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Arduino Programming For Beginners

Arduino Programming For Beginners: The Traffic Light Controller

Last week, we learnt about the basic structure of an Arduino program and took a closer look at the ‘blink’ example. Hopefully you took the opportunity to experiment with code, adjusting the timings. This time, we’ll be writing something from scratch. In fact, let’s make a traffic light. Apart from the basic Arduino, you’ll need: …

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Photographers Building a Universal Intervalometer (1)

Arduino for Photographers: Building a Universal Intervalometer

Practicing the art of time-lapse photography without an intervalometer is doable, but not particularly efficient. And while any decent photo equipment store will be happy to sell you one, you can go the DIY way and build your own intervalometer based on the excellent Arduino platform. Theoretically, building an Arduino-based intervalometer is as easy as connecting an infrared (IR) LED to the …

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Bluetooth Crafts (1)

Project Suite Bros: Voice Activated LED Friendship Photoset (Arduino, Bluetooth, Crafts)

(and partner-in-crime, Abbie). Now, I’m off to the next stage of my life, so I decided to build this friendship photoset for Kevin and Briton to remember our golden era. We called ourselves: “The Suite Bros”. This project is actually an extension of the “Voice Activated Arduino (Bluetooth + Android) by ASCAS. I highly advise …

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Augment a Moog Etherwave Theremin (1)

Augment a Moog Etherwave Theremin using Arduino

I’m going to go through my process of hacking a Moog Etherwave Theremin. I created a new acrylic top, partially sanded to be translucent in certain areas, and created my own circuit around an ATMega168 Arduino Bootloaded microcontroller which is stealing a control voltage from the theremin’s board and is driving 2 RGB LEDs which react …

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