[benjgvps]

Overv posted:

Would anyone be interested in a program to design an Arduino circuit and test it before making it in real life? I'm out of ideas for programming projects and this seems like a decent idea.

That would be a great idea, I would love to attempt Arduino programming when it isn't practical to carry around an extra circuit board and a USB cable. Hell, if I'd try in my school's library on my lunch break, I'm sure it would go into lockdown.

[ddrl46]

Playing with Fritzing.
It's awesome.

[phazmatis]

benjgvps posted:

That would be a great idea, I would love to attempt Arduino programming when it isn't practical to carry around an extra circuit board and a USB cable. Hell, if I'd try in my school's library on my lunch break, I'm sure it would go into lockdown.

Remember: Normal people think that electronics are explosive. Because every explosive device on CSI looks like a freaking motherboard with some vaguely-explosives-looking stuff packed in.

[ddrl46]

Breadboards :iia:.

[DrLuke]

Anyone tried my sketch?

[ddrl46]

Going to try it, if i can find it.

Edited:

Uploading a video of your sketch DrLuke :3:.

Edited:

I know, i forgot that 3 leds where for the road and 2 for the pedestrians.

[Overv]

-snip-

[evilking1]

Where should I get an arduino? Should I get a cheaper seeeduino?

[ddrl46]

You can get one at www.adafruit.com or at www.makershed.com.

[AzLaN]

Ordered a Duamilanove, seems really interesting.

[evilking1]

Yeah I know I can get them there, but where is the cheapest / the version of arduino I should get?

[ddrl46]

Duemilanove, best one for starters.

[Overv]

Just made a simple light intensity measurement device using a bargraph to display the input.

[ddrl46]

Mnice work, going to play with my bargraph today too.

[DrLuke]

ddrl46 posted:

Going to try it, if i can find it.

Edited:

Uploading a video of your sketch DrLuke :3:.

Edited:

video

I know, i forgot that 3 leds where for the road and 2 for the pedestrians.

<3

Glad to see it works :)



Also I tried to upload the arduino bootloader onto my atmel yesterday, but I failed horribly. I could upload a sketch only one time, then it synced out all the time. I have to upload the bootloader everytime I want to upload a sketch, and I hate that. So I am just going to buy a duemilanove now.

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Also, Steam group: http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791430868164

[ddrl46]

Done with my protoshield, it was awesome to build it.
And the best part, it works :3:.

[DrLuke]

Post a video of it!

[ddrl46]

Will do :D.

Edited:

[DrLuke]

Just ordered an Arduino Duemilanove with a atmega328. Now my atmega168 won't be that lonely anymore.

[TrueNash]

Great thread,

Ordered the ARDX (starter kit) from oomlout, Duemilanove with a atmega328. Have my awesome 145 piece, £35 toolkit from Argoncomputing.co.uk for all my tool and soldering needs.
Does anyone know of any other software like Fritzing? And if you made a version with simulation, Overv, you would be a god.

Also, oomlout.co.uk is great for Arduino if you're in the UK.

[ddrl46]

Cool, going to add you to the list.

Edited:

Also, i'm going to put a website up for Arduino Projects.
DrLuke gave me the idea :P.

[TrueNash]

Awesome, I would offer the service of my dedi server, but it's going down next month :(.

[ddrl46]

Don't worry, i have my own host.
I'm going to use this domain, http://arduino.muffinz.eu

Edited:

Progress :3:

http://arduino.muffinz.eu

Updated

[Shanethe13]

That looks great so far.

[DrLuke]

Indeed.

I am currently writing the About-text.

[ddrl46]

Started on the PHP, we have 2 pages now, a user system and some random MySQL stuff.

[PvtCupcakes]

ddrl46 posted:

Started on the PHP, we have 2 pages now, a user system and some random MySQL stuff.

So is the sketchuino program going to be entirely web based? Or will it have a desktop client?

[Elspin]

I have an arduino duemilanove and an arduino bluetooth. If anyone's interested, I wrote a program that lets you control a duemilanove with an xbox controller/command prompt.

also,

[ddrl46]

PvtCupcakes posted:

So is the sketchuino program going to be entirely web based? Or will it have a desktop client?

Entirely web based.
It's a website to post your stuff on.

