http://www.secuobs.com Observatoire de la securite Internet fr webmaster@secuobs.com 2016-04-24 01:23:54 - Hackaday : Every new generation of computers repeats the techniques used by the earlier generations Kim Salmi created an ASCII-based quadcopter simulation game using an Arduino that displays on the Arduino serial monitor The modern twist is the controller an accelerometer supplements the joystick for immersive play And of course there are flashing LEDs An Arduino Uno provides the processing power and drives the serial monitor A joystick and a Hitachi H48C accelerometer are mounted on a breadboard and wired to the Uno The tilting of the accelerometer controls the height and left-right motion of the quadcopter on the screen The joystick read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604493.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604493.shtml 2016-04-23 19:17:21 - Hackaday : Even the most die-hard Arduino fan boys have to admit that the Arduino development environment isn t the world s greatest text editor they d probably argue that its simplicity is its strength, but let s ignore that for now If you are used to using a real code editor, you ll probably switch to doing your Arduino coding in that and then use the external editor integration in the IDE That works pretty well, but there are other options One we noticed, PlatformIO, extends GitHub s Atom editor That makes it cross-platform, powerful, and with plenty of custom plug ins It also supports a range read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604488.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604488.shtml 2016-04-23 07:20:50 - Hackaday : You don t need an Arduino for everything Or do you This is an argument that plays out here quite often Whatever the outcome, most folks agree that once you ve dipped your feet in the shallow end of the pool, the real fun is when you dive into the deep end Mahesh Venkitachalam designed tinyDriver, an experimental Open Source breakout board for the Atmel ATtiny84 chip His idea was to create a convenient platform which can be used to understand microcontrollers in-depth, by letting users dive under the hood and make use of the various features of the chip such as read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604475.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604475.shtml 2016-04-22 01:19:02 - Hackaday : We first thought Alexis Ospitia s watch was a sports watch made with an Arduino, but it s actually a sporty watch made with an Arduino This explains the watch s strange ability to tell you the current temperature and humidity The core of the watch is an Arduino Mini To make it good for time telling, a real-time clock module was added A DHT11 monitors the temperature and humidity A charge circuit and lithium battery provide power Finally, the watch displays the date, time, and other data with an LCD from a Nokia 5110 We can tell you the last part that s read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604366.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604366.shtml 2016-04-19 01:00:27 - Hackaday : You might think that there could be no form factor that has not as yet had an Arduino fitted in to it This morning a new one came our way Johan Kanflo s AAduino is an Arduino clone with an onboard RF module that fits within the form factor of an AA battery Putting the Arduino inside its own battery pack makes a very neat and compact self-contained unit At the heart of the board is an ATmega328 clocked at 8MHz to reduce power consumption and fused to drop out at 17V The radio module is a HopeRF RFM69C which as read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604054.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/604054.shtml 2016-04-12 18:08:49 - Hackaday : Arduino is the perfect introduction to microcontrollers and electronics The recent trend of powerful, cheap, ARM-based single board Linux computers is the perfect introduction to computer science, programming, and general Linux wizardry Until now, though, Arduino and these tiny ARM computers have been in two different worlds Now, finally, there are nightly builds of Arduino IDE on the Raspberry Pi and other single board Linux computers The latest Arduino build for ARM Linux popped up on the arduinocc downloads page early this week This is the result of an incredible amount of work from dozens of open source developers across read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603538.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/603538.shtml 2016-03-31 22:08:21 - Hackaday : PJON, pronounced like the iridescent sky rats found in every city, is a cool one wire protocol designed by gioblu gioblu wasn t impressed with the complications of I2C He thought one-wire was too proprietary, too complicated, and its Arduino implementations did not impress What he really wanted was a protocol that could deal with a ton of noise and a weak signal in his home automation project with the smallest amount of wiring possible That s where is his, Padded Jittering Operative Network, comes in It can support up to 255 Arduinos on one bus and its error handling is apparently read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602586.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602586.shtml 2016-03-29 10:16:55 - Hackaday : Mass production is a wonderful thing Prices fall, and hobby hackers get cheap gear The mind then wanders towards what can be done with it So it s little wonder that someone like Aaron Christophel would try to repurpose those sub- 3 AVR programmers that are all over eBay translated poorly out of German here, but demonstrated in the video embedded below Aaron didn t have to do much, really The only trick is that you ll first need to re-flash the existing ISP firmware with one that lets you upload code to the device itself over USB If you don t have an Arduino read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602253.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602253.shtml 2016-03-27 19:17:50 - Hackaday : Back in the late 1970s, comedian Steve Martin had a bit about Let s get small Over on Hackadayio, Daniel Grießhaber , has taken that call to heart He s been working on DIL-Duino, a minuscule form factor Arduino in an 8-pin DIP format Built with an ATtiny85, the board has an area of just under 75 square millimeters less than 8 mm x 10 mm If you add the USB port, it still comes in at just over 144 square millimeters Daniel found other small Arduino boards like the Olimexino-85s and the Nanite are not as small as his design The module read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602144.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/602144.shtml 2016-03-22 09:21:09 - Hackaday : Soldering might look like a tempting and cheap alternative when building or repairing a battery pack, but the heat of the iron could damage the cell, and the resulting connection won t be as good as a weld Fortunately, though, a decent spot welder isn t that tough to build, as KaeptnBalu shows us with his Arduino-controlled battery spot welder When it comes to delivering the high currents necessary for spot welding, the Arduino Nano is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind But the need for a precisely controlled welding pulse makes the microcontroller a natural for this build, read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601677.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/601677.shtml 2016-03-09 10:21:51 - Hackaday : What would you get it you mashed up an FPGA and an Arduino An FPGA development board with far too few output pins Or a board in the form-factor of Arduino that s impossible to program Fortunately, the ICEZUM Alhambra looks like it s avoided these pitfalls, at least for the most part It s based on the Lattice iCE40 FPGA, which we ve covered previously a number of times because of its cheap development boards and open-source development flow Indeed, we were wondering what the BQ folks were up to when they were working on an easy-to-use GUI for the FPGA family Now read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600562.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600562.shtml 2016-03-07 04:23:09 - Hackaday : Ahh, sweet scope creep Usually it s the death of a nice, simple little hack But once in a hundred times, a small hack doesn t get buried under the extra features, but instead absorbs them in stride and blossoms into a beautiful system rockfishon s Arduino-powered wood stove controller is one of these beautiful exceptions OK, we d admit that it could use a fancier faceplate He started off simply enough, wanting to connect a thermocouple to an Arduino, read out the value, and issue an alarm when the temperature got too high But who could stop there Just one air-baffle servo away read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600310.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600310.shtml 2016-03-06 19:28:22 - Hackaday : What do you get when you combine a direct digital synthesis DDS chip, a power detector, and an Arduino Brett Killion did make that combination and wound up with a practical network analyzer The project uses an Analog Devices AD9851 DDS chip clocked at 180 MHz which will output a sine wave at any frequency from 0 Hz and 72 MHz A Butterworth low pass filter processes the DDS signal and then feeds a two-transistor amplifier The circuit will output about 0dBm into 50 ohms The power detector is an Analog Devices AD8307 along with a 50-ohm input load There read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600289.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600289.shtml 2016-03-05 01:10:17 - Hackaday : No longer content with adding value to the thermostat in the hallway or making your fridge smarter than it should be, IoT vendors are pushing into the inner sanctum of homes, the holy of holies the bathroom Sure, you can spend big bucks on an electronically controlled valve to turn your shower into a remote-controlled spa that shares your bathing habits with the cloud, but if you re on a more modest budget and have the hacker spirit, you might want to check out this DIY automated shower valve with IoT features When we last ran into TVMiller , he was read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600229.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600229.shtml 2016-03-04 22:09:59 - Hackaday : We ve never seen someone build a plotter out of buzzwords, but roxen did a really good job of it The idea is simple, place the plotter over a sheet of paper, open a website, draw, and watch the plotter go Check out the video below the break The user draws in an HTML5 Canvas object which is read by a Java Web Server From there it gets converted to serial commands for an Arduino which controls the steppers with two EasyDrivers The build itself is really nice It perfectly meets the mechanical requirements of a pen plotter without a lot read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600210.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600210.shtml 2016-03-04 16:12:02 - Hackaday : Hernando Barragán is the grandfather of Arduino of whom you ve never heard And after years now of being basically silent on the issue of attribution, he s decided to get some of his grudges off his chest and clear the air around Wiring and Arduino It s a long read, and at times a little bitter, but if you ve been following the development of the Arduino vs Arduino debacle, it s an important piece in the puzzle Wiring, in case you don t know, is where digitalWrite and company come from Maybe even more importantly, Wiring basically incubated the idea of building a microcontroller-based read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600182.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/600182.shtml 2016-02-23 07:06:10 - Hackaday : Before the NSA deletes this post, we ll be clear We re talking about a model of a nuclear reactor, not the real thing Using Legos, wgurecky built a point kinetic reactor model that interfaces with the reactor simulator, pyReactor Even without the Lego, the Python code demonstrates reactor control in several modes In power control mode, the user sets a power output, and the reactor attempts to maintain it In control rod mode, the user can adjust the position of the control rods and see the results If things get out of hand, there s a SCRAM button to shut the reactor read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599055.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599055.shtml 2016-02-23 04:08:25 - Hackaday : Snow skiing looks easy, right You just stay standing, and gravity does the work The reality is that skiing is difficult for beginners to learn 19mkarpawich loves to ski, but he was frustrated seeing crying kids on skis along with screaming parents trying to coach them Inspired by wearable electronics, he took an Arduino, an old jacket, some LEDs, and created Ski Buddy The brains in the jacket consist of an Adafruit Flora, accelerometer, and a battery pack Conductive thread connects to LED sequins The jacket can help teach linking turns, parallel skiing, hockey stops, and gradual pizza stopping In read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599052.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/599052.shtml 2016-01-27 07:31:40 - Hackaday : First-person-view FPV flying, by adding a camera, video transmitter, and video goggles to the meat on the ground, is one of the best ways to experience remote-controlled flight For just a few hundred dollars, it s the closest thing you re going to get to growing wings and flying through the trees of your local park One of the most popular and cheapest ways to go about this is the Boscam RX5808 wireless receiver a 9 module able to pull down video from an aircraft over 58GHz radio Stock, this radio module is just okay, but with a few modifications, it read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596584.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596584.shtml 2016-01-25 10:15:44 - Hackaday : JAC_101 , the Director of Legal Evil Emeritus for LVL1 Hackerspace don t ask me, it s their title system , was challenged to a hacking duel It all started years ago The person who is now president of LVL1, visited the space for the first time and brought with her a discarded Apple II controller for Lego bricks which had previously belonged to her father Excited to test it, the space found that, unfortunately, LVL1 s Apple II wouldn t boot An argument ensued, probably some trash talking, and JAC_101 left with the challenge Could he build an Arduino interface for the Apple II Lego read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596394.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/596394.shtml 2016-01-18 19:40:54 - Hackaday : It was Stardate 2267 A mysterious life form known as Redjac possessed the computer system of the USS Enterprise Being well versed in both computer operations and mathematics, Spock instructed the computer to compute pi to the last digit the value of pi is a transcendental figure without resolution he would say The task of computing pi presents to the computer an infinite process The computer would have to work on the task forever, eventually forcing the Redjac out Calculus relies on infinite processes And the Arduino is a single thread computer So the idea of running a read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595889.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/595889.shtml 2016-01-04 16:37:53 - Hackaday : Recently, we sat down with Federico Musto , CEO of Arduino SRL, for a chat about how the Italian Arduino firm was doing, what new products and projects they ve got in the hopper, and what they ve been up to for the last six months or so It was high time Boards ------ The big story from our meeting, that Federico actually hinted at before, is the release of the Uno WiFi How many projects have you seen on Hackaday that are based on an Arduino Uno with an ESP8266 WiFi module plugged into it A bazillion The Uno and ESP8266 are like read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594764.