Quick Contest : Flash and Arduino
I have been working with integrating Flash and Arduino on a project lately, and really having a blast. It was pretty easy to get started, yet there is a ton of extensibility and flexibility.
Well, I dont want to be the only one having this much fun, so I figured I would put together a quick contest. So, if you are interested in playing around with Flash and Arduino, then tell me why in the comment below. Let me know about what project you have in mind. Bonus points for creativity and visual aids.
The winner will receive the following:
- Arduino Duemilanove w/Atmega328 Starter Pack
- Getting Started with Arduino Book
- Make Electronics : Learning Through Discovery
- Flash Builder 4
I will pick a winner on Thursday morning, August 5th, 2010 (PST).
Post your submissions in the comments.
Update : Contest is now closed.
Update : Winners Announced
Wow!!! A ton of great ideas were posted, but one really stood out. So, the winner of the quick contest is:
Bryan Yen, for his Adobe Flash Garden Data Visualization idea. Not only is it a really interesting idea (which is completely doable, but Bryan went the extra mile with a great presentation. Bryan wins the Arduino Starter kit from AdaFruit, books and copy of Flash Builder.
However, as I mentioned above, I was really surprised by how many people were interested in this area. I can’t let all of these dreams and aspirations go unrealized, so (with some help from the Flash Platform budget people), everyone who entered an idea into the contest will receive an Arduino Budget pack.
I will send an email to everyone who won in order to get your shipping information. Please respond immediately so I can send everything out. Again, thanks to the Flash team, and to Adaruit.com for making this possible.
Make something cool!
I’d like to make an alarm for our build system that will fire off a ‘red alert’ when failures occur. :)
Depending on what other components I could pick up I’d add status lights (Green, Yellow, Red).
Chris Deely
4 Aug 10 at 11:26 am
Want to get into my homemade home-automation. Step 1 is building lightswitches, then curtainclosers :-)
erik
4 Aug 10 at 11:32 am
I would love, love, love to win this contest. My band has been working with integrating Flash platform solutions into our live show for the last year and we’ve been wanting to get more into hardware and Flash to create some really cool stage effects and interactions.
The reason we haven’t done so so far is because this stuff costs $$, something that we haven’t had the budget for so far. Winning this contest would be Epic and enable us to start working Flash and Arduino based awesomeness into our sets.
For some more information on how my band uses tech and for some visual aids here’s a couple links:
http://codebass.net/2010/07/23/the-compilers-music-doesnt-just-meet-technology/
http://ericfickes.com/2010/06/its-official-the-flash-platform-rocks/
Also, we’ll be playing @360Flex and giving a tech talk too. It would be awesome to start showing some Arduino stuff during that time. :)
Jun Heider
4 Aug 10 at 11:34 am
I would like to control Devices in my Home sitting in my living room. Like security camera, Garage Door, temperature in bedroom.
meDilbert
4 Aug 10 at 11:35 am
Hey Mike,
First off i’d like to say that I’m stoked that you’ve been blocking on arduino with flash. I have fiddled with my arduino a small amount in the past just controlling LED’s on a bread board. The project I would like to start out with using flash, is simple. I want to take a globe of the world, and add an LED in each province/state of BC/USA first, then tap into the Twitter API using flash. With that, I just want to have it constantly monitoring my Twitter friends, lighting up the appropriate LED for the location the tweet came from. It shouldn’t be a tough project, but I think the end result would be pretty awesome. It would be nice to get enough LED’s on it to light up when the people I follow travel over to spain etc
Curtis Dodd
4 Aug 10 at 11:35 am
Various plans, but the major thing I’d like to build is:
A quad-rotor helicopter (which I know can be done) that communicates via XBEE chips to a base station. This base station will run off of a laptop (for now, eventually want to run it off of an Android phone) that allows two forms of navigation: specific nav via a Wii Nunchuck (analog stick for orientation and altitude, button+ accelerometer for general zigging and zagging) and more general nav that maps GPS coordinates from the chopper’s onboard GPS chip to a google-maps powered Flash interface.
Yes, I’d like to be able to open google maps and click a point to send my helicopter there.
At the moment I’ve got the nunchuck input working and am trying to figure out what I need to do to build a prototype of the chopper itself.
