With the help from Lindsey French, some houseplants in Chicago have enjoyed a concert generated by the vibrations of a cherry tree in western Massachusetts.
Attached to the cherry tree was a piezo sensor, which measured the tree’s vibrations. These were uploaded to the world wide web using an Ethernet Pro as a server, and a friend’s wireless router, configured to allow port forwarding. On the chicago end, a processing sketch gathered the data and wrote it to the serial port my laptop. An Arduino attached to the laptop output the data to transducers, which were attached to ceramic saucers (and later, a plywood shelf) as the medium for the vibrations. The Arduino and breadboard were housed in a custom laser-cut box, based off of a modified thingverse template.
Read here the full story.
This entry was posted by Andrea on Friday, May 11th, 2012 and is filed under Actuators, arduino, sensors. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Arduino, dream, playing
[Enrico Bassi] from FablabTorino brought to the extent the use of the Roland iModela, using the little (and inexpensive) desktop milling machine for pcb milling. ?(in the picture we milled the overexposed Fritzing Parking Assistant).
He wrote some Scuola Lessons (here’s the first) to explain how he realized the pcb, starting from Fritzing.
Roland iModela is now on sell on the Arduino Store.
source [FablabTorino]
This entry was posted by Davide Gomba on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 and is filed under Actuators, Circuit Milling, Fritzing, Hacks, Hardware, IC, Mechanics, PCB, Store, Techincal Drawings, iModela, inspiration, tutorials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Arduino, Available, Circuit, iModela, Milling, Roland, Store
The latest member of the AI family, who is reaching out to users is the much talked about Siri. What if she started executing commands using just thoughts rather than words?
A project by Ollie and Josh, which everyone is talking about, called the Project Black Mirror is gaining a lot of interest among the believers and skeptics alike.
One of the comments reads as:
“Quick question? How are you amplifying the EEG signals before feeding them into the arduino? I ask because all of the neuroscience researchers I’ve talked to say you need an amplifier roughly the size of a VCR to bring the signals up to levels at which they can be analyzed. If you’ve found a way to just plug wires from the electrode pads into the analog inputs on an arduino that would be quite the breakthrough. Also is there any chance you’d be willing to demo your code for separating the brain activity on the EEG from noise created by environmental effects and muscle movements since I’m sure you know that something as small as an eye blink creates an electrical impulse at the scalp which dwarfs the majority of the brain’s electrical signals when measured through the skull. “
Unlike the other post that we made about brain-controlled devices using? an Emotiv headset, this one claims to recognize different words.
Another report of such a nature, comes from abcnews.go.com :
They outfitted volunteers with caps with EEG sensors, and asked them to steer a helicopter on a computer screen through a series of randomly generated rings that appeared on the screen ahead of it. There were no hand controls, no joysticks. They could only try to will the helicopter forward with their minds.
Citing an example of an experiment by Dr. Bin He of the University of Minnesota and his team.
Although it would be nice to observe such a project see the daylight, but for now, the possibility seems a little far away.
Prologue : Quoted from their blog:
Also today we have got the go ahead form kickstarter,? to get? project black mirror up there,? now all we need to do is set up an US business.. eeek ! ( anyone know how to set up a business in the US ?)
(PS: Verdict postponed till the Kickstarter program ends )
This entry was posted by Priya Kuber on Monday, November 14th, 2011 and is filed under Actuators, Hacks, Machine Hacks, Toy Hacking, iPhone. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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[Carlo Denaro] is sharing a smart solution to save digital pins while controlling an LCD, using Shift Register 74HC595. A simple yet useful project with?skecth&libraries, datasheets and Fritzing schematics.
via [grayhats.org]
This entry was posted by Davide Gomba on Monday, January 16th, 2012 and is filed under 74HC59, Actuators, Coding, Fritzing, IC, Libraries, Protocols, Visualising Data, languages, lcd. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Control, Register, Shift
TriggerTrap, is a very interesting product developed by Ziah Fogel & Haje Jan Kamps. Arduino-based & open-source, is now on preorder. What does it do? (Watch Video)
(With TriggerTrap) your camera will be easily controlled in a number of ways either by sound, by breaking a laser beam, time or any other method you can think of using its built in a Aux port.