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Elspin posted:

I have an arduino duemilanove and an arduino bluetooth. If anyone's interested, I wrote a program that lets you control a duemilanove with an xbox controller/command prompt.

also,

Also, this is epic. Added you to the list.

[TrueNash]

Nice work Elspin!

And Sketchuino is looking good ddr!

[Elspin]

Thanks for the comments. It's a really old version of the car, before it could even turn left and right. I'm gonna make a blog and fully document all my projects from now on, but for now I uploaded a video of the final project.

PS: sorry my shitty digital camera makes my voice distorted and annoying as fuck.

[Wipmuck]

Elspin posted:

Thanks for the comments. It's a really old version of the car, before it could even turn left and right. I'm gonna make a blog and fully document all my projects from now on, but for now I uploaded a video of the final project.

PS: sorry my shitty digital camera makes my voice distorted and annoying as fuck.

Amazing!

Although the car sounds are abit loud.

[Elspin]

Wipmuck posted:

Amazing!

Although the car sounds are abit loud.

Yeah, unfortunately there's not much I can do about that, it's a REALLY old RC car, and it's been through a lot of hacking. My grade 8 science fair project was taking it apart and putting solar panels along the roof to make it solar powered, so this is the second time it's shit has been ripped through and soldered. In any case, I'm starting a wordpress blog to start to document some of the stuff I'm doing at elspin.wordpress.com if anyone's interested. It's all arduino-centered, so it'll fit will here. I already posted a sketch to run a 10-80cm distance sensor.

I'm planning on re-doing the RC car project with a massive RC truck that can handle outdoor dirt jumping soon.

[Kyle Orton]

tempted to buy the starters kit.

[ddrl46]

Cool, going to start on the sketches page today. I've got the layout done.

[Zero-Point]

I wish I wasn't so damned coding dumb, I'd LOVE to try one of these things out.
Also, for electronics parts of ALL kinds, I would recommend Newark. Huge selection, great prices, and they even ship you a free paper-back catalog if you really want one. (the catalog's fuckin' HUUUGE, too, like 4-5 inches thick!)

[ddrl46]

The arduino language isn't that hard, it's pretty easy. Just take a look at the examples and you'll understand it.

[Xera]

ddrl46 posted:

The arduino language isn't that hard, it's pretty easy. Just take a look at the examples and you'll understand it.

Actually it's C++, arguably one of the least simple commonly used languages. Though they wrap most of the difficult stuff in simple interfaces.

[quincy18]

Xera posted:

Actually it's C++, arguably one of the least simple commonly used languages. Though they wrap most of the difficult stuff in simple interfaces.

Isn't it C ? I can't imagine it having OOP

[Xera]

quincy18 posted:

Isn't it C ? I can't imagine it having OOP

No, it's C++.

/*
  HardwareSerial.h - Hardware serial library for Wiring
  Copyright (c) 2006 Nicholas Zambetti.  All right reserved.

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
  Lesser General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
*/

#ifndef HardwareSerial_h
#define HardwareSerial_h

#include <inttypes.h>

#include "Print.h"

struct ring_buffer;

class HardwareSerial : public Print
{
  private:
    ring_buffer *_rx_buffer;
    volatile uint8_t *_ubrrh;
    volatile uint8_t *_ubrrl;
    volatile uint8_t *_ucsra;
    volatile uint8_t *_ucsrb;
    volatile uint8_t *_udr;
    uint8_t _rxen;
    uint8_t _txen;
    uint8_t _rxcie;
    uint8_t _udre;
    uint8_t _u2x;
  public:
    HardwareSerial(ring_buffer *rx_buffer,
      volatile uint8_t *ubrrh, volatile uint8_t *ubrrl,
      volatile uint8_t *ucsra, volatile uint8_t *ucsrb,
      volatile uint8_t *udr,
      uint8_t rxen, uint8_t txen, uint8_t rxcie, uint8_t udre, uint8_t u2x);
    void begin(long);
    uint8_t available(void);
    int read(void);
    void flush(void);
    virtual void write(uint8_t);
    using Print::write; // pull in write(str) and write(buf, size) from Print
};

extern HardwareSerial Serial;

#if defined(__AVR_ATmega1280__)
extern HardwareSerial Serial1;
extern HardwareSerial Serial2;
extern HardwareSerial Serial3;
#endif

#endif