As a side project branched off of this, I’m also looking to replace serproxy with some Java code that will sniff serial input and use BlazeDS to talk to Flash. I haven’t seen anyone do that yet, but it seems like it should be possible and more efficient than the serproxy-to-socket model that everyone seems to currently use.
What sort of visual aids would you like? :)
Mykola Bilokonsky
4 Aug 10 at 11:43 am
Heya Mike,
Our development team just moved to the basement of our offices today. There are no bathrooms in the basement so we run the risk of getting upstairs and to the bathroom only to find it occupied. (Already happened to our team members 5 or 6 times today)
So what we want to do is use an Arduino to build a bathroom lock sensor that will talk to a socket server (planning on using Union Platform for this) that we can all have an AIR client hooked to to get realtime notifications of whether the bathroom is available or not!
Thanks!
- Alex (@streetalchemist)
Alex
4 Aug 10 at 11:47 am
I work at a small software company that develops system dynamics modeling software — construct models of dynamic systems and simulate them over time.
A key concept in the system dynamics field is “feedback”. Feedback is when information that is generated by a system is used as input into the system. A thermostat is a simple physical example. The temp of the room is an input to the controller.
I have always wanted to incorporate real-time data from a device into system dynamics computer models. Take the thermostat example–imagine a “dashboard” (Flash app) that took the current thermostat setting and fed it into a simulation of energy cost for your home over a years time? That type of information feedback can go a long way in changing behavior.
I’ve always wanted to experiment with real-world feedback via electronic devices, but I don’t have the expertise in electronics to create the devices. I do have the programming ability to feed data into simulations however. The Arduino hardware platform sounds like the perfect solution to get started combining the two.
(Example of what I’ve been doing with Flash and simulation without real-time input. An embeddable H1N1 simulation: http://bit.ly/hwPRi)
Jeremy Merritt
4 Aug 10 at 11:49 am
This is perfect, I’ve been really wanting to dive into Flash & Arduino especially coming from a high-level software engineering background. My goal is to gain enough knowledge and experience where I can bring some cool ideas to the table for the high-profile flash sites we do here that gain a lot of traffic. I’d like to work towards an idea where users can perhaps trigger a physical object based on their input on an interactive site. For example, a world map full of LEDs that light up in certain areas based on a user’s location.
Nick Jonas
4 Aug 10 at 11:53 am
1. Sensor triggered cat door using pulleys. This will save my whole house from being a scratching post. Think little pulleys bringing the door up and down when the cat is near it. Could use a sensor pad.
2. Drinking game – use the alcohol sensors to create one of two games –
a. a beer goggles kinda game – the more you drink, the better stuff looks. Hello Mario, can i borrow your fine bitmap skills?
b) or where the more someone drinks and the higher they score, the more “superpowers” your character gets . So it could be a basic flash game you play street fighter style with the bonus of alcohol for super moves.
3. Better yet methane sensor along with pressure sensor in the bathroom to determine gas levels, use an xbee and basically tweet that the bathroom needs to be “left”alone for awhile.
4.Mod my OhMiBod vibe (http://www.ohmibod.com/clubvibe/) to work with some kinda FMS style communication. Teledildonics for the win. Right now it has an audio input – would be neat to have a virtual “change the channel” idea – where the interface is Flash/FMS
5. Tie into bug base – each time a bug is closed, it triggers a hockey light to go over. Then everyone can hi 5 each other or slap their asses or whatever.
6. Generative art using Hype capturing voice through microphone projected on a screen , use the Clapper to finalize and print the image.
i could go on… but then i’d have to keep it clean.
Stacey Mulcahy
4 Aug 10 at 11:53 am
It would be awesome to create a remote controlled movable device(possibly atv) -controlled via mobile device(flash on android maybe) as well/or as web interface, using a live video stream(output FMS(4) if possible or trans code to) for view. Heck, you could even add audio. Imagine, for kids(maybe targeted more for handicapped kids?), robotic hide and seek miles away? A child in Korea could interact with a child in Alaska… and on and on…
There seems to be limitless possibilities and ideas from this. Awesome contest Mike.
Bob Wohl
4 Aug 10 at 11:55 am
So reasons why I love Flash & Arduino:
1 – The emotional connection/response you can create with flash websites is beyond anything I’ve ever seen (requiemforadream.com & aisforapple.net for example, I’ve never been so emotionally moved by interactive work – especially not anything in HTML5 ;) ).
