What is Arduino?

Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for anyone making interactive projects.

Source https://www.arduino.cc/

Arduino Board

During the workshop we learned how to do simple coding of the Arduino Board.

Example

First Step

The first step was to create code that made the Arduino board light up a small LED connected to it

CODE

Result

The arduino boards works with a correlating software. The board is almost like a blank canvas, similar to emmanuel Kants Statue. You feed it information and it will respond in according to the code that you put in to the Arduino software.

Next Step

My group and I started to advance from this initial LED Blink and added a fade to it.

By connecting the wires into the correct places we managed to get the light to work and also add different fades etc.

Arduino and Motors

Responsive



Touch

In this part of the workshop we were asked to produce code that made it possible to use assistive touch. After a lot of trial and error we managed to get it working. At first we couldn't get it to work because we had the pins in the wrong places. When we figured this out we were still convinced it wasn't working however under closer inspection the assertive touch was making the light slightly dimmer every time we touched and when we look at the software on the macbook you could see that the code was chaining overtime we touch the active touch button

We were given a small motor to try and make move, On th board was a small control which is you twisted made the motor move in the same direction as the twist

VIDEO

ARDUINO AND GAMES

During the workshop we were stopped and asked to take part in a game. The games used assistive touch to control the pacman like character. It was similar to Super Mario and you had to jump over gaps and defeat objects.

Extra Research

Different uses for Arduino Boards

LilyPad

source http://lilypadarduino.org/?page_id=1260

With the arduino lilypad you can create interactive clothing, the circle formation with the sewing holes makes the possibilities
endless with clothing. With the video above you can see the potential of the arduino lilypad.

Something i found very interesting was a website called http://gamebuino.com, its a piece of hardware which is based around the arduino board but is specifically designed for coding games.

GAMEBUINO

The Gamebuino works in the same way as the arduino board. It uses software to program hardware. The Gamebuino open up a whole new element to the arduino board. After watching the video and looking at wth website it would be very interesting to be bel to get hold of a gambuino but I'm not sure it is feasible and accessible

source http://gamebuino.com/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_started