Arduino easy projects for beginners

yesterday i've bought the Arduino Uno at an local electronic store.
and now i want make some simple projects with him.

if you want to create some easy projects follow my blog .

here i link some easy projects :

Blink an led :

We have added a 1K resistor to pin 13, what allows the immediate connection of a LED between the pin and the ground.







LEDs have polarity, which means they will only light up if you orient the legs properly. The long leg is typically positive, and shoud connect to pin 13. The short leg connects to GND; the buld of the LED will also typically have a flat edge on the side. If the LED doesn't light up, trying reversing the legs.


After wiring up you will upload this code from Arduino enviroment to your Arduino Bord.

/* Blinking LED  
* ------------  
*  


* turns on and off a light emitting diode(LED) connected to a digital 
* pin, in intervals of 2 seconds. Ideally we use pin 13 on the Arduino   
* board because it has a resistor attached to it, needing only an LED   
*  
* Created 1 June 2005  
* copyleft 2005 DojoDave   
* http://arduino.berlios.de  
*  
* based on an orginal by H. Barragan for the Wiring i/o board  
*/
  int ledPin = 13;                 // LED connected to digital pin 13
  void setup() {  
         pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);      // sets the digital pin as output
 }    
      void loop() {   digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);   // 
                                 delay(1000);                  // waits for a second 
              digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);    // sets the LED off    
                                 delay(1000);                  // waits for a second  
}  



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Arduino DashBoard App


[Jonathan Clark] from Lousiville Hackerspace has developed an application that is constantly checking the state of I/O pin of your Arduino board, updating a window on your desktop.
ArduinoDashboard is an application for viewing analog and digital pin sensor values from an arduino in real time. This can be used with any arduino sketch and now has compiled versions with no need to download processing.org ide. Sources included as well.
via [HackADay] [Adafruit] source [lvl1.org]


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I’m happy to announce that the Arduino family is now bigger: Priya Kuber (twitter,site) is going to help us out on our blogging queue as well as managing several internal projects. She is living in New Dehli, and has fallen in love for electronics & tinkering at the age of 12 in her fathers’ workshop at home. She is also the co-founder of9circuits, one of our indian distributor.
Young, yet well experienced, she is familiar with coding and in dealing with online communities.
Above all, I am challenged to share the Arduino Blog with a woman (in a man-oriented world like electronics is) from India (one of the most relevant coutries in terms of electronics and components supply).
Stay tuned for new, upcoming surprises!

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The Ben Heck Show, the DIY format on Revision3, explains and uses the Android Development Kit.

On this weeks The Ben Heck Show, Ben jumps right in to using the Android Accessory Development Kit and gets started on building a Baby Rocker that simulates vehicle motion from logged Android sensor data.

It’s amazing to see different efforts in building detailed instructions in using the board and the way this Arduino-to-Android device is changing the design for apps and physical interfaces. For more info check our ADK LABs page.

via [Make] [r/Android] source [tbhs/r3]

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[Steve Hoefer] shared an interesting solution for visually impaired people.

It measures the distance to things and translates that into pressure on the wrist.[...] It’s wrist mounted and senses objects from about 1 inch (2 cm) to 10 feet (3.5m). It has generally fast response time (fractions of a second) to quickly navigate complex environments.

It’s not the first time we see Arduino used for custom solutions to navigate a room and / or enviroment, replacing the sight (above all, you’ll remember the [Bat Googles] project from USI and [Halo], the winner project of Humana competition).

“Tacit”, that’s how’s called this cool project, is the first in moving the sensitive response area of the device from the head (closed to the ears) to wrists (closed to the hands). Steve, whom its first prototype was conceived has an headband like the two projects above, moved its device to the wrist for several reasons

The headband was a great first test, and it did work, but it had two fatal flaws:

1) The most dangerous obstacles are not at head level. Furniture and most of the other things that can be tripped over and stubbed on are waist level or lower.

2) Vibrating motors stuck on your skull will drive you insane quickly.

In addition it would be a challenge to disguise it as anything but some mad-science-looking headband, and blind people do care how they look.

Tacit is wonderfully referenced and it’s realeased in CC-NC-SA

via [Grathio Labs]

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