2 – Arduino + a slew of physical sensors removes the need to sit at a desk with a mouse and interact with a digital environment. You can do motion detection, sound detection, beat detection, camera tracking, AR, gas detection, geolocation, 6 degrees of freedom (3 axis accelerometer & 3 axis gyroscope), etc., etc.
Now for the ideas… imagine if you could take those old Flash sites of the early 2000s and control them with your body. Or have a flash experience respond positively to girls wearing blue clothing or negatively (who haven’t done laundry in months [gas detection]) to guys wearing yellow clothing.
Or redo AR in a way that you don’t need to hold that silly piece of paper with the square printed on it. Maybe using a Lilypad (wearable Arduino) plus a bunch of gyroscope + accelerometer data + gps and use that to adjust the XYZ that the paper is used to generate. That way you no longer need an intermediate sort of controller to interact with the AR and you can interact with it yourself.
I don’t know, I’d rather do experience design or installation work with Flash and Arduino. I don’t want to make commercial products. I’d rather make people happy and let them have some fun. There’s to much stuff to buy these days and I don’t think I want to contribute to that bit.
I want to see the stuff that drew me to the web back in the day (Hi-ReS!, A Is For Apple, Praystation) in real tangible life. That’d be awesome.
Thanks.
Derek J. Kinsman
4 Aug 10 at 12:01 pm
If the responses in the first ten minutes of this post prove nothing else, I think they prove that the world is ready for some serious Adobe-driven Arduino evangelism.
Mykola Bilokonsky
4 Aug 10 at 12:02 pm
each morning, while brewing coffee, i would like my coffee maker to output my twitter feed in Morse code.
Geoffrey Mattie
4 Aug 10 at 12:03 pm
A simple project where the amount of people in the room determine the ambiance music. By recording video and recognising blobs to determine the people (or via bluetooth enabled mobile phones). And then you can control it via a nice sweet AIR for Android app.
A dog protection system which protects dogs against evil cats. By recognising the smell and facial expressions of cats. The dog won’t mind the camera on his head.. Really!
A real-life ping pong game
A large screen game which uses Xbee and cameras to determine the exact position and distance of the player before the screen
Weyert de Boer
4 Aug 10 at 12:06 pm
oh and finally
maybe a couples tshirt cos you know I be all up in love and stuff. So tshirt with led’s – that lights up when your love is near – filling your heart. awwwww, go and puke NOW
Mind you this is better done with lilypad.
Stacey Mulcahy
4 Aug 10 at 12:09 pm
As a homebrewer I would like to create a system that will monitor my beer while its fermenting. Being able to control the temperature of the brew is very important, and living in Arizona this can be very difficult. With this I would be able to hook it in to the thermostat of the fridge and control temperature very specifically. Along with the addition of some more senors I would be able to monitor the specific gravity. Monitoring this lets me know when the fermentation is complete and ready to be put in a bottle and enjoyed. I would be able to use Flash to graph all this data that is collected and monitor it from anywhere I am. Kind of like the idea of how people have web cams to watch their dogs I want an Aurduino setup to monitor my homebrew.
Further proof that I am pretty serious about my beer data: http://bit.ly/mongbeer
Jason Mong
4 Aug 10 at 12:29 pm
It’d be fun to hook some hardware up to the Mindset BCI using the API I wrote. You could control hardware/LED/etc. with your brain. Probably could come up with some pretty sweet games…
http://seantheflexguy.com/blog/2009/12/30/neurosky-mindset-brain-computer-interface-actionscript-3-0-api/
Sean Moore
4 Aug 10 at 12:32 pm
Figured I would second Alex’s idea… In addition, one of us will have to create a backend to the system so users can also find the optimal time to use the bathroom.
Travis
4 Aug 10 at 12:32 pm
When I was in high school (back in 1995) I studied electronics, and I did a project that connected my old PC 486 to a board plugged into an ISA slot. This board allowed me to record and digitalize sound and other signals into binary 13-bit files (basically it was a sound card) using C and ASSEMBLER. Since then I always wanted to connect and interface stuff with my computer, but life made me follow the path of computers and later become a flash developer so I quit the electronic world long ago.
