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Shrinkify Your Arduino Projects
I’ve been interested in how to making Arduino projects smaller when some only use a few inputs/outputs, and I guess you want to box it up easier. This tutorial from High-Low Tech MIT Labs may help you shrinkify some future projects. There is a video about this that tells you of some pitfalls, but I think this can help us start new adventures.
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Guest blogger: William George
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Using the Freetronics LCD Shield to Get a Simple LCD Temperature Readout
This is an easy first project to get your Freetronics LCD Shield up and running and presenting some real-world data.
In a nutshell, it's a temperature sensor with an LCD output. The model of Arduino board you use isn't too important, but my current favourite is the Freetronics TwentyEleven. The prototyping area on the TwentyEleven is really handy for soldering everything onto for the more permanent projects.
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Auckmageddon - Get your game on
Gaming event Auckmageddon is back once again, and thanks to Orcon with Vector fibre, connected to the Internet at ridiculously fast speeds.
Auckmageddon 6 is actually the seventh event of a series that has been running since 1997, and will see up to 400 gamers compete at the North Harbour Stadium for over 48 hours in February.
Event organizer Richard Patterson says: “We had such a fantastic response from the previous events that we’re back with even more prizes, bigger network, and even faster internet.”
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