How about a little bit more…
Instead of static sections one should be able to select (multiple) tags to limit what one is looking for.
See sourceforge and other websites who recently upgraded towards this kind of dynamic selection.

Allow little tiny nasty cookies to be saved to remember the settings and all the arduino-haters and lovers can life in peaceful coexistence.
BTW. I don’t think more static sections are helpful, if you open up a PIC section, the ARM people might shout and the 80C51 oldtimers, and the Japanese Motorola-people, and if the have enough power the TI MSP430 will try to argue as well…..

Expand tagging and make a more flexible selection possible

There’s nothing wrong with the arduino. It makes hacking and custom projects accessible to everyone. Just because people aren’t coding these things by hand in binary doesn’t mean it’s any lesser. Haters can suck it.

@jacob… hacking in binary what are you talking about… microcontrollers are programed in C for the most part and a few times assembly which isn’t as hard as you might think.

Electric eel, squirrel, and flux capacitor ftw.

@joseph

Because it has an Arduino on it, of course :D

@joseph and all…

I don’t think the problem is so much with the Arduino as it is with they way they’re used.

They’re not a replacement for knowing what you’re doing. At least, they’re not supposed to be. If you’re using a $60 Arduino in place of a LDR and maybe a transistor, to make a LED dimmer (or whatever other basic device)… you’d be better off with Google than with anything else. It’s easy to misuse them.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! :)

kudos for the flux capacitor..

On the flip side, i came up with a circuit similar to this using ONE quad comparator (MC34004P) that does something impossible.
Converts the first two LVDS signals from an LCD panel output (using an aspire one as the panel is easy to get to) into red and green LED outputs depending on both colour and scene brightness.

No clue how it works but somehow it does.
according to the datasheet this chip can’t handle much more than 5 MHz so its a factor of ten too slow.

I’ll never understand the Arduino-bashing. I don’t own one, will never do. I use the bare µCs, because I know how to. But the Arduino gives the option to people to do µC-stuff without getting too deep into the matter, people who would have never thought they could do µC related stuff. And that is a good thing. I wonder if half the haters even know how to program anything…

@Chuckt

Ahh is because some people comments refers to arduino as a microcontroller and the microcontroller is really the AVR on the arduino board, well is my point of view :).

I don’t think that Hack a Day reject microcontroller hacks that aren’t arduino.

Ultimately, there is a search here at the top of the page that can be used to find PIC projects and if the people that love the PIC want some attention like arduino, why not do more projects with the PIC and post it? so the PIC can have its own section.

I still think the system will work more effectively if the Arduino had a serial connection to a can of Dr. Pepper.

I see the Arduino is the Swiss Army Knife of the electronics prototyping world. Not -excellent- any anything in particular (damn those useless screwdrivers!) but excellent when you need (as carbuncle mentioned) TTL logic levels and its the only thing around, or a servo test rig, etc. etc.

But hey, that’s not to say its not also ‘the easy way out’ for building stuff, just its not what you’ve got, but how you use it. :)

@Tachikoma:

You said: “I laughed at the arena: two goes in… one comes out…”

Thanks for pointing that one out. I didn’t get it on my own.

:-D

For the Arduino Haters, how about the next time an arduino hack or project comes up that you’re going to write a nasty arduino comment on, instead go make a project in some other platform. PIC. ARM. x86. Whatever. Then come back and tell us all how cool it was that you did a project that wasn’t in arduino. People are making things and writing them up. You’re not, so STFU.

I dont use arduinos because of their cost. They are awesome little devices, with a HUGE community behind them. Personally my first learning device was a basic stamp. (if i could go back and do it again i would use arduino, but thats with what i learned from the basic stamp).

All of my projects use Microchip PIC. My reasons are as follows:
1. samples
2. Loads of free tools (mplab ide, firmware packs etc)
3. Various SUPER affordable programmers. (pickit2 being my mainstay)
4. Incredible service from microchip the one time one of my dev kits failed (lost a button on a PIM and they replaced the entire PIM over a year past purchase date , with a PIM with better hardware on it. I have about 2k$ worth of devkits one button is the only issue ive had.

That all being said , the arduino is an awesome little device.

I would like to see more PIC related things. Personally have a midi controller I could write up and contribute. PIC cost about 10 $ to get up and running (minus parts to interface to the project) where as an arduino is 39 – 89 $ . Thats my motivation. Its not that arduino are not great devices , theyre just over priced in my humble opinion and stop many from hackin it up.

over priced? maybe you should look at some other uC dev boards?

i think there should be a ladyz with arduinoz section

You use TTL? You kiddin’ me? I had to dig a mine in my backyard so I could form my own transistors out of germanium and draw my own copper wires. So you use these fancy shmancy IC’s and you think you know something about electronics. And that makes you better than someone who uses an Arduino?

Posted at 9:17 am on May 9th, 2010 by 1000100 1000001 1010110 100010

You wear your onion on the left or right side of your belt sir?

My whole house is powered by a gigantic germanium diode array ;)

Really nowadays there are a bunch of projects, that use a arduino when they could user something much more simple… cheap..

@1000100 1000001 1010110 1000101
You use TTL? You kiddin’ me?

Dave,
as a designer I try to use the most suitable component for the task. That’s not “Arduino bashing”, it’s called “good design”. It’s also called making do with what you’ve got in the junkbox. And anyway, most Arduous/PIC I/O is Stone Age discrete *RTL* ‘gor blimy shock horror!

If a 7400, 555, or even a 6L6, is the short answer to a problem then it is downright perverse to take a very long detour via a PIC unless you have very good overriding reasons. Yes, even germanium devices still have applications where they are the *ideal* component.

