Hey /g/, did you ever get an arduino? What did you do with it?

>>56302695
I honestly want to get one, but I have no idea what I should buy to accompany it and know next to nothing about electronics.

Even if both of these were overcome - what on earth would I use it for?

>>56302695
The thing about hardware is you gotta buy a whole lot of shit to make something nice.

Anyways since i had electronics as my major i did some hardware stuff but stopped doing that since i left college.

I had planned on making a home automation curcuit which would allow me to turn on/off lights and other stuff in my home without me having to move my fatass from the fucking chair

bought a nano and a breadboard, but besides some leds i got nothing to it, so it sits in the drawer.
Could i use old mobile phone parts to do some5hing like in OP's pic?

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>>56302695
>What did you do with it?
pic related
atm only shows room temperature, but will add outside temp, some graph and forecast

I built a couple of LED matrices (both single color and RGB).
Also used it to interface with a floppy drive, couldn't read good data off it tho.
I wanted to build a plant watering system one of these days, just didn't look after good moisture / temperature / pH sensors yet.

>>56302695
I'm going to set one up with an IR blaster and connect it to my server so I can have it control my AC while I am away from home.

Winter is coming, so I would like to be able to have it heat up my apartment a bit before I get home in particular.

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>>56302989
>Could i use old mobile phone parts to do some5hing like in OP's pic?
if you are lucky, yes.
I've written a shitty lib for siemens c60/m55/s55 displays

but there are lots of chinese lcd displays for arduino

Got a few pro micros lying around for future projects. Just recently got around to make a headtracker for playing DCS and used another one for adding a few buttons to my HOTAS and replacing the pots in the joysticks to hall sensors.

>>56302695
No, I did not get an Arduino.

I didn't do anything with it since I did not get an Arduino.

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P. FUCKIN S.:
a pretty fucking interesting vidya. for noobs not really relevant thoug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=648Tx5N9Zoc

>>56303036
noice

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Using one in school and making a driving robot with an ultrasonic sensor and a l298 driver

These pics are outdated as I have wired it up already

>>56303105
nice.
Since I still do have a l298 driver lying around I wanted to do kind of the same, but I am too fucking lazy mang.
Wanted to build a remote controlled thing then, not self-driving

>>56303025
PS:
next step is this
http://www.home-automation-community.com/arduino-low-power-how-to-run-atmega328p-for-a-year-on-coin-cell-battery/
to get a temperature sensor for outside which sends temp every few minutes to over nrf24l01 modules

>>56303055
Please do tell me more about this.

>>56303180
That's pretty interesting. Some of it applies to larger Arduino modules too, like the Nanos which usually come with the ATmega328P too.

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>>56302695
>tfw using a Z8 to make a balancing robot
Doing some PCB design for it now, have to send it off next week to be manufactured.
Feels like sex when you run a shit load of parallel tracks.

Why would i buy an arduino when i can get an ARM based board with at least an order of magnitude more performance for less?

>>56303323
Because you want a microcontroller and not a microprocessor?

>>56303336
How are STM32, MSP, etc. not microcontrollers?

>>56303323
just watch the youtube video.
Both are good.

http://hackaday.com/2016/05/11/mike-szczys-ends-8-bit-vs-32-bit-holy-war/

in short:
8-bit is enough and WAY easier

>>56302695
i have a teensy powering an ambient light setup

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currently working on making mine insult you at the press of a button

>>56304781
You should make it say motivational things and give it a a small chance of insulting you.

its a really effective thing to have in a pinch when you've got fuck all in terms of equipment or materials or time or really anything
that's why i used it in my senior design project

>>56305324
Reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOH_5aZOwPk

Originally a .swf but >flash

I made a pong game that had a basic ai and analog controls. Then it's been sitting on a shelf for two years.

>>56305632
Oh and a snake game with a led matrix in pure assembly. But that was for school.

>>56305632
>>56305643
>Not programming a bot and leaving it there for decoration

>>56305555
Thanks, Fact Seagull.

>>56303300
>Feels like sex when you run a shit load of parallel tracks.

My man

I have a BASIC Stamp from when I was in college.

>>56302695
It's in my garage, controlling the door and lights via the intertubes.

>>56306046
how?

I was thinking of making ghetto ambilight so that I had a small LED strip which changed color based on what my monitor was displaying, but then I realized I don't know shit about electronics.

>>56306640
ESP8266 & relays. All in it cost about £9 from Chairman Mao's Dollarama, keep meaning to build a few more.

