{"id":379,"date":"2012-04-04T18:14:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.free.fr\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2013-12-08T00:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T22:13:25","slug":"do-it-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antoine.wojdyla.fr\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/do-it-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Do it yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Once upon a time, there were two kids in a garage, playing with electronics.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Later, they eventually\u00a0 founded HP.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>We have all heard this story, or Wozniak&#8217;s or some other Silicon Valley founding myths, and we are now sorry to observe that this era is over.<\/p>It is over, because technology have got so horribly complicated : you will never be able to wire an lcd screen to a simple battery and come up with a displayed message. You always need microcontrollers that you can&#8217;t control, or registers that you can&#8217;t register.<\/p>But something changed : one day came <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/', 'Arduino']);\" title=\"Arduino\"  target=\"_blank\">Arduino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Arduino Uno\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/en\/uploads\/Main\/arduino_uno_test.jpg\" width=\"246\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arduino Uno<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Arduino is a cheap (30$) ready-to-use open-source microcontroller, with built-in in-and-outputs, that lets you easily take control of electronic parts, such as LED, speakers, motors or servo, through programs you write in C. You can add &#8216;shields&#8217;, which allow you to implement new functionnalities, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/arduino.cc\/it\/Main\/ArduinoXbeeShield\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/arduino.cc\/it\/Main\/ArduinoXbeeShield', 'wireless communiction']);\" target=\"_blank\">wireless communiction<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladyada.net\/make\/waveshield\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ladyada.net\/make\/waveshield\/', 'data storage']);\" target=\"_blank\">data storage<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more-->You can make really cool stuff (I only made a small light guitar, for I had no fancy laser like this guy&#8230;)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLVXmsbVwUs\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Beagle board\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s.eeweb.com\/resized\/images\/remote\/http_s.eeweb.com\/featured\/website\/2011\/03\/15\/beagle-board-1300248204_355_301.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beagle board<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Then came <a href=\"http:\/\/beagleboard.org\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/beagleboard.org\/', 'Beagle board']);\" title=\"Beagleboard\"  target=\"_blank\">Beagle board<\/a>, which is a nothing less than a smartphone without the screen. The project was born when Texas Instrument engineers noticed that there were no cheap and highly tunable alternative to computers. So <em>they<\/em> made a cheap (150$), ARM-based board that have all the functionalities of a small computer that you can use for any kind of personnal project.<\/p>The newcomer is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/', 'Raspberry Pi']);\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi<\/a>, which share both Arduino and Beagleboard assets. It is very, very cheap (35$), while it can still be plugged to a computer screen to play HD video, has USB and SD card reader. The project is supported by Cambridge, and is serious threat to Negroponte&#8217;s OLPC !<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Raspberry Pi\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static8.businessinsider.com\/image\/4f63627e6bb3f79124000015\/raspberry-pi-circuit-board-size.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raspberry Pi<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Computers did not kill Lego. Lego have just changed their names : children now have computers <em>and<\/em> DIY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Once upon a time, there were two kids in a garage, playing with electronics. 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