[Noisebridge-discuss] next arduino class

[Michael Shiloh]

Interrupts and timers are a favorite topic of mine.

Are others interested in this?

An excellent, cheap, and fun application for this is decoding an IR 
stream from a consumer electronic remote control. The sensor is pretty 
available and inexpensive, even free if you pull out out of an old VCR 
or DVD player. Remote is free as well (no extra remotes in your kitchen 
drawer? bring one you use, it won't get damaged), and the protocol is 
pretty simple and well known.

Would this be something of interest? I think it would make a great topic.

There was another suggestion to do interrupts and callbacks. Similar. 
Perhaps we can introduce both and delve deeper next time.

On 07/26/2010 04:54 PM, Jack Perkins wrote:
> I'm also interested in creating physical controllers for games,
> however my questions are more about the electronics side (shift
> registers and decreasing noise) rather than connecting it to another
> application. Mike, if you're interested I was going to grab an NES
> controller and work on reading from it via arduino as my next project.
>
> I'm also interested in strict control over timing (something that will
> let me get control over composite signal generation
> http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs150/sp99/sp99/project/hsync.gif
> ), so I assume this means interrupts and timers.
>
> -Jack
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Mike Chambers<mikechambers at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I am interested. I am getting my Arduino tomorrow, and so I should
>> have the basics down by August 5th.
>>
>> I am interested in a couple of things including:
>>
>> -Light sensors, especially using as a trip line for moving objects.
>> -Creating physical controllers for games (Flash based for me).
>> -Computer / Arduino communication over wireless (maybe XBee?).
>>
>> I am pretty new to electronics, so figuring out how to hook up sensors
>> (i.e. if they require a resistor, and how much), would be really
>> useful.
>>
>> mike
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Michael Shiloh
>> <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I'm thinking August 5th for the next free arduino class.
>>>
>>> We'll move more rapidly through the introductory stuff, do more hands-on
>>> stuff, and more advanced stuff.
>>>
>>> I'd love some feedback from you as to what advanced stuff you'd like to do.
>>>
>>> Take a look at the topics on
>>>
>>> http://teachmetomake.wordpress.com/arduino-workshops/
>>>
>>> and respond here to everyone so we can see where there is interest
>>> (please do not reply to me alone)
>>>
>>> I will try to have bags of accessories available.
>>>
>>> I have received more Arduinos to sell, but if you want one, buy soon as
>>> they seem to go rather quickly.
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