An Arduino Wishlist

Post date: Sep 25, 2010 8:04:24 PM

Upcoming Goodies

• New Arduino boards announced at Maker Faire NYC (Update: purchased an UNO)
• Also from Maker Faire NYC: Arduino shield for video game development

Things I want (but may not have a use for yet...)

• Lilypad (and starter kit)
• MotorShield (for my natural-light alarm clock idea) [competing version at sparkfun][competing version at adafruit] (Update: purchased)
• LCD (also for the natural-light alarm clock idea)
• a couple of XBee kits would be nice (possibly for Robot Battles project? Brandon used them.)
• maybe a MIDIVOX
• a joystick or game controller
• a robot chassis (Update: purchased)
• maybe not for me personally, but if I were to teach an Arduino/Processing course, this may be a good kit for solder-challenged students
• Ethernet shield
• Any project could probably benefit from a protoshield or, even better, a screw shield
• Shield for electroluminescent wire projects
• LolShield LED matrix