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Seeeduino

Mon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:42:42 +0000

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/

Use Arduino to Monitor Home Power Usage

Mon — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:36:48 +0000

Interesting way to use Arduino to monitor home power usage. This is great to use with our combo board.

http://jarv.org/pwrmon.shtml

Flash or EEPROM?

Mon — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:51:06 +0000

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.

Clock without additional chip?

Mon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:57:25 +0000

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.

How to do Timer and Save Settings?

Mon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:25:35 +0000

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 far as saving configuration settings, It seems Arduino is a bit limited… It only has 512 bytes on EEPROM. It sounds like we need to add another chip to it.

http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/InterfacingWithHardware#Storage

As useful programming reference:

http://www.maartenlamers.com/ThisIsWiring/

How to add/retrieve data from Arduino’s flash:

http://arduiniana.org/libraries/Flash/

HomeMade Arduino Shield

Mon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:51:42 +0000

I didn’t know you can actually make Arduino shield at home. This is cool~

HomeMade Adruino Shield

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1244690702

Arduino with ZigBee

Mon — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:47:53 +0000

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/

I should get out more…

Mon — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:49:01 +0000

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

Welcome

Mon — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:38:19 +0000

Welcome to vkick blog site. This is my first post. Let’s start blogging!