Thanks to everyone who RSVP’ed for the NYC meetup mentioned earlier. It will be at ITP on Saturday March 20 from noon to 6 PM. There is no set agenda for the day, it’s simply an open meetup. We want to meet folks using Arduino. We’ll also be meeting for drinks later that evening at a […]
Massimo, David, Tom, Gianluca and David are meeting up in New York City in mid-March, and we want to see you. We’re planning a get-together on March 20 with folks from the Arduino community. We hope to have a daytime meet-up to see each other’s work, trade tips on Arduino and talk about 1.0, […]
On January 1st, we announced that we’re working towards Arduino 1.0 (for details, see this post). Our goal is to stabilize the platform so that it’s supportable and a good foundation for future developments. We’ve been getting good feedback from experienced developers through our developers list; from many users individually, both in person and in […]
Smart Projects, the Italian company that is the manufactures the Arduino Duemilanove, Mega, and Mini, has signed up with the ZeroImpact/Lifegate project in order reduce its environmental impact and compensate for the emissions created in manufacturing Arduino boards. The company’s donation to ZeroImpact/Lifegate will go to restore and protect 25 thousand square meters of rainforest […]
Jim McGuire of the Stensat Group sent this report on what might be the most exteme environment that an Arduino’s been deployed in yet: “In addition to the primary ISS construction mission, STS-127 is carrying two 19-inch spherical satellites scheduled for deployment on Mission Day 16. The two spheres, Castor and Pollux [http://eludium.stensat.org.nyud.net/ANDE/Main.html], are part […]
Caroline Brown, an ITP student in Jennifer Van der Meer’s class, is trying to do a life cycle assessment on the Duemilanove, to determine its environmental impact. I think it’s an interesting idea, since I’ve never seen an LCA done on a module like the Arduino. I’ve seen a few on commercial products, but never […]
I just finished a quick sample project for the Arduino Mega, doing a project that comes up all the time, and usually requires a multiplexer, Max7219, or shift register: controlling 128 LEDs with a Mega. In this example, there’s nothing but a mega and 2 8×8 LED matrices. Whee! And yes, that’s a nifty light […]
Arduino’s shown up in some unusual places, but this XKCD cartoon‘s the most random I’ve seen. Thanks Randall for the mention. I think Cory Doctorow is in one of the composite-numbered panels.
Smart Projects has made a limited run of multi-color Arduino Duemilanoves for the holidays: red, purple, orange, yellow, black, green, white, and of course, blue. Add some color to your holiday Arduino projects, or use them to decorate your workbench. Available in a multi-colored pack from Smart Projects in a limited run.
Brian Jepson posted some useful instructions on how to run Arduino on the XO laptop recently. He and Gian Vilamil have both commented on the XO as the ideal Arduino development platform due to its cost and relative simplicity.
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