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by Hol Gaskill

Hi Folks, I had planned to help out with this week's meetup, being back in town and whatnot. However, events are entering into a critical phase in the struggle of good against evil, San Antonio Spurs against Miami Heat (respectively) and I must bear witness to what I hope is the final chapter of this saga as it unfolds tomorrow night, IPA and chicken wing in hand. Happy Hacking, Hol

13 years

MicroController Madness Night - this Tuesday evening at SudoRoom!

by Romy Ilano

*- This night will be blogged on the sudoRoom blog--stay tuned! code will be shared* A good night for both beginning and more experienced microcontroller users. Emphasis is on first principles, trying out new sensors and actuators , testing out new ideas that haven’t yet found a home in a project, and *cracking open black boxes* of all sorts for fresh ideas. [image: Inline image 1] https://sudoroom.org/wiki/MicroControllerHackNight https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/microcontroller-hack-night/?instance_id=59…

13 years

Re: [Controllers] [sudo-discuss] Controllers Digest, Vol 2, Issue 2

by Romy Ilano

Hol, Oh, d'oh -- actually the lilypad arduino isn't broken. I poked around and the Arduino IDE wasn't set correctly to the lilypad--I had it set to a standard Arduino (uno). So that's why it wasn't able to upload my sketches. So if you are getting into the lilypad make sure the arduino ide on your computer has that settings set up! My circuit didn't work--I'm getting another alligator clip system before I start sewing. Wearable electronics are tricky because it's easy for the threads to cross the wires, and sometimes it seems the connections don't go through. - on another site (becky stern's) I saw that using clear nailpolish to seal the end of the threads is a good idea. I started putting stuff up on gitorious and github - hope to eventually get more people to get into this! On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote: > what voltage were you supplying to the board? from the pic you sent out > it looked like a single 1.5v battery, whereas the minimum is 3.3V btu more > commonly 5V. what error message did you get? > > > May 21, 2013 10:08:03 PM, romy(a)snowyla.com wrote: > I think the cheap lilypad i got is bust--from the error messages and what > i get on stackoverlfow it might be a ahrdware issue, so I didn't get to get > anything working. Can't even upload my sketches! dang. > > > > >but I did get some basic code up . i forked it off a nyu student becky > stern's project... > >https://gitorious.org/sudoroom-art-projects/arduinowearables > > > https://github.com/sudoroom/ArduinoWearables > > > >this goes to both the sudoroom github and gitorious at the same time == > it's easy > > >[remote "origin"] url = git@github.com:sudoroom/ArduinoWearables.git > url = git@gitorious.org:sudoroom-art-projects/arduinowearables.git > fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > > > > >On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM, controllers-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > wrote: > > > > >Send Controllers mailing list submissions to > > > controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/controllers > > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > > controllers-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > > controllers-owner(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > > than "Re: Contents of Controllers digest..." > > > > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > > > 1. Tuesday - MicroController Hack Night // Lilypad > > > (discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical > control projects) > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Message: 1 > > > Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 00:11:17 -0700 > > > From: discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical > > > control projects controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > > > To: controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > > Cc: sudo-discuss sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > > > Subject: [Controllers] Tuesday - MicroController Hack Night // Lilypad > > > Message-ID: > > > mailman.207.1369120278.2895.controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > > Tomorrow is MicroController hack night. I'm working on Lillypad Arduino > > > (wearable electronics) > > > > > > It's nice, I was able to get more done in the past 2 days than I have in > > > the past few weeks... and with a full-time job too! It's weird. I guess I > > > was just very good at avoiding listening to people pitch stuff. It's does > > > wonders for productivity. > > > > > > I'm not sure if I can be very helpful tomorrow, as I am in a making mood! I > > > am not going to be so interested in hearing about people's kickstarters but > > > it's all good. > > > I just want to give happy energy at making and there will be a project that > > > will lead to nice things. > > > > > > Useful videos to watch. I like these because I actually do stuff seeing > > > these... they will not get you stuck in the "not doing" cycle of doom. > > > These are very relevant videos for beginners. > > > > > > - Becky Stern was an NYU New Media Lab graduate - her embroidery + > > > arduino videos are very helpful > > > - http://blog.makezine.com/2008/04/21/lilypad-arduino-embroider/ > > > - Leah Buchley came up with the Lilypad design - she is cool - > > > http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/ > > > > > > Some parts of SudoRoom aren't quite prettily decorated with art. In the > > > long term future I would love to donate lace-dripped electronics and > > > embroidery to be part of useful things like the door project. > > >

