This weekend I played with the Arduino/LCD Smartie combination and I was impressed both by the results and by the simplicity of the whole project. If you have the right LCD shield and you don’t have to do any soldering, you can be up and running in 10-15 minutes. For those who are not familiar […]
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Brian Evans has published a book on Arduino on Lulu.com, which is available either as a free pdf download or a real paperback for £3.72 + postage. Arduino Programming Notebook – Direct link This is book (or “notebook” as Brian calls it, as it is only 36 pages long) is a very short introduction to […]
Sparkun are selling the following simple clock on their site: Link This is a minimalistic clock that includes all the essential functions and is very similar to a product offered at Maplins in the UK that I have used before: Maplin link | My project which includes this module There are two differences between the […]
The www.oomlout.co.uk is a very interesting site. To begin with, they have an online shop where you can buy Arduino boards, shields and electronic components. Well, there are many sites that do exactly that. What’s interesting is that they’ve created a great Arduino Starter kit. This kit is the best kit I’ve seen around for […]
During the past 12 months, I have gone through a few books on Arduino and Processing. In this post, I’m going to give you my thoughts on these books. I’ll go through the books in the order I read them, which is not unfortunately the same as the order I should have read them. You’ll […]
This is one more example of what can be achieved with Processing. The problem here is to create a pop-art image using the famous Andy Warhol format: the same image is re-produced 9 times; each time, a different 3 colour combination is used (one colour for the background, one for the black pixels of the […]