TriggerTrap comes in the well designed, finished product and with the TT Shield (75$). More info soon.
via [GeekyGadgets] source [TriggerTrap]
This entry was posted by Davide Gomba on Thursday, December 8th, 2011 and is filed under Actuators, Camera, Community, Exhibition, Hacks, Hardware, IC, Image(s), Led(s), Photo, Visualising Data, controllers, inspiration, sensors, shield. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Camera, Trigger, TriggerTrap, Universal
[Rave Rover's Chris Williamson] made a portable DIY dancefloor, sharing instructions and schematics.
Like with many projects similar to this, an Arduino board controls pretty much everything. The floor is dominated by powerful LED lights, which respond to a?Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). A small computer is also inside (complete with Wi-fi), along with a car radio hooked up to speakers. Oh, and thanks to additional wheelchair motors, the floor can be wheeled away to wherever it’s needed.
Chris managed to build the dance floor in just one month, and?documented how to do it on Instructables for anyone who wants to make their own. And now you’ve seen this, would you really want to throw a party without one?
via [PCworld] source [Instructables]
This entry was posted by Davide Gomba on Friday, December 9th, 2011 and is filed under Actuators, Exhibition, Hacks, Hardware, IC, Led(s), Matrix, SPI, Visualising Data, inspiration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Dance, Disco, Floor, Portable
[Robotgrrl] shared a super-userful way to import Arduino Data to ?Mac applications, with tutorials and examples.
We created Matatino, a framework that lets you communicate between your Mac applications and your Arduino, You can follow our tutorials to get started with adding Matatino to your project.?To see Matatino in action, check out Meters for Arduino.?We will be adding more examples, libraries and tutorials for the Android ADK, iOS Redpark Serial Cable, Processing and OpenFrameworks in the future! You can stay informed about updates through RobotGrrl’s blog Apps4Arduino category feed.
via [RobotGrrl/Apps4Arduino]
This entry was posted by Davide Gomba on Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 and is filed under Actuators, Coding, English, Libraries, Visualising Data, arduino, iThings, inspiration, languages. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Arduino, Connect, Matatino
Did you ever look for a cheap temperature monitor capable of collecting up to six sensor readings?
Johnathan Hottell needed to monitor the engine?temperature of his LB7 Duramax diesel truck to avoid over-heating problems in hot days. Looking for commercial products, he found several quite expensive scanners (around hundreds of dollars), so he decided to build its own monitor using an Arduino Pro Mini, six NTC thermistors and a Nokia 3310 LCD screen to display the temperature readings.
The result, which is described here in great details, cost around 40 $.
Via: DangerousPrototypes
This entry was posted by Alessandro Paganelli on Friday, May 11th, 2012 and is filed under Car Hacks, Themal, lcd, sensors. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 6channels, Inexpensive, scanner, temperature
If you’re into interactive lighting? you’ll be familiar with protocols like DMX and ArtNet.
VVVV user “karistouf” has written a piece of code for the? Ethernet shield that allows your Arduino to communicate over an ArtNet network.
Features are:
ArtNet receiver v2: fixed artnet length receiver.
ArtNet sender: you can send artnet data from your device over network, for sensors and buttons this will be easier than all osc or firmata solutions.
enjoy http://bit.ly/xwnsTc
This entry was posted by massimo on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 and is filed under Actuators, Ethernet, Lamp(s), Led(s), VVVV. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Arduino, ArtNet, library
Impressing automotive hacking lets this FIAT car moving by the number of “like” from the Guarana Antarctica Facebook Fan Page. The advertising idea is simple: let the social audience support this Sau Paulo to Salvador trip to reach the Carnivalby commenting / “liking” the page. The onboard Arduino ADK (connected to a tablet and the internet) allows the car going on by a certain amount of meters (apparently one “like” is 10 meters, while each comment lets the car go ahead for 20 meters).
The campaign, developed by?Espalhe Guerilla Marketing, chose three participants who posted creative phrases on Guarana’s Facebook page to get a place in the Facebook-powered car. While driving the car from Sao Paolo to Salvador for the party, they need to reach 220,000 interactions on the Facebook app to make it to their destination.
via [PSFK] source [Blogdeguerrilha.com]
This entry was posted by Davide Gomba on Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 and is filed under ADK, Actuators, Car Hacks, Coding, Facebook, Hacks, Hardware, Social Media, Urban Hacks, Wireless, arduino, around the world, batteries, business, inspiration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Friends, Little, Social, Travel
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