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We taught a workshop on how to create interactive art with the Arduino platform at the Mill Valley Library on October 24, 2015.
We showed 9 students how to make lights blink, sounds play, motors move, and how to add more color with neopixel LEDs, as described in this online guide we created for the workshop:
At the end of the workshop, we asked participants if they would like to this again, and the answer was a resounding yes! Participants told us they learned a lot from this workshop and would not only come back for future workshops, but also recommend this program to their friends.
Instructors for this workshop were Donald Day and Fabrice Florin, with support from Natalie Frederick and Jean Bolte. We are all members of Pataphysical Studios, the art collective behind the ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine’, our poetic oracle.
Come visit the exhibit this month! We’re open every Saturday and Sunday in October, from 1 to 5pm, in the downstairs conference room of the Mill Valley Library.
Special thanks to the Mill Valley Library and the Friends of the Library for making these workshops possible — especially Kristen Clarke, who helped us get the Arduino parts and set up for the workshop.
View more photos of the exhibit: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659147117739
RGB colour sensor data collected by Arduino Blend Micro. Data is sent to iPhone over Bluetooth Low-Energy.
Adam building his 'Inputeron' circuit. LED row growing with amount of light reaching the photosensor.
My new USB Arduino board! It's a microcontroller board with a strong support community and a pretty neat IDE. Open Source Hardware, baby! If you're not controlling motors, it runs off of USB bus power.
The shield snaps right on to the ardiuno and makes playing with small circuits much easier and more portable than dragging around a full sized breadboard and jumpering wires across from one to the other. The LEDs are red, green, and blue, though it's hard to tell since they're overexposed.
Our fall Arduino 101 class at Tam Makers is off to a great start. I taught this evening course with my associates Donald Day and Edward Janne on September 14, 2016, at the woodshop in Tam High School in Mill Valley.
We welcomed a wonderful group of seven students, including adults with diverse backgrounds, as well as a high school student. We started by giving our students an overview of the popular Arduino board. We then learned how to light up an LED, add a button to turn it on and off, and play a sound with a piezzo buzzer.
Students accomplished all these steps successfully, and seemed to really enjoy this class and told us they learned a lot from it. We’re really happy that this course is going so well and we look forward to teaching next week’s class.
View more photos of this Arduino course:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659914570948
Learn more about this Arduino 101 class:
www.tammakers.org/arduino-101/
Read our Arduino 101 Guide:
bit.ly/arduino-101-guide-fall-2016
Check out our course slides:
bit.ly/arduino-101-slides-fall-2016
Learn more about Tam Makers:
I am creating an art float with friends and neighbors for this year’s Mill Valley Memorial Day Parade.
Our float for this parade features the Bamboodu Theater, a mobile puppet stage I created for civic events and art shows. Our first show stars Lady Liberty and Mr. Trump. As music plays, a Mr. Trump’s recent tweets and alternative facts appear on a news ticker. Each time Trump says something wrong, Liberty hits him on his thick, bobbing head.
As we march, we will invite parade watchers to sing along the inspiring poem by Emma Lazarus about the Statue of Liberty (“Give me your tired, your poor …”). Through this interactive art experience, we hope to engage people of all ages to change the world through civic action.
I am building this float with a wonderful team at the Mill Valley Community Action Network (MVCAN), a local political group which I recently joined to resist the conservative takeover of our country.
I’m very grateful to all our friends and neighbors who are helping bring it to life: Danny Altman, Laura Boles, Jean Bolte, Phyllis Florin, David Glad, Peter Graumann, Edward Janne, Suz Lipman, Jean Marie Murphy and Mark Petrakis, to name but a few.
Our Bamboodu Float is coming along beautifully, and I can’t wait to show it off at the parade on Monday, May 29, 2017.
Join your neighbors to keep democracy alive!
