Arduino Development Board

[Brian Smithers]

Whoa, sounds neat!

it was easy at first
he taught in a BASIC syntax, which was cool.
but uh, lets just say unfunctional. Time was a bitch to do
and wiring it let me tell you...
was not fun. it used 8 wires for each pin and a power connector. I had to cram a lot of things together and i broke an LED because i forgot a resistor. Though it was fun, and I had a great time manually programing in the binary code for each digit :P
though it was educational.
i even made a stoplight :D

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[Brian Smithers]

now make the clock into a vibration sensor that detects when people step on the ground, and wire it onto your school's computer system so that it makes them all run the emergency warning sound. Finally, put it in the IT room.

haahaha
sad thing is you could do it a much better way
just loop it so it's always on
put a bunch of them all over the school
hide them everywhere
even take apart a monitor
take out guts
replace with arduino
do it
c;

[Cucumber!]

Lol you could teach my dad a few things. And he's a computer engineer, so he can teach you a few things too :P

[fred da kiko]

haahaha
sad thing is you could do it a much better way
just loop it so it's always on
put a bunch of them all over the school
hide them everywhere
even take apart a monitor
take out guts
replace with arduino
do it
c;

no, i want it to be vibration based because it would turn on the second someone walks into the IT room, it would freak them out.

[Brian Smithers]

no, i want it to be vibration based because it would turn on the second someone walks into the IT room, it would freak them out.

you would probably then want to use a motion censor, they look like marshmallows actually lol.

Lol you could teach my dad a few things. And he's a computer engineer, so he can teach you a few things too :P

woah
i want to meet this civilized being of humanity you call
father

[fred da kiko]

you would probably then want to use a motion censor, they look like marshmallows actually lol.woah
i want to meet this civilized being of humanity you call
father

A motion censor would work if it were aimed at the door, but it would also pick up stuff like a paper falling off a desk or an insect. If you can set the sensor to pick up larger vibrations, you might be able to set it up so that it only picks up the ≥walking vibrations.

[Wedge]

I love arduino.

That being said I misplaced mine somewhere in a physics lab and haven't quite had time to look around for it. I went ahead and ordered a TI Launchpad to experiment with instead. They could become my new favorite development platform since they're less than $5 each.

Adafruit is awesome and I buy stuff from them all the time. SparkFun is also great, and sells some arduino experimenting kits:

Starter Kit - $60
Inventor's Kit - $95

If you do any work at all with arduinos you will become very familiar with both SparkFun and Adafruit.

Arduino also has their own official kits:

Workshop Kit - €50
Starter Kit - €80

Kits are a great place to start but they can be pretty expensive. It's a lot cheaper if you buy the parts yourself but picking out the right parts, etc, requires some knowledge that you probably won't have unless you play around with one of the kits for a bit and start making stuff.

Dealextreme sells some Arduino compatible clones for about half price. I haven't purchased any from them so I don't know how good they are. I assume they're probably fine, they just say "designed in Italy" instead of "made in Italy."

A motion censor would work if it were aimed at the door, but it would also pick up stuff like a paper falling off a desk or an insect. If you can set the sensor to pick up larger vibrations, you might be able to set it up so that it only picks up the ≥walking vibrations.

A piezoelectric sensor is one way of doing this, and probably one of the cheaper ways. Here is one for $1.50. A lot of the arduino kits come with them but they're buzzer style ones - it turns out if you pulse this with certain frequencies they play tones so a lot of basic projects involve playing "music" with your arduino. I've got a recording of mine playing ode to joy somewhere. In any case, they're not convenient for sticking on the floor as a sensor.

That flat one can also play music as well if you get bored of using as a vibration sensor, and if you build a cone for it out of paper it can be really loud, much louder than the buzzers.

[Blocki]

wut
I have one of these
Where is it

[DrenDran]

Hopefully getting this:
http://www.adafruit.com/products/1076
And going to use this with it:
https://www.adafruit.com/products/376

[Treynolds416]

I had already bought and used an Uno to work with my science fair project through labview. It was a great little device and easy to use, but the drivers were a gigantic pain in the ass

[Aphtonites]

It suspiciously looks like the Raspberry Pi.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a rip off.

[Brian Smithers]

It suspiciously looks like the Raspberry Pi.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was a rip off.

they are 2 competely different devices that do 2 completely different things
but Arduino was made before it.
1 is a loving single board cmoputer
1 is a development platform for making complex circuits and prototyping microcontrolers.

ANYWHOP
So my mom wants me to join math club, because im good at mathies
so i get the $40 one in OP at start
and at the end of a month or so (i think) I get
http://www.amazon.com/Arduino-Sidekick-Basic-Kit/dp/B007B14HM8/ref=pd_bxgy_pc_img_z
which will be really cool because it has everything you need to make research anything.

[Tylale]

Can you do things wirelessly with this? Like could I have it turn my tv on if I pressed a button or something? Also can you have the button be on a smart phone? I've been wanting to hook all my electronics up to some sort of program on my phone. Could I do that with this?

[Reinforcements]

I had already bought and used an Uno to work with my science fair project through labview. It was a great little device and easy to use, but the drivers were a gigantic pain in the ass

Wait, labview works with these things?!

[DrenDran]

Jö, Brian, if I were to buy the "Due" what else would I need to use it?
A cord, I assume, but anything else?
What battery does it use? Does it come with one?
And what about the screen, would I need anything to connect it or use it?