Showing posts with label arduino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arduino. Show all posts

2013-12-29

Guess Who Spoke at 30C3 ...


The ArduGuitar is an electric guitar with no physical controls, i.e. no buttons or knobs to adjust volume, tone or to select the pickups. All of these functions are performed remotely via a bluetooth device such as an Android phone, or via a dedicated Arduino powered blutetooth footpedal. The musician still plucks the strings, of course! This talk will give an overview of the technology and particularly the voyage that took me from nearly no knowledge about anything electronic to enough know-how to make it all work.I will explain what I learned by collaborating on forums, with Hackerspaces and with component providers: “How to ask the right questions.” The guitar with its Arduino powered circuit and an Android tablet will be available for demo; the code is all available on the github arduguitar repo with the associated Arduino footpedal libraries.

2013-12-24

ArduStomp Enclosure Strawman

A first test using 6mm poplar plywood and 3mm cardboard. 
My great thanks to the Laser Cut Lab in Brussels for their good work and friendly attitude.

2012-11-30

Arduino & the Maker Movement

Where it all started: the Arduino

A presentation about the Arduino and how it has changed the world in only 5 years:
http://www.ted.com/talks/massimo_banzi_how_arduino_is_open_sourcing_imagination.html

Robot Control via Google Hangout

An example of how you can assemble a bunch of different technologies together to make something incredible:
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/11/07/how-to-make-an-led-blink-from-a-google-hangout/

Hackerspaces:

An inspirational talk by Mitch Altman at the Brussels TEDx 2012 about the community of people building stuff with all this technology:
http://www.tedxbrussels.eu/2012/speakers/mitch_altman.php

A place to do it all in Brussels:
http://hackerspace.be

Some starting points:

Arduino: http://www.arduino.cc/

Raspberry Pi  a full computer for 35€, the size of a credit card!
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Arduino supplies & kits:

http://www.antratek.com/Arduino-Kits.html
http://www.iprototype.be/products/kits/starterkit
http://proto-pic.co.uk/proto-pic-starter-kit-for-arduino-uno/
http://proto-pic.co.uk/arduino-starter-kit/
http://robotbits.co.uk/arduino/cat_7.html
http://snootlab.com/ 

Shops in Brussles:

Books: 
Getting started with Arduino
Making things talk

Inspirational free books:
Low tech sensors and Actuators
Orignal Hacking Manual