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Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself. Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino

Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself. Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino that you know of?

ogrodnek 16y ago
This guy built an awesome scooter display with voltage monitoring, temperature, GPS, speedometer -- http://www.janspace.com/b2evolution/arduino.php/2010/06/26/scooterputer http://www.janspace.com/b2evolution/arduino.php/2010/06/26/s... There's also some interesting stuff if you poke around hackaday.com
johnohara 16y ago
The AeroQuad is an interesting implementation. http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/aeroquadan-arduinopowered http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/aeroquadan-arduinopowere...
bnchdrff 16y ago
The Garduino has been garnering interest with gardeners in my city: http://garduino.dirtnail.com/ http://garduino.dirtnail.com/
maqr 16y ago
I ordered a sanguino kit and learned to solder at the same time :) If you're interested in learning the whole parts procurement process, you can also buy a PCB of pretty much any arduino-based board with no components, then pick out the components you want yourself and solder away.
- ovi256 16y ago
  For auxiliary hardware for the Arduino, use a breadboard, and get components from a salvaged electronic device - an old pre-2000s TV is best, but anything will do: a radio, stereo system. They should ideally be pretty old so that they contain enough discrete components. Newer stuff is all SoC - System on a Chip - just a big proprietary non-reusable chip and very few other components. You can desolder and reuse pretty much any component: connectors, passive elements (resistors, capacitors), switches, active elements (diodes, transistors), LEDs, speakers, relays. You can even reuse bigger functional blocks like power supplies or power amplifiers. I used to do this all the time when I was a teenager. Nothing like having an idea at midnight and scavenging the components to try it out at once, and not having to wait next day to buy them. Plus, it reduces e-waste, which is horrible to recycle, despite what we are told. And stay safe, learn you electric safety rules! PS: nice first project idea - light alarm that wakes you up in the morning, like the fancy, pretty expensive Phillips Wake-up Light Alarm devices. Later, make the light able to fade-in using maybe a thyristor. A nice enclosure is hard to make though - that's where Phillips has the advantage.
aperiodic 16y ago
This Daft-Punk-inspired helmet I made is controlled entirely by an Arduino Duemilanove (http://vimeo.com/10684953 http://vimeo.com/10684953). It's fairly complex as far as Arduino Projects go (it involves timer interrupts, a Serial Peripheral Interface with shift registers, and a homemade PCB), but hey, I managed to do it, and I didn't have a lot of prior experience with either C or hobby electronics.
Nekojoe 16y ago
Baker Tweet uses the Arduino - http://www.bakertweet.com/ http://www.bakertweet.com/ The official Arduino blog always has lots of interesting examples too - http://arduino.cc/blog/ http://arduino.cc/blog/
jamesbritt 16y ago
I did an Ignite talk last month about wearable computers: http://www.vimeo.com/13163175 http://www.vimeo.com/13163175

Cool, I'd been meaning to get an Arduino microcontroller myself. Can anyone give examples of the more interesting projects that are being done with the Arduino that you know of?

ogrodnek 16y ago

This guy built an awesome scooter display with voltage monitoring, temperature, GPS, speedometer -- http://www.janspace.com/b2evolution/arduino.php/2010/06/26/scooterputer http://www.janspace.com/b2evolution/arduino.php/2010/06/26/s... There's also some interesting stuff if you poke around hackaday.com

johnohara 16y ago

The AeroQuad is an interesting implementation. http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/aeroquadan-arduinopowered http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/aeroquadan-arduinopowere...

bnchdrff 16y ago

The Garduino has been garnering interest with gardeners in my city: http://garduino.dirtnail.com/ http://garduino.dirtnail.com/

maqr 16y ago

I ordered a sanguino kit and learned to solder at the same time :) If you're interested in learning the whole parts procurement process, you can also buy a PCB of pretty much any arduino-based board with no components, then pick out the components you want yourself and solder away.

ovi256 16y ago
For auxiliary hardware for the Arduino, use a breadboard, and get components from a salvaged electronic device - an old pre-2000s TV is best, but anything will do: a radio, stereo system. They should ideally be pretty old so that they contain enough discrete components. Newer stuff is all SoC - System on a Chip - just a big proprietary non-reusable chip and very few other components. You can desolder and reuse pretty much any component: connectors, passive elements (resistors, capacitors), switches, active elements (diodes, transistors), LEDs, speakers, relays. You can even reuse bigger functional blocks like power supplies or power amplifiers. I used to do this all the time when I was a teenager. Nothing like having an idea at midnight and scavenging the components to try it out at once, and not having to wait next day to buy them. Plus, it reduces e-waste, which is horrible to recycle, despite what we are told. And stay safe, learn you electric safety rules! PS: nice first project idea - light alarm that wakes you up in the morning, like the fancy, pretty expensive Phillips Wake-up Light Alarm devices. Later, make the light able to fade-in using maybe a thyristor. A nice enclosure is hard to make though - that's where Phillips has the advantage.

aperiodic 16y ago

This Daft-Punk-inspired helmet I made is controlled entirely by an Arduino Duemilanove (http://vimeo.com/10684953 http://vimeo.com/10684953). It's fairly complex as far as Arduino Projects go (it involves timer interrupts, a Serial Peripheral Interface with shift registers, and a homemade PCB), but hey, I managed to do it, and I didn't have a lot of prior experience with either C or hobby electronics.

Nekojoe 16y ago

Baker Tweet uses the Arduino - http://www.bakertweet.com/ http://www.bakertweet.com/ The official Arduino blog always has lots of interesting examples too - http://arduino.cc/blog/ http://arduino.cc/blog/

jamesbritt 16y ago

I did an Ignite talk last month about wearable computers: http://www.vimeo.com/13163175 http://www.vimeo.com/13163175