A place for Stuff

Working Projects
Projects that have got off the work bench in one way or another.

Beacon (sequenced RGB LED’s)
Everybody’s first micro project is blinking some LED’s. Mine was 48 RGB LED’s in ping pong balls running of a couple of serial Matrixes. Hopefully have time to give it a bit of a write up one day.

Sony Control-S
I’ve successfully got an arduino spiting out Sony Control-S signals. In this case controlling a projector turning on and off as part of an outdoor projection installation. The arduino was controlled by a bit of python code running on the Mac Mini doing the projection.

Buttons
I’ve used ardunio’s for simple button interfaces for interactives. Typically 2 to 4 buttons on the arduino communicating via USB/serial to Mac Mini’s running interactives in Python using libavg.

Audio Handsets
Electrically similar to the button interfaces. I’ve hacked apart some cheep intercom handsets and wired into the on/off hook switch and the speaker. The ardunio watches the on/off hook switch and communicates the state back to a daemon running on the Mac which adjusts the Mac’s output volume as appropriate.

RFID
Another libavg Python based interactive. This time we get out input from RFID tags hanging around the necks of some plush toy dogs. RFID duties are handled by an ID-12 module sourced from SparkFun hooked up to an arduino.

Ideas and Work in Progress
Projects either in ideas space, under research or still on the workbench.

Wireless Sensor Network
For some reason I’m really interested in wireless sensor networks. No idea why.

GPS flocking RC cars
General interest in both autonomous vehicles and groups of vehicles working together.

Cat window monitoring
Various cat window monitoring and tracking, possible door opening devices, anti neighbors cat defenses, will eventually take over the world.