Homepage of Johannes Findeisen

The radio tower of Hamburg, called “Telemichel (german)“. Okay, the right one is a little bit lame but it is a Warholdroid… :) The photos was taken with a HTC G1 and the software is called FxCamera. I don’t know the homepage, so if you wanna use it just just search for it in the Android Market.

Yesterday evening I have build a small relays for switching high voltage lines with my Arduino. It uses the “Blink” example and switches on for 10 seconds then switches off for 10 seconds. I have used this document to get my work done.

Relays switched off.

Relays switched on.

The next device is ready… ;) It is the TSL230R light sensor.

It prints out the Lux value every N seconds.

My code is based on this Blog entry. You could buy the sensor at Sparkfun where you will find the Datasheet too. Another place for code is here. There is provided a modified version of the link above.

Jehhaaaa… It is done!

My first Arduino device is born. Thanks to John! He learned me how to develop the driver for it. It is a DS1621 temperature sensor with 2-Wire (I²C) interface bus. And, YES! I have currently 17.5 degrees in my room.

I am impressed! The code will follow ASAP!

Arduino2Lego is a project developed at the Politecnico of Milan by a Computer Science Engineering student. It aims to make all Lego NXT peripherals (motors, sensors,…) easily usable from Arduino.

Since i am not lucky with the original LEGO NXT programmable brick because I need the programming environment provided by LEGO. Sure, there are nice implementations of alternative firmwares around the web but none of them are what I want. Sometimes they are using ugly languages like Java and sometimes the code for the firmware is not public available.

Now I have my solution. Move the LEGO NXT brick to your trash and build one by yourself using Arduino based boards.

I have added a LEGO Mindstorms section to this site aiming on NXT development on the Linux platform. Go to the site here.

I will post Links to interesting projects and code there. If you have some interesting content for that site, please let me know!