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594764.shtml 2016-01-03 07:14:29 - Hackaday : There are cheap LCDs available from China, and when plugged into an Arduino, these displays serve as useful interfaces or even shinier baubles for your latest project Michael picked up a few of these displays in the hope of putting a few animated GIFs on them This is an impossible task with an ATMega microcontroller the Arduino does not have the RAM or the processing power to play full-screen animations It is possible to display 3D vector graphics, with an updated graphics library Michael wrote The display in question uses the ILI9341 LCD driver, found in the Adafruit library, read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594691.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594691.shtml 2015-12-31 19:15:28 - Hackaday : The Arduino software environment, including the IDE, libraries, and general approach, are geared toward education It s meant as a way to introduce embedded development to newbies This is a great concept but it falls short when more serious development or more advanced education is required I keep wrestling with how to address this One way is by using Eclipse with the Arduino Plug-in That provides a professional development environment, at least The code base for the Arduino is another frustration Bluntly, the use of setup and loop with main being hidden really bugs me The mixture of C and C read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594614.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594614.shtml 2015-12-27 07:30:12 - Hackaday : Jordan Wills was tasked by his company, Silicon Labs, to build some Christmas Baubles to give away to co-workers While the commissioned units were designed to be simple battery and LED affairs, he decided to make one of his own with bells and whistles His Mario themed Christmas Ornament uses a Silicon Labs FM972 micro controller, capacitive sensing, PWM controlled 8 bit audio, and blinky lights The interesting part is some of the construction techniques that he used The finger-joint style cube is built from circuit boards Electrical connections between panels were routed using solder wicking copper braid That s a read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594242.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/594242.shtml 2015-12-19 04:16:38 - Hackaday : If you ve spent any time on a factory or plant floor, it is a good bet you ve run into PLCs Programmable Logic Controllers These are rugged computers that do simple control and monitoring functions, usually using ladder logic to set their programs plc4u wanted to connect a smart card reader to an Allen Bradley PLC, so he turned to an Arduino to act as a go-between The Arduino talks to a USB card reader using a USB host shield Then it communicates with the PLC using an RS232 link and the DF1 protocol that most Allen Bradley PLCs understand You read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593698.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593698.shtml 2015-12-15 01:25:18 - Hackaday : If you have a good sense of balance, you can ride a unicycle or get on TV doing tricks with ladders We don t know if Hanna Yatco has a good sense of balance or not, but we do know her Arduino does Her build uses the ubiquitous HC-SR04 SONAR sensor and a servo This is a great use for a servo since a standard servo motor without modifications only moves through part of a circle, and that s all that s needed for this project A PID algorithm measures the distance to the ball and raises or lowers a beam to try to read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593135.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/593135.shtml 2015-12-12 10:10:27 - Hackaday : Hackadayio user Abderraouf has written an implementation of the new ish Spritz cipher and hash for Arduino While we re not big enough crypto-nerds to assess the security of the code, it looks like it s going to be pretty handy Spritz itself is a neat cipher Instead of taking in fixed blocks of data and operating on them, it allows you to process it in almost whatever chunks it comes in naturally, and then extract out the encrypted results piecewise It works both as a two-way cipher and as a one-way hash function It looks like Spritz is a one-stop-shop for all read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/592964.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/592964.shtml 2015-12-02 01:34:00 - Hackaday : Just when we thought we d seen all the ways there are to tell time, along comes mr_fid s Berlin clock build It s based on an actual clock commissioned by the Senate of Berlin in the mid-1970s and erected on the famous Kurfürstendamm avenue in 1975 Twenty years later it was decommissioned and moved to stand outside the historic Europa-center This clock tells the time using set theory and 24-hour time From the top down the blinking yellow circle of light at the top indicates the passing seconds on for even seconds and off for odd The two rows of red blocks read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591775.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591775.shtml 2015-11-30 22:33:27 - Hackaday : Writing articles for Hackaday, we see funny projects, and we see dangerous projects It s rare to find a project which combines the two This one somehow manages to pull it off Outaspaceman is familiar with LittleBits, but he s just starting to learn Arduino programming He completed the blink tutorial, but blinking an LED just wasn t enough fanfare for the success of his first Arduino program He connected the Arduino Mega s LED output to a pair of LittleBits which then switch a servo between two positions A bare servo wouldn t be much fun, so Outaspaceman connected a tentacle and a small read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591608.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591608.shtml 2015-11-25 01:14:59 - Hacker Public Radio : Code for Pumpkin int ledPin1 5 int ledPin2 6 int motorPin 8 int lightPin 3 int lightVal int potPin 0 int potVal void setup Serialbegin 9600 pinMode ledPin1, OUTPUT pinMode ledPin2, OUTPUT pinMode motorPin, OUTPUT pinMode potPin, INPUT pinMode lightPin, INPUT digitalWrite ledPin1, LOW digitalWrite ledPin2, LOW digitalWrite motorPin, LOW void loop potVal analogRead potPin lightVal analogRead lightPin Serialprintln lightVal if lightVal potVal animate void animate digitalWrite ledPin1, HIGH digitalWrite ledPin2, HIGH digitalWrite motorPin, HIGH delay 100 digitalWrite ledPin1, LOW digitalWrite ledPin2, LOW digitalWrite motorPin, LOW http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591137.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/591137.shtml 2015-11-22 01:23:48 - Hackaday : Some things are better together me and my wife, peanut butter and jelly, and FPGAs and Arduino Unos Veteran hacker Valentin Angelovski seems to agree the FleaFPGA Uno is his latest creation that combines an FPGA a Lattice MachX02 700HC with an Arduino-compatible CPU It s a step-up model from the origional FleaFPGA With a few other components thrown in such as a HDMI and composite video output and a WiFi option , you have a killer combination for experimenting with FPGAs or building an embedded system That is because the Arduino part frees the FleaFPGA Uno from the breadboard you can read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590781.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590781.shtml 2015-11-21 10:08:13 - Hackaday : Who can resist video games when they re packed up in tiny, tiny little arcade machines Ken s hoping that you cannot, because he s making a cute, miniature Arduino-based arcade game platform on Kickstarter Obligatory Kickstarter promo video below the break The arcades are based on Ken s TinyCircuits Arduino platform a surprisingly broad range of Arduino modules that click together using small snap connectors in place of pin headers The system is cool enough in its own right, and it appears to be entirely open source Housing these bits in a cute arcade box and providing working game code to go read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590755.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/590755.shtml 2015-11-11 13:36:10 - Hackaday : If you haven t been paying attention, big wheel trikes are a thing There are motor driven versions as well as OG pedal pushing types Flux Axium is of the OG you only get one link, now its on you flavor and has written an instructable that shows how to achieve some nice looking on screen data that he syncs up with the video for a professional looking finished product which you can see in the video after the break Flux Axium is using an Arduino Mega in his setup along with a cornucopia of sensors and all their data read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589755.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/589755.shtml 2015-11-02 09:03:31 - Hackaday : Getting a magnetic field to balance on another magnetic field is about as easy as balancing a bowling ball on the tip of an ink pen With a little help from an Arduino mega, however, EmmaSong was able to balance a high density neodymium magnet in midair He pull off this tricky project using a set of four coils he got off of Taobao the Chinese version of eBay , a hall effect sensor, and a handful of current regulation ICs The coils can be made in house if necessary, with each winding getting about 800 turns of enameled wire The read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588698.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588698.shtml 2015-10-30 18:16:09 - Hackaday : As we work on projects we re frequently upgrading our tools That basic soldering iron gives way to one with temperature control The introductory 3D printer yields to one faster and more capable One reason for this is we don t really understand the restrictions of the introductory level tools Sometimes we realize this directly when the tool fails in a task Other times we see another hacker using a better tool and realize we must have one The same occurs with software tools The Arduino IDE is a nice tool for starting out It is easy to use which is read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588558.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/588558.shtml 2015-10-24 16:24:57 - Hackaday : Bringing women into technical education at times seems to be an insurmountable challenge As a counter, a small drawing robot created by MakersBox might help The robot was used in a ChickTech workshop for teen girls The goals for the robot were to have an easy to build, easy to program robot that did something interesting, and was also low-cost so the workshop participants could take it home and continue to learn These requirements led MakersBox to the Adafruit Pro Trinket 3V, stepper motors for accuracy, and a 3d printed chassis to allow for customization Another version of the Arduino read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587847.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587847.shtml 2015-10-23 01:28:43 - Hackaday : The Leap Motion controller is a rather impressive little sensor bar that is capable of generating a massive 3D point cloud and recognizing hands and fingers to allow for gesture control based computing It s been out for a few years now but we haven t seen many hackers playing with it Anwaarullah has messed around with it before, but when it came time to submit something for India s first Maker Faire, he decided to try doing an actual project with it Checking out the latest Leap Motion SDK, Anwaarullah realized many improvements had been made and he d have to rewrite some read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587701.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587701.shtml 2015-10-22 13:33:06 - Hackaday : Maker Faire Rome is over, and that means it s time for the Arduino media blitz Arduino has already had a big announcement this week with the introduction of the Arduino Genuino 101 board powered by the Intel Curie module Team cc hasn t forgotten all their Atmel-powered boards though The latest news is that Arduinos will be manufactured in Germany by Watterott Electronics de, Google Translate Right now, Arduinocc boards are manufactured in China by Seeed, and in the US by Adafruit and Sparkfun Watterott Electronics is one of the premier hobby electronics distributors in Germany Boards made by Watterott read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587625.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587625.shtml 2015-10-22 04:12:55 - Hackaday : Range finders are amazing tools for doing pretty much anything involving distance calculations Want to blink some lights when people are nearby There s a rangefinder for that Need to tell how far away the next peak of a mountain range is There s a rangefinder for that But if you re new to range finders and want one that s hackable and configurable, look no further than the SF02 F rangefinder with the Arduino shield, and Laser Developer s dive into what this pair can do Once the rangefinder and shield have been paired is when the magic really starts to happen Using USB, the read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587582.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587582.shtml 2015-10-20 19:15:38 - Hackaday : For over ten years, Arduino has held onto its popularity as that small dev-board aimed to get both artists and electronics enthusiasts excited about physical computing Along the way, it s found a corner in college courses, one-off burning man rigs, and countless projects that have landed here Without a doubt, the Arduino has a cushy home among hobbyists, but it also lives elsewhere Arduino lives in engineering design labs as consumer products move from feature iterations into user testing It s in the chem labs when scientists need to get some sensor data into their pc in a pinch Despite the read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587413.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/587413.shtml 2015-10-16 12:31:23 - Hackaday : This week, Intel and Arduino are releasing their first product pushed directly on the education market, the Arduino Genuino 101 board powered by the Intel Curie module The Intel Curie Module The Arduino Genuino 101 is the first development platform for the Intel Curie modules which are a recent development from Intel s Maker and Innovator group The button-sized Curie is a single package encapsulating microcontroller, Bluetooth, a 6-DOF IMU, and battery charging circuitry the requisite hardware for anything marketed as a wearable The Curie s brain is a 32-bit Intel Quark microcontroller with 384kB of Flash 80kB SRAM, giving it about the same read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586954.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586954.shtml 2015-10-16 02:15:23 - Hacker Public Radio : Klaatu talks about the HC-05 and -06 series of bluetooth modules and how to use them with an Arduino, including some basic code on the Arduino to get it to respond to signals over bluetooth, and some basic PyQt code on how to send signals to the bluetooth device PLUS, he talks about configuring the bluetooth so that it is connected to the serial port of your system so that Python can use it A super basic bluetooth controller app can be found here https gitlabcom makerbox rovcon it's Klaatu's code, and it's not quite finished, so if you have improvements or questions, feel free to comment or merge or email http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586918.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586918.shtml 2015-10-11 01:06:17 - Hackaday : In the old days, a serial port often connected to an acoustic coupler that gripped a phone handset and allowed a remote connection to a far away serial port via another phone and acoustic coupler at a blistering 300 baud or less The acoustic coupler would do the job of converting serial data to audio and reconstituting it after its trip through the phone lines Modems advanced, but have mostly given way to DSL, Cable, Fiber, and other high speed networking options In a decidedly retro move, James Halliday and jerky put a modern spin on that old idea They read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586335.