On 05/21/2009 11:05 AM, Nick Floersch wrote:
I talked with someone (Sam maybe? ... who was sitting beside me
again?) about his basic example of programming an Arduino board from
his Mac and making an LED flash... it seemed to me that we could do
another Arduino meeting with some presenters showing, on a projector,
them writing out some basic code and commands to do different things:
and Arduino programming tutorial type of night. Start with something
super-simple like making the LED blink for those who have no
experience, and move on to controlling motors and servos and sensors.
That was me. What I had attached to the board was a BlinkM
(http://thingm.com/products/blinkm) which is an RGB LED with its own
microcontroller on board. You talk over I2C to the microcontrller. I'd
be happy to run a brief lab on setting up the Arduino, the software, and
super-basic programming of the BlinkM. It's not hard stuff, and I don't
have an electronics background.
At the moment, though, I don't have access to good space for that sort
of a lab, so it might need to be done as part of a larger event.
I really enjoyed the meeting last night and would like to thank everyone
who came, particularly Forest & Logic Supply for the great space & food,
and Brian for bringing all the cool example hardware.
Jim
