Ottawa Arduino Meetup Group
This meetup is now hosted at Ottawa’s Makerspace called Hack613.
We’re a friendly group of people who like making and hacking things. We welcome beginners and experts.
We are very much into 3D Printers, CNC rotary cutters, CNC laser, soldering and we often do demonstrations and workshops.
A few of our interests are:
- Art
- Drones
- Robotics
- Arduino
- Micro-controllers
- Electronics
- RC vehicles and planes
- Making anything
- Woodwork
- Laser
- CNC
- 3D printing
- Crafts
Check out this video collage of some of our recent travels, Dave’s Christmas lights or past events. Arduino Day.
Current group activity is the Mystery Challenge.
Our challenges and contests are open to everyone (Let’s Make a Clock, Hack Ur Bike, Past Challenges: Ottawa Hack Challenge, Ottawa Arduino Challenge). Past events and photos shown at the bottom of the page.
We have regular meetups, contests, field trips and workshops varying with demand. Come out and have fun in a relaxed environment. Connect to the community, learn and share.
Darcy — Group Facilitator
My own Arduino projects.
Ottawa Arduino Meetings
Arduino is a tiny computer often associated with the maker movement). It makes your project interactive or programmable.
- Easy! Even for non-technical people.
- Inexpensive.
- Examples and a support community.
- Adruino Tutorials.
There is also the buzzword “physical computing” that is associated to Arduino.
Here’s a documentary. Sample projects: Interactive snowflakes! Interactive Fireflies! Interactive coffee table. Or this coffee table. You could make something like this dancing robot. Or these Little Robot Friends. Here’s a nice LED Tube project by Paul who is one of the mentors in the group. Arduino uses AVR chips. The sky is the limit.
Simple Arduino Project Ideas
A TVBGone!. All you need is an IR LED and you can turn off any TV. Also a smart version that listens for change in the environment using a mic, then flags a code as good.
Learning remote control or TV or other IR device.
Traffic lights with walk button.
Beam Break Detector. Does your puppy go where he’s not supposed to? Sound an alarm when he breaks a beam.
An IR theramin.
A theramin using IR and a photocell.
Related
Other similar activities in Ottawa.
Published on: Mar 3, 2014 @ 12:13
Hi guys, How do I find out when you are open. I’d like to pop by and ask couple of questions.
Cheers
Why not just come to this meetup?
What questions?
Is your group still active?
Yes, and we’re going to start some organized activities as well. Workshops, challenges, contests…
http://www.hackshed.co.uk/rf-communication-between-2-arduinos/
applause meter, clap off-on switch
Arduino Pinout
http://makezine.com/2012/04/24/soapbox-my-top-10-favorite-arduino-compatible-clones-and-derivatives/
idea for simple project: knock door opener.
http://dawdevel.blogspot.ca/2012/12/arduino-uno-on-windows-8-without.html
http://learn.adafruit.com/piccolo/code
To make integration of complex arduino projects easy for beginners you can try biicode they won’t need to download or install all needed arduino libraries
Julia,
Thanks for the note. I’m going to keep things simple for the beginner workshops.
http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2010/08/30/london-hackspaces-arduino-for-beginners-workshop/
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=50221.0
https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Workshops/Arduino_for_beginners
https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Not_Just_Arduino
http://fritzing.org/home/