Middlesex University – SUM0095 Physical Computing with Arduino.
This was a 5 4 day Summer course run by @tinkernick which seemed like a great opportunity to get my hands on lots of Arduino ‘bits’ as well as access to the Co-Author of Arduino Cookbook .
The course was 5 days, but I missed the first day travelling back from Germany after completing my ironman triathlon at Challenge Roth. Rest? What’s that?
With a grounding in Arduino and serial communication thanks to the Arc Reactor project, it was an opportunity to learn basic electronics and soldering.
The first couple of days focussed on examples and experiments involving Pots, LEDs, RGB LED control, Stepper Motors, the different Arduino boards available and their uses, as well as project examples and suppliers for components.
Rather than focus on a single project for the last couple of days, I took the opportunity to try out as many Shields as I could, and refine those soldering skills.
Below are a free experiments I knocked together.
Ethernet Shield and Temp sensor connected to Xively
Updated the Arc Reactor by soldering directly to the PCB and controlling via OptoCouplers.
Remote Control allowing the switching on/off of mains powered appliances
NFC Reader which detects different cards and responds uniquely to each.
The infamous Dinosaurs vs Konami Code hack, which got picked up by Wired’s Editor via Twitter! 🙂
DMX Control demoed by @tinkernick
Infrared distance sensor linked to 32 RGB LED strip; this was created by another student for an exhibition.
I LOVE MDX
It was Graduation Week, and this rather impressive programmable LED display created by ex-students. It was made up of over 200 hexagons, each with 13 LEDs.
