Who doesn’t like cool little instruments that fit into an altoids tin?
More on this when I’ve had a chance to play with it.
Arduboy (and a little retro comparison)
I got this last week, which was much sooner than I’d expected to see it. It is tiny. About the size of maybe 3 or 4 credit cards stacked on top of each other. That’s why I thought it would be interesting to see it with a Rex 6000. Of course the Rex has a lot more memory than an Arduino and is of course designed to be a PDA where the Arduino nor the Arduboy is. Even so, it’s an interesting comparison.
When I get some time I’m going to try and see what I can make with the Arduboy as you can code to it via Codebender. So that’s really the next step.
Arduino is now on Instagram
After the big day, Arduino (and Genuino) day on the 2nd of April they’ve also launched their own Instagram account now too. So I’ve followed them.
Happy Arduino and Genuino Day
Interesting that it’s changed now from just Arduino day. I wonder how long before it becomes just Genuino day? I guess it will happen eventually.
So today is a day when people do strange things with small microcomputers. That’s excellent. I might even find some time myself to do something. I had planned to go to an event, but it ended up not being possible sadly, so I will have to satisfy myself with some home tinkering I expect.
Getting going with the mCookie …
I finally got this stuff to work at long last, and when I did I realised that it is amazingly good fun to play with! It’s awesome stuff and I’m having a great time with it.
My next build will be something with sensors and hopefully audio too. Let’s see how that goes.
Arduino Day 2016 is coming
The 2nd of April will be Arduino day this year. I’m interested to see what events will be on and if I can make any of them too.
Hello there KeyChainino
I found this by chance really, but it’s interesting to see just how small things can be. You really can put this on your key chain. I need to sort out an ISP to load sketches to it.
Getting the mCookie up and running
One of those tech things that can annoy you by just not doing what you want it to. But, at last I’ve got the basics up and running. It’s a nice kit though, with a lot of possibilities, and that’s what I’m really looking forward to now.
Especially what I might be able to do with the OLED screen, and also the speakers too.
The audio components look good too, and the audio stuff is going to be my focus, although bluetooth could be useful as well.
When I got this kit (quite a while ago now), I got the full range of sensors too.
So now I really need to get into reading this and then move forward.
Microduino is in the nicest packaging
It really is very lovely indeed. I posted a couple of teasers about these last week, but so far I haven’t got them working as I’ve been having some issues with installing the Arduino libraries.
Pebblits from the Pebble hackday
I thought I’d take a look at the stuff that was made at this event to see if there was anything of interest. There was, and this was the most interesting of all. As I’m both a littleBits user and a Pebble Time owner this is of especial interest to me. I hope that they do release their app to the Pebble store as I’d really like to tinker with this. However, even if they don’t I’ll be looking at their videos to see what they’ve done and how.
