Anyone have an arduino? What have you done with it?
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shrimants
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most people use them as a media center type of thing.
thats a fuckload of processing power you've got, plus its got wifi and all kinds of BS on there. for raspi's i'd concentrate on taking advantage of either the GUI (fuck gui programming though, shits like wizardry) or take advantage of the wifi and interface with some basic sensors.
aparently, gui stuff isnt terribly hard when you use GTK. its sort of drag and drop-y from what i understand.
if it were me, i'd use it as a NAS frontend.
EDIT: alright, nvm. i'd buy some arcade controls, download a bunch of MAME roms, and use it as an arcade cabinet.
but honestly, i'd rather do that with an AMD APU running linux or even windows sooner than i'd do it with a raspberry pi.
thats a fuckload of processing power you've got, plus its got wifi and all kinds of BS on there. for raspi's i'd concentrate on taking advantage of either the GUI (fuck gui programming though, shits like wizardry) or take advantage of the wifi and interface with some basic sensors.
aparently, gui stuff isnt terribly hard when you use GTK. its sort of drag and drop-y from what i understand.
if it were me, i'd use it as a NAS frontend.
EDIT: alright, nvm. i'd buy some arcade controls, download a bunch of MAME roms, and use it as an arcade cabinet.
but honestly, i'd rather do that with an AMD APU running linux or even windows sooner than i'd do it with a raspberry pi.
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I'm looking to build a pressure switch/flood light system for my bike when it's parked at home.
Basically, light comes on when bike is moved, scaring the shit out of thieves.
Basically, light comes on when bike is moved, scaring the shit out of thieves.
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they're used as flight controllers for multicopters I have toyed with the idea of making one
shrimants
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Link to the kit
i like that it comes with a bunch of parts including RGB LEDs rather than just regular ones.
Im pretty sure i have a bunch of basic logic chips sitting around from when i was in college too. shift registers, LED Driver chips, 8 segment driver, basic logic, opamps, etc.
you can, of course, buy all that junk seperately from something like aliexpress for way cheaper but the kit is pretty convenient and is a good starting point. i figure as i need more chips and more projects, i can use this programmer board and then use protoboard or w/e.
RightCoast, what do you mean by "pressure switch"? like you push a button and the floods all turn on?
also, what are you mounting the flood lights to, what flood lights are you using, and how are you mounting them? i'm streetfightering my bike and i was looking at some of those Cree floodlights and spotlights just incase the headlights i ordered dont quite light things up enough.
i should get it so that im driving around in my own personal patch of daylight lol
i like that it comes with a bunch of parts including RGB LEDs rather than just regular ones.
Im pretty sure i have a bunch of basic logic chips sitting around from when i was in college too. shift registers, LED Driver chips, 8 segment driver, basic logic, opamps, etc.
you can, of course, buy all that junk seperately from something like aliexpress for way cheaper but the kit is pretty convenient and is a good starting point. i figure as i need more chips and more projects, i can use this programmer board and then use protoboard or w/e.
RightCoast, what do you mean by "pressure switch"? like you push a button and the floods all turn on?
also, what are you mounting the flood lights to, what flood lights are you using, and how are you mounting them? i'm streetfightering my bike and i was looking at some of those Cree floodlights and spotlights just incase the headlights i ordered dont quite light things up enough.
i should get it so that im driving around in my own personal patch of daylight lol
shrimants
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making a multicopter, making a flight controller, or both?
i was also very interested in this for a while till i saw what kind of insane BS people have to deal with when shit starts moving. one group did a quadcopter as a senior design project and their sensors would experience this uncontrolable vibration and throw off all their calculations. it really sucked for them because they couldnt demo it without blowing 500 bucks of parts and possibly causing injury to the staff and students lol
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I'm working ona project using multirotors but we use off the shelf controllers..
I'm curious how the open source stuff will compare
arducopter is an availablecontroller kit that you can customize
I'm curious how the open source stuff will compare
arducopter is an availablecontroller kit that you can customize
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shrimants
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theres a REALLY nice one i saw, forgot the name but its among the first results with google.
it has like a full fledged GUI that lets you configure it for whatever rotor configuration you want.
http://ardupilot.com/
it has like a full fledged GUI that lets you configure it for whatever rotor configuration you want.
http://ardupilot.com/
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Yup apm. that's the one
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Hook it up to a 400W GPU and show the world!
