Re:Arduino, open-source electronics prototyping platform
by wmf on Friday August 07, 2009 @11:24PM
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Perhaps we need a Hacker Canon to accompany our Hacker News; whenever you try to submit something in the canon it could just redirect you to the canonical discussion.
Re:Arduino, open-source electronics prototyping platform
by astrec on Friday August 07, 2009 @11:05PM
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I'm always amazed how many not-so-random people I meet are into Arduino, and how many of them began interested in programming because they cut and pasted a few sketches which they then tweaked.
Got any current projects? My non-existent free time is devoted to a track driven, maze solving robot.
Re:Arduino, open-source electronics prototyping platform
by rscott on Saturday August 08, 2009 @01:08AM
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I plan on using one in a EE senior design course, making an IR tracker using Wiimote camera with some servos for full pan and tilt control. Also going to interface a nunchuck for a manual control mode.
Re:Arduino, open-source electronics prototyping platform
by astrec on Saturday August 08, 2009 @01:47AM
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Sounds great - hope you keep a diary blog of your progress.
Re:Arduino, open-source electronics prototyping platform
by adamhowell on Friday August 07, 2009 @11:00PM
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B/c it's been on Metafilter all day.
(I like Arduino - I use Arduino when I want to start messing around with a new bit of hardware, because it's practically like programming from the console; dead simple and as 'rapid' as hardware prototyping gets. I got into AVR as well, mucking about and seeing what interesting stuff I could output to video.
Hardware prototyping is one of the most enjoyable ways to sandblast your free time that I know of. ;)
But, what's the story? Why did you submit this?