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Pixel VGA, version 1 (Floor Cluster) - Garnet Hertz
Two dozen old computer monitors occupy the center of a gallery floor in a cluster facing the wall. Each screen is controlled with custom electronics to create pulsating and strobing patterns, casting a colored wash across the darkened gallery.
Dimensions: Variable (approx 3m x 3m). VGA monitors, custom electronics. 2011.
More project information: conceptlab.com/pixel/
The sadly uninteresting Vex microcontroller.
All the peripherals can be interfaced with an arduino to better effect. Slap a bluetooth module on it and operate it from your phone instead of the hokey Vex rf joystick thingie.
Arduino UNO was one of the first ever circuit portraits, way back in 2013. This is a new edition with an extra layer and a bit more finesse.
Listed on Etsy here: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/uptomuch?section_id=10073316
This is the CPU board with a 8-bit microcontroller PIC12F629, a 20MHz crystal and a bypass capacitor to reduce the noise. This little board goes into a 70-210mm f/2.8 lens and an identical one is made for a 28mm f/1.8 lens. There is an internal oscillator but can only run at 4 MHz which is too slow for this application.
PIC® MCUs featuring nanoWatt XLP eXtreme Low Power Technology are useful in designing embedded applications with extremely low power consumption. Benefits of nanoWatt XLP Technology include:
â– Sleep / Power-down current down to 20 nA
â– Brown-out Reset down to 45 nA
â– Watch-dog Timer down to 400 nA
â– Real-time Clock/Calendar down to 500 nA
For more information, please visit: www.microchip.com/XLP
Russ connected an MCP4822 dual 12-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to the fine Tektronix 2213A oscilloscope. A program (sketch) on the Arduino microcontroller drives the DAC and generates the image by steering the scope's CRT beam along the lines in the drawing (vector-scan). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor
Russ has updated the software with some animation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0dRNZrtVjg
Photographed at the Bristol Hackspace: bristol.hackspace.org.uk/
2Pcs MAX3232 RS232 Serial Port To TTL Converter Module DB9 Connector With Cable
2 PCS for EUR 2,61
100% Brand New
Size: Approx 3.3cm x 3.5cm x 1.7cm(LxWxH)
Cable: 21cm(including 2 ports)
Working Voltage: 3V-5V
Quantity: 2 Pcs
MAX3232 chip
Pin definition: GND, RXD, TXD, VCC, +5V
Package Content:
2 x MAX3232 RS232 Serial Port To TTL Converter Module DB9 Connectors with cable
Properly Selecting Electronic Components
by Vaughn D. Martin
If you want your circuits to work right, you gotta have the right components for the job. This tutorial will help you make sure you know what you're doing. Page 48
How To: Intro to Heatsink Selection and Installation
by John E. Post
Learn how to not get burned on your next build. Page 56
Projects
The Arch-Ball Clock
Electronic Gadgets
by Elza Simpson
This is one for the most unique approaches ever for keeping track of time. Page 38
Transistor Clock
Electronic Gadgets
by Keith Bayern
If somehow the Arch-Ball clock didn't strike your fancy, you won't be able to "resist" this amazing design. Page 42
Columns
Techknowledgey
by Jeff Eckert
Techknowledgey 2009
Topics covered include harnessing antimatter, eye-to-robot interface, Intel fined $1.45 billion, plus other info you won't want to miss. Page 12
The Spin Zone
by Jon Williams
Loving LEDs Again
The Stamp Applications column has evolved into Propeller based projects now! This month, you'll be loving LEDs again. Page 16
Smiley’s Workshop
by Joe Pardue
Smiley’s Workshop: An AVR C Programming Series (Part 12)
AVR learning platform projects. Page 22
Q&A
by Russell Kincaid
Q & A
Voltage conversion, understanding thermal lag, software-based power control, plus more. Page 32
Personal Robotics
by Vern Graner
The Probotix Fireball V90 CNC Visited
In that article, we detailed the PROBOTIX Fireball v90 — one of the first high-accuracy/sub-$1,000 CNC systems on the market. Page 60
Getting Started With PICS
by Chuck Hellebuyck
Improving the PICKit 2 Development Board
The one thing I always wanted to add was a breadboard area, so I modified the development board included with the Starter Kit — it’s called the low pin count development board. Page 68
The Design Cycle
by Fred Eady
Kids CAN Love Engineering
This year’s science station consisted of a Lenovo NetBook coupled to a USB-to-CAN bridge. The goal was to introduce the students to a working network they could actually see and touch. Page 74
Near Space
by L. Paul Verhage
GPS Simulator for Missions to Near Space
What I need is a convenient GPS simulator that will let me test a flight program on the ground. In this article, I’ll describe what I came up with. Page 82
Microchip Technology's PIC18F66K80 8-bit CAN microcontrollers (MCUs) feature1.8 – 5.5V operation and eXtreme Low Power (XLP) technology, for the industry’s lowest sleep current consumption of less than 20 nA. The MCUs feature an on-chip 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) and a peripheral that enables mTouch™ capacitive touch-sensing user interfaces. They are ideal for applications in the automotive (e.g. body control modules, automotive lighting, door/seat/steering/window control, HVAC control), industrial (e.g. security systems, elevators and escalators) and medical (e.g. glucose meters, patient-monitoring devices) markets.
