You can dowload the Arduino software from the community web site:
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
The software is available for Windows, Linux and Macs. To set up on a Mac, follow this guide:
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/MacOSX
Then you can get an idea of what to do first:
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Sketch
http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/
Isi takes BOTduino to GeekUp in Leeds with Ben Dalton talking a little about it.
This Friday Ben Dalton, Paul Emery & I will be running an Arduino workshop at LeedsMet’s staff development week for staff across the University. The session titled “Future Craft” will include an introduction to Arduino along with discussion of the potential for the use of this type of technology across a range of academic disciplines.
Servo example files for Staff Development:
A test in developing interfacing with computers using colour.
Hacked a few example patches together in max msp to make colour level control shape distortion
Pin out for the wiimote nunchuck:
http://www.hardwarebook.info/Wiimote_Expansion_Port
and an adapter from todbot:
http://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/18/wiichuck-wii-nunchuck-adapter-available/
My Wave Shield is built. I now have a dog that reads out PI. Cool.
Here’s the Arduino and Wave Shield plugged into a dog.
Today I managed to get adobe flash communicating with arduino after reading the guide on the arduino website . http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Flash
I used an example (http://aralbalkan.com/1243 ) which utilises Action script 3 for some more advanced effects using a potentiometer but found the stream of data I got into flash wasn’t smooth enough so instead used a file in action script 2 (http://file-error.net/1o1o1o1o1/?Physical_Computing_and_Interaction:Arduino:Arduino_VS_Flash) which I found had a more stable feed but still used the serproxy server.
I created an interactive panorama controlled by a potentiometer (a twiddly dial) and also used it to make some flash games Id made for keyboard input a bit more fun (although now requiring two people to control one character).
