<div dir="ltr"><div>Built meself a fun little heart-on-sleeve machine with an Arduino Uno. Here's ( <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZ9PStlZfk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZ9PStlZfk</a> ) the guts, before my wife sewed a nifty little holder for it . Next project is a hybrid cigar-box guitar/theremin which is currently sitting in pieces on my workbench. If you have even a few C++ chops, the sketch language is really easy to learn. The development environment is pretty small. I have it running on a tiny linux distro sitting on a vintage 2000 laptop without troubles.<br><br></div><div>Arduino + Raspberry Pi could let you do really interesting stuff. I saw a demo not long back where someone had succeeded in getting a RasPi to run OpenCV ( <a href="http://opencv.org/">http://opencv.org/</a> ) through a cheap webcam. That makes it possible to for a hobbyist to construct a compact, low-power device which can interact with the world visually, the way your dog or cat does. Hmm. <br><br>I'm holding off on Raspi until I feel really comfortable with breadboarding and basic electronic circuitry, which is really Arduino territory. I'm a lot more experienced with the software stuff.<br><br></div><div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div><br></div>-- CHS<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Speaking of USB FTDI cable. Can I use RS232 to TTL cable instead.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br>On Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Robert Reese <<a href="mailto:ale@sixit.com" target="_blank">ale@sixit.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Boris,<br>
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 9:57:35 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> I never used one but the price is so tempting :<br>
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> <a href="http://www.microcenter.com/product/431996/Arduino_Pro_Mini_Board" target="_blank">http://www.microcenter.com/product/431996/Arduino_Pro_Mini_Board</a><br>
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Arduinos are AWESOME!<br>
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I got a Mega kit for Christmas and have been loving it. I'm already planning a number of geocaches using them, especially the Arduino Nano. ;c)<br>
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R~<br>
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