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  • Author Author: funinalaska
  • Date Created: 17 Oct 2013 10:17 PM Date Created
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Intro to my new obsession

funinalaska
funinalaska
17 Oct 2013

So i decided a couple months ago I was going to learn how to use Arduino boards and how to develop things with them.

This decision came with a particular mission and project in mind.

I am obsessed with LEDs.

I already have a mess of standard "dumb" led strip lights ad other little toys, but I wanted the ones that you can change each LED individually.

I ran across a video on Youtube of someone using a strip as Christmas lighting and they said it was being controlled with an Arduino.

That was the first I was exposed to the name.

I did a little research and decided I needed to learn.

So I discovered Adafruit

I bought an arduino ARDX kit with the intention of learning as much as I could through that and I also picked a couple of their Neopixels in different formfactors

 

Ok, Dam has been broken now and the flood of curiosity about all the things I can do with these cool little boards has started.

 

I have since gotten a lot of hardware and a little experience with programming.

I have to say that the programming emd is by far my weak point. But hopefully I will eventually be knowledgable enough to write my own program from scratch.

 

My latest challenge to myself is to work on building a weather station.

I want a weather station with Indoor and outdoor readings as well as a network connection to receive the local Airport's METAR data.

I will need help with this.

So far i have the following for this project

Arduino Uho (I am not against upgrading to a Mega if it looks like I will need to

Indoor temp/humidity sensor

Outdoor thermistor (good to -55C) I hope that goes low enough based on my location.

I also have 2 Maxim Dallas digital temperature sensors I would like to figure out how to use maybe not in this project, but who knows.

I have an LCD shield

a LOL shield

and I have 3 8X8 LED matrices on the way as well as 6 digits of 7 seg display.

I havent figured out exactly what of that hardware I am going to use but it is all there depending on what I decide.

I also have an Ethernet shield on the way

 

Living north of the arctic circle in the middle of nowhere it takes a while to get anything here, so I am a patient person.

 

The code on this thing is going to drive me insane.

So far I have only been successful with coding by starting with an example or tutorial code and modifying/adding to it to do what I want it to do.

This project I think will need so much more than that.

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