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Dagu Red Black Spider Controller
It’s been a few years since I had my soldering iron out, but with a bit of space and holiday time over Christmas, I thought I’d finally play around with Arduino – a platform I’ve looked at enviously...
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HC-SR04 ultrasonic distance sensor testing
Playing with arduino some more, I decided to test a HC-SR04 ultrasonic ranger module I have. Ultrasonic range finders are very common with robots. There seems to be a choice of two for budget/hobbyist...
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Having Fun With Capacitative Sensing For Arduino
Today I played with the CapSense library. Using just a resistor and some conductive material, you have a means to sense electrical capacitance. The coolest thing about it is that depending on the...
View ArticleSupport Package for Matlab/Arduino Interface
So today I discovered the MATLAB support package for Arduino. It’s just some serial communication with a small server program for the arduino – nothing you can’t do easily with Serial.IO.Ports (or in...
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BCS Mid-Wales Show and Tell
A long long time ago I attended a dorkbot meeting in Bristol. I thought it was fantastic – there was beer, technology and intelligent discussion. Seeking to recreate that atmosphere, on Wednesday with...
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Arduino Robot Project Finished!
Although I’ve played with other people’s arduinos before, I’ve never been much of a hardware person. But arduino seems prevalent in computer science teaching and outreach, so I decided to increase my...
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Another Great Show and Tell!
After an exceedingly successful Show and Tell in March we held another yesterday, Friday 11th March. Once again there was a great range of fantastic contributions and significantly increased food and...
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Technocamps Beach Lab: I’m making a note, huge success
Saturday was an exhausting but extremely fulfilling day of sun, technology and inquisitive youth. Best of all, I got to wear my sexy and luminous Technocamps t-shirt. Technocamps is an outreach project...
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