Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Puzzle: Is The Arduino Language Object-Oriented?

The basic Arduino Language looks rather procedural according to the references.

But it does supports Libraries which are clearly classes, as shown by the syntax for using libraries, and the documentation for creating your own Libraries.

Friday, December 3, 2010

Buying some shields

I have just purchased:

1USB Host Controller
DC Motor Driver Shield
Prototyping Shield
4 x DS18B20 Temperature Sensor breakout boards
40A/240Vac Solid state relay
RTC breakout board

The intent is to get some code running for controlling AC and DC fans

A Source of 1-Wire Products

HobbyBoards

The Humidity/Temperature/Solar board seems to fit in with out sensor requirements.

As does the 8 channel relay board at 2A/240Vac.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

How to make a custom enclosure.

There are some plastic boxes designed for Arduino but you might find this 3D printing service from SparkFun interesting.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Using 1-wire Source Code

Source code for various devices here...

1-Wire Interfaces and Arduino

According to this article there is both a:
1. Software solutions
2. and a hardware solution

for connecting 1-wire devices.
An article on a simple way of getting 1-wire stuff connected. No quite what I had in mind. I think I am moving to a MicroLAN idea,