I bought a couple of these signal meters from Maplin a few months ago and today I found some time to try them on an an arduino. Maplin sell these for £4 each, which is probably quite expensive for what they really are, given the cheap plastic material and the overall quality: just to give […]
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Today, on the arduino.cc forums, a user had the following problem: he wanted to start video in quicktime by pressing a custom button on an arduino. Basically, the arduino board should act as a simple keyboard for the computer. I found this problem interesting and I ended up solving it. Here is the link to […]
40 days ago, I added here a post about a “hacked” IKEA lamp; a simple lamp, fitted with 20 RGB leds, an arduino board and a push-to-make switch which I built as a gift to the 2 year old daughter of a good friend of mine. Now, the lamp has appeared on the front page […]
This post is about an arduino-based intervalometer I built for my camera, a Fuji S9600 dSLR. I decided to go for a very simple interface: a rotary switch in the middle of a plastic box which would allow me to select 12 pre-defined intervals. I went for a switch and not a potentiometer because I […]
This is a project I have been working on for the past 2-3 weeks. I wanted to create a night light which had to be very simple to use and with no parts that can be consumed by babies! 🙂 I used 20 RGB LEDs (which I got from www.oomlout.co.uk), an old Eriksson phone charger […]
This is more of a list of notes on custom PCB design rather than a proper post… There is a pretty good tutorial on how to use Eagle on SparkFun.com. Eagle (the freeware version) can be downloaded for free here. There is also a very useful library with most of the components available on Sparkfun.com […]