http://www.vkick.com Just another weblog Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:42:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is a compitible Arduino board out there called Seeeduino.  It is kinda cool.  It uses many smaller version of  components with some additional features EAGLE Schematic file:  click to download EAGLE PCB file:  click to download http://seeedstudio.com/depot/datasheet/Hello_Seeeduino.pdf http://seeedstudio.com/depot/ http://www.vkick.com/?p=32 Interesting way to use Arduino to monitor home power usage.  This is great to use with our combo board. http://jarv.org/pwrmon.shtml http://www.vkick.com/?p=30 Should I write to flash or eeprom?  Hummm... http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1175249750 edit: http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/EEPROM-Flash Plus, just have to make sure I don't write to the first 4K. Maybe flash is a way to go. http://www.vkick.com/?p=25 Perhaps there is a way to add clock feature into Arduino without additional chip. http://www.faludi.com/code/open-source-arduino-clock/ It will be great if it can check time with NTP first. http://www.vkick.com/?p=21 I am thinking about building an alarm clock with Arduino.  As I look Arduino a bit deeper, I am puzzled and wondering how to do the clock timer and how to allow user to save his/her setting, say, "alarm me at 8AM"? Found a bit info on the clock timer: http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1191209057/0 As ... http://www.vkick.com/?p=14 I didn't know you can actually make Arduino shield at home.  This is cool~ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="HomeMade Adruino Shield"][/caption] http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1244690702 http://www.vkick.com/?p=10 Someone made a cheap Arduino board with ZigBee chip on it.  Instead of paying $30 + $75, now you can get one for under $40. This is nice. http://www.myra-robotics.com/ http://www.vkick.com/?p=7 It is a bit sad that I found there is a cool show called "makerfaire".  It is just around the corner and I just missed it! I really should get out more! http://www.makerfaire.com/ http://antipastohw.blogspot.com/2009/06/maker-faire-2009-at-san-mateo.html http://www.vkick.com/?p=4 Welcome to vkick blog site.  This is my first post.  Let's start blogging! http://www.vkick.com/?p=1