Aquarium Micro-Controller (part 1)

One of the first projects that came to my mind when I started learning about Arduino was the possibility of controlling LEDs, relays and solenoids for my planted aquarium. Of course I’m not the first person to think of this… link link link A few features I’d like to plan for… Timers / Schedulers Relay […]

Midi Metronome

Creating a midi metronome was one of the first projects I tried to tackle with the Arduino. Pictured above is a simple circuit running a sketch to light LEDsĀ  alingned a row, sequenced to visually emulate the Q-Logic Midi Metro used by Bjork and several other artists. The actual commercial product is expensive, hard to […]

beer and midi keyboards do not mix

Here’s one way to spend an entire Saturday: Pour beer onto your midi controller, then disassemble the whole thing to clean it up. GREAT FUN.

Getting Started with Arduino

This is becoming a new obsession… I first saw these when I was doing research on the Perspective Aerial quad-copter. This little board is an open source microcontroller (with 14 digital input/outputs and 6 analog inputs) that is programmed via USB. Complete, assembled boards can be found on eBay for about $30. Just add a […]