13 years

List settings changed

by Hol Gaskill

Hi Folks, Per a request from a subscriber, I have set reply-to address back to sender rather than the list address to avoid confusion. This is the way the sudo-discuss list functions. There had been some concerns over anonymity on that list, but if there are no objections, we will use the same setting here for the sake of knowing who's talking. the alternative would be for people to remember to make sure to sign off on each email they send. Also, was there a meetup last night? I have relinquished organizational duties for microcontroller night for the next month as I'm skipping town today until mid june but I hope y'all keep meeting up for communal tinkerings. Cheers, Hol

13 years

Re: [Controllers] [sudo-discuss] Controllers Digest, Vol 2, Issue 2

by discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical control projects

what voltage were you supplying to the board? from the pic you sent out it looked like a single 1.5v battery, whereas the minimum is 3.3V btu more commonly 5V. what error message did you get? May 21, 2013 10:08:03 PM, romy(a)snowyla.com wrote: I think the cheap lilypad i got is bust--from the error messages and what i get on stackoverlfow it might be a ahrdware issue, so I didn't get to get anything working. Can't even upload my sketches! dang. > >but I did get some basic code up . i forked it off a nyu student becky stern's project... >https://gitorious.org/sudoroom-art-projects/arduinowearables > https://github.com/sudoroom/ArduinoWearables > >this goes to both the sudoroom github and gitorious at the same time == it's easy >[remote "origin"] url = git@github.com:sudoroom/ArduinoWearables.git url = git@gitorious.org:sudoroom-art-projects/arduinowearables.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* > >On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM, controllers-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org> wrote: > >Send Controllers mailing list submissions to > controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/controllers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > controllers-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > controllers-owner(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Controllers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Tuesday - MicroController Hack Night // Lilypad > (discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical control projects) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 00:11:17 -0700 > From: discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical > control projects controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > To: controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org > Cc: sudo-discuss sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [Controllers] Tuesday - MicroController Hack Night // Lilypad > Message-ID: > mailman.207.1369120278.2895.controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Tomorrow is MicroController hack night. I'm working on Lillypad Arduino > (wearable electronics) > > It's nice, I was able to get more done in the past 2 days than I have in > the past few weeks... and with a full-time job too! It's weird. I guess I > was just very good at avoiding listening to people pitch stuff. It's does > wonders for productivity. > > I'm not sure if I can be very helpful tomorrow, as I am in a making mood! I > am not going to be so interested in hearing about people's kickstarters but > it's all good. > I just want to give happy energy at making and there will be a project that > will lead to nice things. > > Useful videos to watch. I like these because I actually do stuff seeing > these... they will not get you stuck in the "not doing" cycle of doom. > These are very relevant videos for beginners. > > - Becky Stern was an NYU New Media Lab graduate - her embroidery + > arduino videos are very helpful > - http://blog.makezine.com/2008/04/21/lilypad-arduino-embroider/ > - Leah Buchley came up with the Lilypad design - she is cool - > http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/ > > Some parts of SudoRoom aren't quite prettily decorated with art. In the > long term future I would love to donate lace-dripped electronics and > embroidery to be part of useful things like the door project. >

13 years

Re: [Controllers] Controllers Digest, Vol 2, Issue 2

by discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical control projects

