that's a good question...
I've also wondered what can be brought to Arduino from C
how to integrate libraries we find around or have available...
and that gets us to a way bigger question which is...what is the exact structure of Arduino (software)
...
but I will post a full thread on that.

for example this guy here http://www.e-dsp.com/how-to-use-a-lcd-with-your-electronic-devices/ has some routines for the atmega16 (not that far from the atmega8 )
to easily connect an LCD... I know that the processor is different but how can we integrate that code (or a subset) into Arduino? how do you extend arduino...besides adding code directly in you project file.

anyhow, I had problems with strings as well,
I needed to be able to pass full strings back and forth from flash
you can check http://www.progetto25zero1.com/b/tools/Arduino for some code I've wrote that you might find usefull.
It passes "strings" all in one time (actually sending them char by char but it's completely invisible to you)

hope it helps
b.

just send e-mails to everyone...do a preoreder list...
so you can sound how many people would want to buy one...
something like produzioni dal basso.it
http://www.produzionidalbasso.com
it manages the production of small numbers of anything (mostly art, but the concept can be exported)

of course I want one ;-)

b.

thanks,
I noticed that. I'll upgrade the files on my web page as well.
you guys have done a great job with the arduino ide

thanks again
b.

ok
thanks! I just needed an excuse to get back to it

I already wanted to develop a simple flash terminal all made by and for the flash community.

just to better understand:
what are the problems that people with flash basic had?
external classes should be usable by the light version of flash as well, but I'm not totally sure. can somebody confirm me that please.
I can eventually release a compiled component along with the As class for this kind of problem.

thanks for pointing out the comment problem...I'll check it out.

b.

hello

check also this
http://www.progetto25zero1.com/b/tools/Arduino

I've developed an actionscript class that helps in connecting Arduino to Flash

ciao
beltran

hehehe find something really stupid that you want your robot to do and go for it

you probably might be interested in seeing the asuro robot...
it's a kit that is built upon the atmega 8 and that has wireless IR comunication with the pc.
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Asuro

you could probably stick asuro parts in your shell to have a super asuro...

if you wanna go really cheap
go to http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
it's a good compromise between theory and practice
be sure to hop back and forth from the volume you want to read and the correspondent chapter
in the volume VII - experiments
it helped me a lot.

although I would suggest as well tom igoe's book. very comprehensive and cut down to designers minds, even if it doesn't have arduino examples it's very easy to port to them

hope it helps
cheers
b.

This seems even more interesting
http://www.mixedmedia.it/

unfortunately I wont be able to go...
if someone will go I will be asking you a lot of questions
or you could report it for everyone on the wiki ;-)

sfortunatamente non ci potrò andare...
se qualcuno ci va sarebbe fantastico stilare un riassunto veloce per tutti sulla wiki ;-)
se in effetti risulta interessante

This can be interesting
I think they will be exhibiting only some web work...but this is the time for the italian interaction design scene to emerge

http://www.idearium.org/frontiers/indexeng.html

here it is!!!
germano mosconi for president (lets get rid of berlucconi)

(unfortunately it can be truly appreciated by italian speakers...but to whoever would like to understand what he is saying I can offer a translation )

and this one as well


cheers.
b.

rapid prototyping for physical computing projects is exploding.
The trend is now clear...
there are a couple of "competitors" but for what I've seen so far Arduino is the best ;-)

compared to the others, Arduino is the best mix between:
low level allowing flexibility,
open source encouraging the masses
and simple enough to reach the designer "oh-my-god-I'm-afraid-of-scripts?" community
;-)

1- d.tools http://hci.stanford.edu/research/dtools/
a stanford project

2- sketch tools http://www.sketchtools.com
has an excellent resource page..and by the way...massimo, you are famous
you are listed as n° 2 in the resources>artist & designers list

let's make this post a collection of this kind of similar project...
we might all learn from other projects and manage maybe to merge or collaborate...
at the end we are all aiming (more or less) at the same thing.

b.

ps. I intentionally omitted wiring http://wiring.org.co
just because for me Arduino is Wiring 2.0 ;-)

pps. an excellent discussion about this trend is:
"Sketching in Hardware" by Mike Kuniavsky -- presented at the recent
O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference
http://www.orangecone.com/archives/2006/03/etech_06_part_1_1.html

farnell is offering at a "special" price (41€)
a robot constructing kit based on the Atmega8

http://it.farnell.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke1.jsp?bespokepage=farnell/it_IT/new_arrivals_content/arexx.jsp

the cool thing is that it has and Infrared programming interface, so that you don't need to connect it to the pc to programm it, and you can "wirelessly" command it too...can't wait to do that ;-)

I dont' know if this farnell offer is available in all countrys, but if you have an italian friend or a postal address in italy you can solve the problem.

I bought it, but my 5€ welder isn't enough for this :-) I need to buy a soldering station...
any good hints? any cheap but good soldering station you can suggest me?

happy robot building
b.

gracias quique...
este es fantastico
b.

posted!
http://tinyurl.com/d7g4v

I'm very happy we now have a "bar sport" forum..
it was really needed...now we REALLY are a community...
this is a great addon to our designerd geekland

can't wait to share with you my favorites folder named "funny and weird internet" ...and I can't wait to see yours.

cheers
b.