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[NOTE! arduino-serial has been greatly updated. See the “Arduino-serial: updated!” post for details] The Arduino’s USB port is actually a serial port in disguise. To your computer it appears as a ‘virtual’ serial port. This is good news if you want to write custom code on your computer to talk with the Arduino, as talking …

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The notes for the fourth and final class are up on the Spooky Arduino class page. At the end of the class, Mark of Machine Project bestowed upon each of the students a merit badge. It was great. Click above for a larger view of the badge. Arduino MIDI Drum Kit and Spooky Sound Trigger …

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There’s been some confusion as to whether or not the DIY RGB orb presented in the last post was actually connected to a computer and receving color data from it. Here’s a video that more accurately depicts what’s going on and all the code used to create it. Hardware The hardware is just an Arduino …

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The notes for the second class are up on the Spooky Arduino class page. A goofy thing using the techniques for this week’s class.

Yesterday was the first of the four classes that comprise the Spooky Projects – Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino. Click that link to read the class notes and see some of the links mentioned. The class seemed to go okay. We finished a little early. I had packed the first class a bit light fearing …

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