Just a quick reminder that it's the next £5app this Tuesday. We've got quite a full line-up and we could have had more - it looks like people have been very busy this summer:
As mentioned in the previous post about my arduino doorbell I wanted to get the doorbell and my Chumby talking.
As the Chumby runs Linux, is on the network and is able to run a recent version of Python (2.6) it seemed like it would be pretty easy to …
After I got my Arduino I felt the urge to brush up on my general electronics knowledge. The last time I'd really played with any circuits was back in about 1994 when I was studying my Technology GCSE - which now is quite a long time ago. So I picked up …
After a first couple of small Arduino projects I felt the need to make something a bit more useful and permanent.
I had seen Roo Reynolds talking about hacking his doorbell to get it onto Twitter and as our doorbell is a bit rubbish I thought this seemed like a …
I've finally managed to finish the Kite Physics Demo I started back in October:
It's more of a plaything than anything else. It did give me a chance to try out writing some physics code again, something I don't get much of a chance to do …
During software development it's key to minimize the time between editing code and seeing the results of a change. During web-development the constant tweaking of CSS/HTML/Javascript etc means you're always reloading the browser to see changes.
At work I do a lot of Java web development, which normally …
Here in Brighton a good number of the bus stops have electronic boards, that tell you when the next buses are due. The data for these boards is available online and even provides data for stops that don't have the electronic boards. In fact there's an free iPhone app available …
So here's another quick Arduino project. It is a "theremin" of sorts, but whereas a real theremin uses antennas to control pitch and volume this on uses a potentiometer for pitch and a push button for volume. The tone is output via a piezo buzzer (as used for generating morse …
So I finally have an Arduino. I've been hankering after one for a while now, after seeing what Build Brighton and others have been able to do with them. So I was very happy when my better half paid attention to the hints I'd been dropping and got me an …