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Kim SJ: /* Big Box of Breakout Boards and Bits (BBBBB) */

2018-03-14T20:16:07Z

‎Big Box of Breakout Boards and Bits (BBBBB)

JCGS: /* Merger with Raspberry Pi and home automation group = */

2017-01-05T17:24:21Z

‎Merger with Raspberry Pi and home automation group =

JCGS at 17:24, 5 January 2017

2017-01-05T17:24:09Z

Tomoinn: /* New Sessions for 2014 - Return of the Cake */

2014-11-12T10:44:50Z

‎New Sessions for 2014 - Return of the Cake

Tomoinn: Added events for autum / winter 2014

2014-11-08T11:05:36Z

Added events for autum / winter 2014

Jenny: /* Sessions */

2013-10-17T16:37:50Z

‎Sessions

Jenny: /* Sessions */

2013-10-17T16:32:18Z

‎Sessions

Tomoinn: /* Sessions */

2013-09-13T13:40:27Z

‎Sessions

Tomoinn: /* Arduino and Cake */

2013-09-13T13:09:27Z

‎Arduino and Cake

Tomoinn: /* Big Box of Breakout Boards and Bits (BBBBB) */

2013-09-12T14:24:11Z

‎Big Box of Breakout Boards and Bits (BBBBB)

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 == Big Box of Breakout Boards and Bits (BBBBB) ==
+See [[Arduino_and_Cake/Big_Box|Arduino/Raspberry Pi Accessories]] for more information
 We've had approval to buy some bits and pieces for people to play with at this event, and generally within Makespace so I've done an eBay dive and ordered the following, these will arrive sometime over the next month or so:

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 If you're a complete beginner to microcontrollers (tiny, very cheap computers without an operating system, files, display, keyboard...) this is a great opportunity to come and play with them. Experts also very welcome, in fact we need you to help the new people! Possible things you can do with an Arduino (a particularly easy to use microcontroller board) range from simple flashing lights up to acting as the brains of an autonomous flying robot, managing your hydroponic gardening project or tweeting the current temperature of your hot water tank. This get-together is intended to help those of us for whom imagination exceeds expertise (that is to say, pretty much everyone I know), let's build cool things together :)
-== Merger with Raspberry Pi and home automation group ===
+== Merger with Raspberry Pi and home automation group ==
 Some time around 2015, the Arduino and Cake sessions stalled, and were subsumed into the Tuesday Raspberry Pi meetings.

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	If you're a complete beginner to microcontrollers (tiny, very cheap computers without an operating system, files, display, keyboard...) this is a great opportunity to come and play with them. Experts also very welcome, in fact we need you to help the new people! Possible things you can do with an Arduino (a particularly easy to use microcontroller board) range from simple flashing lights up to acting as the brains of an autonomous flying robot, managing your hydroponic gardening project or tweeting the current temperature of your hot water tank. This get-together is intended to help those of us for whom imagination exceeds expertise (that is to say, pretty much everyone I know), let's build cool things together :)		If you're a complete beginner to microcontrollers (tiny, very cheap computers without an operating system, files, display, keyboard...) this is a great opportunity to come and play with them. Experts also very welcome, in fact we need you to help the new people! Possible things you can do with an Arduino (a particularly easy to use microcontroller board) range from simple flashing lights up to acting as the brains of an autonomous flying robot, managing your hydroponic gardening project or tweeting the current temperature of your hot water tank. This get-together is intended to help those of us for whom imagination exceeds expertise (that is to say, pretty much everyone I know), let's build cool things together :)
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		+	== Merger with Raspberry Pi and home automation group ===
		+
		+	Some time around 2015, the Arduino and Cake sessions stalled, and were subsumed into the Tuesday Raspberry Pi meetings.

	== New Sessions for 2014 - Return of the Cake ==		== New Sessions for 2014 - Return of the Cake ==

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 # [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/218410332/ Thu 20th November]
 # [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/218410402/ Fri 28th November]
-# [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/218410442/ Fri 5th December]
+# [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/218410442/ Thu 4th December] - Note change of date from Friday 5th!
 == Older Sessions ==

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 If you're a complete beginner to microcontrollers (tiny, very cheap computers without an operating system, files, display, keyboard...) this is a great opportunity to come and play with them. Experts also very welcome, in fact we need you to help the new people! Possible things you can do with an Arduino (a particularly easy to use microcontroller board) range from simple flashing lights up to acting as the brains of an autonomous flying robot, managing your hydroponic gardening project or tweeting the current temperature of your hot water tank. This get-together is intended to help those of us for whom imagination exceeds expertise (that is to say, pretty much everyone I know), let's build cool things together :)
-== Sessions ==
+== New Sessions for 2014 - Return of the Cake ==
 The plan is to have this as regularly as possible, varying the day around in case people can't make a particular day of the week.