Nowadays since I discovered arduino, all my old ideas came back and now Im able to make them true with the plus that I can use Flash as programming language and visual interface!!!
I always wanted to build robots, so one of my ideas was to build robots with Lego and control them from my computer, or receive data from these robots and display them on the screen. (http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx)
Another thing is to build a multicolor LED matrix that reproduce what’s on the computer screen or respond to user input or maybe react to sound.
Since we can attach almost any type of sensor, we can measure and play with velocity, acceleration, light, sound, maybe even sense the weather and make our site react/display it.
Another thing I would like to try is to interface an android phone using AIR or Flash 10.1. The phone would connect to a controlling app or server in a computer with arduino interface.
The possibilities are endless!!!
Javier Corra
4 Aug 10 at 12:38 pm
In our office there is one toilet for 35 men. As you can probably guess this is a problem. I want to create a device that senses with a proximity sensor when someone is sitting on the john. The “occupied” state would be sent wirelessly to the application for all to see if it is available. If someone is waiting for it to be free they can click a “waiting” button. When someone is waiting the device will beep the same same number of times the amount of ppl are waiting letting the user know they need to get off asap
Asa Williams
4 Aug 10 at 12:47 pm
I’ve already created a POC with a similar concept for controlling a physical maze with my Android phone. It uses a socket connection, but the next step would be to use the Stratus services to get this working via the Internet.
You can find a video about it at http://www.flexpert.be/2010/07/controlling-phidgets-with-air-on-android/ How is that for a visual aid? ;-)
This would make for great gaming possibilities over the Internet with physical games.
Steven Peeters
4 Aug 10 at 12:55 pm
I would like to build a Blackjack player robot. That’s right. There’s a website, you connect, get a seat, and there’s a live stream.. what do you see?? a ROBOTIC ARM hitting you!
Yo must have a webcam too, of course, so you can see (and be seen by) the other guys connected and playing. The whole game can be recorded and shared over Youtube, Facebook or your social network of choice.
The robot’s logic is flash-based (duh), and the interface between that logic and the “dealer’s arm” is guess what? EXACTLY! The prize I need to win to make it real!
At least don’t tell me it ain’t cool! ;)
ps: if anybody else gets this done, please let me play it first!
Federico
4 Aug 10 at 12:59 pm
Sorry not sure if this is acceptable but I thought I’d tell everyone about a free online class for learning Arduino and Processing being offered by O’Reilly. http://training.oreilly.com/arduino/ (I have no connection to this course except that I will be taking it when it’s offered)
Here’s my idea which I’ve been toying with after seeing the post about Phidgets.
I just want to have a system to check if my garage doors are closed from upstairs or anywhere in the house. I have 2 garage doors and I every once in a while hit the wrong button when coming in the house which means both doors end up being open. Getting status in a Flex UI would be a lot cooler than a flashing LED.
Kermit Hu
4 Aug 10 at 1:07 pm
Not that this is a voting thing, but my vote is for Stacey…a tweeting methane sensor – amazing! Can you couple that to an rfid reader so the tweet can mention who left the bathroom in a state of stink.
Rick Mason
4 Aug 10 at 1:11 pm
I’d use it to build a system with a webcam to watch my dog trash the backyard, and use the arduino to control a speaker and water squirter to correct him when he starts ripping out plants.
Jason
4 Aug 10 at 2:40 pm
I’m pretty infatuated with technology integrations. In a former life I did Remedy integrations with web technologies, Cisco phones, mobile phones, etc…
Today I’m doing the same with web technologies, most notably in my band The Compilers ( yes, with Jun Heider ). I have my sites set on building musical instruments or effects pedals with Arduino, but my wallet has it’s sites set on being empty.
If I won this, I would make crazy machines that do things for me. Starting with making noises.
Eric Fickes
4 Aug 10 at 2:50 pm
Wow. These are some amazing ideas. I remember as a kid the fascination I had in taking apart electronics. I still remember how cool it was to look inside the guts of our family Commodore 64. Too bad I didn’t know how to put it back together. My brothers were gonna kill me!