The Microchip PIC18 Microcontroller family is the Microchip highest performance 8-bit class microcontroller. Powered by advanced RISC CPU, this PIC18 microcontroller family could deliver up to 16 MIPS computing power compared to the other Microchip 8-bit microcontroller family such as PIC10, PIC12 and PIC16 which only could deliver up to 5 MIPS. For more information you could visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=1408
Vostro 1400, Lacie external Drive, WD external drive, Asus eeePC, Nokia 770, usb flash card reader, 3 tackle boxes full of microcontrollers, resistors, transistors, jumpers bread board, microcontroller programmer etc...
more info at bsdpunk.blogspot.com
- Microcontroller ATmega32U4
- Operating Voltage 5V
- Flash Memory 32 KB of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader
- SRAM 2.5 KB
- EEPROM 1 KB
- 16MHz Clock
Foto Arkadiusz Sikorski 2012 / www.arq.pl/ | www.sikorski.art.pl/
Polygonal spiral of aluminium welding wire, bent under computer control by Arduino and motors. Photo by David Henshall.
I made a shield to connect a Seeedstudio 4-digit-display (not in the image) in a stack to the D1 mini. The upper shield is the RTC
Each wheel has three optical sensors, an Arduino microcontroller board, an audio amplifier and a battery pack. They play generative music as the wheel turns.
Lissajous figures are interesting curves that occur in systems where oscillation happens in more than one direction, for example when a pendulum hanging from a string moves in the plane.
These pictures are from an easy persistence of vision approach to playing with Lissajous figures. Read more about this project here.
MCUs offering extensive connectivity interfaces, powerful performance and robust hardware-based security.
Arduino board designs use a variety of microprocessors and controllers. The boards are equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards or Breadboards (shields) and other circuits. The boards feature serial communications interfaces, including Universal Serial Bus (USB) on some models, which are also used for loading programs from personal computers. The microcontrollers are typically programmed using a dialect of features from the programming languages C and C++. In addition to using traditional compiler toolchains, the Arduino project provides an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the Processing language project.
Dorkbot Bristol, December 2008: Drew operating the dropper on his high-speed photography rig. It's based on an Arduino and triggers the camera shutter and flash at precisely the right moment to capture the splash. The best of the results are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewandmithi/
Have you ever thought that most of our perception about the robot is based on the Hollywood movie! The well-known 3CPO and R2D2 from Star Wars until the little cute garbage compacting robot named WALL-E; all of these machines are example of our dreams or should I say our quest to what we all think about the robot should be. Although the robot that we are going to build here is still far away from the technologies shown on those movies but at least it will give you an introductory to the robotics world. for more information please visit www.ermicro.com/blog/?p=983
Microchip Technology Inc. shipped its 10 billionth PIC® microcontroller (MCU) to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Microchip delivered this 10 billionth microcontroller, the 32-bit PIC32MX340F256, www.microchip.com/get/N46K, approximately 10 months after delivering its nine billionth.
Microchip Technology's enhanced mTouch™ Cap Touch Evaluation Kit includes a new board for development with the 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller family. It comes equipped with capacitive touch-sensing keys and sliders, which allows designers to evaluate this interface in their applications using the Windows® OS-based mTouch Diagnostic Tool. This software tool provides an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) for developing cap-touch buttons and sliders, and is included in the free MPLAB® Integrated Development Environment. The additional software libraries, source code and other support materials that come with the board further shorten development cycles and reduce design costs.
When combined with its other included boards, the enhanced mTouch Cap Touch Evaluation Kit allows designers to evaluate all of Microchip’s 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers, providing a scalable capacitive touch sensing development platform for a wide range of design needs.
The enhanced mTouch Cap Touch Evaluation Kit (part # DM183026-2, $99.95) is available today at www.microchip.com/get/F3RD.
Microchip Technology's PIC18F87J72 Single-Phase Energy-Meter Reference Design (Part # ARD00280) features a shunt-based single-phase meter with energy-calculation firmware and GUI-assisted software calibration, the reference design enables calculation of active/reactive energy, forward/reverse energy, active/reactive/apparent power and RMS current/Voltage. Customers can reuse or customize the free firmware for their needs, which further shortens time to market and enables them to differentiate their products in the marketplace.
A simple AVR breakout/programming target board for the ATmega168 microcontroller (and friends) in a convenient business card form factor. An open-source hardware project from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, read more here.
