February 24, 2012 (PROJECTS & CONCEPTS) I decided to go through all the circuits provided in the
Sparkfun Inventor's Kit. Four in particular turned out to be great ideas to expand on - controlling a row of LEDs, using a potentiometer to control a servo, controlling a piezo element to produce tones, and using a soft potentiometer to fade through colors on an RGB LED.
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| Out of 14 circuits, these 4 were the most interesting. Combining these circuits in different ways might be a good next step before moving on to more complex projects.The circuit on the bottom left is one such combination. |
Combining these circuits would be a good next step - getting some experience creating new projects on your own without simply going through the steps provided. In fact, the potentiometer-controlled servo was a combination of a basic servo rotation circuit and a potentiometer/LED circuit. The next step will be to produce some more practical applications. Right now we have 2 Arduinos here, so one can be used to experiment and teach with, while another can be integrated into a full-time application for long term testing and development.
We're looking at some some applications to gather and Tweet information automatically, or perhaps automate some processes around here. For now, all the projects are running off the USB port of a computer - so I'll have to look into and execute a few projects utilizing a DC adapter before developing permanent stand-alone applications.
More to come soon...
