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This is an interesting video I found on YouTube. I really like the integration of a touch-screen and the Arduino. I just wish there was more information about this project. I don’t think this would be too difficult to reproduce in Processing?

Specs:

• 8″ touchscreen LCD from ebay
• My super DELL computer ^^
• Visual basic to create the Piano APP
• Arduino Software to create the tone prog.
• Arduino Dicimila +usb cable+piezo speaker.

Get you own Arduino in the MakerSHED. Don’t forget to use coupon code “dogdays” to get an additional 20% off. Hurry up the offer expires midnight PST this Sunday (August 31, 2008).

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Original post by Marc de Vinck

Bit-music loving Arduino users - I ported (and modded a bit) one of the Noise Toy programs over to the lovely and talented Arduino platform. Just add a couple of momentary switches to pins 8 and 9 and connect stereo audio to 3 and 4 - you’re done. Loud Objects’ code proved quite fun to tinker/learn with - if you’re curious, try experimenting with different tempo values.

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Loud Objects Noise Toy kit

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Bit-music loving Arduino users - I ported (and modded a bit) one of the Noise Toy programs over to the lovely and talented Arduino platform. Just add a couple of momentary switches to pins 8 and 9 and connect stereo audio to 3 and 4 - you’re done. Loud Objects’ code proved quite fun to tinker/learn with - if you’re curious, try experimenting with different tempo values.

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Loud Objects Noise Toy kit

Arduino Diecimila

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This is just the beginning of a more complex Arduino powered noisemaker. Apparently the next version will also include midi controls. I really want to see this project developed further, especially the midi integration.

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This is a really interesting project that uses an Arduino to control 3 teakettles via a servo attached to the handles. I wonder if they would get along with the Cylon Coffee Pot?

My tea kettles were developed as my final piece for Mechatronics 470, Summer Quarter 2008.My goal was to create a completely absurd experience for one or more observers/users based on recasting a familiar household object in an unexpected and unpredictable light. Three whistling tea kettles were rigged with Servo motors and Infrared motion sensors to detect human motion in front of them.

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Like many of us, Justin doessn’t have time to cook up a real breakfast before heading out in the morning. So he put Chef Arduino to work automating the process using a relay interface and a few other components -

So I hooked up a coffee maker, and two electric stove surfaces to the RelaySquid. Then I ran the RelaySquid with a slightly modified version of the BitDJ code, which I edited to make it time the signals to the RelaySquid to turn on the bacon hotplate for 7 minutes, followed by coffee for 2 minutes, and then the egg for 7 minutes (the coffee and egg run in parallel to start). The end result is crispy bacon that’s had a chance to dry out a little, coffee that’s not too hot, and a fresh hot egg!

Head over to the site for video proof of the finished product - Arduino! Make me breakfast!

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Sparkfun now sells a variation of the Arduino called the “Arduino Pro”. Check out the specifications to see if it’s the right board for your next project. If you are new to micro-controllers, I would start with an Arduino Diecimila since the Pro needs a few thing to get it connected. The Arduino Pro is BYOC, that’s “bring your own connectors”.

It’s blue! It’s skinny! It’s the Arduino Pro! SparkFun’s minimal design approach to Arduino. This is a 3.3V Arduino running the 8MHz bootloader (select ‘LilyPad’ within the Arduino software). The Arduino Pro is very much like the Skinny, but we added a handful of features to become a fully certified Arduino board. The power switch was moved to the side of the board (good idea Limor!) to allow control when a shield is attached.

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The “Arduinome” is yet another Monome clone built with the Arduino controller. Check out the video for details on how this kit works.

arduinome, via CreateDigitalMusic

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Todbot makes an interesting suggestion

Analog meters are hard to use in hardened environments. If you’re showing data from digital sources, why not use a digitally-controlled analog meter?

laser cut acrylic meter face & needle, tiny 25mmx12mm $3 servo, and arduino.

- Servos as meters on Flickr

MotorShield for Arduino Kit

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Filed under: Robots

We’ve seen methods for hooking house plants up with their own Twitter account, but there’s hardly anything more satisfying that building a robot to read back all those feeds from the thousands of people you’re undoubtedly following. Ganzbot is a decidedly low-budget robot that relies on an Arduino Decima to control the head actions and a USB cable to receive up-to-date status information. Have a look at the innards as well as a few words being spoken just after the jump.

[Via MAKE]

Continue reading Video: Ganzbot reads Twitter feeds aloud, looks fashionably low-rate

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Arduino polishes up its navigation skills via an inexpensive compass sensore component -

A small digital compass based on hall effect is connected to an Arduino 10000 board. The logic in the board turns on and off leds depending on direction. There are 4 leds, one for each in N,S,W,E. When two leds are ON the direction is in the middle (es. NW). The digital compass chip (the white cylinder) comes from http://www.dinsmoresensors.com/ and costs 10$

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Formants is an interactive artwork by Erin Gee. The piece plays .wav files when magnetic sensors detect the hair being brushed. It is all powered by our favorite little micro-controller, the Arduino.

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This inventive real-time music visualisation system uses an Arduino, piezo sensors, webcams, a 3G network card, Bluetooth adaptor, and other connectors to produce some pretty interesting visual output. Check out the link for the details on the hardware involved in this project.

Live Musical Performances Visualisation System

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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen

This is a really cool robot head that can show emotions as it reads incoming twitter feeds. The web site has a lot of information about the build, including program downloads and the schematics of the interface board. I definitely want a Ganzbot in my studio.

This funny little robot has eyes, eyebrows and a mouth and will verbally read your latest Twitter status to you. It uses an Arduino Decima to control the head actions and receives the latest Twitter status information over USB from a host computer.

For those who don’t know, Twitter is a micro blogging tool where users announce what they’re doing with 140 characters or less. You can also send the robot something to say directly from the command line with a few Ganzbot moods to choose from.

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Little-Scale shares tips for using a button keypad with the Arduino platform -

The idea of the digital scanning of a keypad is very simple. The keypad in question has twelve buttons, set up in four rows of three (like a phone keypad, for example). Each button has two connection points – one point goes to a row pin, and one point goes to a column pin. Therefore, seven pins are connected between the keypad and the Arduino – four for the rows and three for the columns. When a button is pushed, it connects the two points – a column pin and a row pin.

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Original post by Collin Cunningham