Learn more about the Bamboodu Float: bit.ly/mvcan-float-info
Learn more about my Bamboodu Theater: bit.ly/bamboodu-info
See more photos of the Bamboodu Float:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157683621675736
See more photos of the Bamboodu Theater:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157680393574291
Learn more about MVCAN at www.mvcan.org/
#resist #mvcan #politicalart #bamboodu
Here's the present state of the pinball project: a power supply, Arduino I/O board, PinMame-HW driver board, flipper assembly, and a switch. Hitting the switch makes the flipper coil fire. This is special (to me) because the switch closure is interpreted by the microcontroller (using a parallel to serial chip), which turns the solenoid on for a short period of time. Hooray!
Our fall Arduino 101 class at Tam Makers is off to a great start. I taught this evening course with my associates Donald Day and Edward Janne on September 14, 2016, at the woodshop in Tam High School in Mill Valley.
We welcomed a wonderful group of seven students, including adults with diverse backgrounds, as well as a high school student. We started by giving our students an overview of the popular Arduino board. We then learned how to light up an LED, add a button to turn it on and off, and play a sound with a piezzo buzzer.
Students accomplished all these steps successfully, and seemed to really enjoy this class and told us they learned a lot from it. We’re really happy that this course is going so well and we look forward to teaching next week’s class.
View more photos of this Arduino course:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157659914570948
Learn more about this Arduino 101 class:
www.tammakers.org/arduino-101/
Read our Arduino 101 Guide:
bit.ly/arduino-101-guide-fall-2016
Check out our course slides:
bit.ly/arduino-101-slides-fall-2016
Learn more about Tam Makers:
What should I call my boards?
If you're making your own board, come up with your own name! This will allow people identify you with your products and help you to build a brand. Be creative: try to suggest what people might use the board for, or emphasize the form factor, or just pick a random word that sounds cool. "Arduino" is a trademark of Arduino team and should not be used for unofficial variants. If you're interested in having your design included in the official Arduino product line, please see the So you want to make an Arduino document and contact the Arduino team.
While unofficial products should not have "Arduino" in their name, it's okay to describe your product in relation to the Arduino project and platform. Here are a few guidelines that explain which uses we consider reasonable. Not okay:
Arduino Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Arduino
Arduino Compatible Xxxxxx - use "Xxxxxx (Arduino-Compatible)" instead
Okay:
Xxxxxx for Arduino - products that work with official Arduino boards (e.g. shields or kits)
Xxxxxx (Arduino-Compatible) - variations and clones which are software and hardware compatible
Note that while we don't attempt to restrict uses of the "duino" suffix, its use causes the Italians on the team to cringe (apparently it sounds terrible); you might want to avoid it. (It's also trademarked by a Hungarian company.)
Can I build a commercial product based on Arduino?
Yes, with the following conditions:
Physically embedding an Arduino board inside a commercial product does not require you to disclose or open-source any information about its design.
Deriving the design of a commercial product from the Eagle files for an Arduino board requires you to release the modified files under the same Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. You may manufacture and sell the resulting product.
Using the Arduino core and libraries for the firmware of a commercial product does not require you to release the source code for the firmware. The LGPL does, however, require you to make available object files that allow for the relinking of the firmware against updated versions of the Arduino core and libraries. Any modifications to the core and libraries must be released under the LGPL.
The source code for the Arduino environment is covered by the GPL, which requires any modifications to be open-sourced under the same license. It does not prevent the sale of derivative software or its inclusion in commercial products.
In all cases, the exact requirements are determined by the applicable license. Additionally, see the previous question for information about the use of the name “Arduinoâ€.
Almost a year ago I bought this little camera from SparkFun. Since that time it has sat nestled in a little box. Recently I made a serious attempt to get the @#%^@ thing working (with an Arduino).
Today I succeeded. More about this soon. Much thanks to Sean Voisen for the how-to and the library. I had to adapt the example to use I2C/2Wire flash and to use a jumper to control taking versus dumping the photo. Also, I added a base64 encoder to avoid binary over serial issues.
Without getting further in to it I now understand why there aren't a lot more camera+Arduino projects out there.