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586335.shtml 2015-10-10 04:08:49 - Hackaday : Halloween is just around the corner, and the spooky themed tips are just starting to roll in If you re looking to one-up the basic store-bought decorations, and maybe teach your kid the basics of an Arduino while you re at it why not build a Peek-A-Boo Ghost Using an Arduino, two servo motors and an ultrasonic distance sensor it s pretty easy to make this cute little ghost that covers its eyes when no one is around They re using cardboard for the ghost, but if you have access to a laser cutter at your hackerspace, you could make it a lot read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586300.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/586300.shtml 2015-10-07 10:14:51 - Hackaday : Making someone a birthday cake is very thoughtful, but not if they are watching their weight MrFox found a way around that an Arduino-powered birthday cake Even if you don t mind the calories, an Arduino cake is a novelty and sure to be a hit with a hacker who s another year older The cake uses a UTFT LCD shield which eats up a lot of pins and memory, so the project uses an Arduino Mega A speaker plays the happy birthday song which may even be legal now while a microphone detects the birthday boy or girl blowing out the read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585924.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585924.shtml 2015-10-02 07:04:25 - Hackaday : Announced at the 2014 Maker Faire in New York, the latest Arduino WiFi shield is finally available This shield replaces the old Arduino WiFi shield, while providing a few neat features that will come in very handy for the yet-to-be-developed Internet of Things While the WiFi Shield 101 was announced a year ago, the feature set was interesting The new WiFi shield supports 80211n, and thanks to a few of Atmel s crypto chip offerings, this shield is the first official Arduino offering to support SSL The new Arduino WiFi Shield 101 features an Atmel ATWINC1500 module for 80211 b g n WiFi read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585450.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585450.shtml 2015-10-01 16:30:11 - Hackaday : Hardware and software combined, Arduino does many things right It lowers the entry level into embedded systems development with a nifty hardware abstraction layer It aims for cross-platform compatibility by supporting Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux operation systems It throws out the need for an external programmer to get you up-and-blinkin those LEDs quickly One thing most of us never cease to curse about, though, is the IDE Many have cried out wildly against the Java-based text-editor for its cryptic compiling-and-linking process, its inability to accommodate bare C or C source files, and shh its lack of Vim keybindings read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585381.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/585381.shtml 2015-09-25 01:13:00 - Hackaday : You may wonder why anyone would want to learn Morse code You don t need it for a ham license anymore There are, however, at least three reasons you might want to learn it anyway First, some people actually enjoy it either for the nostalgia or the challenge of it After all, Another reason is that Morse code can often get through when other human-readable schemes fail Morse code can be sent using low power, equipment built from simple materials or even using mirrors or flashlights Finally, Morse code is a very simple way to do covert communications If you read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/584629.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/584629.shtml 2015-09-17 17:54:34 - Hackaday : Making retro video games on today s micro controllers brings many challenges, especially when using only the micro controller itself to handle the entire experience Complex graphics, sound, game logic and input is taxing enough on the small chips, toss in NTSC color graphics and you have a whole different bear on your hands rossum set out making the Arduinocade retro game system using an overclocked Arduino Uno, and not much more Supporting 4 voice sound and IR game controllers, the system also boasts 27 simultaneous colors all in software These colors and the resolution feel like they re impossible without a read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583866.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583866.shtml 2015-09-14 04:09:42 - Hackaday : jmilldrum really gets a lot of use out of his Si5351A breakout board He s a ham NT7S , and the Si5351A can generate multiple square waves ranging from 8 kHz to 160 MHz, so it only stands to reason that it is going to be a useful tool for any RF hacker His most recent exploit is to use the I2C-controllable chip to implement a Fast Simple QSO FSQ beacon with an Arduino FSQ is a relatively new digital mode that uses a form of low rate FSK to send text and images in a way that is robust under difficult read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583375.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/583375.shtml 2015-09-09 04:37:12 - Hackaday : GPS is a global technology these days, with the Russian GLONASS system and the forthcoming European Galileo orbiting alongside the original US GPS satellites above our heads Florin Duroiu decided to embrace globalism by forking the TinyGPS library for the Arduino platform to add support for these satellite constellations In addition to the GLONASS support, the new version of the venerable TinyGPS adds some neat new features by incorporating the NEMA 30 standard warning big-ass PDF link Using this, you can extract interesting stuff such as the calculated position from each satellite constellation, the signal strength of each satellite and read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582780.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582780.shtml 2015-09-05 22:15:09 - Hackaday : When Doug moved into his new house, he found an old alarm panel set up but it had no monitoring service any more Not wanting to pay a monthly fee to have it setup, he decided to try interfacing an Arduino with the system in order to push events to the net The cool thing is he was actually inspired by another similar project we shared on Hackaday a few years ago entitled Bending a Home Security Control Panel to Your Will But that project only showed you how to interface the Arduino with the keypad Doug went read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582533.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/582533.shtml 2015-09-01 10:24:25 - Hackaday : If you want video support on your project, you might start from a device like a Raspberry Pi that comes with it built in Kevinhub88 doesn t accept such compromises, so he and his Black Mesa Labs have come up with a whole new way to add video support to devices like the Arduino and other cheap controllers This project is called Mesa-Video, and it can add digital video at a resolution of up to 800 by 600 pixels to any device that has a single serial output The video is created by an FT813, a low cost GPU from FTDI read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581998.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581998.shtml 2015-08-27 19:04:45 - Hackaday : Microcontrollers existed before the Arduino, and a device that anyone could program and blink an LED existed before the first Maker Faire This might come as a surprise to some, but for others PICs and 68HC11s will remain as the first popular microcontrollers, found in everything from toys to microwave ovens Arduino can t even claim its prominence as the first user-friendly microcontroller development board This title goes to the humble Basic Stamp, a four-component board that was introduced in the early 1990s I recently managed to get my hands on an original Basic Stamp kit This is the teardown and read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581635.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/581635.shtml 2015-08-17 13:38:08 - Hackaday : A lot of designers have the luxury of creating things that aren t supposed to explode That s usually easy The trick is designing things that are supposed to explode and then making absolutely sure they explode at the right time and only the right time JonBush recently did a beautiful build of an Arduino-based fireworks controller Seriously, it looks like a movie prop from a summer blockbuster where Bruce Willis is trying to decide what wire to cut Jon used a mega 2560 because he wanted to do the I O directly from the device His code only takes about 8K of read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580404.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580404.shtml 2015-08-16 16:35:24 - Hackaday : George Dewar and his wife live in a typical 1940 s house in New Zealand , which in case you didn t know, have a little insulation in the ceiling and nowhere else Like most, they put up with the cold but after having a baby, George decided it was time to start controlling the heat a bit better They have an electric oil radiator which works well, but isn t very smart It only has 6 settings not very useful when you re trying to stay at a certain temperature First off, they looked into a plug-in thermostat controller, and found read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580366.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580366.shtml 2015-08-15 13:02:25 - Hackaday : We ve all likely watched an episode of Star Trek and admired the level of integration on the sick bay diagnostic bed With its suite of wireless sensors and flat panel display, even the 1960s imagining of the future blows away the decidedly wired experience of a modern day ICU stay But we may be getting closer to Dr McCoy s experience with this radar-based respiration detector Øyvind s build, which takes the origin of the term breadboard to heart, is based on a not-inexpensive Xethru module, which appears to be purpose-built for detecting respiration The extra-thick PC board seems to house the read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580276.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580276.shtml 2015-08-13 13:07:05 - Hackaday : You know that guy in the next cube is sneaking in when you are away and swiping packs of astronaut ice cream out of your desk Thanks to Kevin Thomas , if you have an Arduino and a 3D printer, you can build a rubber band sentry gun to protect your geeky comestibles You ll also need some metric hardware, an Arduino Uno, and a handful of servo motors The video shows Kevin manually aiming the gun, but the software can operate the gun autonomously, if you add some sensors to the hardware The build details are a bit sparse, but there read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580067.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/580067.shtml 2015-08-11 04:34:11 - Hackaday : There are many different ways to keep your plants watered on a schedule Luca Dentella just created a new one by building the irrighino watering system He used standard off the shelf, hardware to keep it simple Irrighino is a complete watering system based on the Arduino Yun, featuring a user friendly AJAX interface This allows scheduling in a manner similar to creating appointments in Outlook It s also possible to manually control the various water solenoids The code is fully customizable and open source, with code available from Luca s github repository The web interface is divided in to three tabs read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579795.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579795.shtml 2015-08-10 10:03:20 - Hackaday : The well-dressed hacker Sean Hodgins has put together a neat little project a battery powered remote shutter He built it for use with Beme, the latest Snapchat clone that all of the cool kids are now using This service is designed to get away from the selfie culture by starting to record when you hold your phone against your chest, so you are looking at the thing being recorded, not your phone Sean wanted a bit more control than that, so he built a remote control that starts the recording by moving the servo arm over the proximity sensor He read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579699.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579699.shtml 2015-08-07 07:16:23 - Hackaday : Half of our little corner of the Internet complains about the Arduino, how the pin headers of the Arduino standard don t make any sense, how the Arduino IDE is rubbish, gives well-reasoned arguments why the Arduino language is hindering the next generation of embedded programmers, and laments the fact that everything is commoditized into Arduino-compatible packages The other half of our little corner of the Internet uses Microchip PICs Jarrett is stubborn, and he wants to use a PIC with the distinctive Arduino pin layout Thus was born PIC-On-The-Go It s a PIC18F4520 in the familiar goofy-pin package, made specifically for read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579563.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579563.shtml 2015-08-07 04:31:21 - Hackaday : Stef Cohen decided to combine three different artistic mediums for her latest project Those are painting, electronics, and software The end goal was to recreate the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, in a painting The first step was to make the painting Stef began with a shadow box A shadow box is sort of like a picture frame that is extra deep A snowy scene was painted directly onto the front side of the glass plate of the shadow box using acrylic paint Stef painted the white, snowy ground along with some pine trees The sky was read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579561.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579561.shtml 2015-08-06 22:35:11 - Hackaday : If you are a hacker, you might consider ham radio operators as innovative Most people, however, just see them as cheap So it is no surprise that hams like jmharvey will build an antenna analyzer from a DDS module and an Arduino instead of dropping a few hundred dollars on a commercial unit As he points out, you probably only need an analyzer for a day or two while you set up an antenna Unless you are a big time antenna builder, the unit will then sit idle on the shelf or will wind up on loan to hams even read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579542.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/579542.shtml 2015-07-28 19:20:58 - Hackaday : This installment of Embed with Elliot begins with a crazy rant If you want to read the next couple of paragraphs out loud to yourself with something like an American-accented Dave-Jones-of-EEVBlog whine, it probably won t hurt Because, for all the good Arduino has done for the Hackaday audience, there s two aspects that really get our goat Rant-mode on First off is the sketch thing Listen up, Arduino people, you re not writing sketches It s code You re not sketching, you re coding, even if you re an artist If you continue to call C code a sketch , we get to refer to read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578618.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578618.shtml 2015-07-28 04:35:29 - Hackaday : Forget all of this video game nonsense pinball is the real king of gaming After all, it involves large pieces of metal flying around at high speed retronics agrees he has resurrected an old Briarwood Aspen pinball table using an Arduino When he bought the table, he found that the electronics had been fried many of the discrete components on the board had been burnt out So, rather than replace the individual parts, he gutted the table and replaced the logic board with an Arduino Mega that drives the flippers, display and chimes that make pinball the delightful experience it read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578538.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578538.shtml 2015-07-25 01:07:02 - Hackaday : How long can you keep an Arduino circuit running on three AA batteries With careful design, educ8s built a temperature sensor that lasts well over a year on a single charge of three 2250 mAH rechargeable cells or, at least, should last that long Like most long-life designs, this temperature sensor spends most of its time sleeping The design uses a DS18B20 temperature sensor and a Nokia 5110 LCD display It also uses a photoresistor to shut off the LCD display in the dark for further power savings During sleep, the device only draws 260 microamps with the display on read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578336.