Right here, man. I had a robotic arm I controled from my computer for a little while, though the arm mainly consisted of hotglued pentubes and crochet needles.
At the moment I have a 3x3 LED cube hooked up to it, and man, people love it. Stoners do nothing but stare at it, and most girls are amazed I made such a thing (:D).
Next, I think I'm going to make my room automated. Servos to control the up/down of my window blinds, along with open/closed. I also have a dimmer switch for lights I'd like to make computer-controlled.
Love how easy it is to program for....I'm running the Duemilanove board myself.
Personally, i like to just use the IC. A whole duemilanove board is quite wasteful for small projects. The arduino is easy as hell to use standalone, and cheap. That's why i like it. Right now i'm working on something pretty cool, but i won't tell you until it's done.
i have tried nearly all the examples and have altered some of the code to do different things but since i have next to no coding experience what so ever i found it difficult at first but im getting the hang of it now fortunately
i have tried nearly all the examples and have altered some of the code to do different things but since i have next to no coding experience what so ever i found it difficult at first but im getting the hang of it now fortunately
Ah, that's pretty cool. Only reason I haven't messed with LCDs is because I don't have any.
Do you/anyone know how hard it is to use random LCDs scavenged from electronics? Where did you get yours/how much was it?
Ah, that's pretty cool. Only reason I haven't messed with LCDs is because I don't have any.
Do you/anyone know how hard it is to use random LCDs scavenged from electronics? Where did you get yours/how much was it?
Typically they are all have the Hitachi HD44780 controller. It's the de-facto standard. If it has 14 pins (16 if it has a backlight), you can use it.
You can get LCD's on ebay for about $6 shipped. DO NOT GET THE $1-$3 ONES FROM CHINA! They are all garbage off the production lines. Plus they take weeks to get to you.
I want to make a head unit for my car stereo. It'll probably start off as an ipod controller with a LCD to show the song playing and run the audio through an amplifier. Hopefully it'll end up being a full carputer, with a nice big touchscreen built into my dash, and make it control everything in my car. At that point it will be multiple arduinos and avrs and probably a gumstix running linux for the touchscreen.
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At the moment I have a 3x3 LED cube hooked up to it, and man, people love it. Stoners do nothing but stare at it, and most girls are amazed I made such a thing (:D).
Next, I think I'm going to make my room automated. Servos to control the up/down of my window blinds, along with open/closed. I also have a dimmer switch for lights I'd like to make computer-controlled.
Love how easy it is to program for....I'm running the Duemilanove board myself.
Ah, that's pretty cool. Only reason I haven't messed with LCDs is because I don't have any.
Do you/anyone know how hard it is to use random LCDs scavenged from electronics? Where did you get yours/how much was it?
Typically they are all have the Hitachi HD44780 controller. It's the de-facto standard. If it has 14 pins (16 if it has a backlight), you can use it.
You can get LCD's on ebay for about $6 shipped. DO NOT GET THE $1-$3 ONES FROM CHINA! They are all garbage off the production lines. Plus they take weeks to get to you.
http://stores.ebay.com/dipmicroelectronics