Yesterday, I visited the Decode exhibition at the V&A museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/decode/ This exhibition is about creating interactive pieces using modern technology. It’s a rather small exhibition, probably due to the fact that few artists have embraced the new technologies currently being developed. Many of the exhibits I saw, I was already familiar with: Flight Patterns […]
Arduino
This post is about a simple and interesting combination of software and hardware. Last week, I picked up a couple of PIR sensors from Ebay. PIR sensors are (usually) easy to interface with an arduino board. Red: 5V, Black: Ground, Yellow: Analog In. Could it be easier than this? After a bit of experimentation, I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]