Month: June 2012

Plasma speaker

Jarryd put together this plasma speaker using some parts of a CRT monitor – some explanation in the video: Basically, modulating sound on top of the plasma arc – not ICASA approved 🙂

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Arduino Training – 30 June 2012

We are planning an Introduction to Arduino training course for this Saturday 30 June from 9-13 at House4Hack Centurion : 4 Burger Ave, Lyttleton Manor. The course introduces the concept of interactive computing. An overview of the course, where it is etc is here: http://www.house4hack.co.za/arduino-training The course cost is R600 and includes the Arduino UNO,…

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ATtiny Robot Claw

Robot claw from Kepler (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18339) driven by an ATTiny85 The servo library is from Ilya Bruman – https://github.com/fri000/Servo8Bit   The attiny is prototyped using the TinyDuino from openhardware.co.za and comprise a distance sensor, servo motor and ATTiny 85   #include “Servo8Bit.h” Servo8Bit myservo; void setup() { pinMode(0, OUTPUT); // LED connected to pin0 pinMode(2, INPUT); // distance…

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