[ELECTRON] Arduino for beginners - Re: new member Brian
Brian Hewitt
brianhewitt1 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 19:34:13 UTC 2009
Certainly seems like an active group, which I'm glad to see! Sorry I
missed the Pure Data sessions - those sound very intriguing.
I'd be interested in a regular meeting to explore arduino as well, but
probably couldn't come more than every other week.
For now, though, I have a question that's related. If anyone has any
suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them!
I've done the basic blinking and fading light things on the arduino
and now I'm trying to control a 16x1 LCD display. I've seen some
tutorials on the web, and I know that there's an LCD script library
that comes with the development environment. I have the example (usual
"hello world") script and hooked it up with all the pins connected
correctly, but it's not working (well, the back light comes on, but
that's it...).
I'm stumped about one of the pins on the LCD I have, which is not
mentioned in any of the tutorials - the spec sheet calls it Vo: the
supply voltage for driving the LCD (separate from the +5v supply
voltage for the logic). The specs say it takes a variable voltage, but
+1v typical. Anyone know anything about how or if that should be
connected?
Cheers!
Brian
On 23 Jun 2009, at 15:00 | 23 Jun 2009, ben dembroski wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm afraid that I'm one of those emersed in a PhD. I don't have
> much to offer by way of structured materials, but if anyone is
> interested, I'd be happy to make my patches / code / whatever
> available. (It's all GPL'd anyway). Mostly, i've worked on
> interfacing arduino's with Pure Data, but I've done a little work
> with Arduino's as stand-alones as well.
>
> That said, I'm certainly intending on doing some more workshops once
> my calendar clears a little. Sad to say, that at this rate it
> probably won't happen until early next year (barring a minor miracle).
>
> In the meantime, if people have specfic questions, maybe we can at
> least offer pointers in the right direction.
>
> --
> Ben Dembroski
>
> 2009/6/23 Arxontis Politis <deadflagblue at gmail.com>
> Ben (Dembroski) also had a series of workshops early this year on
> arduino and communication with Pd (puredata) mostly for arts
> students, so mostly focused on media/audio/visual artistic
> programming.
> And his own work with arduino and pd is great. I don't know if he
> has any presentations or tutorials available but you can maybe ask
> him, he should be watching the list...
>
> 2009/6/23 Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com>
>
> I wouldn't be able to make it until next week, and I need an arduino
> first... :)
>
> seb
>
> 2009/6/23 makerfair <mcmadsat09-makerfairglasgow at yahoo.co.uk>:
> > I have to do a civic welcome this evening but will pop in after
> and see if
> > youse all are still knitting.
> >
> > Regards
> > Nina Baker
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Being a councillor:
> > http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/Council_Committees/Councillors/w10c2694.htm
> > My steampunk blog: http://greensteampunk.blogspot.com/
> > Maker fair blog: http://mcmadsat.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 23/6/09, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Arduino for beginners - Re: new member Brian
> > To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club" <members at electronclub.org
> >
> > Date: Tuesday, 23 June, 2009, 12:44 PM
> >
> > That tutorial looks great.
> >
> > I'm up for setting up a regular session (weekly? biweekly?) to
> work on
> > and learn Arduino stuff with others. Tuesdays are good for me
> > (traditional Leccie Knitters night). I can't start for a couple of
> > weeks though.
> >
> > How many others are interested?
> >
> > Seb
> >
> > 2009/6/23 Simon Yuill <simon at lipparosa.org>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Lady Ada makes a beginner's kit for Arduino as well as tutorials
> to go
> >> with it:
> >>
> >> http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/
> >>
> >> The Leccie Knitters were doing co-learning sessions with Arduino
> at the
> >> Electron Club, the main people doing that are both tied up in PhD
> work
> >> right now, but no reason why these could not be revived by others
> if
> >> there is a common interest.
> >>
> >> best wishes
> >> Si
> >>
> >>
> >> makerfair wrote:
> >>> I know absolutely zero about arduino but have seen a number of
> enticing
> >>> projects around. Is there any chance someone (James?) would be
> able to
> >>> source beginners kits and lead novices like me by the hand through
> >>> building and programming some simple thing?
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> *Nina Baker*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Being a councillor:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/Council_Committees/Councillors/w10c2694.htm
> >>> My steampunk blog: http://greensteampunk.blogspot.com/**
> >>> *Maker fair blog: **http://mcmadsat.blogspot.com/*
> >>>
> >>> <http://www.instructables.com/tag/?q=greensteam&limit%3Atype%3Aid=on&type%3Aid=on&type%3Auser=on&type%3Acomment=on&type%3Agroup=on&type%3AforumTopic=on&sort=none
> >
> >>> *//*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --- On *Tue, 23/6/09, Simon Yuill /<simon at lipparosa.org>/* wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From: Simon Yuill <simon at lipparosa.org>
> >>> Subject: [ELECTRON] new member Brian
> >>> To: "Electron Club members" <members at electronclub.org>
> >>> Date: Tuesday, 23 June, 2009, 9:48 AM
> >>>
> >>> A big hello to Brian Hewitt who says:
> >>>
> >>> Hello. I'm an artist dipping his toes into new media work,
> and I'm
> >>> trying to learn to use the arduino platform for a variety of
> >>> projects.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> best wishes
> >>> Si
> >>>
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