollo-landing-computer-no-kidding.shtml
As for number two sure why not.
'RepRap' Matt
Sent from my iPhone 4
James Hayward
- they'll need a kit!
I've asked them to register on facebook as well.
J
On Mar 21, 9:11 pm, Matt Lloyd <dps....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Unsurprisingly the answer to the first is yeshttp://www.galaxiki.org/web/main/_blog/all/build-your-own-nasa-apollo...
> As for number two sure why not.
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> 'RepRap' Matt
> Sent from my iPhone 4
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> >> Want to see just how far an arduino can go?
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> >> On 21 March 2011 12:28, Dominic Morrow <nottingh...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > Well does an arduino have more processing power than an apollo moon
> > lander?
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Dominic Morrow
Sent from my iPhone
James Hayward
Just one, dad will mainly be moral support I think!
sent from my HTC Desire
Matt Lloyd
'RepRap' Matt
Russell
I'm getting excited about this now.
I'm installing Arduino on the laptop and getting my Bothertron sketch
transfered.
I still don't know how to do Processing. So much to learn.
It's going to be great.
Michael Erskine
Me too! I have a lot of gaps to fill in my knowledge of these
beasties! Rather than getting to grips with Processing I rather lazily
modified some of my existing Java applications to talk to my Arduino
sketches over serial -- which is probably exactly what Processing is
at the end of the day! I shall have a go at something Processing based
with you on Sunday Russell as I feel like I need to know more about
it.
Michael.
gmjhowe
decided to come along to the workshop!
I look forward to learning some Arduino basics so I can then use it
for all sorts.
(I need something to power lighting and steam for a robot suite and
mercury bow rifle)
Russell
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> (I need something to power lighting and steam for a robot suite and
> mercury bow rifle)
Roger Light
But I'm not much wiser even given that link.
Cheers,
Roger
Roger Light
I forgot to mention - that's very impressive!
Cheers,
Roger
gmjhowe
And that is the mercury bow in question.
Currently working on a version two of it, and I plan to have lights
and steam built in somehow. Figured an arduino might be a good idea.
Plan to eventually build the arduino itself into an ammo pack, that
allows me to use it on different props etc.
On Mar 25, 8:29 am, Roger Light <ro...@atchoo.org> wrote:
> >http://gmjhowe.deviantart.com/art/Mercury-Bow-Sniper-Rifle-108709503?...
Russell
Great stuff and I'm looking forward to seeing how and arduino makes
'em go.
Michael Erskine
thought of using those little pond/waterfeature "smoke" creators
available from Maplin? I don't know how much water is required but I'm
sure we could hack it.
Michael.
gmjhowe
the bow is dealing with cold materials, so a kinda drifting fog would
be pretty decent.
*goes to have a scoot on maplin*
gmjhowe
^ the new design if anyone is interested, I do not want to derail the
conversation too much though.
Michael Erskine
> I very much intend to use something like that, I want it to look like
> the bow is dealing with cold materials, so a kinda drifting fog would
> be pretty decent.
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> *goes to have a scoot on maplin*
This is only £15 but I'm not totally sure how it does what it does!
Ric Briney
I've looked in to these before, I believe it uses an sonic diaphragm to create tiny droplets of water which hang in the air like fog. I think the output of these units is very low though as its designed for constant use in a pond, so it may take a long time to build up to something you can see, but not sure.
Michael Erskine
> I've looked in to these before, I believe it uses an sonic diaphragm to
> create tiny droplets of water which hang in the air like fog. I think the
> output of these units is very low though as its designed for constant use in
> a pond, so it may take a long time to build up to something you can see, but
> not sure.
Alternatively there's a £7.50 aerosol can of fog available which might
be easier to integrate. I'd expect that you'd be able to get a
smaller/cheaper can from a party supplies shop.
Dominic Morrow
James Hayward
It's less technical, but a piece of dry ice placed in water produces a lot of cold fog!
Can be difficult to get hold of though.
J
sent from my HTC Desire
gmjhowe
time it shuts off, then refils if it gets low.
when triggered is fired, tube opens up to release some of the fog,
then seals up again.
Easy enough to convert it to run on DC opposed to AC?
On Mar 25, 2:38 pm, James Hayward <jhayward1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's less technical, but a piece of dry ice placed in water produces a lot
> of cold fog!
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> Can be difficult to get hold of though.
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> J
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> > If you can make that fog colder than the air around it, it'll drop
> downwards
> > and sit at ankle level which (IMHO) would look cool... not sure what
> effect
> > putting the can in the fridge/freezer would have no effect probably I
> think
> > it would need to be chilled after it's propelled which is a bigger
> > challenge!
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> > On 25 March 2011 14:31, Michael Erskine <mse...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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Michael Erskine
> I think a small contained tank, with the fogger inside, after a set
> time it shuts off, then refils if it gets low.
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> when triggered is fired, tube opens up to release some of the fog,
> then seals up again.
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> Easy enough to convert it to run on DC opposed to AC?
Hmmm, dunno! Dry ice is very cool stuff (yes, I know)...
http://mansfieldcryogenics.com/#/portable-dry-ice-unit/4545579399
I think we could make one of these!
Michael.
gmjhowe
make a quick note to say that it felt like the workshop went very well
yesterday.
Decent turn out, and a decent number of people enjoying learning
Arduino. I think a 2.0 only session might be a good idea, might it be
a good idea to run the next workshop 12-3 for beginners, then 3-5 for
advanced? I know we had the dual area, but I think people were set up
in the big room, they did not fancy moving everything back over to the
other side. Might encourage people if we stand there and say 'So, the
1.0 workshop is over, if you want to try and push your arduino a
little further, we are going to move over into the hackspace'
Anywho, well done to all involved, a tiring day, but an enjoyable one.
On Mar 25, 4:47 pm, Michael Erskine <mse...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > I think a small contained tank, with the fogger inside, after a set
> > time it shuts off, then refils if it gets low.
>
> > when triggered is fired, tube opens up to release some of the fog,
> > then seals up again.
>
> > Easy enough to convert it to run on DC opposed to AC?
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