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Controlling servos using a joystick
As part of a larger project, adapting a midi joystick to control a robot to provide full movement with a laser turret mounted on top. Hi, I’m Jason. You may remember me from Setting up LCD via GPIO on...
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Creating an Arduino Dice
Create an Arduino powered dice using an Arduino, some LEDs and a tilt sensor. This project is pretty simple as most of the action happens in the code. You’ll need: 9 leds 10k ohm resistor 470 ohm...
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The Gertboard: Lesson 1 – Getting To Know Your Gertboard
First of all Happy New Year 2013 to all of you from the Tech-Fruits team! Welcome, my name is Andrew Sindle-Mouat (@ASindleMouat) and over the coming weeks I will be talking you through the Gertboard,...
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Arduino RGB LED
Potentiometer controlled LED Potentiometers control resistance, they are commonly used with servos to control servo speed and to be a part of a robot. They can also be used in dimmer switches. I bought...
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Baldur’s Gate new Enhanced Edition might soon come to Raspberry Pi. Who from you has never heard of Baldur’s Gate? I am sure most have and many have hands on adventurous experience from Ed Greenwood’s...
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Raspberry Pi in a Pinball System
Greetings Tech Fruits readers! My name is Mark Baldridge. I’m a graduated high school student taking a gap year to do some hobby projects, and then it’s hopefully off to Electrical Engineering school....
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The Gertboard: Lesson 2 – Testing the Buffered I/O Section
Last week we looked at the layout of the Gertboard. This week we are going to test the three parts of the buffered input/output section of the Gertboard: The Pushbuttons, the LED’s and the Input/Output...
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CES 2013: One Laptop Per Child innovating
One Laptop per Child, a Delaware-based, non-profit organization with a mission to empower the world’s poorest children through education has released 3 new products as part of their offering of...
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Sensors and Raspberry Pi: I2C connection
Hello there, my name is Charlotte (@charwarz) and today I’m writing about wiring up sensors to your Raspberry pi. A particularly useful connection type is I2C, which was developed so that components on...
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The Gertboard: Lesson 3 – Testing the Open Collector Driver
First of all sorry for the delay in this post, I have been away on holiday and since I have come back have been quite busy! Last time we looked at the I/O section of the Gertboard. This week we are...
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