Comments on: Meet The Arduino Esplora

By: FROST

FROST — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 05:52:27 +0000

umm…. this is great but how do we power this thing besides the USB connection?

By: Peter Hanley

Peter Hanley — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 03:00:44 +0000

To all the haters: this is a product aimed at bringing more people in, not people who already comment on arduino’s blog. It’s not to say you can’t have fun with it too, but the inclusion of Tinkerkit i/o should have spelled it out for you.

I’m psyched to get my hands on a few of these – we’ve been planning educational events for kids and young adults (and everybody, really) at the Philadelphia Game Lab and I had been wanting to get something going with one or more local hacker spaces for some time – the Esplora seems like a perfect “don’t panic” piece of ware to introduce game design via controller design to neophytes and newbs.

Speaking of my hands and the Esplora – are they for sale yet?

By: Adam Rolph

Adam Rolph — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:30:27 +0000

I’ve been making game controllers with Arduino lately, and I think that this is great.

By: Fish

Fish — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:18:24 +0000

What’s that stupid game controller? Please bring something useful like Due with integrated Ethernet or Wifi to be able to compete against RaspberryPi.

By: Davide Gomba

Davide Gomba — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:46:29 +0000

Hi.
We are going to blog about the Esplora on the Official Arduino Store soon: stay tuned.

best
davide

By: Davide Gomba

Davide Gomba — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:44:55 +0000

Hello Arevirlegna.
Thanks for the good words: feel free to submit your class projects for the Arduino Blog!

The Italian way of what you meant could be: “Forza Team Arduino!”, unfortunately Squadra is really soccer-related

thanks for commenting,
Davide

By: arevirlegna

arevirlegna — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:17:00 +0000

This is an awesome idea. I teach an intro computing course using Scratch and PicoBoards, and the Esplora would make an excellent addition to my course and I am sure my students will love it.
I am also glad they are using Leonardo as the basic platform as it would make it a breeze to interface, not only with Scratch (although writing the sketch to make the Esplora behave like a PicoBoard would be very easy) but also with other programs like Construct2 which we also use in this class for side-scrollers and platformers.

My Italian is (a lot) rusty, but I wanted to say “Forza il Arduino Squadra!”

By: Dd

Dd — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:57:05 +0000

I can’t seem to get this in Canada. We have no Radio Shacks. Please advise me how to get it.

By: Davide Gomba

Davide Gomba — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:59:13 +0000

Hi Michael.
I love the Hackvision (as I deeply appreciate your Video Experimenter Shield too) but I see big differences with the Esplora.
We don’t have a video out and we haven’t implemented the TVout library on it (it would be interesting to test it, we wait for the first experiments..).
We based it on the ATmega 32u4, the same as Arduino Leonardo, allowing HID communication, and we tried to add several sensors on board (like the accelerometer, the linear potentiometer, the electret microphone, and so on) allowing its users to play around these features.

best
davide

By: Davide Gomba

Davide Gomba — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:48:24 +0000

Hi Emile.
You can prototype interfaces without using the breadboard. Basically is a game controller on top of which you can easily control any kind of game / programme (assuming the program is controllable via keyboard / mouse / serial).

thanks for commenting!

Davide