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578336.shtml 2015-07-24 13:13:13 - Hackaday : It is almost impossible these days to find a PC with old ISA card slots Full size PCI card slots are in danger of going the same way Many PCs today feature PCI Express connectors PCI Express offers a lot of advantages including a small size, lower pin count, and a point-to-point serial bus topology that allows multiple simultaneous transfers between different pairs of end points You ll find PC Express connectors in things other than PCs too, including a lot of larger embedded systems If you ever wanted to prototype something on PCI Express, you d usually turn to an FPGA read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578247.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578247.shtml 2015-07-23 16:03:40 - Hackaday : Recently we had the opportunity to sit down and interview Arduino SRL s CEO, Federico Musto , over a nice dinner His company is one half of the Arduino vs Arduino debacle which has pitted Arduinocc against Arduinoorg in a battle over the trademark on Arduino Given the tremendous amount of press coverage of Massimo Banzi and the Arduino LLC side of the story Arduinocc , we were very interested in hearing how the whole situation looks where Frederico Musto sit Arduinoorg In the end, we came away with what we feel is a more balanced and complete picture of the situation, as read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578132.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/578132.shtml 2015-07-20 07:16:28 - Hackaday : The last few years have seen an incredible increase in the marketing for home automation devices Why this tech is just picking up now is something we ll never understand home automation systems have been around for decades, mostly in the form of security systems For his Hackaday Prize entry, IngGaro is building an Arduino-based security system that does everything you would expect from a home automation system, from closing the shutters to temperature monitoring IngGaro s system is built around a shield for an Arduino Mega This shield includes connections to an alarm system, a GSM modem, temperature and humidity read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577621.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577621.shtml 2015-07-18 10:18:23 - Hackaday : With all of the cool features on the Raspberry Pi, it is somewhat notable that it lacks a power button In a simple setup, the only way to cut power to the tiny computer is to physically remove the power cord Dalton63841 found that this was below his wife s tolerance level for electronics, and built a simple remote control for his Raspberry Pi Dalton63841 started this project by trying to use the UART TX pin, but this turned out to be a dead-end He decided instead to use an Arduino to monitor the 33V power rail on the Pi When read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577539.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577539.shtml 2015-07-15 19:10:33 - Hackaday : Speak with those who consider themselves hardcore engineers and you might hear Arduinos are for noobs or some other similar nonsense These naysayers see the platform as a simplified, overpriced, and over-hyped tool that lets you blink a few LEDs or maybe even read a sensor or two They might say that Arduino is great for high school projects and EE wannabes tinkering in their garage, but REAL engineering is done with ARM, x86 or PICs Guess what There are Arduino compatible boards built around all three of those architectures Below you can see but three examples in the DUE, read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577212.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/577212.shtml 2015-07-14 04:15:45 - Hackaday : Anybody can grab a USB TV tuner card and start monitoring the airwaves, but to get into the real meat of radio you ll need your amateur radio license Once you have that, the bandwidth really opens up if you can afford the equipment However, spaceneedle and friends have dramatically lowered the costs while increasing the possibilities of owning a radio by creating this ham radio shield for the Arduino The HamShield, is a versatile shield for any standard Arduino that allows it to function like an off-the-shelf radio would, but with a virtually unlimited number of functions Anything that could read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576946.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576946.shtml 2015-07-07 22:19:28 - Hackaday : I caught up with Massimo Banzi at the Shenzhen Maker Faire to talk about manufacturing in China, the current and future of Arduino, and how recent events may shape the Open Hardware landscape The big news from Arduino at SZMF is a new partnership with Seeed Studio to manufacture theGenuino This is an official Arduino board manufactured in China for the Chinese market Knowing that the board is official and connected to the founders is key point to get makers to adopt this hardware Massimo makes a good point about the ideal of Proudly Made in China which I could read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576412.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576412.shtml 2015-07-06 19:11:45 - Hackaday : What s the fastest keyboard Few subjects are as divisive in the geek community Clicky or squishy QWERTY or Dvorak Old-school IBM or Microsoft Natural The answer none of the above The fastest normal-keyboard typists Dvorak or Qwerty can get around 220 words per minute wpm in bursts That sounds fast, and it s a lot faster than we type, but that s still below the minimum speed allowable for certified court reporters or closed captioners The fastest court reporters clock in around 350 to 375 wpm for testimony But they do this by cheating using a stenotype machine We ll talk more read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576304.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576304.shtml 2015-07-03 16:10:35 - Hackaday : In this post on the Arduinocc forums and this blog post, Majek announced that he had fooled the AVR microcontroller inside and Arduino into writing user data into its own flash memory during runtime Wow Majek has pulled off a very neat hack here Normally, an AVR microcontroller can t write to its own flash memory except when it s in bootloader mode, and you re stuck using EEPROM when you want to save non-volatile data But EEPROM is scarce, relative to flash Now, under normal circumstances, writing into the flash program memory can get you into trouble Indeed, the AVR has protections read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576138.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576138.shtml 2015-07-02 10:25:08 - Hackaday : You can t put new wine in old bottles so the saying goes But you would if you re a hacker stuck with a radio built in 2005, which looked like it was put together using technology from 1975 Marcus Jenkins did just that, pulling out the innards from his old radio and converting it to an Arduino FM radio His cheap, mains powered radio was pretty bad at tuning It had trouble locating stations, and tended to drift One look at the insides, and it was obvious that it was not well engineered at all, so any attempts at fixing read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576018.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/576018.shtml 2015-06-29 07:26:53 - Hackaday : About a year ago, Intel announced they d be launching a new platform stuffed into an SD card Imagine an entire computer packaged into an SD card, with nine whole pins for power and I O Cooler heads prevailed, the Intel Edison was launched, but the idea stuck why can t you fit an Arduino in an SD card kodera2t found out there s no real reason why you can t put a small microcontroller inside an SD card For his Hackaday Prize entry, he created the SDuino, and it s exactly what it says on the tin an ATMega328p stuffed into a microSD adapter read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575702.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/575702.shtml 2015-06-11 10:07:30 - Hackaday : Now that summer is coming, it s time to break out the Air Conditioners There are some old AC units out there that still work just fine, but nowadays we are used to everything being remotely controlled and automatic Phil had an old window-mounted AC unit that still worked but was installed in a not-so-convenient place To access the AC s controls, one would have to climb over a large desk This is a perfect opportunity to use the plethora of widely available hobby electronics to make an automatic AC controller retrofit First things first, there needs to be a way to read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573682.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/573682.shtml 2015-06-04 01:49:55 - Hak5 Xvid Large : Freeing yourself from Google, installing open source friendica plugins, getting the most from your 4 tb hard drive, and building art with arduinos All that and more this time on Hak5 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572952.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572952.shtml 2015-05-28 04:24:20 - Hackaday : A pretty color LCD screen, an Arduino, a buzzer and a joystick is all you need for a minimalist gaming console for under 20 At least, that s all João Vilaça needed to get this sweet version of Tetris up and running He s working on Breakout right now It s a testament to the current state of the hardware hacking scene that João could put this device together in an afternoon for so cheap, presumably after waiting a while for shipments from China The 320 240 SPI color TFT LCD screen used to cost twice as much as this whole project did And read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572185.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572185.shtml 2015-05-27 11:17:57 - EEVblog The Electronics Engineering Video Blog : A reddit user asks what is the point in learning basic electronics these days when you can do everything with off the shelf modules and boards like Arduinos and the like They make it super easy to build stuff, so why does anyone need any knowledge of basic electronics any more Forum HERE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572072.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/572072.shtml 2015-05-24 07:21:01 - Hackaday : Imagine you re building a small solar installation The naive solution would be grabbing a solar panel from Horror Freight, getting a car battery and AC inverter, and hoping everything works This is the dumb solution To get the most out of a solar you need to match the voltage of the solar cell to the voltage of the battery How do you do that With Debasish s entry for The Hackaday Prize, an Arduino MPPT Solar Charge Controller This Maximum Power Point Tracker uses a buck converter to step down the voltage from the solar cell to the voltage of the read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571793.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571793.shtml 2015-05-22 22:23:03 - Hackaday : We ve been trying to not pick favorites in the Arduino controversy, or at least remain open-minded to both sides of the story Some businesses, on the other hand, are clearly aligning themselves Full text of e-mail below Reader Francisco Zabala , from cool robot-supplies store Acrobotic, got this e-mail from an Amazon distributor where he purchased some Arduinos ages ago and was angered enough at the brazen tone to drop us a line --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for our Arduino purchase from our Amazoncom store We truly appreciate your business We are writing to let you know about an important change in Arduino read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571731.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571731.shtml 2015-05-22 01:06:43 - Hackaday : The Nokia 3100 is a classic in the circles we frequent The LCD in this phone is a very cheap and very common display, and it was one of the most popular phones since the phone from Bell, making it a very popular source of cool components Now everything is an Internet of Thing, and cellular data for microcontroller projects is all the rage Charles thought it would be interesting to use the famous Nokia 3100 to transmit and receive data After battling with some weird connectors, he succeeded The Nokia 3100 doesn t have a USB connector, as this phone read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571594.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571594.shtml 2015-05-21 16:01:14 - Hackaday : While most of us here at Hack a Day can t live without our daily java, we do understand and respect the tea drinking hackers out there, like Brian McEvoy the 24 Hour Engineer Like any self-respecting hacker, Brian seeks to improve the efficiency of day-to-day tasks in order to spend his time on things that really matter so he decided to automate his tea cup He s 3D printed a small tea-bagging mechanism that a little RC servo motor can actuate, which allows him to control the amount of time a tea bag spends steeping in his mug Another 3D read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571531.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571531.shtml 2015-05-18 13:33:35 - Hackaday : The apparent lull on the Arduino front the last few weeks was just the calm before the storm that is the Bay Area Maker Faire BAMF Both companies claiming the Arduino name were there over the weekend, with news and new products in tow Ironically, you could see from one booth straight over to the other Small world Perhaps the biggest news from Arduino LLC is that hacker-friendly Adafruit is now going to be making officially-licensed boards in the US Competing with this news, Arduino SRL brought its new boards, including the Yun Mini and ARM-powered Arduino M0 And Massimo read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571052.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/571052.shtml 2015-05-14 13:09:04 - Hackaday : Arduinos They re a great tool that make the world of microcontrollers pretty easy, and in cptlolalot s case, they also give us an alternative to buying expensive, proprietary parts cptlolalot needed a gauge for an expensive vacuum pump, and rather than buying an expensive part, built a circuit around an Arduino to monitor the vacuum This project goes a little beyond simple Arduino programming though A 12V to 5V power supply drives the device, which is laid out on a blank PCB The display fits snugly over the circuit which reduces the footprint of the project, and the entire thing is read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570699.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570699.shtml 2015-05-13 19:05:29 - Hackaday : Version 164 of the Arduino IDE has been out for a little while now, and it has a couple of notable changes To our eyes, the most interesting change makes adding support for non-standard boards and their configurations within the Arduino IDE a lot simpler We ll get into details below But before that, it s time to bid farewell to the cheeky little popup window that would deliver a warning message when using a board bearing the USB IDs of their former-partner-turned-competitor We absolutely agree with Massimo that the issues between Arduino SRL Smart Projects and Arduino LLC are well-enough read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570613.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570613.shtml 2015-05-07 19:29:46 - Hackaday : If you like to cook or bake, you probably don t measure everything out in little bowls and ramekins before you start Well,unless you also happen to like doing dishes Even so, there are a lot of measuring spoons and -cups that end up getting dirty in the process But what if you had a measuring machine to dole out spices and low-viscosity liquids in specific quantities for you enddev s creation is based around an Arduino Mega, and the interface is three buttons and an LCD The user selects between liquid and powder, followed by the desired measurement If liquid is read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570076.