[clug] Arduinos?

[Peter Barker]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Michael Still wrote:

> I've spent this Christmas holiday becoming obsessed with arduinos and 
> spending all of my money on ebay for cheap Chinese components. Are there 
> other arduino users in the LUG? I'd be surprised if there aren't. What are 
> people working on?

You must have missed the presentation at CLUG several months back by 
Alastair and myself....

> To get the ball rolling, here's what I've done so far:
>
> - A replacement thermostat for a fridge

Cool.  For those reading and expermimenting with these - get 18D20s, not 
18S20s temperature sensors - all-round better IMO...

I have only two "completed" projects:
  - laser/camera pan/tilt heads 
(http://e0.net.au/~pb/home/cameraservopantilthead.html)
  - watering system controller (water meter and master control valve 
control)

I've dabbled with various other things; DS18S20s and ULN3003 on 
breadboard, amongst other things.

Alastair ripped the guts out of a cd-duplicator and replaced them with an 
arduino (http://alastair.d-silva.org/orbit-cd-duplicator-rebuild).  His 
latest effort with an arduino is a switchmode voltage regulator 
(http://alastair.d-silva.org/arduino-based-switchmode-voltage-regulatorhttp://alastair.d-silva.org/arduino-based-switchmode-voltage-regulator)

> Mikal

Yours,
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