Entries Tagged as 'arduino'
Missed out on Sparkfun free day? Buy it anyways!
January 7th, 2010 · No Comments
So, like many of my readers I spent the morning watching firefox time out on sparkfun's website. Eventually the clouds parted just in time for me to see the ticker go from 70k to 98k, to 100k. Just like that the first ever (annual?) sparkfun free day was over. I was bummed. Then I started [...]
Tags: arduino · general geek · robots
Christmas gifts for geeks (pt 4) Arduino Edition
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Introduction - just in case you haven't renewed your geek card for the past year (decade?) Arduino is a term that refers to a microcontroller on a board that has certain hardware and software 'shortcuts' figured out. It was designed to be as plug and play as possible, and to lower the barrier to entry [...]
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Dremel vise-Christmas gifts for geeks (pt 1)
November 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
I am going to do a series of posts on things that geeks might need for Christmas / the holiday season. It will be a learning process, as I am going to rely on the collective wisdom of the internet to pick between a few similar products. Some might be big and some might be [...]
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$17 Arduino-based nikon IR intervalometer + code
September 30th, 2009 · 22 Comments
This is a project that allows me to take pictures at any (reasonable) interval. This allows the photographer to create time lapse movies with a digital slr. This is an arduino-based project that should work for any nikon camera with an IR port. Best of all it only cost $17!
Tags: arduino · photography · time lapse
“Arduino Powered” CD Changing Robot
June 17th, 2009 · 11 Comments
This is an arduino powered cd changing robot. It uses vacuum to pick up and move cds from stack to computer and back again. This was set up to automate some cd ripping I have been putting off for a while.
Tags: applescript · arduino · cd changing robot · robots
Yeah Sparkfun! Pure WIN.
June 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Fedex dropped the ball by puttign my package in the wrong place. It got stolen. Sparkfun saved the day and made a customer for life.
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Arduino Intervalometer for my Nikon d40
February 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments
For those who don't know an intervalometer is, it tells your computer to take a picture every given interval. This enables you to shoot video with a still camera over a long period of time.
Tags: arduino · general geek · photography · time lapse · video
Arduino LCD gmail subject
December 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Continuing on in the (Long) line of arduino+rss hacks, here is some python code that parses a gmail rss feed. This is a throwback to the post that started it all, the arduino gmail notifier. The original code was tweaked a bit to display the subjects of new mail on an lcd screen.
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Rss Parser for twitter
December 5th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Continuing on the line of arduino+rss hacks, here is some python code that parses Tweets. By changing the rss feed you can either follow one person's tweets, or you can access your "follow" feed (i.e. everyone you follow on twitter.com) In order to do the second option you will have to supply your login credentials.
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Update for arduino / python / rss reader – Weather!
December 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I just whipped up this script that checks and displays the weather through rssweather.com. As always, it requires feedparser, an arduino, and a lcd screen. It is currently configured to read Burlington Vt's weather, so if you don't live there - change it in the python file. Check out the commenting for more info. Click [...]
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