Arduino & Physical Computing

I gave a talk last week introducing the Arduino platform to some MQ students and staff. It seemed to go well and there is a bit of interest in carrying on with a regular meetup in the Electronics labs - more details to come when we organise a time. Meanwhile, here are my slides from the talk, not that they’re very informative by themselves but I wanted to try out slideshare.

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Some of the projects that we demo’d on friday were:

• James’ tweet powered colour changing LEDs
• James’ temperature sensitive LED - breath on it and make it glow red.
• Steve’s LCD twitter display - display your latest twitter post on a small LCD screen.
• Steve’s Lego/Arduino hybrid driving lego motors with an Arduino motor shield
• Steve’s three wheeled bot with IR distance sensors visualised using a processing program on the desktop
• The Blimpduino that floated around the room as I talked - not finished yet and inflated for the first time on Friday.

Send me mail or leave a comment if you’re interested in playing with some of this stuff. We should have a few boards available when we meet in the lab, so you don’t need your own gear.