Posted September 22, 2012 by Chris

“"0’baka Project" means a stupid project. This project is to make things which is not art and which is not usable. Now, I am making Arduino skeleton by using steel wires.”

Posted September 21, 2012 by Chris

“I had seen Roo Reynolds talking about hacking his doorbell to get it onto Twitter and as our doorbell is a bit rubbish I thought this seemed like a good project…I decided to start off with the physical/audible side of things and then later move on to pushing notifications out to laptops on the local network or beyond.”

Posted September 19, 2012 by Chris

“With the relative complexity of today’s electronics, it’s not feasible to start from scratch; you need good building blocks to implement your vision. You’ll want to use commercial off- the-shelf components as much as possible and you most likely don’t want to be bound to a bulky PC…So how do we get started prototyping our ideas with the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet? For electronics concepts: enter Arduino.”

Posted September 18, 2012 by Chris

“Using a arduino and some resistor to work as a 8bit DAC, so we can make some waveform form it , build a Arduino simple signal generator. what you need just a Arduino, a protoshild and some resistor.”

Posted September 16, 2012 by Chris

“"0’baka Project" means a stupid project. This project is to make things which is not art and which is not usable.
Now, I am making One-chip Arduino ver. 2.0. It is equipped with USB interface, and to be able to upload sketches from Arduino IDE directly.”

Posted September 9, 2012 by Chris

“My idea was really simple: I would make a circuit that would fully discharge each of the batteries while measuring how much energy it produced…I had an Arduino and an LCD panel left over from a different project so I thought I’d make a standalone unit.”

Posted July 23, 2012 by Chris

“This is a little art project I made with 95 RGB LEDs arranged in a 3D cylinder shape, sitting atop a microcontroller-based driver circuit. The LEDs are individually addressable, and when you power it on, the software cycles through a series of animations, e.g. various moving rainbowy patterns, ‘rain’, ‘fireworks’, and so on. It doesn’t serve much of a purpose but it is kind of cool to look at.”

Posted July 4, 2012 by Chris

“Friday night turned into Robotics/Art night at the 2XL Makerspace. I remembered seeing this Drawbot Project, and while you can modify normal servos to be continuous rotation servos, I already had some continuous rotation servos on-hand, so we got to work.”

Posted June 28, 2012 by Chris

“Fabkit i/o (aka Fabduino) is an open-source Fabable Arduino Compatible Board. The latest Eagle board layout and schematic files are available for download and the website details out how to build it up and get started using the Fabkit.”

Posted June 3, 2012 by Chris

“There are a bunch of tutorials that show you how to build your own Arduino on a breadboard, called Hack-duinos or something similar. While these are handy, I prefer to use more solid electronic devices. So I build them with a home-made PCB and solder all the components on there myself.”