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/570076.shtml 2015-04-23 10:05:29 - Hackaday : About two and half years ago, the Google Books team open-sourced the plans for their book scanning rig, and there was much rejoicing As Dany Qumsiyeh explained in the Google Tech talk we linked to at the time, the scanner uses a vacuum to lift the next page from the stack and turn it, saving hours of human labor and, admittedly, putting books in a little bit of danger Chris tipped us off about a different take on the linear book scanner created by Forssa1 that uses server fan to turn the pages Forssa1 s rig is built from laser-cut acrylic read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568436.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/568436.shtml 2015-04-20 04:12:23 - Hackaday : Our friends over at Adafruit just made an interesting suggestion regarding the Arduino vs Arduino saga They noticed that the packaging for the Arduino UNO includes a pamphlet that states Manufactured under license from Arduino by SMART PROJECTS Srl Wow That s pretty interesting Smart Projects is the former name of Arduino SRL If you missed it, go back and read some of our previous coverage Specifically, Arduino SRL is claiming to be the real trademark holder and has gone as far as forking the Arduino IDE and upping the version number in what appears to be an attempt to direct read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567851.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567851.shtml 2015-04-16 07:04:25 - Hackaday : Over the last few months, the internal struggles between the various founders of Arduino have come to a head This began last November when Arduino SRL the Italian version of an LLC sued Arduino LLC for trademark infringement in Massachusetts District court To assuage the hearts and minds of the maker community, Arduino SRL said they were the real Arduino by virtue of being the first ones to manufacture Arduino boards A fork of the Arduino IDE by Arduino SRL simply an update to the version number was a ploy to further cement their position as the true read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567570.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/567570.shtml 2015-04-08 19:22:10 - Hackaday : April Fools Day may have passed, but we really had to check the calendar on this hack Damian Peckett has implemented an Apple , its 6502 processor, and a cassette port, all on an Arduino Uno If that wasn t enough, he also uses a PS 2 keyboard for input and outputs analog VGA Damian is doing all this with very few additional components A couple of resistors, a capacitor and some very clever hacking were all Damian needed to convince an Arduino Uno that it was an Apple Making all this work boiled down to a case of resource management The read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566565.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566565.shtml 2015-04-07 01:24:13 - Hackaday : As if it weren t confusing enough in the Arduino world these days, now we re going to have to deal with conflicting version numbers for the IDE Yup, it s been forked Arduino LLC is offering a recently-updated version 163 at arduinocc, but Arduino SRL has bumped up the version number to 170 at arduinoorg The conflict in naming and versioning has not gone unnoticed For those of you who ve been living under a rock lately, the company that developed the Arduino Arduino LLC and the company that s been manufacturing most of the hardware Smart Projects SRL, now Arduino SRL have stopped read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566251.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/566251.shtml 2015-04-03 09:28:09 - SecurityTube.Net : You've probably heard lots about Arduino But if you don't know what it is, or how you can use it to do all sorts of cool things, then this fun and easy workshop is for you As an example project, we'll be creating a TV-B-Gone remote control out of an Arduino you can take home with you For More Information https balcconorg https twittercom maltman23 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565914.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565914.shtml 2015-03-31 07:00:28 - Hackaday : The game of Chinese Whispers or Telephone involves telling one person a sentence, having that person tell another person the same sentence, and continuing on until purple monkey dishwasher For this year s Arduino Day, Mastro was hanging out at Crunchlab with a bunch of Arduinos What do you do with a bunch of Arduinos Telephone with software serial The setup for this game is extremely simple have one Arduino act as the master, listening for bits on the hardware serial port This Arduino then sends those bits down a chain of Arduinos over the software serial port until it read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565446.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565446.shtml 2015-03-29 04:21:04 - Hackaday : Despite a wealth of tutorials for setting up and writing code for the ESP8266 WiFi module, there has not been much of anything on programming this cheap wireless module with the Arduino IDE Finally, this has changed After many months of coding, the Arduino IDE supports the ESP8266 module The Arduino IDE support was announced on the ESP8266 community forum Setup is fairly simple with downloads for Linux, OS X, and Windows This isn t an ESP8266 shield, either you can write code for the ESP module, connect the serial pins, and hit the program button The basic functions of the read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565209.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565209.shtml 2015-03-28 21:55:58 - Hackaday : Arduino SRL formerly known as Smart Projects SRL sent out a letter to its distribution partners yesterday If you ve been following along with the Arduino vs Arduino story we ve previously published two installments , the content isn t entirely surprising it s essentially a tactical move to reassure their distribution channels that Arduino SRL is the One True Arduino That said, there s still some new tidbits buried inside You can skip down to read the full text below, but here s our take The Business History of Arduino ------------------------------- A quick summary of the legal situation Arduino LLC was formed in April 2008 by the read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565195.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/565195.shtml 2015-03-25 07:42:05 - Hak5 Xvid Large : Analyzing WiFi Packet Captures with the power of SQL using a new free tool from Security Tube Plus, pollution monitoring using an Arduino Shannon reports All that and more, this time on Hak5 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564712.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/564712.shtml 2015-03-16 21:00:50 - Hackaday : Guido was recently commissioned to build a kinetic sculpture for a client who wanted something unique What he came up with is really awesome It s called ORBIS The Wooden Kinetic Lighting Sculpture It mounts to the wall and provides a focal point for the room a bright flashy spinning one at that Does it just stay there and do random things Nope, of course not Guido built it with a unique control box, two Arduino 2560 s and an Xbee to communicate between them He was told to design it using old and new technologies so he s got a read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563645.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563645.shtml 2015-03-12 22:45:04 - Slashdot Your Rights Online : szczys writes Arduino is a household name in hobby electronics But now there are two companies calling themselves Arduino and as you've probably guessed this is going to play out in the courts How can this be One company started the Arduino movement and used the other company, a contract manufacturer, to actually make the hardware This went on for a few years before the trademark was actually granted Elliot Williams did dome digging to help figure out how this all might shake out IMAGE IMAGE Share on Google Read more of this story at Slashdot http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563243.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563243.shtml 2015-03-12 12:10:08 - Hackaday : Since our last article covering the Arduino v Arduino case, we ve received a couple of tips, done some more digging, and learned a lot more about what s going on We thought it was time to share the story with you as it develops The Players ----------- In short, there are two companies calling themselves Arduino at the moment One, Arduino LLC was founded by Massimo Banzi , David Cuartielles , David Mellis , Tom Igoe and Gianluca Martino in 2009, runs the website arduinocc, and has been directing and releasing the code that makes it all work Most of these folks had been working read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563147.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/563147.shtml 2015-03-11 08:32:34 - Hak5 Xvid Large : Building an Arduino powered RainBoard is easy, fun and rewarding Shannon shares her lessons learned in this project Plus, Darren returns from Hack Across Europe with insights on Hackerspaces, the HackADay Prize, FPV Quadcopter Racing, Club Mate and more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562937.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562937.shtml 2015-03-07 07:12:51 - Hackaday : Bayres dad setup a webcam as a surveillance camera for a remote property The only problem was that the only stable Internet connection they could get at this property was DSL This meant that the external IP address of the webcam would change somewhat often the needed a way to keep track of the external IP address whenever it changed That s when Bayres built a solution using Arduino and an Ethernet shield The main function of this device is to monitor the public IP address and report any changes This is accomplished by first making a request to checkipdyndnsorg This read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562498.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562498.shtml 2015-03-05 16:21:45 - Hackaday : Carl recently upgraded his home with a solar panel system This system compliments the electricity he gets from the grid by filling up a battery bank using free as in beer energy from the sun The system came with a basic meter which really only shows the total amount of electricity the panels produce Carl wanted to get more data out of his system He managed to build his own monitor using an Arduino The trick of this build has to do with how the system works The panel includes an LED light that blinks 1000 times for each kWh read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562278.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562278.shtml 2015-03-04 13:17:51 - Hackaday : There s an updated product page for the Arduino Zero, now called the Arduino Zero Pro, up on Arduinoorg, one of the two dueling Arduinos We first covered the Arduino Zero in May 2014, and shortly thereafter even got to see a development prototype in the flesh Based an Atmel s ARM Cortex-M0 chip, it s built on a faster processor than the AVR Arduini, and it includes Atmel s Embedded Debugger which serves as a USB-to-serial channel and on-chip debugging peripheral But so far all we ve seen is the prototype Now, there s schematics and Eagle files available that are dated January 7, 2015 read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562090.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/562090.shtml 2015-02-26 01:26:14 - Hackaday : Gr4yhound has been rocking out on his recently completed synth guitar The guitar was built mostly from scratch using an Arduino, some harvested drum pads, and some ribbon potentiometers The video below shows that not only does it sound good, but Gr4yhound obviously knows how to play it The physical portion of the build consists of two main components The body of the guitar is made from a chunk of pine that was routed out by Gr4yhound s own home-made CNC Three circles were routed out to make room for the harvested Yamaha drum pads, some wiring, and a joystick shield read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561207.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561207.shtml 2015-02-25 13:29:29 - Hackaday : Arduino LLC is suing Arduino Srl the Italian version of an LLC Sounds confusing It gets juicier What follows is a summary of the situation as we learned it from this article at Heisede google translatrix Arduino LLC is the company founded by Massimo Banzi , David Cuartielles , David Mellis , Tom Igoe and Gianluca Martino in 2009 and is the owner of the Arduino trademark and gave us the designs, software, and community support that s gotten the Arduino where it is The boards were manufactured by a spinoff company, Smart Projects Srl, founded by the same Gianluca Martino So far, so read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561086.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/561086.shtml 2015-02-24 20:09:44 - Reverse Engineering : submitted by ScuderiaMacchina link comment http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560958.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560958.shtml 2015-02-24 10:18:03 - Hackaday : According to Squonk42 , nope And we think he s probably right The Yun is an Arduino Leonardo with an Atheros AR9331 WiFi SoC built in It s a great idea, pairing the Arduino with a tiny WiFi router that s capable of running OpenWRT But how is this no longer Open Source Hardware Try getting an editable board layout You can t Or at least Squonk42 couldn t In Sept 2013, Squonk42 posted up on the Arduino forums requesting the schematics and editable design files for the Arduino Yun, and he still hasn t received them or even a response Now this dude s no slouch He s read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560867.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560867.shtml 2015-02-18 19:41:58 - Hak5 Xvid Large : Today on Hak5, Shannon has some fun with the serial connection on an Arduino, and Darren joins from Tempelhof http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560103.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/560103.shtml 2015-02-17 10:17:18 - Hackaday : Sometimes it is a blessing to have some spare time on your hands, specially if you are a hacker with lots of ideas and skill to bring them to life Matt was lucky enough to have all of that and recently completed an ambitious project 8 months in the making a Non-Arduino powered by the giant of computing history Intel s 8086 processor Luckily, Matt provides a link to describe what Non-Arduino actually means it s a board that is shield-compatible, but not Arduino IDE compatible He was driven by a desire to build a single board computer in the read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559842.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559842.shtml 2015-02-14 07:23:22 - Hackaday : Pokemon is a great game by itself, but when you realize that not all of the mon are available in one game, trading is required for completion, and some pokemon aren t available without either hacking or going to a Toys R Us in 1997, you start to see how insidious this game can be Figuring he could finally complete the game with an Arduino, Pepijn decided to build a pokemon storage system This build was inspired by an earlier post that also spoofed trades Instead of building this project around a high-power micro, Pepijn decided to use an Arduino The read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559567.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559567.shtml 2015-02-11 20:23:25 - Hak5 Xvid Large : Today on Hak5, Shannon explains the difference between Analog and Digital pins, and demonstrates a few examples http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559167.