I love working with Arduino. I always find it so rewarding getting a real world objects behaviour being driven by code I have compiled. I really wish I gave more time to creating personal projects in Arduino because I am always so happy with the result. Unfortunately recent times hasn’t permitted me the time though. My main focus of the Interactive Media course is to enhance my skills in UI and UX so Arduino has taken a bit of a back seat. But I do have a long list of ideas that I hope to someday soon act on!

Within our workshops with Mikael Fernstrom, we have been learning various programming languages that could contribute to our final submissions. Familiar names such as Processing, Pure Data and Arduino all getting some practise time. A few of our workshops were dedicated to Arduino (primarily the basics as not everyone was familiar). It was a great opportunity for me to shake of a few cobwebs. I hadn’t built a circuit or compiled for Arduino for a few months now so I was only happy to build a few basic circuits. We all created some circuits with the hardware at our disposal such as LEDs, resistors, photocells, potentiometers etc.

Sketch on Fritzing.
Build that circuit.
Code for circuit.
Cross fingers.