So I was gifted an ardruino evo r3, a starter kit and a book "programming ardruino: getting started with sketches" (sketches being script, you probably knew that, maybe you didn't). I am excited to learn and do some neat things with it, for those of you that don't know what Ardruino, it's "an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible."

This pretty much brings me to the question of the hour, does anybody have any experience with Ardruino? if so what have you done with it? I've seen a couple pretty neat projects for it but I was wondering if this is something people here use/know about and if so what do you use it for?

anyway if you care to share your projects or thoughts on the Ardruino platform I would love to hear them.

Made a robot with bunch of sensors and 4x4 driving in school

It's a great platform for all types of prototyping. Make sure you learn the theory well though else you'll run into a lot of problems which you don't know how to debug

I used something similar for my line following robot.
I was also planning on creating a door unlocker for my house. Just swipe a badge or something and have some servos unlock the door.


Another plan was to hook up some lights to an arduino board and use my phone to turn those on and off.

They have an arduino android kit.

i'm probably gonna start pretty small, but having integration with your house lights and your phone sounds pretty sweet to me.



i will have to see what i can find on the theory, currently have a very limited knowledge base (took one java/html programming course a few years ago) and limited resources (just that book so far), if you have any suggested reading material i would certainly appreciate it.

Well it's useful to learn about circuits and transistors if you're doing anything that involves more than led lights and switches

I use the Teensy 2.0 board. This one: http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html
(because its nearly an arduino board, it is in fact arduino compatible)

i like it because:
- programmable with plain c
- programmable over usb
- small board
- cheap board
- provided usb library works and is simple

So if you decide to code your arduino thing in c, I can help you. If you use the sketches, I can't help you

My projects so far with this board:
- controller for a 'frets on fire'-guitar. Haven't made the guitar so far, but the controller works
- ad-sampling with 7.8kHz, sending the data over usb-hid and on the computer i make an fft (result is ofc a spectrum analyser for audio below 3.7 kHz (niquist))