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How to find the digital and analog pins on a standard Arduino board

By michael margolis : 17 May 2011 - 06:18 AM
The tables below show the digital and analog pins for a standard Arduino board and the Mega board. The “Port” column lists the physical port used for the pin. Analog and digital pin assignments ...
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How to create an Arduino alarm that calls a function

By michael margolis : 16 May 2011 - 02:22 PM
You want to perform some action on specific days and at specific times of the day. TimeAlarms is a companion library included in the Time library download (installing the Time library will also insta...
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How Arduino's Servo library controls positioning

By michael margolis : 15 May 2011 - 06:19 AM
This article explains how to control the position of a servo using an angle calculated in your sketch. For example, if you want a sensor on a robot to swing through an arc or move to a position you se...
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How to make sure your new Arduino board is working

By michael margolis : 13 May 2011 - 04:58 PM
Plug the board into a USB port on your computer and check that the green LED power indicator on the board illuminates. Standard Arduino boards (Uno, Duemilanove, and Mega) have a green LED power indic...
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The Most Common XBee Mistakes

By ProfessorShiny : 11 February 2011 - 10:41 AM
When it’s late at night and you just can’t get your ZigBee network working, more than likely a simple solution is waiting in the wings. Here are some tips for resolving issues typically encountere...
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How to Connect an Arduino to an XBee Radio

By ProfessorShiny : 07 February 2011 - 01:59 AM
Solderless breadboards and XBee breakout boards provide an easy way to link your Arduino board to an XBee. While the XBee has many pins, it takes only four of them to create a working connection so th...
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What is happening with Adobe Flash on Single Board Computers (SBCs)

By blackbear : 16 September 2010 - 08:38 AM
According to Steve Jobs, Adobe Flash is too heavy to run on the Powerful iPhone. But Mike Chambers, Principal Product Manager for the Flash Platform at Adobe, likes to take it a step further. Forget...
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What you can do with Processing and Arduino

By macslocum : 04 August 2010 - 04:46 AM
Building a creation that translates software signals into physical movement brings with it a unique satisfaction. Joseph Gray has tapped into that satisfaction himself through art installations and vi...
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Parallel programming, Arduino and the good kind of trouble

By blackbear : 16 June 2010 - 05:50 AM
Parallel programming tends to invoke images of expensive multi-core processors and clusters of blade servers buzzing away on interesting problems. But Matt Jadud, a computer science professor at Alleg...
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How to Get Started with Processing

By adfm : 17 March 2010 - 04:40 PM
Are you a creative type that would like to get started with designing and prototyping with Processing? In this excerpt from Visualizing Data Ben Fry introduces the Processing Environment and quickly g...
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