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Tag Archives: arduino
Beyond the Blink: RGB LED multiple lighting effects with arduino, push button, and potentiometer
Ever want to do more with an LED than just blink? This circuit and source code demonstrates some creative possibilities for lighting effects with an RGB LED. CC has descriptive subtitles. Sorry for the poor phone video quality. Here’s a … Continue reading
Controlling Multiple RGB LEDs with Smartphone via Bluetooth
Many people have done projects similar to this where they use their smartphone to control an RGB LED. My project has some twists. First, I traded color variation for intensity variation. Second, I routed the Arduino PWM signal pins through … Continue reading
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Tagged app inventor, arduino, bluetooth, phone battery charger pack, rgb led, smartphone
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Ultrasonic toggle switch
This is an idea for using an ultrasonic distance sensor (aka ‘pinger’) as a toggle switch. I’ll show it first and then explain: As the hand approaches, the yellow light comes on to indicate that the switch is in aware … Continue reading
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Tagged arduino, oatmeal, pinger, toggle switch, ultrasonic distance sensor
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Debugging Touchless Technology
The comment that I added to the previous post was not the full solution to having a row of touchless buttons, but it set me on the way. A second pinger IS necessary to discriminate against anomalous readings. In the … Continue reading
Touchless Technology with ultrasonic distance sensors
The concept behind this circuit design is that you can press buttons without touching them. As your finger lowers to the tabletop, the yellow light will come on, indicating that you are on the correct approach. Farther down, the green … Continue reading
Pingo: Ultrasonic Distance Sensor Game in Development
This is the hardware for a game I’m developing that uses an ultrasonic distance sensor. The microcontroller (Arduino, natch) randomly generates distances and then commences a ‘random walk’ from Point A to B. You, the player, hold your hand above … Continue reading
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Ultrasonic Pinger Game, Part I
I’m working on this idea for a game which involves an ultrasonic distance sensor. The set-up is shown above. As you can see, it uses an Arduino for the prototyping but the goal is to transfer the programming over to … Continue reading
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Why fuzzy logic?
Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic I found this book at Goodwill over the summer and I’ve always wanted to know about fuzzy logic so I decided to read it. Since I do a lot of stuff with … Continue reading
From Scratch to Arduino Test Bed
In my last blog entry, I created a new graphical interface in Scratch for transmitting data to the microcontroller on the robot. Tonight I verified that the Scratch program is able to communicate via screen flashes with the Arduino test … Continue reading
Test vs. Reality
On the right hand side of the photo is the ‘test bed’ that I use for robot programming. It consists of an Arduino and a couple of breadboards. The support platform is ‘Getting Started with Processing’ but any book of … Continue reading
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