Control your iPod with ease using the iPod Serial library

Nice Ipod Control library on Make.

RoboSapienServer

Nice mix of Karl Castleton’s RoboSapienIRand Ethernet Library’s WebServer.

Check out everything you need to know to build one your own.
Via [KevinHaw]
Tag Technorati: Robot, Server, Ethernet

Arduino Helicopter Game

Wow. Really interesting helicopter game with several nice feautures.

Specifications:

• just under 8kb (so it should fit a cheap Atmega-8)
• Speed and block size grow
• Still a little glitchy, weird artifacts, is anyone able to fix them?
• Day and Night mode, hold the button when game over for night mode, gentle press for day
• Score build in, post your highscore in the comments

To play:

• Connect a KS0108 LCD as described in the library’s page
• Connect a button with a pull-down resistor to pin 12
• Make sure the KS0108 library is available
• Upload the sketch
• Enjoy!

Download it here…

nice job Dave.
Via [Ardx] and [MAKE]

Arduino Pachube Library

As I read on this blog post by Jose Anes, he has been working on a while on the Arduino > Ethernet shield > Pachube communication, to achieve “a Pachube manual update client on the arduino that pushes EEML XML format to Pachube directly, without a PC in the middle”.

If someone has a better library, please let me know where to find it.  Here is a link to the code I am using to accomplish this purpose.  So far it is working well enough.  Some interesting points:

• I had to print directly to the stream (ethernet in or out), because creating an EEML XML string was too much for the small memory of the Arduino.  Direct writing as a stream solves that.
• I still want to avoid the reset every time it uploads to pachube (took that from the pachube CSV example).

The code: 20100218-pachube

via [ActionResults]

Tag Technorati: Arduino, Pachube, Xml, Ethernet Shield,