Your position is more infatuated/theological than pragmatic/technological.

A key problem here is the notion that new technology has to be “instead of” (and in manufacturing it often is), but in one-off home hacking it’s “in addition to”. Today the hacker has a huge range of components and techology cheaply available to select from, and there are more than enough project constrainst without giving fashion a veto.

USE WHAT WORKS!

@1000100 1000001 1010110 1000101
And that makes you better than someone who uses an Arduino?

Who ONLY uses Arduino (or where a 555 would be more *appropriate*). Suck it up. There IS a difference between knowledge and ignorance, between experience and lack of it; it’s simply that you get a better view from the crows nest than the deck. It’s called sagacity.

When the newbie infatuates lift their gaze they will see there is a whole world of technology and good design out there. The XKCD ‘toon is making exactly this point. Any idiot can do donuts, but that’s not the car’s fault.

@ Tane, LOL, me 2 :)

But I would love to see a PIC section. Not that PIC projects are superior to Arduino ones, but I just like PIC’s and getting a little tired of al the Arduino projects…. -_-

@blue carbuncle

Left side, by the way lol. And you should post your diode array.

1000100 1000001 1010110 1000101
It is rare when we find folks with a sense of humor and brains :)

I wear mine on the left to denote my participation in the “Run the Irish out on the Rails” festival of ’09 lol.

And the germanium diode array is functional but can’t really power the whole house lol. I got the idea showing my nephew how to build the classic “toilet paper tube” radio and thinking if one germanium diode can suck the sweet energy of radiowaves (which there is an amazing overabundance of nowadays lol) then a bunch with a transformer and simple voltage regulator can turn microvoltages into free volts. Right now there are about 300 linked together outputting around 120-130 volts (the diodes seem to make each other “sing” and drift with the way I have it built and it actually fluctuates the volts quite a bit sometimes, but a cap bank and battery bay would tame that problem I think. I’ll take a pic of it today with the Voltmeter but the thing looks like someone spit a loogie on a spiderweb lol.

Keep on keepin on :) And keep those darn kids off your front lawn and precious germanium :) They would just spend it on Bazooka Joe comics to read while walking downhill one way to school ;)

@blue carbuncle

“I wear mine on the left to denote my participation in the “Run the Irish out on the Rails” festival of ’09 lol”

That could be the funniest thing I heard this month, Holmes! (makes me wonder which role you had, lol).

Thanks, bud!

The sad thing was the whole town was Irish until they got drunk and started hitting each other with axe handles. Once everyone was covered in blood, the onion belt location was the only way to tell the “good-uns” from the “tiefin ne’er do walls”. From thence we get the saying “A man without an onion is a dead man without an onion”.

Glad ya dug it :)
Happy Monday :)

@PocketBrain

That’s blue carbuncle’s device, not mine.

PocketBrain I haven’t. Right now it is simple booming AMs that seem to spike it the most. I haven’t ruled that out, as I am a Tesla enthusiast and Theremintard, I can assure you that would be right around the corner. Essentially, you could have a much smaller array with a nicely stepped transformer to power a dumb oscillator/AM transmitter and make a hamster wheel of generation once the start up energy had been stored up enough. Again, you really need some sort of power conditioning like a cap/battery buffer with volt reg to have any kind of regularity. Messing around with old analog synths I can tell you that many things can cause those things to go out of tune. We’ll see how it goes though. It is more of a proof of concept at this point and just kind of for giggles. As a matter of fact I had some random mass grounding for some reason (probably my messy soldering work swelling) but I unplug it when I’m not at home because the wife would kill me. I recommend building one yourself and check the microvolts in your area and see if you have any better luck. I have about 30 diodes attached per tuning tube that was wound by my lazy arse in a most unbecoming fashion. Holler if you want any help though. As for “more power” bigger is better with this device it seems so a better antenna with better reception and better connections and more diodes would generate more power up to their rated safety points and so forth. I originally came up with this idea like I said with my nephew and it just sat for a while. I made a videogame for my hack n slash crazy wife that had a submarine of escaped nazi scientists that would use this array to draw power from active sonar pinging and turn it into electrostatic “caterpillar” drive type system so they could escape to the last part of the game. You essentially drove your sub into the sonar lol. Year and a half later I just was messing around again and built a quick one and finally hooked up the voltmeter instead of the piezo speaker. Whew. :)

Pocketbrain I’m not sure if you mean you are building a “chargepad” mousepad ala powermat or a wireless “charge anywhere from the air” kind of thing. That is the hope that eventually my lazy old butt can shrink the thing and make self-charging cellphones. It would be hard to make it efficient though or very small AND efficient as the transformers would be the bulky part. A flat coil transformer would be great in that arena :) I’m honestly not too adept with bluetooth or even the minute components of some of today’s cellphones (which the devices processors could handle something perhaps)but I’ll have to do some reading. Best of luck man :)

@blue carbuncle
I made the spool I will wind it on; it’s flatter than a mouse pad, so shouldn’t be too difficult to incorporate it. I will replace the AA batteries in the mouse with AAA to make room for the transformer secondary and a bridge. If I wanted to get fancy, I could have the mouse communicate over the power link to let the mat know the batteries are full. Maybe with a PIC, but I have an idea how to do it analog. And yeah, it’s a chargepad, specifically for the mouse, but no reason it couldn’t be used with other gadgets.

Pocketbrain sounds good :) If you get a rechargable 9v and crack it open the AAAs inside are a little smaller than conventional AAAs. Might save ya some space, might not. Best of luck with the pic programming and getting everything crammed together ;) Sounds like you are on the right track though!

Nevermind then