Hey, i want to make an arduino dieimila brain machine like mitch altman did with make magazine. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/the_brain_machine.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
i want to use some led's and probably cut off the wires of headphone and attach them to some pins. Please give me a lead on how to do this.
Please does anyone have any ideas at all?
Well, sounds like a good idea. Let us know how you get along.
The Make blog is pretty specific. From a functional standpoint, the LadyAda "MiniPOV" board is more focused on a particular application: it is geared to driving up to 8 digital outs, and with one optional digital input. Usually the controller is given code that just bangs many byte patterns to the 8 digital outs in parallel, and loops. The Arduino board has all kinds of outputs and inputs, but no place to put the pullups you'd need for lights. It also has more processing power. You can breadboard whatever hardware arrangement you like, of course.
Besides what the canned MiniPOV application supports, and how they tweak it for the Make blog idea, what special thing(s) did you want to accomplish by trying it on the Arduino platform?
but no place to put the pullups you'd need for lights.
You don't need pull ups for lights, anyway the Arduino has internal pull ups if you need them (for inputs).
Look at the flashing LED tutorial in the playground. Then look at the threads on this board that refer to flashing two LEDs at different rates. Finally look at the sound output routines again in the playground.
Sorry, Grumpy, I meant to say "current limiters for LEDs," don't know why the word 'pullups' came out. I was referring to the physical layout differences between the packaged MiniPOV PCB and the Arduino boards I've seen. Of course, the more generic setup can handle more ideas... it just wasn't clear what robotkid was looking for.