Anywho, I’d love to actually learn how to work with electronics and this contest would help me do that. Oh, and while we’re at it, I’ve created a video showcasing what I’d like to do:
http://www.screencast.com/t/YjgyZThlMzU
Thanks for such an awesome contest!
iBrent
iBrent
4 Aug 10 at 3:24 pm
I would love to build a controller to initiate small electric charges in the seats of my students when they don’t paying attention..
But unlikely it would ever be allowed to be used so.. I’ll just vote for Sean Moore’s idea of mixing it up with the Mindset BCI hardware.. sounds awesome.
Or one of Staceys not so clean ideas coz we all know how she thinks and it would be awesome :-P
Derek O'Brien
4 Aug 10 at 3:31 pm
I want to start off this contest entry with the very relevant statement that I love beer. I’m a Flash developer and and general electronics enthusiast as well. A few months ago I was sitting at my favorite bar having a delicious brew, the owner of the bar was sitting near me and we started chatting. He himself was once a developer, but he then pursued his passion for beer and opened a very successful beer bar here in San Diego (the one I currently frequent is his second, and he’s about to open his third), so by now I have a bit of a man-crush on this guy. We get to talking about how great the bar is and how awesome the 42 taps are, but I voiced my wish that they would implement 1/2 pints (although I may be considered a lush at times, it’s still really hard to get to know all 42 taps because as soon as a keg blows, a new beer gets put on). Well it turns out that he’d love to do 1/2 pints too, but the problem is that his POS (Point of Sales) software hooked up to his registers is what he uses to gauge when a keg is about to blow (1 keg = 124 pints sold). He needs to know this so he can get another keg on-deck before it blows. The system he has will not allow him to split up his products in to multiple quantities, so it makes it extremely hard to track the keg levels if he adds in an entire new set of products just for 1/2 pints.
So that entire conversation got me thinking: If there were some separate system to gauge the kegs’ levels, I could have all the 1/2 pints my liver desired! I started doing research on the subject and found a few tested and untested methods. Flow meters exist, but the most reliable ones are pretty expensive and require calibration. Others have DIY’d their own by putting the kegs on scales, but in those cases the constant weight of the kegs ended up throwing off the accuracy of the scales, and having to deal with that 42 times over sounds like bad news.
After finding most solutions to be costly or not very scalable I decided to think up some of my own ideas for creating a cheap yet semi-accurate keg-level monitor. I have a Phidgets board and started thinking in that direction, but the wired aspect of it is pretty unappealing. To cut this short, after a few months of casual research and ideating I have come up with 3 solutions that I would love to pursue – in the name of science AND beer of course.
1) Using an Arduino + tilt switch attached to the tap handle to measure the duration of pours. The idea being that with some testing you can figure out that X seconds of pouring = 1 keg of beer. Accuracy here won’t be great because each keg is pressured differently, but it should get within the accuracy of using the POS systes which doesn’t account for tasters and mistake-pours.
2) Attach a marker to the pint glasses and have a webcam recognize them as they are brought to the tap. Different sized glass = different marker. Accuracy here would be decent if the webcam could be accurate.
3) Just use an Arduino with 3 big buttons attached for each tap, each button would stand for 1 pint, 1/2 pint and taster. Accuracy here would depend on the bartender’s ability to remember to press it and use it correctly.
As you can see I’ve put a decent amount of thought into this and I think winning this contest here would put me a pretty big step forward in actually carrying out these experiments. Tying the system together with Flash or AIR would be a dream. I’d love to go back to the bar owner and show him a sweet interface of all his 42 kegs showing their levels, he’d flip out I’m sure. Hooking up a real-time pour feed would also be pretty slick.
Thanks for reading and your consideration.
Andrew Walpole
4 Aug 10 at 3:39 pm
I would like it to teach my 6yo son about programming and electronics.
Dale Fraser
4 Aug 10 at 4:13 pm
I’ve got a 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon and a really cool idea for it using AIR and an arduino. The van is pretty cool, it’s got a pop-top, sink, stove and lots of storage but there is one huge problem with it–I spend more time working on the thing than actually driving it! It’s 25 years old and was never reliable to begin with so when I bought it I expected to be working on it a lot. One of the biggest problems is that the electronic fuel-injection system was built before OBDII. ODBII is a way for a car’s computer to interface with a computer or scantool and is extremely helpful for diagnosing problems–all modern cars have it. Without a way to see what’s going on inside the computer it’s like flying blind when I’m having electrical issues. The only thing you can do is go through a long list of multi-meter tests and if that doesn’t work you just have to start replacing parts until it works again.
