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During the Nesta/40Fires workshop on Openhardware, I tweeted a quote “Arduino makes Hardware Easywhere”  during Daniel Soltis’s talk about Arduino.
Now trying to remember who said it as it gets retweeted to …. a few times

Was it @rainycat, Daniel, @oomlout or @ni or someone else?
Would the original author please [...]

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I was happy when I got Arduino working on a stock xandros eeepc 701 in this post . However Arduino has moved on, and Xandros has lagged.
Running the latest arduino versions (13+) and the eeepc on a stock xandros is not possible due to the fact that the compiler (gcc-avr) is too [...]

Andy Huntington Interaction and sound
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On Wednesday the 13Th I attended the Show & Tell: Gadget DIY session at Thinking Digital- Digital University
A number of different speakers with compatable relationships to technology (coming from the Maker/Hacker ethic of If you cant understand it, take it to bits, you dont own it)

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Brief notes for my Arduino session at BarcampSheffield.
Arduino

What is it?
microntroller
What does it do?
interface to other devices (temp sensors, gps, ethernet, i2c motors etc)
Why would I want one?
for solving problems or making project….. some examples
robotics
using servos and sensors
wearable
embedded wearable electronics using lillypad
toyhacking

Is it hard to use?
it has a gentle learning curve [...]

Finished trialling my light-responsive objects that I developed at the AA2A placement and the ISIS Arts mini-residency. My motivation was to make a work that encoded knowledge of natural systems, to create a gentle empathy in the viewer. Over time these devices have transformed themselves in my eyes into pets, or dependant creatures. Although [...]

Processing.org has a nice video capture library that is suitable for quick videos for documentation, I am using it to capture some arduino experiments with the external isight camera
call and response
code follows….

As part of Inter_Multi_Trans_Actions
First up was Bengt Sjolen(Stockholm)(http://www.automata.se/people/bengt/). He talked about a number of his works including one utilizing a servo-controlled citroen rearvision mirrors (Picture house at Belsay Hall, Northumberland) that used reflection to make a pixelated picture.
An elegant piece was the wifi camera – a single pixel camera that builds up images over a [...]

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I was at Mashed08 in Alexandra Palace . There is a good mix of hardware and software hackers, but I like the hardware ones best. It’s a bit like working with children ands animals. It should not be done in 24hrs unless you are really experienced. I spent too [...]

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My eeepc has a small screen which some programs don’t handle well. The arduino programming environment (the same as processing) doesn’t always handle it very well (like having the scroll bar disappear occasionally). However, it is possible to use an external editor. Personally, I like jedit and its code highlighting. Problem is [...]

New post for Arduino 0017 here –> http://transitlab.org/2009/arduino-and-the-eeepc-ii

I recently bought an asus eeepc subnotebooks( 4G ssd, 512ram, portable celeron) for a portable blogging computer. I never expected to install processing.org or arduino even though I use them on another computer. However, the people down at the eeepc wiki have [...]