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How to use a Bare Conductive Touch Board with Arduino

Physical Computing Tutorials

...tive materials, like Electric Paint or foil. The Touch Board has o ...ay MP3 files or simulate a MIDI instrument by touching the electrodes. In short, the Touch Board is a pre ...-built Arduino that combines the functions of play MP3 and ... capacitive touch sensing, but you can do more than that...

How to use a Neopixel strip

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...ixel is an addressable LED, meaning that it can be programmed individually. With the library cre ...rip for your project. They come in different sizes and shapes and ...icient. They are commonly found in a lot of house decorations or l ...ight installations. Wiring DIN to Pin...

How to build a Simple Robot Arm with Servo Motor and Joystick

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...gripper). There are a lot of online resources for laser-cut files ...shop to laser cut the hardware. In this tutorial, we will focus on ... control the servo motor (the joint of your robotic arm) with two ...n use more or less servo motors in your design based on how many j...

How to Configure a Raspberry Pi for the first time

Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi Image

... more detailed tutorial for imaging the Pi. Now we can move on to ... the Raspberry Pi When you plug in the power supply and all other ...u need, the Pi should start booting automatically. If your Raspber ...ry Pi does not turn on within 5 minutes, check the status LED...

Using built-in example code and Reading the hookup diagram

Physical Computing Workshop: Beginner Physical Computing

...pload example code Open a built-in example, Blink, and upload the code. 2. Blinking Orange LED The orange LED labe ...lled as L should be blinking now. 3. Understanding the Code First, you will see ...e comments, not code. You will find a lot of information from thes...

Using a Sparkfun Sound Detector

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...This is a analog value representing the volume of the ambient soun ...his is a digital value representing if sound levels are low or hig ...h. Wiring There are two options for wiring, you can use both at the same ...time: Digital Wired up in digital mode the sound detector...

Connecting a Potentiometer

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...t with three connections, the main purpose of the pot is to create ... a variable voltage as an input to a circuit, for example co ...ntrolling how loud your speakers should ...be. Inside a potentiometer is a large ...resistive area between pin #1 and #3, the middle pin #2 is...

How to connect a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)

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...ent Resistor, we have to use it in combination with a fixed value resisto ...r, the combination of these two components ac ... temperature (voltage) by adjusting the tap. The zig-zag lines indicate resistors, the voltage ou ...tput we measure with the Arduino comes from this middle point b...

Student works

About the Lab Lab Orientation notes

...ebsites and videos! Creative Coding Design with your Mind by Miguel Desport, BA (Hons) G ...esign (2020) Muse meditation brain sensor, code in Processing interpreting data over OSC from iPhone Phy ...sical Computing Chronic Suicider by Mich Tsai,...

How to use a Hall Effect Sensor

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...sor which can be used for detecting the strength and direction of ...ectromagnet with its output varying in proportion to the strength of t ...he magnetic field being detected. Wiring left to 5V (Power) middle to ...GND right to PIN2 via 10K resistor Getting st...

How to send files to Raspberry Pi using SSH

Raspberry Pi Tutorials

...ocol that lets you securely log in to and control another computer ... remotely, usually over the internet or your local network. Think of it as opening a remote terminal window on your Raspberry Pi from yo ...t You Can Do with SSH: Run terminal commands on your Pi from anot...

Making a Force Sensor/ a Button with Velostat & Conductive Fabric

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...ctive Fabric? Velostat (a.k.a. Linqstat) is a thin, flexible, pressure-sensitive p ... with conductive threads or coatings, like silver, copper, nickel, ...nd flexible like fabric. Assembling the Velostat and Conductive Fa ...conductive fabrics are not touching each other. Tape them down s...

How to use 7-Segment LED Backpack

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...t displays normally require 13 pins (5 'characters' and 8 total se ...kpack solves the annoyance of using 13 pins or a bunch of chips by having an I2C constant-current matrix ...oller chip takes care of everything, drawing all the LEDs in the background...

Where to buy components

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The following list is of common suppliers, o ...than eBay... Electronics UK Arduino boards, shields, etc... Prot ... Components RapidStudent pricing + free delivery over £30 CPCF ...ot Shop MakerBeam (European) International Adafruit (USA) Sp...

Powering an Arduino

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How to power an Arduino Here is some resources about p ...owering Arduino or other electronic projects: ...General How to power an Arduino: More information here. How to power a p ...roject: More information here. What Adpater: Mo ...re information here. Portable / Batte...

Using Arduino Leonardo to send USB MIDI data

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One of the secrets of Arduino Leonardo is the in-built USB MIDI support. This is ... really useful for sending data from Arduino to applications like MadMapper ..., Max and Ableton Live. In order to use this you'll need t ...o follow the guide on How to install libraries to install the M...

AR with Unity - Step #4 - Building and testing your app

Unity AR Image target AR tutorial

...f a series of tutorials progressing from basic concepts to more fu ...ou set up an AR Unity project using the Vuforia plug-in. In this step, we are going to review all the components n ...es Previous steps. To continue with this project you should ...

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Using a Soil Moisture Sensor

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...l moisture grace to the changes in electrical conductivity of the ...earth (soil resistance increases with drought). Wiring Wiring up the sensors is simple: Pow ...o GND) Signal (SIG to A0) Getting started This example turns on ...the built-in LED when the soil is dry. int s...