So here is my idea: hook an arduino up to monitor voltages between the wiring harness and the ecu (computer), process the voltages into meaningful information and spit it out over usb to an AIR app as the front-end. The AIR app would be kind of a virtual dashboard of gauges, lights and maybe some graphs so you could visualize any meaningful data coming from the van’s computer.
Here is a diagram: http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5576/flasharduino.png
Tyson
4 Aug 10 at 4:35 pm
I just want to experiment mixing Arduino with flash, I don´t know exactly whath to do or how, but it has to be relative to education or simulation where the flash interface and the hardware helps to increase the experience of learn. I hope you let me try to do it.
Christian George
4 Aug 10 at 5:34 pm
I’d like to create a Android telenoid using Air, Arduino, and Android that would allow a remote user to interact with the telenoid’s environment.
For its eyes and ears, the telenoid would use an video chat capable Android phone running an AIR 2.5+ app utilizing Flash video chat. Ardino would allow the telenoid to send other non A/V sensory data and allow the remote user to interact with the telenoid’s environment through remote use of its body and appendages through a custom Flash interface.
For the basic design, the telenoid would have a spot to insert an Android based phone with a forward facing camera into the head or body area of the telenoid, so that people (or other telenoids?) would be able to see the face of the remote user.
Charles
4 Aug 10 at 5:35 pm
Yes,I like it,but I don’t know Air will more popluar than Ria.
activetofocus
4 Aug 10 at 7:55 pm
We have an open plan workplace which has beams and skirting boards abobe us. We are planning on building a train and track to run along these. We want to have a rich control system for the train which would also plug into our project tracking and time management systems to give a fun representation of work in the studio. It would also be cool to have trains going between people as they chat electronically as the office seems quiet when there is actually a lot of online communication going on.
carly
4 Aug 10 at 8:25 pm
As a developper of Onyx-VJ open source AIR actionscript based video and generative art mixer(http://www.onyx-vj.com), I would like to integrate Arduino-based devices to control the visuals. Imagine musicians on stage and people in audience drawing the visuals in real time!
Bruce LANE
4 Aug 10 at 9:59 pm
Killer contest. :)
I was at Makerfaire in San Mateo a few months ago and was impressed by a small company that was building really efficient hydroponic gardening systems (for non-nefarious purposes).
It’s been in the back of my mind since and I’ve been planning on building a similar system out of less expensive materials including a monitoring system to track pH levels, oxygen and nitrogen content, etc. in the water as well as controlling the actual circulation of the water and releasing nutrients at schedule times.
I’d really like it to be used for education or community gardens or awesome people who want to grow their own food and I’d open source the whole project including the monitoring software and hardware. Winning this contest would help me do that.
If you don’t pick me though, I definitely think that Sean Moore’s project is the best of the lot.
Adios – Ian (@spiceninja)
Ian Serlin
4 Aug 10 at 10:40 pm
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devdeploy.com » Quick Contest : Flash and Arduino
4 Aug 10 at 11:05 pm
Physical computing is awesome. Especially when you bridge the gap between traditional and physical computing. It just seems natural to extend what a user would normally gain from a computer screen to something physical that can produce tangible, emotional connections with the real world.
This Flash and Arduino Quick Contest got me thinking of an interesting concept that could possibly be worth experimenting with. This idea, which I’m tentatively code naming as the “Adobe Flash Garden” would break the norm of traditional data visualization.
Click the following link to read more (with pretty pictures and visual aids): http://blog.devdeploy.com/2010/08/04/quick-contest-flash-and-arduino/
Bryan Yen
4 Aug 10 at 11:15 pm
A couple years ago i’ve made a robot which showed(speaking, moving arms, lighting rgb leds, and hiding eyes) emotions (happy, angry, bored) based on his surroundings (movement, distance, sound, touch). This was done with arduino and Flash (as2), i’d love to make a more advanced version of this robot which uses AS3, but also new components like an ethernet shield so it can be influenced over the net).
