[ale] OT: Arduino

[Charles Shapiro]

Built meself a fun little heart-on-sleeve machine with an Arduino Uno.
Here's ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZ9PStlZfk )  the guts, before my
wife sewed a nifty little holder for it .  Next project is a hybrid
cigar-box guitar/theremin which is currently sitting in pieces on my
workbench.  If you have even a few  C++ chops, the sketch language is
really easy to learn. The development environment is pretty small.  I have
it running on a tiny linux distro sitting on a vintage 2000 laptop without
troubles.

Arduino + Raspberry Pi could let you do really interesting stuff.  I saw a
demo not long back where someone had succeeded in getting a RasPi to run
OpenCV ( http://opencv.org/ ) through a cheap webcam.  That makes it
possible to for a hobbyist to construct a compact, low-power device which
can interact with the world visually, the way your dog or cat does.  Hmm.

I'm holding off on Raspi until I feel really comfortable with breadboarding
and basic electronic circuitry, which is really Arduino territory. I'm a
lot more experienced with the software stuff.

-- CHS


-- CHS


-- CHS

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Speaking of USB FTDI cable. Can I use RS232 to TTL cable instead.
>
>
> On Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
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>> Hello Boris,
>>
>> Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 9:57:35 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > I never used one but the price is so tempting :
>>
>> >  http://www.microcenter.com/product/431996/Arduino_Pro_Mini_Board
>>
>> Arduinos are AWESOME!
>>
>> I got a Mega kit for Christmas and have been loving it. I'm already
>> planning a number of geocaches using them, especially the Arduino Nano. ;c)
>>
>> R~
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