I saw all those links to places and stuff, but I am a rookie with an arduino mega and a basic understanding of it and I need actual help. It's hard.
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Hey Andy, sorry you are having trouble. While I'm not sure how old you are, or your abilities... I would highly encourage you to get a book on Arduino or Raspberry Pi projects. The books are made in a decent tutorial format, and would help your style of learning. PS. this camera comes with literally nothing additional, no cable, no instructions, no nothing. There are better cameras out there for the beginner.
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You should be able to find them here: http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-arduino-lesson-16-stepper-motors
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I have seen some in Raspberry Pi forum but also like the XBEE boards. See http://code.google.com/p/xbee-arduino/for some ideas
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A friend of mine who is a PhD physicist said, "You should think of the Arduino as a development board: You figure out how to do something, where the wires go, etc. using the kit. Then if you want to make something permanent, you build a 'new' arduino from scratch using just a few components (the main AtMega328p chip, some resistors, capacitors, oscillator, and voltage regulators)." which you have figured out using the kit, and the knowledge you learned from going through the exercises from the kit.
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This what I found good sources of info!http://42bots.com/tutorials/28byj-48-stepper-motor-with-uln2003-driver-and-arduino-uno/ See Adafruit tutorials on stepper motors.
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If you are in Hawaii your best bet would be a web search for Arduino Books. Amazon has many for levels between beginners and budding engineers, just depends on what you are trying to do next with the device. If shipping isn't too high to HI I'd do a search on Amazon for "Arduino books" and check the results to see what fits what you are trying to learn. More sensors, programming the unit, etc.
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Same as nano but usb drivers are different so it isn't as straightforward as the micro if you're used to using other Arduino stuff. Once you get the driver working, it behaves the same.It also doesn't have the MISO/MOSI pins at the very end (opposite end of the USB connector) but that didn't matter to my application.
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The quick answer as a fairly new guy to all of this is "I Don't Know", BUT - I have recently been sneaking around Adafruit's website www*adafruit*com and they have one for under $6. The Duemilanove is the 2009 version of an Arduino which isn't an UNO version 3. The Adafruit part claims to work in all of them, so it may help to give it a shot. Again, I'm pretty new at all of this so you might get a better answer elsewhere!
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I just bought it to put something together, but I have seem a lot of Youtube videos show this same set being use and operated by Arduino. So I Know it can be done.
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I would recommend going to miklor.com that she the best resource I have found. Manual programming is very hard but it can be done.
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Sorry I can't help. To complicated for me to use...stored it new in the garage. :-(
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Hi, of course some programming experience would be helpful, but each project has a fully documented program that walks you step-by-step through it. You can enter the program yourself following the book, or you can download the program from the disc and run it. The construction of the circuit is very straight forward and should not cause any problems. Hope this helps.
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That is a very good question. If the 3rd grader has demonstrated an interest in learning programming and electronics skills, or already has developed some of those skills, then by all means inspire the child to learn more with an Arduino. I wish I could have worked with these at such a young age. There are many things one can do with a micro-controller board like the Arduino Mega 2560 R3. I chose this board because of its expanded memory and IO pins over the smaller boards. I've had mine since February, and have yet to use more than half the IO pins. Just beware that starting on this board may inspire the child to experiment with electronics circuits where some soldering might be required. Most circuits can be built on a solderless breadboard, but for permanent installations, soldered components usually make more reliable circuits. I hope this helped you!
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Even if you had the instructions, they aren't easy to follow. You should goggle "Intermatic ST01A programming instructions" and watch the video.
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of course, the idea to use an Arduino is to combine it with the potential of a computer, using programmation structure, but outside arduino, you need to know a lot of electronic circuit
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It's everything you need to start building with arduino. It's just got some experiments and you follow them until you learn the code then the sky is the limit. I thought it was a really well made and thought out starter kit.
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Hi Rene, unfortunately I have not connected it to the Arduino Due, I used an mbed and found the drivers right on the mbed online repository. One thing to note however is that the device has separate pins for the clock and data SPI lines for both the memory card AND LCD, and for some reason they labled them the same as an I2C bus (SDA and SCL) - but they are SPI lines that get tied to each others SPI clock and data lines if you are using both devices. It's not real obvious in the data sheet, but a really nice cheap LCD for micro-controller s at a good price, just watch the pin labeling nomenclature. Hi Rene, unfortunately I have not connected it to the Arduino Due, I used an mbed and found the drivers right on the mbed online repository. One thing to note however is that the device has separate pins for the clock and data SPI lines for both the memory card AND LCD, and for some reason they labled them the same as an I2C bus (SDA and SCL) - but they are SPI lines that get tied to each others SPI clock and data lines if you are using both devices. It's not real obvious in the data sheet, but a really nice cheap LCD for micro-controller s at a good price, just watch the pin labeling... » Read More Hi Rene, unfortunately I have not connected it to the Arduino Due, I used an mbed and found the drivers right on the mbed online repository. One thing to note however is that the device has separate pins for the clock and data SPI lines for both the memory card AND LCD, and for some reason they labled them the same as an I2C bus (SDA and SCL) - but they are SPI lines that get tied to each others SPI clock and data lines if you are using both devices. It's not real obvious in the data sheet, but a really nice cheap LCD for micro-controller s at a good price, just watch the pin labeling nomenclature. « Show Less