As the word open hardware becoming more and more popular, various development platforms come to our view naturally. But to be honest, the primary open hardware is just a circuit board without shell, which is so boring to most of people.
Fortunately, up till now there are so many projects or games based on arduino have been developed. We can easily understand how Ardunio gains popularitly by making some interseting product.
Compared with SCM, Arduino need some simple and practical function operations to achieve function, but not the complex underlying code and assembly language.
Therefore, to such microprocessor like Ardunio, the direction of expansion and development is influnced by personal hobby DIY. The most typical example is the flight control system using for aircraft.
The flight control system based on arduino
With the development of various types of aircraft, in the same mechanical process, a good flight control system has been basically representing the powerfulness a vehicle to realize the function. Because of this, many teams are focused to the R&D of flight control system.
Chris Anderson, the ex-chief editor of wired, is the CEO of 3D Robotics, which main business is selling DIY aircraft. And the system of flight control is based on arduino.
Currently, MultiWii, APM/ACM and MegaPirates, which system basing on arduino, are all the favorite toys of aircraft enthusiast.
Blinky Tape: easily controlled LED lamps
LED lamps can be used in any scenes if needed, the birthday party or the performing stage. But in the actual operation of the installation, users often need to face a lot of problems.
Not only special professional technical support that the stage venue layout need, but the general family parties also need complicated settings to install the LED lamps. In view of this potential demand, there comes to an incubation project named Blinky Tape in Huaqiang North, Shenzhen. The project is aimed at simplifying the settings as much as possible to meet the application requirements of various scenes.
In addition to the simplified module of hardware, there is a waterproof silicone sleeve out of Blinky Tape to ensure the working performance of the equipment in outdoor environment.
In the operation, anyone can let Blink Tape to achieve a variety of light changing effect with the preset program, which can also use Arduino as a peripheral. In fact, in the Kickstarter project show, the Blinky Tape is also made special mention of using the Arduino development environment.
