Arduino Uno

[The Boloblur]

this is what I am currently starting to work with. It is a Microcontroller that can run Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X. It can be programmed to do anything that you want it to do as it has a blank processor to be programmed to however you want, and it is all quite easy. I will post progress with some of the things that I make it do, as I begin to use it more.

[perrinoia]

Why radio shack? Do you hate having money?

[The Boloblur]

No, that's just where I got this at lol. I am sure that you can purchase it other places for less money but I decided to get it there.

[Owner]

Hey at least hes supporting the dieing brand. Give the guy a break will ya lol xD

Thanks!

Owner

[{LS}RePublic]

I guess Radioshack would be similar to our Jaycar. Except people do actrually shop at jaycar =p
Though Jaycar is known for their high priced China goods. They could easily support locals... but they choose profit over quality.


On another note It seems Tandy Electronics bought out Radioshack. But then Tandy was bought out by Woolworths... that owned Dick Smith Electronics, so they converted all the Tandy stores to Dick Smiths.
But now Dick Smith Electronics is closing down Australia Wide though being present in almost every city.

Times are getting shaky.

[Erowid]

You can get them for half that. I got an arduino uno and a nano with a whole bunch of other misc components for around 60.
A lot of those components were free.99 from school though also
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_ ... er+arduino

[KILROY]

I posted this on the LM forum:

I've been messing with one of these for $35:

https://www.raspberrypi.org



Specs:

• A 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU
• 802.11n Wireless LAN
• Bluetooth 4.1
• Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
• 4 USB ports
• 40 GPIO pins
• Full HDMI port
• Ethernet port
• Combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite video
• Camera interface (CSI)
• Display interface (DSI)
• Micro SD card slot (now push-pull rather than push-push)
• VideoCore IV 3D graphics core

There are many, many projects you can do with one of these. I'm currently working on one to control a homemade built sprinkler system and one to monitor my internet connection, in which if something happens like drops speed, or drops all together, it will either auto tweet my ISP or open a ticket with them for them to start looking into the issue. For speed drops, that's just going to be my way of bothering the HELL out of them till they remedy the issue.

[Owner]

Clever idea Killroy.

[The Boloblur]

This is all awesome stuff and really what I was hoping for. I have just done some simple programming with an LED for my first try and its going well. I have big plans and as I go farther I will send some more stuff your way.

[KILROY]

This is all awesome stuff and really what I was hoping for. I have just done some simple programming with an LED for my first try and its going well. I have big plans and as I go farther I will send some more stuff your way.

Yes, please do, keep us up to date. So far as for mine, they are both working well. My ISP is AT&T and it's only tweeted them once during an electrical storm outage. I run solar panels and batteries also for back-ups. AT&T is also a Local Exchange Carrier (LEC) that my company provides to. My setup contacts a specific group with them in the local NOC here where I live. When they get a contact from my setup, their team immediately calls me directly to my cell phone to find out the current situation, due to myself having to also work from home most of the time. So they take care of me, and I try to take care of them by keeping their providing services for the consumer up

As for the one that acts as a timer for my sprinkler system, it's working pretty well in keeping my 8 1/2 acres saturated. I can also control it via my cell phone if away from the homestead, and see it performing if needed with the security camera setup, also via the cell phone.