I think the cheap lilypad i got is bust--from the error messages and what i get on stackoverlfow it might be a ahrdware issue, so I didn't get to get anything working. Can't even upload my sketches! dang. but I did get some basic code up . i forked it off a nyu student becky stern's project... - https://gitorious.org/sudoroom-art-projects/arduinowearables - https://github.com/sudoroom/ArduinoWearables this goes to both the sudoroom github and gitorious at the same time == it's easy [remote "origin"] url = git@github.com:sudoroom/ArduinoWearables.git url = git@gitorious.org:sudoroom-art-projects/arduinowearables.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:00 PM, <controllers-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org>wrote: > Send Controllers mailing list submissions to > controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/controllers > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > controllers-request(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > controllers-owner(a)lists.sudoroom.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Controllers digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Tuesday - MicroController Hack Night // Lilypad > (discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical > control projects) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 00:11:17 -0700 > From: discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical > control projects <controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > To: controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org > Cc: sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Subject: [Controllers] Tuesday - MicroController Hack Night // Lilypad > Message-ID: > <mailman.207.1369120278.2895.controllers(a)lists.sudoroom.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Tomorrow is MicroController hack night. I'm working on Lillypad Arduino > (wearable electronics) > > It's nice, I was able to get more done in the past 2 days than I have in > the past few weeks... and with a full-time job too! It's weird. I guess I > was just very good at avoiding listening to people pitch stuff. It's does > wonders for productivity. > > I'm not sure if I can be very helpful tomorrow, as I am in a making mood! I > am not going to be so interested in hearing about people's kickstarters but > it's all good. > I just want to give happy energy at making and there will be a project that > will lead to nice things. > > Useful videos to watch. I like these because I actually do stuff seeing > these... they will not get you stuck in the "not doing" cycle of doom. > These are very relevant videos for beginners. > > - Becky Stern was an NYU New Media Lab graduate - her embroidery + > arduino videos are very helpful > - http://blog.makezine.com/2008/04/21/lilypad-arduino-embroider/ > - Leah Buchley came up with the Lilypad design - she is cool - > http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/ > > Some parts of SudoRoom aren't quite prettily decorated with art. In the > long term future I would love to donate lace-dripped electronics and > embroidery to be part of useful things like the door project. >

13 years

Tuesday - MicroController Hack Night // Lilypad

by discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical control projects

Tomorrow is MicroController hack night. I'm working on Lillypad Arduino (wearable electronics) It's nice, I was able to get more done in the past 2 days than I have in the past few weeks... and with a full-time job too! It's weird. I guess I was just very good at avoiding listening to people pitch stuff. It's does wonders for productivity. I'm not sure if I can be very helpful tomorrow, as I am in a making mood! I am not going to be so interested in hearing about people's kickstarters but it's all good. I just want to give happy energy at making and there will be a project that will lead to nice things. Useful videos to watch. I like these because I actually do stuff seeing these... they will not get you stuck in the "not doing" cycle of doom. These are very relevant videos for beginners. - Becky Stern was an NYU New Media Lab graduate - her embroidery + arduino videos are very helpful - http://blog.makezine.com/2008/04/21/lilypad-arduino-embroider/ - Leah Buchley came up with the Lilypad design - she is cool - http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/ Some parts of SudoRoom aren't quite prettily decorated with art. In the long term future I would love to donate lace-dripped electronics and embroidery to be part of useful things like the door project.

