I can be there from 1-4 this afternoon
On Feb 20, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob can we meet earlier than 7pm? Some business came up tonight.
-Geno
On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Robert Berger <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes
On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do we have red green and yellow led of the same size?
On Feb 20, 2016 9:56 AM, "Robert Berger" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have a lot of 10mm diameter LED's. Can we design the housing to use
those?
On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Or Saturday evening works too. Looks like we emailed at the same time.
Haha
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Good idea. I will probably be at the shop around 8pm tonight. Maybe we
can work on it then.
-Geno
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Robert Berger <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We need to connect to different places on the Arduino header, so I was
thinking of cutting these in half and soldering the wire ends directly
to our board
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B003B1XR28/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1455905127&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=male+to+male+jumper+wires
On Feb 19, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Yohe <cjyohe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In the future too, if we designed the simple board for that a place
like Dirty Boards (or even OSH Park) would be a cheap way to get a
bunch and it looks like it would be a great 1st "Learn to Solder"
Project. Also if the female headers on the bottom were swapped out for
male there are a bunch of cheap ebay cable deals to wire up the
interconnect from the board to the light. I've been snagging them
recently for some wiring harness work and they seem to do ok.
Just a couple of thoughts.
Chris
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Robert Berger <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Geno,
We can use this project to teach you how to do it.
The board is so small it would probably be < 10 minutes to mill each
one.
We already have lots of LED's in the shop we could use.
On Feb 19, 2016, at 11:21 AM, Yevgeniy Soroka <ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Bob if youre thinking of CNC the pcb's for the traffic lights, we
would need 10-20 of them. I don't want to overburden you with that
much work. You are the only one who knows how to do that right now.
If we bought the ones Ryan posted it would be $6 for each traffic
light. It would be nice to save $5, but its not that big a deal if
it means forcing you or someone else to manually CNC these.
Let me know what you think.
-Geno
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Robert Berger <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
We can make one for about a dollar in materials
On Feb 19, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Yevgeniy Soroka
<ukranians2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Totally awesome Ryan! You even get 2 for 12 bucks. We could 3d
print a small enclosure for it maybe. Or maybe thats not even
necessary. I'm going to go ahead and order one right now so I can
begin planning the class.
Thanks for the find!
-Geno
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Ryan Priore
<ryan.priore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Geno,
I found this today while reading the latest issue of the MagPi:
http://www.amazon.com/Pi-Traffic-Light-Raspberry-pack/dp/B00RIIGD30/
I like this form factor for the traffic light less and may
redesign the traffic light enclosure on thingiverse due to its
size and resulting print time.
Ryan
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Subject: [hackpgh-discuss] Re: Basic Arduino Programming Class
That would be awesome Ryan! Thanks a lot! Maybe they would look
better in yellow?
-Geno
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Ryan Priore
<ryan.priore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Geno,
I like your application idea a lot! I would be happy to assist in
printing the traffic light enclosures on my printers at home as
well.
Ryan
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Subject: [hackpgh-discuss] Basic Arduino Programming Class
I looked at the previous Basic Arduino class HackPGH did in the
past, and I would like to cover all the topics from the class we
did in the past, but to keep things interesting every year,
present them in a different way.
My idea is this. We 3d print 2 of these for all the students.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14646 ;
The student brings their own arduino (which they got and soldered
together at the soldering class), or just one they already have.
The object of the class will be to control two traffic lights at
an intersection. First just with timing, and then to introduce
the ADC input and map() function to have a small sensor which
would make the light green if a car just arrived at an
intersection (like many real traffic lights at quiet
intersections do)
This will teach the student about basic arduino concepts such as
I/O and timing functions such as delay(). In the advanced course
we can introduce how to use interrupts for timing. And it will
teach the students the basics of ADC and very very basics of
sensors, which they can learn more about in the sensors class.
This can actually be a cool practical toy for your kid's RC cars
or hotwheels. They could even build real intersections for a
small toy city. I really wish I had this when I was 9. ;-)
If anyone has suggestions on how to make this class better, ideas
to make the traffic lights more cool, or even better 3d printed
traffic lights we could download, that would be awesome!
This class will most likely take place in April (definitely after
learn to solder)
-Geno
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