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Cool Arduino Projects

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Last week, I found myself writing (to a very tight deadline) an article on the Arduino board - and how it has led to a new sort of participation in Open Source, bringing more people from a range of backgrounds to playful & creative fun with technology.

The article will appear next month in Linux User magazine #84 [to be published 18 Feb 2010]. In the meanwhile here are links to some of the really cool projects that I found in the course of knocking out the article.

Where to buy one

http://www.oomlout.co.uk/

http://www.earthshinedesign.co.uk/

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Buy

http://www.sparkfun.com/

http://www.tinker.it/en/Projects/TinkerKit

robot kits that were integrated with arduinos at Howduino:
http://kre8.com/

Or make Your own

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Hardware
http://arduinofun.com/files/byoa.pdf
http://www.ladyada.net/make/boarduino/

Basic info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino [a technical article]

http://arduino.cc/

Of course, you can Google for Arduino, Freeduino, Howduino, & Hackspaces. :-)

Learning

HOWDUINO: http://www.howduino.com/

http://tinker.it/en/Teaching/

http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/

The complete beginner’s guide to the Arduino

Projects

A. Wearable

Thanks to Leah for the pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leahbuechley/2264323620/

LilyPad - Arduino in wearable form

The LilyPad: http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/

Leah’s Lilypad Lecture: http://www.smm.org/ltc/node/175

The bike vest: http://www.mykle.com/msl/?p=10 & http://speedvest.com/

V&A Smart Clothing Course

Arduino, Stepper Motors, Weasley magic

James Devine’s Arduino Laser Projector

E. Practical

Camera remote:
http://www.fizzpop.org.uk/blog/nikon-dslr-ir-remote-project/
http://benosteen.tumblr.com/post/253208029/ir-control-for-a-nikon-d60-updated
http://www.bigmike.it/ircontrol/index.html
Vivarium temperature monitor

F. Fun

The Flock Clock & others….
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/arduino/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Flock-Clock/

hallowe’en is a popular excuse for Arduino family projects in the USA.

But here, and for Ben Tappin, it was an 80s party

http://www.thingiverse.com/oomlout

Misc

All sorts of links:
http://howduino.pbworks.com/PossibleProjects3

http://howduino.pbworks.com/Project-DisplaySharing

http://www.instructables.com/tag/?q=arduino

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=DIYbio

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=growduino

And big thanks to

Asa Calow, Cyberspice, James Devine, Hwa Young Jung, Lady Ada, John McKerrell, Nick O’Leary, Pindec, Ben Tappin, Aisha Yusuf, everyone on the various UK hackspace mailing lists who helped, & special thanks to Adrian McEwen.