The Doodalu
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:48 pm
I introduced this in another thread - my first attempt at a parametric model for Arduino based projects.
This is the print and the two components required:
This comprises an Arduino Uno and a touch screen shield which I acquired (eventually) from banggood. It took about 6 weeks to arrive and the first had a huge crack in it, and while it worked as a display, touch screen was broken. I had to wait a further 6 weeks for the replacement, but that one is working great. You'll probably find a more reliable source from adafruit but I baulked at the price .
Construction is simply by clicking the parts together so that it eventually looks like:
Installing software is done via the Arduino IDE and there are various applications available (if anyone is interested in more details of this, I'll be happy to provide them).
I've posted a thingiverse project at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1385953 in case anyone is interested. It also provides a link and instructions for the openjscad based customisation tool.
The customisation tool is a kinda hokey hack, with way too many options available and not really geared up to do much but produce variants of the first project. But I think it's interesting and it's certainly been fun doing. Also more than happy with the printed results and feel that there is quite a bit of scope for the components used than is immediately apparent.
I have some more hacks on this in mind and a few alternative models which use other shields and components, all generated from the same tool, but I haven't really had enough time to develop anything particularly useful with them yet (not that the above is very useful either, but still... ).
This is the print and the two components required:
This comprises an Arduino Uno and a touch screen shield which I acquired (eventually) from banggood. It took about 6 weeks to arrive and the first had a huge crack in it, and while it worked as a display, touch screen was broken. I had to wait a further 6 weeks for the replacement, but that one is working great. You'll probably find a more reliable source from adafruit but I baulked at the price .
Construction is simply by clicking the parts together so that it eventually looks like:
Installing software is done via the Arduino IDE and there are various applications available (if anyone is interested in more details of this, I'll be happy to provide them).
I've posted a thingiverse project at http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1385953 in case anyone is interested. It also provides a link and instructions for the openjscad based customisation tool.
The customisation tool is a kinda hokey hack, with way too many options available and not really geared up to do much but produce variants of the first project. But I think it's interesting and it's certainly been fun doing. Also more than happy with the printed results and feel that there is quite a bit of scope for the components used than is immediately apparent.
I have some more hacks on this in mind and a few alternative models which use other shields and components, all generated from the same tool, but I haven't really had enough time to develop anything particularly useful with them yet (not that the above is very useful either, but still... ).