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Sketching with the USB Power Shield

So you have a USB Power Shield (or anything that uses a latching relay). How do you control it in an Arduino Sketch? Normal relays are pretty simple – supply voltage/current to the coil and it generates a magnetic field, which pushes the switch to the ON position. You only need one pin to run [...]

Posted 16 July 2009 † brettinman § Arduino § USB Power Shield § Woot-Off Lights Project ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Woot-Off Lights – in Python

The Woot-Off Lights project continues to slowly progress. Over the weekend we moved over to Python for the coding, since that’s the language Alex is most familiar with right now (especially in networking). Serial control of the lights in Python took longer than expected – we could have saved over an hour of troubleshooting had [...]

Posted 03 June 2009 † brettinman § Arduino § Woot-Off Lights Project ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , ,