Interactive Environments Lab

MICROCONTROLLERS & SENSOR INTERFACES

Arduino 

• Two? Arduino Uno
• 18 x Arduino Duemilanove
• 3 x Arduino Mega (one uno)
• 2 x Arduino Nano
• 5 x LilyPad Arduino

Other I/O Boards

• Phidget InterfaceKit 8/8/8
• Phidget 2 Relay Driver Board
• Phidget Servo Controller (4-motor)
• 18 x Precision Joystick Controller BU0836

Arduino Shields

• 2 x Libelium GPRS Shield
• 2 x Motor Shield
• RFID Shield (for ID-12 and ID-20)
• 3 x Proto Shield
• 5 x Xbee Shield

Components

General Components

• 5V Voltage Regulator – 7805 (L7805CV)
• Timer – 555 (TLC555 & NE555P)
• Op-amp – 741
• Walking Pin Counter – 4017 (HEF4017BP)
• Transistor PNP – BD140G
• Transistor NPN – BD139
• Diodes
• Voltage regulators
• Relay switches (5v > 220 V and others)
• Resistors
• Capacitors
• Potentiometers
• Optocouplers
• etc.

LEDs

• Normal LEDs (red, green, yellow)
• Super Bright LEDs (white, warm white, blue, green, yellow, pink)
• RGB LEDs (Diffused & Clear)
• IR LEDs (850 nm reel)
• IR LEDs (8 mm, 3-chip LEDs, 850 nm)
• UV LEDs
• ShiftBrite programmable LEDs (10)
• BlinkM programmable LEDs (5)

LCD Displays

• GDM1602K Black/White 2×16 Display (5V)

Speakers

• Small speakers for electronics
• Piezo Buzzers
• JBL control 2P active speakers

SENSORS

Accelerometers

• 5 x Triple Axis Accelerometer – ADXL335
• 5 x Triple Axis Accelerometer – MMA7260Q

Environment

• Temperature/Humidity Sensor – SHT15
• Temperature – NTC Thermistor

Flex/Force

• Flex Sensor
• Flexiforce Pressure Sensor
• Force Sensitive Resistor – Square

Light

• LDR Light Sensor (light dependent resistor)

Magnetic

• Compass Module – HMC6352
• Phidgets Magnetic Sensor
• Reed Switch
• Hall Effect Sensor

Proximity

• Ultrasonic Sensor – MaxBotix LV-MaxSonar-EZ1
• Infrared Sensor – Sharp GP2D12
• Infrared Sensor – Sharp GP2D120
• PIR Motion Sensor

RFID

• 2 x ID Innovations ID-12
• ID Innovations ID-20
• Phidget RFID Reader

MOTORS & ACTUATORS

• Hitachi Servo Motor
• Hitachi Continuous Rotation Servo Motor
• Mercury motor stepper motors
• 12V Solenoids

WIRELESS

• Bluetooth Modem – BlueSMiRF Gold
• Bluetooth Modem – Bluetooth Mate

CAMERAS

• PSEye USB Camera (hacked to see only IR light)
• PSEye USB Camera (normal lens)
• 2 x Bischke Analog Surveillance Camera (old skool, but works. Colour)

OTHER VIDEO EQUIPMENT

• Edirol V-8 video mixer
• 2 x Optoma PK-102 Pocket Projector
• 2 x Matrox TripleHead2Go

LIGHTING & DMX

• Enttec Open DMX Ethernet
• Dmx 5 pin to 3 pin adapters
• 4 RGB led lights with DMX input (Currently in animation lab)

COMPUTERS

• Mac Pro (OSX 10.6.3  /// 2.66 GHz Quad-Core, 8GB, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120)
• 2 x Mac Mini
• A big pile of old G4 Power Macs We got rid of these, since there was not enough space

SOFTWARE

• Ableton Suite 8 + Max For Live
• Max/MSP/Jitter 5
• IsadoraCore
• Quartz Composer
• Arduino
• Processing
• VDMX
• Lots of open source software, such as openCV, Cinder, OpenFX, Fritzing, XBee config tools etc.