Anyone use Arduino?

[Uncurlhalo]

Just wondering how much interest there was in amateur electronics stuff like Aduino. It's a fun little prototyping and development platform. Very versatile. I feel like bitcoiners would be into this type of thing. I myself have and Arduino Mega.

If you've never heard about it I encourage you to check it out here: arduino.cc

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[jim618]

If you are looking for a bitcoin hardhack project to do have a look at this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76004.0

Mainly to make writing a command line interface to MultiBit a bit more interesting I am going to have a go at driving it over a serial line (to a HP50G graphing calculator). See the bottom post on the thread.

There are Arduino designs that drive a 2 line LCD and also a serial line to a PC that I almost considered using. It is a bit too much to learn to do though so would take me too long.

If you have a Arduino mega and fancy extending bitcoin use down to custom devices check out what I was looking at.

There is also a thread in the Development and Technical Discussion about smartcards/ dedicated custom devices here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7539.0

People have some great ideas but I do not think anyone has any implementations out there yet.

[Uncurlhalo]

That's some really cool stuff! There is a whole lot that can be done with this kind of open source hardware.

I'm glad to see other people using it and integrating it into Bitcoin!

[rjk]

How about making some kind of embedded FPGA controller that is plug-'n-play for any and all FPGAs currently available for mining? It would need USB, Ethernet, and possibly a small screen or something of that kind. Although this might not be of much use once Raspberry Pi gets released and someone develops software for it.

[Nachtwind]

Been using Arduinos for quite a while but i lost interest in it due to multiple reasons..

[Xenland]

arduinos are cool but their limitations make your imagination divide by logic..... Beagle bones are my new favorite toy.