Arduino Lilypad: an Account of Coolness in 4 Links
- Jacket 1: a jacket with turn signals that lets people know where you’re headed when you’re on your bike: http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/build/turn_signal_jacket.html
- Jacket 2: a jacket that both heats and cools based on one’s body temperature: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-Heating-and-Cooling-Jacket/
- Shirt: this cool shirt features an RGB LED that changes color in response to motion and tilt: http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/build/accelero_shirt.html
- Scarf: this is no ordinary scarf! The interactive passion sensing scarf detects the presence of another scarf wearer nearby and sets the color of an RGB LED to either blue (lonely) or red (passion): http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Lilypad-Interactive-Passion-Sensing-Scarf/
The Lilypad at the Official Arduino website: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad
An Arduino for Any Project
The Arduino is based on the microcontrollers from Atmel. Here are current Arduinos available (the architecture is open source, and anyone can build their own “Arduino” based on the technical specs that are available for download from the official Arduino website).
- Duemilanove: “Duemilanove” means 2009 in Italian and is named after the year of its release. The Duemilanove is the latest in a series of USB Arduino boards. It is based on the ATmega328 and has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs) and 6 analog inputs.
- Mega: The Arduino Mega is based on the ATmega1280. It has 54 digital input/output pins (of which 14 can be used as PWM outputs) and 16 analog inputs.
