First video for the blorg, also more bumbling arduinos
So I had a friend over, and we were messing with the arduinos as we are both new to them we pretty much botched around getting them to USB connect correctly, and it turns out, I need to acquire more USB B cables.
Parts:
- Arduino UNO
- misc LEDs
- misc resistors
- Speaker
- Accelerometer (MMA7361)
- Murdered network cable (cats ate the RJ45)
- bits of paper clips (in lue of jumpers)
- zip ties
He wanted to play with making them make noises, so I quickly tore apart some crappy USB speakers, and scrounged out one speaker. He managed to throw some maths and programming at it and got some interesting tones out of it, much to the annoyance of his fiance on the phone. We later started messing with the accelerometer. We eventually gave up as the cabling bo-jiggering I was using to put the code on the arduino (I/O errors abound).
Skip to the next day, I being more awake, and remembering I have a USB B cable for the printer, grabbed that and started trying to push new code to the arduino. After some new bits for triggering serial out data, and then some twixing for the tone and accelerometer data, and viola, an annoying noise maker. Also, threw in a youtube vid for this, so I can say I play with multimedia. No pics this time though, literally cant stand to take any (note my leg in the video).
And now for some Arduinos
My Arduinos finally came in, note: don't order from across the largest ocean on the planet. I already have one project planned out to the first stage, an Artificial Horizon for mounting in my MurderWagon. Parts still needed:
- Multiplexer shield/board
- Gyroscope board/shield
- 40+ red/green/yellow LEDs
- 12v-9v power conversion (probably resistor pack)
- CodeCodeCode
Plan is to create a simple circle display (maybe a pair) for tilt and roll. Problems I need to solve include noise reduction from the Gyroscope, auto-zeroing the gyro, and multiplexing the LED display, as the arduino only supports 12 out, and I need 4x that at least.
But for now...ARDUINOS:
Plasma Lamp Part II
So my dad came up to visit me from NJ, West NY is a bit of a haul. But we went on a random wander, and he let me know that Home Depot stocks the flicker bulbs I needed to run the plasma lamp. So we stopped in there an picked one up.
Soon as I got back to the bunker I attached the bulb and fired it up. Ta-da it works, the internet didn't lie to me.
Photos of working setup:
Photos of it Visibly working:
Next step is to build a nifty looking wall mounted lamp for it, should I have moving parts or not...