Bart
4 Aug 10 at 11:33 pm
Wow! There are a lot of ideas here and some people are building amazing things like robots, dolls, amazing multimodal interfaces and there is also an Arduino movie coming soon (Arduino The Documentary – http://arduinothedocumentary.org/).
I am working on an early prototype of a simple tool to put Audio Description on video on internet, mobile phones, tablets and perhaps TV (Litl, Google TV, Vizio…) using AIR and the OSMF framework.
It will be nice to aggregate Arduino resources to try to build multimodal interfaces for the players, for example, like small objects that visually impaired people could move around to control better the player’s commands , interactions and navigation.
Usually I don’t win this type of contest but very thanks for the initiative and the nice list of Arduino beginning resources.
Good luck for all…
Randy Santana
5 Aug 10 at 12:10 am
I want to build a breath Checker for Babys. If the Baby sleeps and stop their breathing the API gives a Alarm to the Parents.
Flashapplicatio
5 Aug 10 at 12:16 am
I want to make a information table like those on stations. I want to make it led and the text that will appear will be moving along the table to show more information. That will be connected with Gmail to show you new email and their names.
Antonio
5 Aug 10 at 1:04 am
I have always wanted to make a bigtrak style robot that could be controlled via web interface. On the robot would be a webcam that would stream live footage back to the website. Essentially someone could drive the bigtrack around and see what it sees. Not sure exactly how I would do it yet though.
paul
5 Aug 10 at 1:29 am
I want to build an interface for doing music creation using flash and arduino…
David Holm
5 Aug 10 at 5:39 am
I follow many different blogs and websites that post arduino and flash projects. There are rare occasions that I see the two meet in those projects and I think it would be awesome to learn how to meld my love of actionscript development with a new understanding of electronics and microcontrollers. I have always been intrigued by the connection of hardware and software, though for some reason I really haven’t explored it, yet.
There are many complex projects that I could come up with, though I find it best to start small and work my way into more defined and refined projects. By starting small I think I would build a much better understanding of what can be done when the two technologies meld. I truly hope I get a chance to win this package as it could lead to a new path and obsession.
Good luck to all and congrats to the winner :)
Kevin
5 Aug 10 at 6:44 am
As much as i want my coffee mater to output Twitter in Morse code, as stated earlier, i believe Sean Moore’s project is definitely worthy of the prize.
Geoffrey Mattie
5 Aug 10 at 6:48 am
Hi Mike, great post, Arduino and Flash is really fun. For my project at http://diymagicmirror.com, I’ve written an AIR app using Arduino with Firmata to do this:
The Talking Breathalyzer is software application (Adobe AIR) combined with open source hardware that runs on your laptop. The main feature is the talking Breathalzyer but it also does Twitter Announcements with Text to Speech (in multiple languages), Weather Forecast, Stock Performance, X-10 and LED control, and Picasa album streaming. Featuring four characters, each character responds to sensors you choose (alcohol sensor, distance sensor, touch sensors, and generic switches) with its own personality. As an example, have too much to drink and you’ll get, You’re drunker than a skunk! Someone get this guy’s keys. See more info at http://diymagicmirror.com/assembled.html
Al
5 Aug 10 at 6:49 am
My interest is to use a physical computing input to broadcast to a wide-audience arena.
Small scale:
I first thought of using Carrot, my hamster, running on her wheel and linking her activity to her tweeter account. On every 100th revolution, she tweets. The message is one sentence pulled from an animal-protection rights site to raise awareness on animal abuse, alternating with a surprising/entertaining fact on animal behavior. Unfortunately because I let Carrot run free through our hamster-proof apartment, she makes minimum use of her wheel.
Large Scale:
A camera on a tripod with a swivel is placed in a central location on an active public neighborhood of a few major cities (Paris, New York, Rio, Tokyo, Beijing, Cairo). Additionally, a large billboard or high resolution monitor is placed in an easily visible area. People walking by can choose to participate. Before clicking on the shutter, the user can select between 3 modes: standard one shot picture, a short video, a QTVR-type film where the camera self-rotates and takes a panorama of the place. The shutter, the physical component, triggers the process including the picture being broadcasted to another one of the other cities’s billboard. The user may use the destination (s). Quality photography is encouraged.
p.s. I studied Physical computing at ITP over 10 years ago at ITP/NYU before it became main stream and before the existence of Arduino. We used the Basic Stamp, Director and its ability to communicate via the serial port. Arduino makes it easier to get to the idea right away. Also the range of sensors offered today is much wider.
