What you can do with Arduino

November 26, 2008 on 5:24 pm by Thomas | In Art, Design, Tools |

Arduino“Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.”

Hm, so what does that mean? Basically what you can with the little Arduino board is easily bring lots of input in and turn it into certain outputs. Sounds easy and maybe trivial but really is not. Because Arduino can process many different signals and trigger many different outputs. Kiss a door and it opens. Step close to a mirror and a video starts playing with the mirror talking to you. Turn TV picture into LED-signals. Connect it to the Wii and In general one might say it’s very nerdy and looks a little unready still. But it’s definetly the start into a development of selfbuilt robots and machines.

Below are some video examples. I particularly like the TV to LED part because it’s kind of what a friend and I did for a party once. We put 16 toilet paper rolls covered with translucent paper in fornt a tv and thus reduced the pictures to a 16×16 pixel screen. We taped it to video and had a nice party light installation. The posted below is slightly more elegant but, really, less charming.

Arduino introduction by Make magazine editors Joe Grand and Bre Pettis

Turn a video into simple LED output

A little robot controlled via the Wii nunchuck

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  1. I really think I should buy my self an Arduino as a christmas present ;O) Such an innovative platform, I find myself thinking about new ways to use it every other day …

    Comment by Matthias — 26/11/2008 #

  2. I’d love to start using Arduino - love the Daily Show LED!

    Comment by Roger Saner — 26/11/2008 #

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