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 # The third was on the 16th August, slightly slower mostly as was distracted wiring cables but we made the dot matrix displays work (mostly) and Martin hacked some more on his sky tracking camera mount. Meetup event page [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/134508292/ here]
 # The fourth was on the 28th August, no robots as we had some issues with the new Arduinos (it turned out later that they didn't have bootloaders, now fixed). The meetup event was [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/135690182/ here]
-Next meeting is Friday 25th October. Meetup page [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/140024592/ here] - sign up! Bring cake! Bring friends! (particularly friends with cake) Make bleepy flashing things that run around the room!
+Next meeting is Friday 25th October. Meetup page [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/146064672/ here] - sign up! Bring cake! Bring friends! (particularly friends with cake) Make bleepy flashing things that run around the room!
 == Helpful links ==

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 # The second one was on the 8th of August; meetup event [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/132710342/ here], big copies of the photos (which are lurking on the right hand side of this very page)  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomoinn/sets/72157634991866826/ here] :) Some of the bits for the Big Box of Breakout Boards and Bits arrived, temperature and humidity sensors and stepper motor drivers yielded to sugar driven curiosity.
 # The third was on the 16th August, slightly slower mostly as was distracted wiring cables but we made the dot matrix displays work (mostly) and Martin hacked some more on his sky tracking camera mount. Meetup event page [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/134508292/ here]
-The next meeting will be on Wednesday 28th August - sign up on meetup.com [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/135690182/ here] - let's make some robots :)
+Next meeting looks like being Thursday 19th August, otherwise we'll class with the OCaml people on the Wednesday. Meetup page [http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/events/140024592/ here] - sign up! Bring cake! Bring friends! (particularly friends with cake) Make bleepy flashing things that run around the room!
 == Helpful links ==

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	[[User:markocosic\|markocosic]] 17:37, 21 August 2013 (BST)		[[User:markocosic\|markocosic]] 17:37, 21 August 2013 (BST)
		+
		+	== Custom Arduino IDE Build ==
		+
		+	I'm working on a custom version of the Arduino IDE to, amongst other things, allow us to cut and paste code from the IDE directly into this wiki. I've made that particular change on my own clone of the code, the adventurous can check it out from https://github.com/tomoinn/Arduino/tree/ide-1.5.x; you'll need to do the following (only tested on linux thus far!)
		+
		+	<span style='font-family:monospace; display: block; margin-left: 20px;'>
		+	> git clone git@github.com:tomoinn/Arduino.git<br>
		+	> git checkout ide-1.5.x<br>
		+	> cd Arduino/build<br>
		+	> ant run
		+	</span>
		+
		+	You should then have a version of the IDE based on version 1.5 but with an extra context menu option 'copy as MediaWiki HTML', if you use this and then copy the clipboard into an editor in our wiki you should get something like the following:
		+
		+	<span style='font-family: monospace; display: block; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 6px; border: 1px solid #aaa; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;background-color: #f9f9f9;'><span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>/*</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>  Blink</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'> Turns on an LED on for one second, then off for one second, repeatedly.</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'> </span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'> This example code is in the public domain.</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'> */</span><br>
		+	<br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// Pin 13 has an LED connected on most Arduino boards.</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// give it a name:</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #CC6600;'>int</span> led = 13;<br>
		+	<br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// the setup routine runs once when you press reset:</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #CC6600;'>void</span> <span style='color: #CC6600;'><b>setup</b></span>() { <br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// initialize the digital pin as an output.</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #CC6600;'>pinMode</span>(led, <span style='color: #006699;'>OUTPUT</span>); <br>
		+	}<br>
		+	<br>
		+	<span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// the loop routine runs over and over again forever:</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #CC6600;'>void</span> <span style='color: #CC6600;'><b>loop</b></span>() {<br>
		+	<span style='color: #CC6600;'>digitalWrite</span>(led, <span style='color: #006699;'>HIGH</span>); <span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #CC6600;'>delay</span>(1000); <span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// wait for a second</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #CC6600;'>digitalWrite</span>(led, <span style='color: #006699;'>LOW</span>); <span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW</span><br>
		+	<span style='color: #CC6600;'>delay</span>(1000); <span style='color: #7E7E7E;'>// wait for a second</span><br>
		+	}<br>
		+	</span>
		+
		+	Should make putting example code up easier - I'm also thinking of customizing colours, logo etc to create a makespace edition of the IDE. As and when it becomes a bit more stable I'll start doing proper builds for linux and windows at least. Note that cloning the github repository takes a long time, it's going on for 600Mb of data, potentially you can cut that down by only cloning the ide-1.5.x branch if you're familiar with git.
		+
		+	--[[User:Tomoinn\|tmo]] 14:09, 13 September 2013 (BST)

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 # {{Done|4 LED Dot matrix modules with drivers}}
 # {{Done|2 Eight digit seven segment displays with drivers}}
-# 2 Ethernet shields for the Arduino Nano
+# {{Done|2 Ethernet shields for the Arduino Nano}}
 # {{Done|4 LCD 20x4 character displays}}
 # {{Done|8 Motion sensors (6 degrees of freedom MPU6050 based with 3 axis gyro and 3 axis accelerometer)}}