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i used to access the menus of my surround sound receiver when the remote broke. thats about it

>>56307171
How though?

>>56307288
The usual way m8. Nothing fancy.

>>56307451
So with an arduino, right m9?

I used the sparkfun pro micro to make a usb injection tool, basically a home made usb rubber ducky.

>>56307504
The Arduino run-time has actually been ported to the ESP8266. You can program them with the Arduino IDE and everything.

Which is great because the Espressif SDK is fucking awful.

>>56307550
>Espressif SDK is fucking awful.
so just like you're moms pussy, right?

>>56302728

To make your dragon dildo vibrate.

>>56307583
I don't know what relationship you had with your mother but I don't have a clue about the quality of my mother's vagina.

>>56302695
Designed and printed a PCB with my girlfriend. It had a bunch of shift registers to control an RGB led matrix. Pretty fun.

>>56307640
>with my girlfriend
>IMPLYING GF
XD

I'm scared to become a electronics guy.

I enjoy programming and when I fuck up, which is all of the time, the worst that happens is that I get an error message.

Now, if I screw up and soldier capacitors and shit onto a circuit board incorrectly I can get electrocuted or have shit blow up in my face. I don't like the idea of either of that stuff happening to me.

>>56307708
>Now, if I screw up and soldier capacitors and shit onto a circuit board incorrectly I can get electrocuted or have shit blow up in my face. I don't like the idea of either of that stuff happening to me.
No, just no.

>>56307708
Unless you're dangerously stupid you're not going to do anything major.

>>56307640
>Designed and printed a PCB. It had a bunch of shift registers to control an RGB led matrix. Pretty fun.
ftfy

>>56307708
the worst thing u can do is blow up some components and start a matchstick sized fire or zap yourself lightly

unless of course you start doing stuff with bigger voltages

>>56307244
That's legit cool my man.

I have some freaky all-in-one sound system I was given for free years ago which works great, but doesn't have a remote or the relevant dvd player to control it, so I just have the amp and speakers only with volume control.

If I could do something similar that would be neato.

I bought a knockoff arduino and a knockoff lcd shield but the default hello-world sketch doesn't work. Any ideas what I need to do?

>>56309250
no you?

>>56309250
try sticking your dick in it

>>56302695
Trying to build a wireless doorbell that can check if the other one is switched on.

Being new to coding as well as electronics, nrfl201 is a bitch to work with.

>>56309845
you mean nrf24l01?
If you are using arduino then go for rf24-library
http://tmrh20.github.io/RF24/

>>56303067
>168.192
Fuck you're an idiot

>>56310156
top fucking kek, m9. Have posted this webm so many times on here and never realized that shit.
Thanks.
Though that display is ded anyways and was prolly just a mixup of the indexes

>>56310191
Hahaha I do networking so I guess I see that 192.168, 100 times a day. Popped up at me
And I am still mad about it

>>56302695
>Hey /g/, did you ever get an arduino?
Yes, I have three actually

>What did you do with it?
Captured the radio signals from the local bus route for switching to green lights using a SDR, and then replicated the signal using one of the Arduinos.

I use it when driving around town to switch to green light.

Will at some point do the same for the automatic gates that the buses use too, but it's a different signal.

>>56310254
I learned networking on my previous apprenticeship and I am a CCNP, so fuck me.
Now I am really fuckin mad why I haven't realized that shit while setting it up.
Prolly just had the correct IP always in my mind and didn't read it properly

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>>56310323
>has CCNP
>doesn't know about byte ordering and endianness

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>>56310351
Was prolly really a dumb fucking programming mistake. Shit happens :^)

check my pepe

>>56310395
I really, really, really like this image.

>>56310323
Kys

>once almost bought an arduino
>realized i'm not a product of inbreeding at the last moment
>canceled the order and ordered an ARM board instead

>>56312982
Are arduinos really not ARM? I thought that was the whole point of the damn things.

>>56310254
only geeksquad tier home networks use the 192.168 range

I'd like to setup one for MPGuino to help me on my 50 mile commute but I have no idea where to start. Has anyone here done this?

>>56302695
Got one recently. Planning on bodging together a replica GT3 sequential shifter, an electronic handbrake and a small button box all going to a Leonardo.

First arduino project, but the only challenge should be the handbrake as i've never done anything with analogue inputs before.

>>56313287
Well aren't you just a special snowflake.

>>56303067

>All those fucking wires
>LED ON
>LED OFF