A few months ago, I spent some time writing a MIDI sequencer for the Arduino. I finished the sequencer, wrote a couple of songs with it, and then got sucked into MSc thesis mode and had to abandon it.
Well, I’ve finally got round to publishing it as an open source project on Google Code, [...]
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I was given a lovely glowing cube by the generous people at Linden Labs as a freebie at a job fair yesterday, and I decided that it was far too attractive to simply sit there on a shelf, pulsating forlornly until its batteries went flat. How about making it [...]
Servos are small DC motors that come in a convenient package with a gearbox. They incorporate a feedback loop – the output shaft of the servo is connected to a potentiometer which measures its current position. This allows the shaft to be set to specific angles by sending the servo a coded signal. [...]