13 years, 1 month

DIY AVR microcontroller board

by discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical control projects

Hi Folks, Didn't seem to get any newbies last night - people pretty much came with their supplies and got right to work, which is awesome in terms of making progress on projects, but doesn't really make the tent any bigger. So here are a few links to references and instructions for making an board from components, with a few variations: This one is the most important! Know the pinouts of your chips and brainstorm on how all your components will be physically arranged: http://softsolder.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/arduino-vs-atmega168-chip-pin… Here is a pdf of how to assemble the Real Bare Bones Board, which is $10-$15 per kit depending on how many you order, introducing all the components and showing a schematic of how the chip is powered and connected to the programming header. Warning - there are different header pinouts for different programmers so check to make sure your pinouts are compatible! http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0038/9582/files/RBBB_Instructions_06.pdf?1… Instructions with more info on connecting the programmer, this time on a breadboard: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Standalone Special Bonus: Dual Core board with 2 chips sharing the same resonator to synchronize their cycles - parallel processing, anybody? http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,7894.0.html I personally have a number of breadboard controllers in use for various applications since it's much cheaper. You only need one programmer, rather than putting a USB TTL serial chip in each project where it will only be used when you reprogram. Also, for some reason out of the 2 times I've soldered a ship to a protoboard, it hasn't worked either time. Could be the late hour that I tend to get to this task, or fear of commitment, or overuse of solder, or anything. Anyway, a breadboard is a cheap and repurposable controller substrate that I recommend for most applications unless you want to do a production run, or expect high gee forces or other wire-dislodging effects. You can even hot-glue things in place on the board, and most breadboards have adhesive on the back for easy mounting inside an enclosure or on any convenient surface. happy hacking, hol

13 years, 1 month

TONIGHT - Microcontroller Project Night @ sudo room!

by discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical control projects

Hi Folks, Come on out tonight for some good ole fashioned tinkerin' at sudo room. Ongoing projects include: humidity control and irrigation, semiautomatic beer brewing, RGB LED alarm clock, stepper motor and servo control for CNC, and hopefully some work on hacking the roomba into a science rover - if you're interested in any of these I can get you started somewhere suitable to your skill level right when you arrive. All other projects welcome! There is a FB event too if you want to poke around and invite people: https://www.facebook.com/events/360789300699531/ Upon reviewing the activities of the previous nights and listening to feedback on providing more interactivity for newbies who may not yet have a project in mind, I'll be giving 3 quick tutorials tonight: driving RGB LED strips, voltage regulation AKA how to not fry your project's brain, and AVR board assembly for making your own controllers from just one chip and a few passive components. So if you're interested in learning the basics of how to use microcontrollers I'll have a few simple projects that people can get started on, and as always there's a wealth of projects documented on the internet for independent learning. Out "kit bits" collection is increasing rapidly so we should have plenty of sensors, motors, and other odds and ends for people to tinker with. I've also realized I'm going to have to be more proactive about encouraging collaboration between people on various projects. We have so many people interested in so many things, and more importantly so motivated to build or hack things in order to improve their environment, that it seems worthwhile to develop a framework for collaboration on discrete projects so people can see at a glance what projects are happening first of all, then get in contact with the people working on them and start collaborating. I have a few ideas in mind for how to do this, but I really need YOUR input to help develop this idea into something we will all want to use. What I'm shooting for is a database that can be browsed visually (will NOT be very elegant at first...probably just a bunch of thumbnails with lines going between them) that links projects together based on software, hardware, technical area, dependency (like, my LED sombrero needs a power supply to work - if someone's already designed the power supply, I can copy their design and focus on driving the LEDs), and interface specifications (could be as simple as a plug type or a format for sending serial data) somewhat in the vein of what open source ecology has done. So to this end, I'd like to have a discussion on this around 8PM where we jot down the projects we're working on and lay out how they're related, where there is overlap that can be merged, and identify areas that are critical to moving forward but as yet undersupported. So if you're generally busy tonight but might have a few minutes to drop by to give some input, we could use your help for 20 minutes or so outlining such a system. Also, I am still wrangling the settings on the controllers list so please let me know if you have any problems sending message, etc. Hope to see y'all there, Hol

13 years, 1 month

Raspberry pi rover!

by discussion and collaboration group for electronic and mechanical control projects

pretty cool...just needs a drill! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neiOY1Uy6g8

13 years, 2 months

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