The PIC16F75X family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) featuring intelligent analog and core-independent peripherals, making them ideal for general-purpose applications, as well as power supplies, battery charging, LED lighting, power management and power control/smart energy applications. The new PIC16F753 MCU builds on the success of the popular PIC12F752. The PIC16F753 offers all the key features of the PIC12F752, such as the integrated Complementary Output Generator (COG) peripheral that provides non-overlapping, complementary waveforms for inputs such as comparators and Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) peripherals, while enabling dead-band control, auto shutdown, auto reset, phase control and blanking control. Additionally, the PIC16F753 offers an Op Amp with 3 MHz of Gain Bandwidth Product (GBWP), and a slope compensation circuit to help in Switch Mode Power Supply applications. For more info, visit: www.microchip.com/get/FL6L
Talks and performances by people doing strange things with electricity
Fri 23 March 2012, 6.30-10pm with interval at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield.
Dorkbot is a meeting of people interested in electric/electronic art in the broadest sense; robotics, kinetic art, microcontrollers, interactive art, algorithmic music, net.art... The only real conditions are that it is a bit strange and involves electricity in some way. It is really defined by whoever turns up, be it engineers who want to be artists, artists who want to be engineers, or the otherwise confused.
This MEGADORK event features a cabaret of talks and performances from among the UK's dorkiest, to entertain and amaze:
Paul Granjon - A strange performance from the world renowned self-styled robot artist.
Patrick Tresset - Talks about his drawing robot Paul (on show as part of the Alan Turing: Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition).
Daniel Jones and James Bulley - talking about generating live music from patterns of weather.
www.variable4.org.uk/about/intro
Sarah and Jenny Angliss - playing robot music from past futures.
spacedog.biz
Sergi Jorda - talks about the Reactable tangible tabletop music playground (which you'll be able to try out at the Central Library Saturday 24 March)
Dan Stowell - Demonstrates his use of the Risset illusion in techno music.
Silicone Bake - Live coded pop songs about love, death and counterfeit watches, where all lyrics are taken from spam emails.
Megadork is curated by Alex McLean.
Dorkbot started in New York, spread to London, and now dozens of cities around the world, including several active UK chapters; Sheffield, Bristol, Anglia, Newcastle, Cardiff and Alba (Scotland). Find out more at: www.dorkbot.org
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring
A Festival of Art, Science and Technology
22-24 March
Sheffield UK
My home-made double layer PCB made using heat toner transfer method.
www.apdigitallight.com/2009/12/simple-technique-to-make-p...
The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328
It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.
arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardUno
Photo taken by Michael Kappel of my Embedded Electronics Experiment Kit
View the high resolution Image on my picture website
Microchip Technology's MCP6401/2/4 Operational Amplifiers (Op Amps) provide lower power consumption in small packages. Featuring quiescent current of just 45 microamperes at 1 MHz, the MCP6401/2/4 devices are an excellent complement to Microchip’s eXtreme Low Power PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs), helping to extend battery life in a variety of consumer (e.g. music players, appliances and gaming consoles); industrial (e.g. barcode scanners and gas meters); automotive (e.g. signal conditioning for proximity and tire-pressure-measurement sensors); and medical applications (e.g. glucometers and portable patient-monitoring devices), among others.
Talks and performances by people doing strange things with electricity
Fri 23 March 2012, 6.30-10pm with interval at the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield.
Dorkbot is a meeting of people interested in electric/electronic art in the broadest sense; robotics, kinetic art, microcontrollers, interactive art, algorithmic music, net.art... The only real conditions are that it is a bit strange and involves electricity in some way. It is really defined by whoever turns up, be it engineers who want to be artists, artists who want to be engineers, or the otherwise confused.
This MEGADORK event features a cabaret of talks and performances from among the UK's dorkiest, to entertain and amaze:
Paul Granjon - A strange performance from the world renowned self-styled robot artist.
Patrick Tresset - Talks about his drawing robot Paul (on show as part of the Alan Turing: Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition).
Daniel Jones and James Bulley - talking about generating live music from patterns of weather.
www.variable4.org.uk/about/intro
Sarah and Jenny Angliss - playing robot music from past futures.
spacedog.biz
Sergi Jorda - talks about the Reactable tangible tabletop music playground (which you'll be able to try out at the Central Library Saturday 24 March)
Dan Stowell - Demonstrates his use of the Risset illusion in techno music.
Silicone Bake - Live coded pop songs about love, death and counterfeit watches, where all lyrics are taken from spam emails.
Megadork is curated by Alex McLean.
Dorkbot started in New York, spread to London, and now dozens of cities around the world, including several active UK chapters; Sheffield, Bristol, Anglia, Newcastle, Cardiff and Alba (Scotland). Find out more at: www.dorkbot.org
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring
A Festival of Art, Science and Technology
22-24 March
Sheffield UK