hi,
i'm just getting into the arduino, don't know much about it though i do have experience creating other forms of interactive art environments.
just getting starting choosing the board and various morsels from sparkfun.com and i'll be getting a c/c++ manual soon.
anybody else around vermont/new hamphire interested in the same?
i'm in mid vermont, near white river junction.
i'd also like to come down to boston to see what's happening there if there are groups i could visit sporadically.
Hi Seano,
I run a hackerspace down in Boston and we have an Arduino Users group meeting once a month. The next one is scheduled for Feb. 19th at 7pm. We also have open hack sessions on the first Friday of every month if you want to hang out and build things with others.
We also have a large fabrication shop with metalworking and woodworking tools for when you are ready to make the things that your Arduino controls.
The Arduino users group and the open hack are free and you can drop in.
We're located at 197a Elm Street in Somerville, MA (just outside of Boston and on the red line). Check us out at Willoughby and Baltic, www.willoughbybaltic.com.
I'd be in for an meetup in NH or Vermont. I develop exhibits for the Children's Museum of NH and have had some fun creating Arduino based projects. Email me if you need advice in getting started. Check out Tom Igoe's book on Physical Computing, O'Reilly's Making Things Talk, and Electronics for Inventors. The best way to get started is to pick a project and just jump in.
I live in Newmarket and Work in Dover. I wouldn't mind meeting in Manchester, NH (~40min). Also, I worked with NHTI last year and they are starting to use Arduino's too.
When you begin your next project, let me know and I can help get you started in the right direction. Maybe I'll see you at the Boston Meetup if I can make it.
great,
i'll let you know where i get.
you know, i've had big learning just around getting the ability to code on my mac (loading xcode and still not quite there).
do you use a pc or a mac?
I use a PC, so setup was a breeze. Was it difficult to identify the port (since Mac ports go by names?). In the past, I have created:
A music wall of 40 touch sensors that all trigger different instruments and notes via a Yamaha Synthesizer. Uses 8 channel multiplexers
A working sonar that plots distance and angle on a PC using Director
Green screen exhibit that plays different video backgrounds (Arduino communicating to a Video Player via Serial)
-Binoculars that have been hacked with little LCD monitors that display wildlife videos.
-Simple Servo projects.
-Currently working on a virtual submarine interface that uses joysticks, diver levers, etc... to control 3 HD screens via Flash. Having issues with the extended desktop space and the limitations of Flash.
-Also helping a friend develop a EL wire sequencer to show whale migration paths (7 paths of 16 EL wire segments each).
Any projects you are working on?
I think the next step for me is to learn a bit about programming the AVR directly. I wonder if the Boston Meetup will have some AVR gurus.
Erk1313 very cool that you worked with the students at NHTI last year. I'm a second year student there right now and I have Luke who worked with the Children's Museum in my Advanced Electronics class.
Great to hear! The students were a blast to work with and took on quite a massive project for their first encounter with the Arduino. (i.e. they programmed the Arduino to read multiple joysitcks (both analog and digital) that fed serial data back and forth to a PC running Flash. A second group programmed Flash using Actionscript 3 to control 3 large HD screens to simulate an ocean background.
Phew... and that's not all. They also had to deal with large animated sea creatures that would float around the screen, and move the background as if a submarine was turning. In essence, creating a 30000 px wide loop of background. Due to the size constraints of Flash, this required 3 instances of Flash communicating separately to the serial data of the joysticks.
Needless to say, a year's course was not enough time to finish the project, but they made excellent progress. I hope to continue the project this year and put up a small plaque for their efforts.
I am aware that most people have no idea what the reasoning behind this little jaunt is. Although I don't think anyone really needs this knowledge as i'm just getting to grips with it to take part I think it would be helpful to look at some of the things which have influenced this.
that's great. thanks!
even though i'm very new to arduino i'm currently leading a class at the AVA art center in leb.
we meet on saturdays from 2-4 for the next three weeks and just began last saturday.
if you'd like to stop by please do, we'd love to hear what you've been up to. what kinds of projects have you done?
looks like we're going to have an arduino user group (free) at AVA art center in lebanon, nh. we'll meet every second thursday of the month.
hasn't started yet but will begin soon.
