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Arduino Starter Kit

willygeek

Well, the Arduino Starter kit I won from  you guys has arrived.
I plan to keep everyone up to date on my progress through the projects in the book accompanying the kit, but progress may be a bit slow as I also plan to use this as a means of introducing my 13 year old granddaughter to electronics and programming.  As she doesn't live with me progress will be dictated by the time she can spend here with me and on her progress.  So this is just a beginning and I will add to this, with photos and video as progress is made along the way.

  • Arduino Projects book Motorised Pinwheel Project 9:

     

    The noise in this is the "out of centre) wheel.

    The video says it all.

     

    As a total aside it is currently just after 3:00 pm here in Dunedin New Zealand and it is currently 30 C indoors. I think we are in for an exceptional summer, Global Warming?

     

  • Project 8 Digital Hour Glass;

    Works well, except that I had to solder legs onto the Tilt Switch that came in the kit, so that it would plug into the breadboard.
    luckily I have the kit needed and know how to solder..  See Photo:  You will also note the surgical clamp.  For this sort of work they are invaluable.
    At one timw I woked as an electrician at a hospital, so was able to get these when they were no longer good for actual surgery.  But they can be bought now.

    I also altered the time delay to 60 seconds from the 10 minutes in the original programme.  So the video would not be too long.

     

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  • Project 7 Keyboard Instrument.

     

    Again the video is prettly self explanitory.

     

  • Arduino Light Theremin Project 6:

     

     

    This worked well.  You will notice a piece of sellotape to quieten down the Piezo volume..

     

    The reason for this is that my cat kept on leaping ont my work table and trying to push the project board aside, presumable looking for a mouse or some other creature.  Interesting.

  • Project 5:  Mood Cue.

     

    This is getting more interesting. Learning to control external devices. such as stepper motors.  Handy information.

    This an excellent demonstration of the smoothing effects of Electrolytic Capacitors.

    If one measured the resistance of a Potentiometer using an old analogue meter (with a needle, non digital)
    one would see little variations in the measurement as the wipers crosses the resistive ring especially with a low "Ohms per Volt" one, the lower it gets the less damping of the needle.

     

    You may also notice I have turned the Breadbourd 180 degrees so it has the same orientation as the Projects book.

     

    Again the video says it all really.