We'd like to announce a new version of our Gadget Shield for Arduino Uno, Duemilanove, and Mega/Mega2560. New features include speaker, microphone, screw terminals for power, stackable headers, cuttable jumpers, new digital accelerometer, reoriented IR emitter/detector to allow for non-contact object sensing and more natural remote control position.
The Gadget Shield comes fully assembled and ready to use. Included gadgets are:
- 3-axis digital accelerometer (Freescale MMA7660FC) with tap/shake detection and tilt/orientation reporting
- High-brightness RGB LED with PWM control over each color
- Speaker for playing tones and alert sounds
- Microphone with low-pass filter and amplifier
- 38 kHz logic infrared detector (can be used for remote controls)
- Infrared LED emitter (can be used for remote controls)
- IR emitter/detector can be used for non-contact object sensing/ranging
- Visible light sensor
- Thumbwheel potentiometer
- Two general-purpose tactile pushbuttons
- Four general-purpose LED's
- Two-pin screw terminal block connection to Vin/GND -- simplifies standalone installations
- Stacking headers allows another shield to sit on top
- Cuttable jumpers allow disconnecting gadgets from Arduino pins to use pins for other purposes
A class library is provided for quick development. Here is a code sample:
/* Play a tone on the speaker whenever pushbutton #1 is pressed */
#include <GadgetShield.h>
void setup(void) {
GS.Setup();
}
void loop(void) {
if (GS.IsSwitch(0)) GS.Speaker(440);
else GS.Speaker(0);
}
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