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/559167.shtml 2015-02-10 16:26:59 - Hackaday : Morse code used to be widely used around the globe Before voice transmissions were possible over radio, Morse code was all the rage Nowadays, it s been replaced with more sophisticated technologies that allow us to transmit voice, or data much faster and more efficiently You don t even need to know Morse code to get an amateur radio license any more That doesn t mean that Morse code is dead, though There are still plenty of hobbyists out there practicing for the fun of it Dan decided to take a shortcut and use some modern technology to make it easier to translate read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558878.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/558878.shtml 2015-01-31 16:01:42 - Hackaday : Jordan managed to cobble together his own version of a low resolution digital camera using just a few components The image generated is pretty low resolution and is only in grey scale, but it s pretty impressive what can be done with some basic hardware The heart of the camera is the image sensor Most consumer digital cameras have tons of tiny receptors all jammed into the sensor This allows for a larger resolution image, capturing more detail in a smaller space Unfortunately this also usually means a higher price tag Jordan s sensor includes just a single pixel The sensor is read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557449.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557449.shtml 2015-01-28 19:45:37 - Hak5 Xvid Large : Following up on last weeks rootless Android SSH Tunneling tutorial, Darren Kitchen explores a much simpler way to secure all of the Internet traffic on your rooted Android device with the open source SSH Tunnel app Plus, Cylons invade the Arduino Shannon Morse reports http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557006.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/557006.shtml 2015-01-27 15:21:51 - adafruit industries blog : Make sure your plants stay hydrated with this moisture detection tutorial from ronnietucker on instructables We think this is a great, easy to follow tutorial that s useful for teaching or rainy day weekend projects alike Here s a really simple way to detect moisture in plant soil You ll need An Arduino Two steel nails one 10k http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556753.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556753.shtml 2015-01-27 14:11:21 - adafruit industries blog : Make a laptop controlled robot via instructables It would be so good if would be able to control a robot or your rc car using a laptop just like you control a car in a game Well, it can be made possible using the versatile arduino UNO There are thousands of projects you can make http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556728.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556728.shtml 2015-01-27 07:14:11 - Hackaday : AlxDroidDev built himself a nice remote control box for CHDK-enabled cameras If you haven t heard of CHDK, it s a pretty cool software modification for some Canon cameras CHDK adds many new features to inexpensive cameras In this case, AlxDroidDev is using a feature that allows the camera shutter to be activated via USB CHDK can be run from the SD card, so no permanent modifications need to be made to the camera AlxDroidDev s device runs off of an ATMega328p with Arduino It operates from a 9V battery The circuit contains an infrared receiver and also a Bluetooth module This allows read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556686.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556686.shtml 2015-01-26 10:07:25 - adafruit industries blog : Who doesn t love waking up to the smell of bacon in the morning This is a fun project from Instructables user llopez2005 This is a project I came up with that was inspired by my love for bacon This is an alarm clock that is designed to wake you up with the smell of bacon http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556541.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556541.shtml 2015-01-26 07:22:55 - adafruit industries blog : Check out this tutorial by instructables user xiaomao right meow This is a midi instrument that works when you tap the pieces of the cat s face It connects to your computer and plays through a MIDI program Full tutorial http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556530.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556530.shtml 2015-01-26 06:36:39 - adafruit industries blog : Thanks to Marty for sending in his great clock project He writes This clock day date project is based on the Arduino MEGA 2650, using an Adafruit 32 x 32 RGB LED Panel Displays digital day, date and time display, alarm continuous or pulse with adjustable snooze period, snooze limits, configurable auto Daylight Saving and Standard time http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556527.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556527.shtml 2015-01-26 01:29:55 - Hacker Public Radio : In this two-part series, Klaatu introduces you to the Arduino First, learn about the breadboard and how to make electricity course through it in order to power your very own simple circuit To follow along with what Klaatu is talking about, refer to these two graphics https openclipartorg detail 104167 breadboard-by-mesamike https openclipartorg detail 181334 microcontroller--by-bgaultier-181334 And here are diagrams of the simple circuits that Klaatu constructsThe simple code to reset the servo include Servo myservo int servoPosition void setup myservoattach 13 myservowrite 90 void loop And the code that responds to input include Servo myservo int servoPosition int servoMax 180 int servoMin 0 int value int valMax 600 int valMin 50 void setup myservoattach 13 void loop value analogRead 0 servoPosition map value, valMin, valMax, servoMax, servoMin servoPosition constrain servoPosition, servoMin, servoMax myservowrite servoPosition And here is a bonus diagramme that you can try to create, using a light sensor, servo, and resistor http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556519.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556519.shtml 2015-01-24 16:31:23 - Hackaday : If one could temporarily remove their sense of humor and cast a serious look into a Rube Goldberg machine, they would not say to themselves well that looks simple Indeed, it would almost always be the case that one would find themselves asking why all the complexity for such a simple task Too often in hacking are we guilty of making things more complicated than they really need to be Maybe it s because we can see many different paths to a single destination Maybe it s because we want to explore a specific path, even though we know it might be read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556427.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556427.shtml 2015-01-23 01:01:43 - Hacker Public Radio : In this two-part series, Klaatu introduces you to the Arduino First, learn about the breadboard and how to make electricity course through it in order to power your very own simple circuit To follow along with what Klaatu is talking about, refer to these two graphics https openclipartorg detail 104167 breadboard-by-mesamike https openclipartorg detail 181334 microcontroller--by-bgaultier-181334 And here are diagrams of the simple circuits that Klaatu constructs http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556173.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/556173.shtml 2015-01-22 07:09:31 - Hackaday : Alex needed a project for his microcomputer circuits class He wanted something that would challenge him on both the electronics side of things, as well as the programming side He ended up designing an 8 by 16 grid of LED s that was turned into a game of Tetris He arranged all 128 LED s into the grid on a piece of perfboard All of the anodes were bent over and connected together into rows of 8 LED s The cathodes were bent perpendicularly and forms columns of 16 LED s This way, if power is applied to one row and a single column read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555825.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555825.shtml 2015-01-21 23:59:24 - Hak5 Xvid Large : We love SSH Tunnels for their versatility and ease of use They're great for protecting Internet traffic and a breeze to setup on Windows, Mac or Linux So how about Android Darren looks into SSH Tunneling from an un-rooted Android phone Plus, Android Sketches Shannon demonstrates some nifty code All that and more, this time on Hak5 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555777.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555777.shtml 2015-01-20 04:25:43 - Hackaday : One of Kale_3D s teachers had made an Arduino-powered calculator It wasn t robust and didn t last too long in the classroom environment After the non-functional calculator sat around the class for a while, Kale_3D decided he would give a shot at repairing it Along the way the project didn t just get repaired, it got a full rebuild This calculator uses a full 16 button matrix keypad The Arduino deciphers button pushes with the help of the Keypad library, at which time the appropriate character is displayed on the 2 8 LCD screen Selecting the function is a little different from normal since read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555429.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555429.shtml 2015-01-19 08:01:41 - adafruit industries blog : We love the simple yet useful project from Electronics101 on instructables when the photo resistor is covered to simulate being in the dark, the light comes on this is made possible by programming it with an if, else statement that states if the sensor senses dark it turns the light on and if it senses http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555280.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555280.shtml 2015-01-17 22:03:06 - Hackaday : Punch cards were a standard form of program and data storage for decades, but you d never know it by looking around today Card punches and even readers are becoming rare and expensive Sometimes it takes a bit of hacking YouTube link to get that old iron running again Antiquekid3 managed to score an old punch card reader on Ebay, but didn t have a way to interface with it The reader turned out to be a Documation M-1000-L After a bit of searching, Antiquekid3 managed to find the manual PDF link on BitSavers It turns out that the Documation reader used read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555184.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555184.shtml 2015-01-16 20:52:10 - Core Security Blog : For an introduction to the most comprehensive, commercial-grade penetration testing product available, request a trial of Core Impact Pro today A great penetration tester always remembers to take physical security into account With that in mind, we ve added an interesting new feature to Core Impact Pro The module, called install Agent using Teensy board, allows Read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555066.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555066.shtml 2015-01-16 20:32:27 - adafruit industries blog : Great robot project from ilovematlab in the element 14 community I had previously shared a video which talked about a robot which included both, a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino and was used to track a green ball The robot used computer vision algorithms available with Simulink to detect and track the green ball I http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555064.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/555064.shtml 2015-01-15 01:29:06 - adafruit industries blog : NEW PRODUCT Sylvia Super Awesome Project Book Add-On Pack w Genuine Arduino Sylvia s a kid who loves making, tinkering, and art projects She s also the star of Sylvia s Super-Awesome Maker Show an online series about STEM concepts with millions of views This pack includes everything you need to get started with Sylvia s Awesome http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554703.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554703.shtml 2015-01-13 01:13:21 - Hackaday : A few days ago, we saw a dev time trial between the Arduino and Phidgets, a somewhat proprietary dev board that is many times more expensive than an Arduino The time trial was a simple experiment to see which platform was faster to prototype simple circuits As always in Hackaday comments, there was a ton of comments questioning the validity and bias of the test Not wanting to let a good controversy go to waste, Ian Lee tossed his hat into the ring with the same dev trial with the Gadgeteer The Gadgeteer has the same design philosophy as Phidgets read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554251.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554251.shtml 2015-01-12 23:36:24 - adafruit industries blog : Brewing your tea for the perfect amount of time with a DIY automated tea maker via instructables Create your own automated tea maker This inexpensive and small machine will submerge, stir and finally rise the teabag out the mug you have previously filled with boiling water when tea is ready, playing a alarm melody of http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554241.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554241.shtml 2015-01-12 21:10:41 - adafruit industries blog : Samy Kamkar demonstrates a nasty little homebrew spying device called KeySweeper that can snoop on wireless keyboard traffic and send what it finds over GSM cell networks The device is built into a USB charger so it can be hidden anywhere, and is made from an Arduino, small 24ghz transceiver, and Adafruit FONA Samy s post goes into http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554214.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554214.shtml 2015-01-12 20:32:05 - adafruit industries blog : A bunch of 28 TFT Touch Shields for Arduino with Resistive Touch Screens http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554206.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554206.shtml 2015-01-12 06:23:58 - adafruit industries blog : Awesome project Via Creator s Project Check out more info on the build here Instead of having to move your plants around to compensate for changing light, wouldn t it be nice if they could just pack up and move themselves Xiaolong Mu considered this and designed Chasing Sunlight, a tech-enabled flower pot equipped with light sensors http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554044.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/554044.shtml 2015-01-10 09:05:17 - adafruit industries blog : Check out this video from Matt Richardson and learn how to make your own Arduino powered high speed photography trigger Click here to visit Matt s page to see a parts list and to get the code We celebratephotography here at Adafruit every Saturday From photographers of all levels to projects you have made or those http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553945.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553945.shtml 2015-01-08 23:02:33 - adafruit industries blog : Updated Product Getting Started with Arduino By Massimo Banzi 3rd Edition This valuable little book offers a thorough introduction to the open-source electronics prototyping platform that s taking the design and hobbyist world by storm Getting Started with Arduino, updated for the latest Arduino release, gives you lots of ideas for Arduino projects and http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553701.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553701.shtml 2015-01-07 10:01:38 - Hackaday : Andrew is bringing his old mechanical sewing machine into the 21st century by adding an Arduino control module Originally, his Alfa sewing machine could only do a straight stitch or a zig-zag of varying widths Since this was an old sewing machine, all of the controls were knobs and levers RC car servos were installed in the sewing machine and now are solely responsible for controlling, in real time, the horizontal movement of the needle and the amount of stroke of the feed dogs the metal components responsible for advancing the fabric through the sewing machine There is also a read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553389.