i haven’t posted in a while, but that doesn’t mean i haven’t been doing cool stuff in what little spare time i have. i thought i’d finally record one cool project i finished. i’m not sure what to call it other than “dynamic awareness”. in a nutshell, i interface a Maxbotix LV-EZ2 ultrasonic range-finder to [...]
i’ve put together this video as a demo of “intuit checkout” – the idea that won the last intuit ideajam contest. intuit checkout is a low-cost point of sale hardware/software solution that uses an arduino prototyping board and a parallax rfid reader. all of the item data associated with the unique ids on the rfid’s [...]
here’s an excellent write-up on what an arduino is and what it can be used to do: link
i spent a little time last night playing with arduino and i thought i’d share this little experiment i put together.
i spent this evening soldering together the proto shield that i bought with my arduino. coincidentally, make magazine did exactly the same thing which is kind of cool. their pictures are better. my camera doesn’t like close-ups despite being on macro mode.
my new tv-b-gone kit should be here any day now. sweet. i haven’t soldered in weeks! [/geek]
chumby’s are on sale now. i’m not quite sold yet.
Get in touch!
Los Angeles, CA USA
Telephone: (310) 228-8264
Email: joshua@mcginn.is