My Unsped Arduinome Shield arrived in the mail on Monday. What a classy piece of work! So well done! You can’t tell in my photo, but the board is a shade of blue that matches the Arduino board color. (I got a little artsy-fartsy with the photography…) Between projects for work and my screaming 4 [...]
Unsped, the creator of the Aduinome Shield, posted on the Monome forum that he had a few spares from a previous Group Buy that I missed. I immediately fired off a message offering to buy one. He collected names and I made the list! I sent him my payment late last night and the shield [...]
Seems like all of the other geeky blogs online are jumping on the Arduinome bandwagon, so I might as well. Just kidding. I’ve been eyeing up the Monome since it first came out. I was even on one of the first waiting lists for the Monome 40h, but when my turn came around I didn’t [...]
Finally, someone has shoehorned the Atmega 644P into the Arduino development circle. Zach Hoeken of NYC Resistor has managed to put together an update to the Arduino 0012 Development Suite and design a new Arduino-style board to allow the use of the 644P’s superior I/O support and enhanced Flash/RAM. The Sanguino, as Zach calls it, [...]
Since I’ve been looking for Arduino sound, synth and MIDI projects to tinker with lately, I’ve started remembering all of the little chips and trinkets I’ve bought over the years and stashed in drawers, knowing that someday I’d get around to actually using them for something. Tonight, while rummaging through one of those drawers, I [...]
Man, for $0.99 each, I wish I could find the datasheet for these. I want to use them with the Arduino but I’m not sure of the pinout. I think I’ll order a bunch and try to figure it out. If I get it right, I’ll post my results. Side note: Come on, Panasonic! I [...]
I found NKC Electronics by accident while searching for Arduino kits on eBay. I ordered their USB Arduino Decimilia-compatible “Freeduino” board kit and assembled it a few days ago. I’m impressed! It works great and they pre-solder the surface mount FTDI USB-to-Serial bridge for you. They kept the form factor for Arduino Shields along with [...]