Veronique Brossier
5 Aug 10 at 7:42 am
Thanks for the entries. Contest is now closed.
Ill announced the winners later today.
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
mikechambers
5 Aug 10 at 7:48 am
wooo hoo, thank you! this was awesome and a lot of fun conceptualizing. I can’t wait to really start playing with this!!
Bryan Yen
5 Aug 10 at 12:43 pm
[...] http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/08/04/quick-contest-flash-and-arduino/ [...]
FlashApplications » Arduino
6 Aug 10 at 12:20 am
Great great great Mike,
Remind me to buy you a beer if you’re coming to FOTB this year :-)
Greets,
Erik
erik
6 Aug 10 at 5:50 am
Thank you Mike Chambers, Flash team and Adaruit.com
It will be a new dimension for the prototype. It will also be amazing fun!
Congratulations Bryan and all…
Randy Santana
6 Aug 10 at 6:13 am
hey mike, I never received the email out, was wondering if you could try sending to my address again?
Curtis Dodd
6 Aug 10 at 8:52 am
@Curtis
I just resent it. Sorry about that.
mike
mikechambers
6 Aug 10 at 9:58 am
Thanks, Mike, I am super excited about this :)
Kevin
7 Aug 10 at 8:44 am
Since you shipped me some of the parts I used, I thought it was only fair to write a quick comment here to let you know that I’ve built a portable GPS unit. Didn’t take too long once I figured out what I was doing, it’s amazing how much stuff is already out there to learn from and modify and make your own.
Anyway, here’s my writeup – Portable Arduino GPS Unit. Just a quick tutorial explaining what I did and how to put it all together, in case anyone else wants to play with that stuff! :)
Mykola Bilokonsky
18 Oct 10 at 12:04 pm
[...] an Atmel AVR processor and on-board I/O support.” A little while back Mike Chambers held a quick contest on his blog with the prize being a number of really cool items one being an Arduino Duemilanove [...]
Getting Started with Arduino Development
19 Oct 10 at 6:55 am
Hey Mike,
Thank you so much for the starter pack. I’ve been having a really great time messing around with the contents. Still figuring things out but really having a blast. I wrote a blog post about my adventures so far. You can check it out here:
http://seantheflexguy.com/blog/2010/10/19/getting-started-with-arduino-development/
Can’t thank you enough.
Kind regards,
Sean
Sean Moore
19 Oct 10 at 7:00 am
My interest is to use a physical computing input to broadcast to a wide-audience arena.
Small scale:
I first thought of using Carrot, my hamster, running on her wheel and linking her activity to her tweeter account. On every 100th revolution, she tweets. The message is one sentence pulled from an animal-protection rights site to raise awareness on animal abuse, alternating with a surprising/entertaining fact on animal behavior. Unfortunately because I let Carrot run free through our hamster-proof apartment, she makes minimum use of her wheel.
Large Scale:
A camera on a tripod with a swivel is placed in a central location on an active public neighborhood of a few major cities (Paris, New York, Rio, Tokyo, Beijing, Cairo). Additionally, a large billboard or high resolution monitor is placed in an easily visible area. People walking by can choose to participate. Before clicking on the shutter, the user can select between 3 modes: standard one shot picture, a short video, a QTVR-type film where the camera self-rotates and takes a panorama of the place. The shutter, the physical component, triggers the process including the picture being broadcasted to another one of the other cities’s billboard. The user may use the destination (s). Quality photography is encouraged.
p.s. I studied Physical computing at ITP over 10 years ago at ITP/NYU before it became main stream and before the existence of Arduino. We used the Basic Stamp, Director and its ability to communicate via the serial port. Arduino makes it easier to get to the idea right away. Also the range of sensors offered today is much wider.
Lobato
31 Oct 10 at 1:42 pm
[...] over the last couple of months. First a quick recap… Back in August Mike Chambers held an Arduino contest through his blog. I entered but didn’t win the grand prize for my Arduino development idea. [...]
Arduino Development Continued (now with Soldering!)
17 Jan 11 at 10:19 am