For a while now, I have been thinking about putting together a video surveillance system at home, based on linux, webcams and python. I’m aware that out of the box systems exist, but I wanted to create something more personalised, which, let’s face it, it’s more fun! 🙂 After reading a bit online, I decided […]
Projects
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 […]
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 […]
Here is a video I made using my home-made arduino intervalometer and my Fuji S9600 camera. 3 Hours in seconds… from Arkadian.Eu on Vimeo. This video was created by taking 918 photos of a clock; the photos got converted to a video using MonkeyJam, a fantastic piece of software for stop-motion animation. More exciting projects […]
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 […]