Advanced Electronics Tasks

You must make something cool each quarter. Below is a list of the sort of things I have in mind. You will have to document your progress along the way in a web log and you'll create a final project page presenting the finished product.

Color Sensor

• 1. Make this: http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/sensors/Reports/DIYColorSensor

  2. Watch this video: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/09/lego_nxt_audio_sequencer.html

  3. Review: Tone Output

  4. Make something inspired by the video with your Arduino

Make a Home Alarm System - Model

• 1. Must include at least two different types of sensor

  2. Must include at least two mechanisms for alerting people that the alarm was tripped

  3. Bonus for including a mechanical system to "trap" the intruder

Create Pong

• 1. Work through:

  2. Communicating with Processing

  3. Advanced Communication with Processing

     1. or you can figure out how to implement Firmata with Arduino and Processing

  4. Create a circuit with two potentiometers to control your paddels.

Drum Bot

• 1. Make an Arduino version of this: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/112

  2. Start with one that is stationary. If you get that working then we can look at making it drive around.

Picaxe

• 1. Grab the Picaxe stuff off the shelf

  2. Get the Picaxe guide out of the cupbord

  3. Work through the "Arduino Lessons" with the Picaxe stuff. Note: The programming language is totally different. What I'm really saying is figure out how to do all the stuff you've learned with Arduino with the Picaxe.

iRobot Create

• 1. Figure out how to program it

  2. Figure out how to have an Arduino control it

BOE-Bot

• 1. Work through the BOE-Bot kit (I mean all the way through, no jumping around)

  2. Take complete notes to document progress, comparing to the Arduino platform

Pitch Another Idea

• 1. Seen something cool you want to make? Let me know