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im going to explore some man-machine interface type stuff. my senior design project was to build a little first person RC rover. basically you wear a goggle set (like the occulus rift) and it has a video feed on the rover that gets sent to the goggles. if you move your head up, the camera also points up the same amount.
gonna build something similar, and then see if i cant extend it to work on a DSLR or go pro or something.
my senior design group didnt want to listen to me about arduino and wanted to program using shitty $2.50 chinese PICs because "arduino didnt feel like actual coding". never mind that the project would have been worlds easier, still accomplishable using C if they wanted, had all sorts of trig and differentiation libraries supported, and had the same specs as the PIC they wanted to use.
no, they made an absolutely stupid decision and as a result they were stuck coding using the extremely limited function support of these PICs and the camera had super jerky movement.
i also really like the ambilight projects. not sure how to make it work using HDMI though. pretty sure they all only work via component.
gonna build something similar, and then see if i cant extend it to work on a DSLR or go pro or something.
my senior design group didnt want to listen to me about arduino and wanted to program using shitty $2.50 chinese PICs because "arduino didnt feel like actual coding". never mind that the project would have been worlds easier, still accomplishable using C if they wanted, had all sorts of trig and differentiation libraries supported, and had the same specs as the PIC they wanted to use.
no, they made an absolutely stupid decision and as a result they were stuck coding using the extremely limited function support of these PICs and the camera had super jerky movement.
i also really like the ambilight projects. not sure how to make it work using HDMI though. pretty sure they all only work via component.
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is this for fun or work?
shrimants
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fun/hobby. i did it in college and sort of hated it but always thought i'd enjoy it if it was taught a bit differently.
and here i am, learning it my damn self.
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one other idea i had but cant get past a hurdle:
i thought it would be sweet to build a sort of tethered glider that holds a camera and trails behind your bike. idea being that you reach a certain speed and this glider is mounted to where your pillion seat goes. it spreads some glider wings or even a simple parachute and guidance tail/kite type thing and starts releasing wire. the wire is on a spool attached to the bike. the glider takes off and starts recording you from "third person" as you go through turns and whatever.
only thing is, theres going to be a huge pocket of turbulence directly around the bike, so how do you get the thing to take off smoothly? short of having a pole sort of attachment i couldnt figure it out. and if you have that pole there, you might as well just stick a camera on to it and call it a day.
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there's a sports copter that already exists. It will track you.
I don't know how far along the product is.it was advertised for adventurers motocross stuff.
if you tried to ride in the street with that the dot would probably bend you over a fucking barrel
I don't know how far along the product is.it was advertised for adventurers motocross stuff.
if you tried to ride in the street with that the dot would probably bend you over a fucking barrel
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oh, & a wire sounds horribly dangerous
shrimants
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yeah, i know about that sports copter. they obviously dont make a big deal about it but the devil is in the details. its top speed is around 10 mph and its got hardly 15-30 minutes of battery life.
great for stunting and low speed stuff but even something like skiing or snowboarding would make it completely useless.
needs a way better battery pack and should honestly be redesigned as a sort of VTOL prop plane.
i know the US gov hasnt had much luck in the last 3 trillion dollars, but its significantly easier to build a little propeller powered drone with VTOL capability than it is to build a damn turbine jet with VTOL capability.
great for stunting and low speed stuff but even something like skiing or snowboarding would make it completely useless.
needs a way better battery pack and should honestly be redesigned as a sort of VTOL prop plane.
i know the US gov hasnt had much luck in the last 3 trillion dollars, but its significantly easier to build a little propeller powered drone with VTOL capability than it is to build a damn turbine jet with VTOL capability.
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you're not going to get better than 30 minutes with the current battery tech.(in a copter format) currently fighting the same hurdle.
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Tinkering with Arduinos including UNO, Mega2560 and nano for a number of applications.
Recently built an Arduino based remote LED light system with bluetooth interface controlled by my android phone
In case you didn't already see it, there are a bunch of examples here: http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/InterfacingWithHardware
Recently built an Arduino based remote LED light system with bluetooth interface controlled by my android phone
In case you didn't already see it, there are a bunch of examples here: http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/InterfacingWithHardware