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Are we rehearsing for April 1st? LOL

That said, “Because I can” is the best possible motivation for either hacking or trolling. ;-)

sucessfull troll is sucessfull

also, i lol’ed

at least he durant make it into a tv-b-gone…

That’s pretty cool (no pun intended)… It might be a little more interesting and a little less troll-y with a sketch that actually uses a bit more, well, CPU time.

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wanna see it go 600Mhz :)

Shadyman, i was thinking the same thing, but does the arduino even have an idle instruction? Is heat mostly generated from GPIO? It would be fun to write 3-4 test sketches to try out and compare against the overclocked setup. Not just busy work either because we need to know if heat is affecting the results.

Wow I think this guy just duplicated the Celeron.

This is ridiculous, not because it’s an arduino but because most Microcontrollers aren’t limited in clock because of heat but because of instability. Also, 32Mhz isn’t that fast really. I’m willing to bet that it would run fine without the coolant. If it doesn’t, it just shows how superior the Microchip PICs are! :)

So you want to run a higher clock and are pretending to cool it to make it look unstable, perhaps you should think twice about having the crystal on 3 inch flyleads…

I just don’t get this Arduino bashing.

It’s a platform. End of story. It’s limited, it’s just a micro-controller, 8 bit and of an older generation, it’s mainly educational, so what? Why not bash the IBM-PC while we’re at it? It was crude, it was ugly, it was underpowered, yet it led to that nice little machine you are currently using to type your flames. Heck, in a way, you could even say it led to the current line of Apple computers.

Be creative, build something, learn new tricks, have fun and use your brain instead of wasting your grey matter on useless and unproductive comments.

Just my two cents (Canadian).

Reminds me of:

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=54

I have been reading your site for yrs but i have to say you need to get off arduino some you are definitely missing out on other great hacks out there i love the idea of the arduino and all that it can do but im getting sick of reading about it i want to see more than that board all the time please move on or i will not support you guys anymore ….

He should at least re-write the sketch to use a loop, instead of timers. Remember back in the 386 days, when you could change the speed of your games by pressing the “turbo” button that changed the CPU from 33mHz to 66?

The arduino is a tool. Just like a hammer, just like a soldering iron and just like the people who flame arduinos. And I’m certain that those people who flame at one time or another were enthralled by the arduino.

@jonny5 – I can see where you are coming from, but I appreciate the arduino love because I’m just starting out and getting to know it. I hope this leads to me learning other protocols and whatnot, but you have to admit, it’s a heck of a springboard.

I would guess that there are a lot of Arduino stories because a lot of people are hacking Arduinos; and I would guess that is because they are cheap and readily available. I remember not too long ago when micro-controllers cost big $$$ (relatively speaking). I am not exactly overawed by the Arduino, but I do give it credit for making it possible for lots of people to get involved.

“I do give it credit for making it possible for lots of people to get involved.”

and that is the best part

Interesting. Folks want Hackaday to do articles about projects using something *other* than Arduino. But since the point of that product is to get folks hacking, and it happens to be incredibly popular, wouldn’t you expect some very significant number of projects to just naturally use it? So, that’s what Hackaday reports. ‘Seems perfectly rational to me.

@Phillipe

I believe the point RE: all the Arduino hate is that while the IBM PC which was ugly and underpowered gave us the machines we have today, it was the AVR AtMega that gave us… the arduino. IE, there’s nothing an arduino can’t do that an AtMega can’t do natively. The issue is one of ease of use. The Arduino is certainly easier to use, but also comes at a much higher cost than the AtMega alone.

The “haters” as it were simply don’t understand why the burgeoning hacker doesn’t just go with the Atmega or some other AVR in the first place…

The AVR line of chips is rediculously easy to program and can be done with a serial port and a DASA cable. It was *DESIGNED* for easy programming and easy use.

That’s probably why people despise the Arduino. Because to these people the Arduino seems like a massive waste of money for next to nothing. Consider the Deumilanove at Robotshop.ca for instance, it’s over $30.00, in comparison the AtMega chip it uses retails for about $5.00 at digikey.ca.

Just my 2c.

A “non-conductive eco-friendly liquid”? No such thing. Ethylene glycol most likely. Don’t feed it to your dogs!

@matty: Holy defensive stance Batman! Did you see me complain about the post? I didn’t, in case that slipped by you. It was a simple question that was prompted by the comment that was posted. And if you take the time to read my post again you might notice that I used some playful language that might perhaps indicate that I wasn’t being quite so serious.

And no, I haven’t submitted anything, I come to HaD to read about random projects that people work on. I thought that was the purpose of the site, to read about hacks? I wasn’t aware that I was obligated to find content.