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553389.shtml 2015-01-06 21:13:27 - adafruit industries blog : This Sculpture Simulates Politics with Angry, Indecipherable Beeping From The Creators Project Georgios Cherouvim s interactive installation, Debate, features a simple on-stage conversation between two suited figures The scene isn t too different from your average political debate or town hall meeting, save for two major exceptions the figures have giant, flashing, geometric heads, and they only talk http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553327.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553327.shtml 2015-01-05 18:59:33 - adafruit industries blog : Fabrizio Guglielmino shared with us a push notification service from Arduino Yún that he developed what I needed was a simple notification system and looking around I was not able to find one, so I made Pushetta The opportunity came from the integration of my pellet stove in Domitio, my home automation system One of objectives was http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553120.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553120.shtml 2015-01-05 06:32:36 - adafruit industries blog : A look back on our top ten Arduino posts of 2014 1 Connecting an Arduino to a Raspberry PI using I2C 2 Fish on Wheels 3 Internet Of Things NeoPixel arduino 4 ArduStat Web Controlled Wireless Arduino Based Thermostat Featuring Adafruit CC3000 arduino 5 Arduino Based GPS Watch arduino 6 Reverse engineer a cheap http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553016.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/553016.shtml 2015-01-04 19:20:32 - Hackaday : Is developing on an Arduino too slow Are Phidgets too expensive When might you use one or the other Hackaday regular Ken breaks down what he learned from three experimental time trials The main development differences between Arduino and Phidgets are a mix of flavor preferences and some hard facts The Arduino is open source, Phidgets are proprietary Arduino requires a mix of hard- and software where Phidgets only needs and only allows a connection to a full computer but enables high level languages it is expected to get the job done sooner and easier And finally, Arduinos are read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552997.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552997.shtml 2015-01-03 09:10:58 - adafruit industries blog : From instructables user ElectricSlim Can I tell you a secret I don t like handshakes I really don t Handshakes just make me feel dirty It s too impersonal It s a gesture with no soul and reeks of a corporate entity Why must we limit ourselves to this one boring interaction Of all the split second human gestures http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552896.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552896.shtml 2015-01-02 07:30:26 - Hackaday : While Ilias Giechaskiel was waiting for his SIM900 shield to arrive, he decided to see what he could do with an old Nokia 6310i and an Arduino He was researching how to send automated SMS text messages for a home security project, and found it was possible to send AT commands via the headphone jack of Motorola phones But unfortunately Nokia did not support this, as they use a protocol know as FBus With little information to go on, Ilias was able to break down the complicated protocol and take control with his Arduino With the connections were in place, read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552701.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552701.shtml 2014-12-30 14:23:23 - adafruit industries blog : Get groovy in the new year with an LED disco floor via instrucatbles This project is inspired by the Pixel Drop Ceiling by hockeyman271 and would not be possible without referencing that instructable This LED Disco Floor uses WS2801 36mm RGB LEDs that are computer controlled via an Arduino I chose the 36mm WS2801 due http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552324.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552324.shtml 2014-12-29 21:24:01 - adafruit industries blog : Check out this great Arduino power quiz system project from RoysterBot on instructables If you have ever watched a TV quiz show you have probably seen contestants trying to press a button in order to win a chance to answer a question The contestant s quick reaction time results in some kind of light and or sound http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552264.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552264.shtml 2014-12-29 18:02:17 - adafruit industries blog : Carl F Sutter CarlS of TeleToyland shared a tutorial for creating a Neopixel Ring Fireplace Here s what he had to say This holiday project uses some papercraft, a Neopixel Ring and an Arduino or Trinket From the tutorial This is a fun holiday craft using LEDs, some papercraft, and an Arduino for control so you http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552240.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552240.shtml 2014-12-29 15:12:26 - adafruit industries blog : From Bajdicom I found a little heart rate sensor ICstation It is a clone of the open hardware pulse sensor The sensor is well documented, and it comes with Arduino and Processing example code To try it out I connected the sensor to an ATmega328 running at 33V and loaded the example Arduino code http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552205.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552205.shtml 2014-12-29 14:04:21 - adafruit industries blog : Hiro Kobayashi MakerBee shared a tutorial for setting up a Laundry Alarm with Text Messaging Alerts using Arduino Here s what Hiro had to say Hello I did a fun and simple instructable on how to use an Arduino Yun and a dual-axis accelerometer to monitor your washer or dryer and send you an SMS text message http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552202.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552202.shtml 2014-12-29 06:24:33 - adafruit industries blog : Andrew Mulholland tweeted at us about his awesome light painting project Check out more info on the build here Light painting involves taking photographs at a long exposure in a dark area Usually a DSLR is required for long exposure photography, but some modern point-and-shoot cameras also may have this feature If you can set http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552162.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552162.shtml 2014-12-28 16:09:34 - Hackaday : Unless you live off-the-grid and have abundant free electricity, leaving your rig on while you go away on trips is hardly economic So if you re like Josh Forwood and you happen to use a remote desktop client all the time while on the road, you might be interested in this little hack he threw together It s a remote Power-On-PC from anywhere device It s actually incredibly simple Just one Arduino He s piggybacking off of the excellent Teleduino software by Nathan who actually gave him a hand manipulating it for his purpose The Arduino runs as a low-power server which allows Josh read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552136.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552136.shtml 2014-12-27 09:21:18 - adafruit industries blog : From instructables user martinbolton The process of development saw the following needing to be designed, tested, and then prototyped 1 Slider Rail standard Section 2 Camera Dolly Slider rollers attached to a bent metal chassis 3 Motion Control this was the most tricky and takes up most of this instructable It illustrates how I http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552061.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/552061.shtml 2014-12-26 17:14:50 - adafruit industries blog : Combine one or more Arduinos with a Raspberry Pi via instructables Picture of Combine 1 or more Arduinos with a RaspberryPi This instructable is a demonstration of the Drogon Remote Control DRC feature included with wiringPi Drogon Remote Control consists of an Arduino program that handles USB communication between the Arduino s and the RaspberryPi I http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551993.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551993.shtml 2014-12-26 15:21:48 - Channel 9 : So it's the day after Christmas, you might be off today and are looking for something fun to play with Maybe you've received an Arduino as a gift and want to dig in and start building and coding something Maybe you'd like to get your kids involved too But coding for Arduino is hard right Well it doesn't have to be, if you have the right tool TouchDevelop has been highlighted here a number of times, but did you that you can use TouchDevelop to write Arduino code Yeah, you read that right, you can create Arduino apps in TouchDevelop And you know TouchDevelop runs on the web and has apps for most smartphones and tablets Don't believe me image Check out this post for a full pictorial walk-through IOT TouchDevelop Generates Arduino Code ---------------------------------------- For IOT, having a nice design tool chain is a great benefit Sure you can crank out C C Wiring code for the Arduino So can TouchDevelop, and this means that you could start your coding on your Phone, Tablet, iPad like device or Surface RT I like this as it is a way to use TouchDevelop without the game design motivation And I know that SparkIO as well as others have generated an app that allows you to program in the cloud TouchDevelop is another way that allows students, hobbyists as well as others another way to create programs Software is capable of extreme diversity if we allow designers to solve problems and share them easily with others Let s take a look at getting started, you will need a few items that cost nothing But are quite valuable As with all of my blogs, please make sure to scroll down to see the entire thing The images are valid on 12 18 2014 This is the images on a Windows 81 Lenovo, if you are using a Chromebook, iPad, etc you may see slightly different screens image How cool is that Follow CH9 Follow coding4fun Follow gduncan411 IMAGE http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551983.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551983.shtml 2014-12-25 19:19:51 - Hackaday : Like some of our grouchier readers, PodeCoet s Digital Sub-Systems professor loathes everyone strapping an Arduino onto a project when something less powerful and ten times as complicated will do One student asked if they could just replace the whole breadboarded up counter circuit mess with an Arduino, but, since the class is centered around basic logic gates the prof shot him down Undeterred, our troll smuggled an MCU into a chip and used it to spell out crude messages No Arduino No problem It took him 4 tries but PodeCoet hollowed out the SN74LS47N display driver from the required circuit read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551883.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551883.shtml 2014-12-24 14:09:56 - adafruit industries blog : Thanks to Daniel for sending in his awesome project Check out more info on hackadayio I started this project in 2012 when I bought my new Tacoma The inspiration for this project came when I decided to have a hitch installed opted to install a third-party trailer light module myself The first step was http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551733.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551733.shtml 2014-12-23 22:13:53 - Hackaday : Like many mobile gamers, Daniel has found himself caught up by the addictive White Tiles game Rather than play the game himself though, Daniel decided to write his own automatic White Tiles player While this hack has been pulled off before, it s never been well documented Daniel used knowledge he gleaned on Hackaday and Hackadayio to achieve his hack The basic problem is sensing white vs black tiles and activating the iPad s capacitive touch screen On the sensing end, Daniel could have used phototransistors, but it turned out that simple CdS cells, or photoresistors, were fast enough in this application read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551674.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551674.shtml 2014-12-23 14:20:47 - adafruit industries blog : Make a Light Box DJ with Arduino via instructables The Light Box is a wooden, desk accessory designed to react to the music being played and is ideal for drum pads and DJs Composed of a oak frame, the music box uses an Arduino Uno in combination with an MSGEQ7 chip and two audio jacks http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551586.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551586.shtml 2014-12-22 21:02:25 - adafruit industries blog : This Arduino Project from iam_maker_leo on instructables shows you how to build a home monitoring system that alerts you via email Let s make a someting can be alram to trespasser like as main charactor of fiction What we will make is 1 Check every 1sec what body there is or not with ultrasonic sensor http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551484.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551484.shtml 2014-12-22 13:01:58 - adafruit industries blog : Thanks to Rafa B for sending in this cool Arduino project Check out the full post here Sorry for the watercolor craziness I saw this pen-tablet laying around so I gave it a try The purpose of the Fiber Optic Shield was to allow easy data transfer from subsea scientific instrumentation to the surface vessel, http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551402.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551402.shtml 2014-12-22 07:15:26 - adafruit industries blog : sudheeras shared an Arduino Christmas Star Project on the Adafruit Forums This is my very first post in this forum and thought of sharing my Christmas project built with Freetronics Eleven board Arduino Uno compatible with the people like me who is playing with Arduino platforms The project is a Christmas star with around 1000 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551371.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551371.shtml 2014-12-20 21:11:57 - adafruit industries blog : Check out instructables user Switch and Lever s video on how to make any digital camera capable of making time-lapses Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you want to capture situations where filming would be entirely impractical, or even impossible For those moments time-lapse photography is a god-send, until you realize that your camera http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551286.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551286.shtml 2014-12-20 07:10:49 - Hackaday : When William s thermostat died, he wanted an upgrade He found a few off-the-shelf Internet enabled thermostats, but they were all very expensive He knew he could build his own for a fraction of the cost The primary unit synchronizes it s time using NTP This automatically keeps things up to date and in sync with daylight savings time There is also a backup real-time clock chip in case the Internet connection is lost The unit can be controlled via the physical control panel, or via a web interface The system includes a nifty vacation mode that will set the temperature to read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551192.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/551192.shtml 2014-12-18 18:25:56 - adafruit industries blog : A tutorial shared by coyo18 on Instructables shows you how to print and assemble an Arduino-driven fireball hurling Piranha Plant from Mario Now, most of us will recognize the one of the most famous plants from the Super Mario Bros Series, but for those of us who don t it is basically a plant that pops http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550898.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550898.shtml 2014-12-16 20:46:15 - adafruit industries blog : NEW PRODUCT Sylvia s Super Awesome Project Book Super Simple Arduino Sylvia s Super Awesome Project Book Super Simple Arduino is a book written and illustrated by young maker superstar Sylvia Sylvia s a kid who loves making, tinkering, and art projects She s also the star of Sylvia s Super-Awesome Maker Show an online series http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550502.