Robot Challenge 007

I had a productive couple of days. Arkadian AV-1 is now operational as a remote control vehicle. Arduino I’m using the StandardFirmata library on the Arduino Mega 2560, with no modifications whatsoever. It was by far the easiest way to get RaspberryPi to control the 4 motors, receive feedback from the 4 sensors (on order […]

Arduino Project: Intervalometer for Fuji cameras

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 […]

Notes on PCB

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 […]

Sparkfun Alarm Clock

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 […]