I feel motivated to overclock my toaster with an Arduino. Because I can.

Recipe for a thermonuclear weapon:

1) Fabricate a titanium metal sphere, 10 meters in diameter

2) Fill with readers of Hackaday

3) Inject an article about arduinos

Approximate yield: 100 kilotons

Now these are some long wires for an XTAL ;)

Pure luck that it works at all…

I think arduinos suck but I like this. I think hackaday are the ones trolling. Marketing puke style

So he dunks his arduino in this blue liquid to keep it cool, which brings up the question, does that overclocking actually cause the arduino to get warmer then its non-overclocked brethren?

32mhz? is that all? the Picaxe 20×2 can run at 64mhz without the need of an external resonator, or cooling…

I am going to liquid cool my 555 flip-flop circuit right now!

I’m not an Arduino basher, per se, but there sure are an awful lot of posts on Hackaday about them. What most of the commenters seem to be complaining about is that the posts aren’t about hacks, they’re projects, and many times they’re projects which could have been accomplished trivially without the Arduino at all, which makes them lame projects instead of interesting ones.

I’m sure there are some genuine haters here, those who look down upon it because it’s a learning platform, but I think most just hate mostly non-hacks and posts without substance.

I think this qualifies as a hack, at least. It’s doing something that goes beyond the design specs in an unprofessional, but apparently effective, way. Its value has yet to be determined – if the designer actually pushes the thing to its limits with something more taxing than an LED it might actually be interesting.

The arduino is about the same as a good pair of pliers is. It makes a lot of jobs a whole lot easier, but you coulda done without it. Nothing more. Just a tool.

u mad?

All he needs now is a GPU shield and he can run Crysis!

cant you make an LED blink without an Arduino?

DiRWiN, of course not. Stop asking silly questions.

I think I’ll overclock my toaster and cool it by submerging it in the bathtub with me.

OK really.. this is wicked funny. I laughed so hard reading all these comments.

Yes, Arduino is the tool, not the project. So strip away the Arduino and see what you have left, creativity in this case, 4 wires and a crystal. Its a textbook hack and shouldnt warrant a mention, my 6 year old knows the purpose of a crystal. I guess the owners of Arduino’s need to dig a little deeper and actually challenge themselves.

I’ll try a liquid hydrogen cooled Arduino then… 1GHz and blink the LED at 0.1 Hz :P

Cool, just to tick people off.

What’s wrong with Arduino? Like Caleb said it’s a tool. If you can get a task done with an Arduino than why not use it?

I don’t really understand why there are Arduino haters out there. That’s like saying you hate hammers because they drive nails easier than your fist. I just don’t get it.

I just want to log in to Facebook.

Why is stuff like this getting posted? Maybe if this was a Composite video application where the base clock frequency was not enough to display the desired graphics… maybe if the un-cooled performance was described… maybe if the end result couldn’t be replaced by a 555 timer or a few transistors, a resistor, and a cap… or maybe if this was in any way unique or interesting would I want to see more things like this being posted!

@Randy: Because hack-marketing like all marketing adapts to trends, the Arduino is a trend in this demographic.

People who don’t like the affect it has on the community are considered ‘trolls’ and ‘flamers’ for the sake of pseudo-intellectual convenience(hence why they are labeled negatively).

Also on an interesting note: the majority of the people who don’t like it DO have projects, projects that are finished and not 3/4 Arduino and incomplete…even more importantly people who were here before suburbia/hack-marketing.

I dare someone to try to claim that they have never posted something some people didn’t find interesting.

*(as i mutter under my breath)* “Buncha whiners”

Can it run Crysis?

you can still use a turbo mode on ds lite that increases frequecy…

liquid cooling is a bit of overkill but that is what hacks are supposed supposed to be.

As a DIY microcontroller, the arduino is a complete tool…just like its users.

Besides all this Arduino noise, if the coolant is water based there WILL be corrosion over time, even if it does not conduct electricity (it claims < 1µS/cm), electrolysis will eventually eat the tracks/pads/pins. There are cooling liquids that can be used to immerse the whole thing, like 'Fluorinert', (not eco-friendly at all btw) or the like.

lol the ascii art comment by M4CGYV3R is the most 1337 comment EVER!!

It’s not that people hate arduino. It’s all that comes with it. A nerd using it to play with blinking leds, another nerd spending $100 to make it blink leds thru ethernet and usb for which he could just buy a micro-atx pc board or any arm/xscale/whatever board that can run a full OS.

You see, seeing someone play with electronics for the sake of playing is like seeing an adult guy play with a barbie doll and at the same time like seeing the teacher’s pet study just for the sake of studying, with no sense of purpose whatsoever. Plain f*ing disgusting.