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550502.shtml 2014-12-15 16:35:33 - adafruit industries blog : DIY Exoplanet Detector IEEE Spectrum Sixty-three light-years away, HD 189733 is too dim to be seen with the naked eye Finding it required the use of such waypoints as the Dumbbell Nebula top Once the star system is targeted, the Earth s rotation causes the sky s image to blur second from top during long exposures http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550223.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550223.shtml 2014-12-15 15:59:08 - adafruit industries blog : Arduino IDE support for Adafruit boards sprsquish writes Hi, I ve been wanting to continue upgrading my Arduino IDE while maintaining support for all the wonderful Adafruit boards I have Pro Trinket, Trinket, and Flora It was a pain to figure out how to get them all working in the latest version and then to http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550217.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550217.shtml 2014-12-15 14:10:40 - adafruit industries blog : When Tim Bartlett, Ethan Hartman, and a handful of other DIY electronics initiates found themselves faced with the challenge of hosting a bachelor party, they spent their party planning time scheming up a very memorable feature of the night A DIY Electronics-Inspired Bachelor Party Wire Stripper Cake This is a case of knowing your audience http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550191.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550191.shtml 2014-12-15 11:09:21 - adafruit industries blog : samuelguyer got some help with his electronic hourglass project-in-progress on the Adafruit Forums It is an electronic hourglass You program it using the capacitive touch sensor, and then turn it over to start the timer it includes an accelerometer to detect the orientation The two connectors are for the neopixel strip top connector and capacitive http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550153.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550153.shtml 2014-12-15 08:06:20 - adafruit industries blog : Check out this awesome Star Wars themed build from darbinorvar on instructables On a 2 x 3 foot plywood board layout your branches or cut wood and either glue, screw or nail the wood to the board in a pattern mimicking a Christmas tree structure I painted the board but you could leave it natural http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550136.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550136.shtml 2014-12-15 06:26:31 - adafruit industries blog : Thanks to Jim for sending in his project Check out more info here I constructed an Arduino based controller to automate the carriage on my lead screw Box Joint Jig which was originally inspired by Matthias Wandel at woodgearsca Interestingly, Matthias added automated operation by a laptop to his design at the beginning but later http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550130.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/550130.shtml 2014-12-12 20:31:53 - adafruit industries blog : Another great find from Raspberry PiPod check out the full tutorial here The Arduino IDE doesn t do much with serial data returned from the board, other than display it on the serial console Python provides a platform independent way to listen to your Arduino and draw graphs of analog data, or whatever you want http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/549973.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/549973.shtml 2014-12-12 19:06:07 - Hackaday : Arduino is one of those boards that has become synonymous with hacking and making Since its introduction in 2005, over 700,000 official Arduino boards have been sold, along with untold millions of compatible and clone boards Hackers and makers around the world have found the Arduino platform a cheap and simple way to get their projects off the ground This weeks Hacket focuses on some of the best Arduino based projects we ve found on Hackdayio Niazangels gets the ball or ballpoint pen rolling with Roboartist, a robot which creates line drawings Roboartist is more than just a plotter read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/549956.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/549956.shtml 2014-12-12 09:25:59 - adafruit industries blog : Via Make Whilst building lots of robots to fulfill a recent Kickstarter project, I had the need to program a thousand or so Arduinos, which would take forever if I were to program them all individually Situations like this are the perfect opportunity to work on those meta projects which can be just as much http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/549846.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/549846.shtml 2014-12-08 11:12:38 - adafruit industries blog : Magic Eight-Ball -style Lego Darth Vader Hi, just wanted to share this project I finished recently using parts from Adafruit I hacked a Lego Star Wars Darth Vader minifigure clock and turned it into this Magic Eight-Ball-Style toy After asking a Yes No question, press his head and he will randomly speak one of 15 possible responses http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548944.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548944.shtml 2014-12-08 10:04:13 - adafruit industries blog : Thanks to Des for sending in this adorable holiday project A modification of the Christmas tree we did last year We didn t realize how cool the diffusion would be through the Styrofoam balls It s really effective in the dark Read more Featured Adafruit Products 12mm Diffused Thin Digital RGB LED Pixels Strand of 25 http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548938.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548938.shtml 2014-12-08 06:14:50 - adafruit industries blog : Thanks so much to sumanta for sharing this great video on to the Adafruit forums There are tons of videos on Arduino out there Our goal in this video is to test an Arduino board and have fun There are no multi-meters, oscilloscopes or any other equipment involved Just your Mac PC, USB cable and Arduino http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548909.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/548909.shtml 2014-12-02 10:34:01 - adafruit industries blog : Romain Tardy shared a video recently launched that documents his large-scale immersive installation from last year in Puebla, Mexico He said MGNTRN uses an Arduino to control a little robot that operates the light switches from a big Ferris wheel, so I thought it could interest you The video has just been released, hope you ll http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547994.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547994.shtml 2014-12-01 23:33:02 - adafruit industries blog : Make a motion activated wreath with Arduino and MP3 player via instructables This wreath uses an Arduino microcontroller with the Adafruit MP3 shield and a Parallax PIR motion sensor to detect if someone is approaching the doorway It then plays a custom greeting pre-recorded and pitched to sound like an Elf, after which it plays http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547927.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547927.shtml 2014-12-01 20:37:36 - adafruit industries blog : One Man Band photo circa 1865 by Knox via Wikimedia is in the public domain NEW GUIDE Multi-tasking the Arduino Part 2 Adafruit Learning System In this guide we ll build on the techniques learned in Part 1 of the series while we explore several types of Arduino interrupts and show how they can be http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547909.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547909.shtml 2014-12-01 18:18:45 - adafruit industries blog : John Leeman shared a 3D Compass project created with Adafruit components Neopixel Rings 16 and 24 , Triple-axis Magnetometer Compass Board Here s what he had to say about this project Hello I used your products and others to make a 3D Compass As a geoscientist, I m constantly talking to students about vectors is space and it http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547897.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547897.shtml 2014-12-01 17:43:02 - adafruit industries blog : Via IEEE Spectrum Since 1995, when astronomers announced the discovery of a planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi, exoplanets which orbit stars other than the sun have been a hot topic I knew that dedicated amateurs could detect some of these exoplanets, but I thought it required expensive telescopes Then I stumbled on the website of the http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547892.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547892.shtml 2014-12-01 14:11:12 - adafruit industries blog : How to Create Color Changing XMas Decorations The days are getting shorter You do not have to fear the dark, this is the right time to create a fancy color changing Xmas decoration This is a very simple project and is quickly done Either build the decoration for yourself or create the perfect gift for http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547868.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547868.shtml 2014-12-01 07:28:37 - adafruit industries blog : John Guarnero shared with us a fortune teller machine created with parts purchased from Adafruit You can read a PDF with details of construction and Arduino sketches here, and see a number of locally hosted videos on the project site here I created a fortune teller machine using parts purchased from adafruit It is located http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547826.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547826.shtml 2014-12-01 07:19:19 - Hackaday : While newer Arduinos and Arduino compatibles including the Hackadayio Trinket Pro Superliminal Advertising either have a chip capable of USB or rely on a V-USB implementation, the old fogies of the Arduino world, the Uno and Mega, actually have two chips An ATMega16u2 takes care of the USB connection, while the standard 328 or 2560 takes care of all duino tasks Wouldn t it be great is you could also use the 16u2 on the Uno or Mega for some additional functionality to your Arduino sketch That s now a reality Nico has been working on the HoodLoader2 for a while now, read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547821.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547821.shtml 2014-11-26 01:27:17 - Hackaday : Greg implemented a simple ray tracer for Arduino as a fun exercise and a way to benchmark the processor He started out with the Moller-Trumbore algorithm, a common ray-tracing algorithm that calculates the intersection of a ray with a triangular plane without doing any pre-calculation of the planes His code supports one static light and one static camera, which is enough to render a simple scene Greg started out with a small scene composed of a few polygons, but just finished up a scene with 505 vertices, 901 faces, and reflective surfaces shown above He made the above render on read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547283.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547283.shtml 2014-11-25 18:50:53 - adafruit industries blog : EVENT Arduino Day 2015 WHAT Arduino Day 2015 WHEN Saturday, March 29, 2015 ABOUT We are now organizing the second edition of this worldwide anniversary celebrating Arduino community and the makers movement Everyone can participate in the role of organizer or as a participant Stay tuned because at the beginning of February we ll be http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547226.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547226.shtml 2014-11-25 16:01:14 - adafruit industries blog : The Senseless Drawing Bot, created by So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi via Creative Applications http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547191.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547191.shtml 2014-11-24 18:30:15 - adafruit industries blog : Educator Robert Zacharias contacted us about a TideTank project he created with the nonprofit group Rocking the Boat I worked on the Tide Tank project at Rocking the Boat, an awesome nonprofit organization in the South Bronx that teaches kids how to build wooden boats from scratch Here s a quick overview movie about the project http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547012.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/547012.shtml 2014-11-22 22:13:26 - Hackaday : psgarcha took a year-old Arduino Uno on an international trip and upon returning found something was wrong Every time he would try to upload, he would get the dreaded avrdude error, stk500_getsync not in sync resp 0 00 The Rx light would blink a few times during the attempted upload, but the tx light did not Somehow, something was terribly wrong with the duino, and psgarcha dug deep to figure out why To test the quality of the Arduino s serial connection, psgarcha performed a loopback test basically a wire plugged into the Tx and Rx pins of the Arduino Sending a short Read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/546797.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/546797.shtml 2014-11-19 16:40:16 - Hackaday : Surely you need yet another way to charge your lithium batteries perhaps you can sate your desperation with this programmable multi or single cell lithium charger shield for the Arduino Okay, so you re not hurting for another method of juicing up your batteries If you re a regular around these parts of the interwebs, you ll recall the lithium charging guide and that rather incredible, near-encyclopedic rundown of both batteries and chargers, which likely kept your charging needs under control That said, this shield by Electro-Labs might be the perfect transition for the die-hard- duino fanatic looking to migrate to tougher projects Read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/546258.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/546258.shtml 2014-11-17 23:39:14 - adafruit industries blog : Use Arduino to control your christmas lights with text messages via instructables I really wanted to be able to control my Christmas lights remotely, with an Arduino With this solution you can control my Lights remotely, via text messages Skills needed Soldering Wiring Copy and Paste Components Needed An Arduino Yun Wifi Enabled You http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545902.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545902.shtml 2014-11-17 08:02:58 - adafruit industries blog : Check out this Arduino Morse Code project from Chris Weatherford on instructables Picture of Arduino Morse Code When I was younger I started practicing for my Ham Radio license but did not stick with this long enough to master the morse code With this project you can convert any text to morse code This project http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545731.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545731.shtml 2014-11-15 08:50:13 - Hackaday : What do you do when you have an F-16 sitting around, and want to have some blinking navigation lights We know of exactly one way to blink a light, and apparently so does Dr Craig Hollabaugh When asked to help restore an F-16 for the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in New Mexico, Craig pulled out the only tool that should ever be used to blink navigation lights on an air superiority fighter Craig s friend was working on getting an F-16 restored for the Nuclear Museum, and like anyone with sufficient curiosity, asked how hard it would be Read more http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545611.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545611.shtml 2014-11-14 10:15:17 - adafruit industries blog : From LegoMindstormsRobotscom I m intending to use several Arduino Boards as a cheap means of controlling a number of RFID Readers which will be used to detect the position of Locomotive Engines on my LEGO Train Layout That said I need a way of connecting these Arduinos to the Raspberry Pi which is the Master Controller http://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545459.shtmlhttp://www.secuobs.com/revue/news/545459.shtml