I just received my new Digital Storage Oscilloscope by JYE tech from the Seeed Studio Depot. While it is certainly not as powerful as a full fledged oscilloscope, its compact size and affordable price ($49) make it a handy tool for any electronics maker. For someone just learning about electronics this scope will help them [...]
The latest version of the Arduino IDE has been released.
From the arduino.cc website:
“The open-source Arduino environment makes it easy to write code and upload it to the i/o board. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The environment is written in Java and based on Processing, avr-gcc, and other open source software.”
Arduino 0017 Release [...]
I am happy to announce that my Pachube feed organizer/viewer application PachubeMon is now available as a free download on the App Store. It was also announced on the Pachube blog on Monday.
Pachube is a web service available at pachube.com that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings [...]
This last week I have been working on making the operation of my MIDI controller prototype more robust. One of my tasks has been to debounce and latch the states of my pushbutton toggle switches. Though you could use hardware for debouncing and latching I chose to do it with software. Doing it this way [...]
Today I built a DIY cardboard MIDI controller. I used an Atmega168 with code written in Arduino and programmed on an Arduino NG. The whole circuit is breadboarded and connects to the computer via a single USB cable. The serial output of the MIDI controller is parsed by a MaxMSP patch to the IAC Driver [...]
I have programmed an Arduino to output serial MIDI CC messages when I adjust potentiometers connected to it. To control my MIDI capable applications I could just send this data to a MIDI cable and then to a commercial USB-MIDI interface, but that would still require another cord to power the controller. Instead I have [...]
Coming from a Windows background I previously used HyperTerminal as a serial communication tool. When I moved to a Mac I tried an app called zterm that is a sort of HyperTerminal equivalent, but found it to be a bit cumbersome. The best, and my favourite way that I have found to accomplish communication over [...]
