Tag: Hardware
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Nomads USB-Zine 2012
Building Up the first Nomads USB-Zine The Nomads USB-zine is a mixture of brochure, videos and info material that become a multimedia Fanzine on USB stick media. With the USB-zines we can distribute our info material on demand, decreasing the consume of media support as DVD or Paper to promote our ideas. We organized a…
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Enable 512MB RAM on latest Raspberry Pi
At first I was very disappointed, because my new Raspis showed only 256MB RAM, although the shop promised to deliver the new model with 512MB RAM. Mr. Watterott answered my email- support request within 5 minutes (!). He told me, that it’s a software issue and pointed me to this link, showing how to identify,…
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Rasperry Pi SPI Touchscreen X-Server
Thanks to Dominique Gallot and vis, I managed to drive a MI0283QT-2 color touchscreen on the raspi 🙂 I followed the steps at www.gallot.be/?p=197 and added the framebuffer driver by vis to run X and LXDE-desktop. 40px in vertical are missing and touch is not working yet, but it’s very funny to use a mouse…
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Raspberry Pi Initialization
Today I received 2 Raspberry Pi boards from watterott.com – Thanx for the fast delivery! Specs: www.watterott.com/de/Raspberry-Pi-Model-B During installation and configuration some bugs appeared, so here are some notes to get around: I used this debian wheezy image: www.raspberrypi.org/downloads and followed the linux console install guide elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup At first various problems occurred: locale- and keyboard-…
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MirrorBot Video – Moving Projections Controller Interface
[youtube width=”640″ height=”505″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To94DWzappg[/youtube] Part #02 of the MirrorBot Demo Video ** Video Installation Audio Visual Special Event n8 @Tacheles 17.12.2010 Music by Nil Wu Ming — ThanX!! www.nilwuming.org Headsquatter.org Live Visuals www.headsquatter.org ** Details of the Controller device: Programs and Live Mode LCD screen interface Part #01 of the Video, Installation in MIKZ, Berlin 03.2010:…
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Video: PONGuino – Arduino & S65 Shield – 2 Player MiniGame
[youtube width=”640″ height=”505″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrfPuTff9sU[/youtube] Here is a video about the PONGuino game for 2 players on a minicomputer with mobile-phone display and joysticks. The box contains an Arduino 2009, a S65-LCD Shield and a gamepad from an old playstation 1. It runs autonomous on 9V battery. The device is originally built for the “Mirrorbot” moving projection…
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PONGuino – Arduino & S65 Shield – 2 Player MiniGame
I wanted a playable game to show the possibilities of the Arduino plattform in workshops. Since I already have a S65-Shield built in a box with two joysticks, I wanted to use that MirrorBot hardware for presentation. The most funny code I could find for the S65 Shield was a Pong game by www.codetorment.com This…
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Arduino Workshop in Berlin
On 28.1.2010 we had our first workshop to introduce the Arduino Microcontroller plattform in Berlin, FHain. The session took place in Sama32 cafe and there were ~10 nerds, who were interested in micro-controllers and electronics. We presented some hardware and sketches and introduced the connection from arduino inputs to processing sketches. Thanx to Todbot for…
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Shields up! Grafix & Color LCD Fun .: S65-Shield
We ordered a S65 Arduino shield from Watterott.com. Simply plug it on a Arduino and play with a 176 x 132 pixels color display from a Siemens S65 handy, micro SD card slot and rotary encoder. There is a library on the Watterott website, which contains some graphic functions to paint on the screen, just…