I’m enjoying learning the basics of electronics and embedded systems programming with the arduino board I got for Christmas. Here’s a picture of the sample project I built. I had to assemble the prototyping shield from a kit, which required me to do some soldering. I then followed the instructions on MakerShed for building this simple pressure sensitive LED display. Pressing on the force sensing resistor pad causes the lights to go out in order based on the amount of pressure applied.
After I get a bit more proficient with this stuff I’d like to attempt to build
a simple a weather monitor that would display the current conditions based on
a web service call on an lcd screen.