The Future is now.

So, after the Makerfaire convention in New York that we (sort of) attended (virtually), we were excited to get our Arduino micro-controller kit in the mail.

The first thing we did was flash an LED..More fun than you might expect, simply because you can change the flash rate, and change the persistance and see how fast you can flash it before you are just really effectively adjusting the brightness.

Then the next challenge was to load a program that played the first few notes of “mary had a little lamb”. Interesting, not complicated, as it was programmed already for you.

But then the interesting part. Hannah went into the program, and programmed the rest of the song into it.

Now that’s what I’m talking about! That’s the first step to WAY bigger things. Neat!

Posted on 26 September '11 by , under Uncategorized.