I recently discovered the world of Arduino and am working my way through the starter kit as a lockdown activity...
Anyway, apart from the ways that I might use this professionally (I work in live theatre / sound...automatic coffee for the interval is in sight! ) it seems very promising as a potential gungetank controller!
Does anybody know much about Arduino stuff? done anything interesting with this before? have any ideas on controlling messy machines?
It will be probably be quite a while before I get to a particularly productive stage but hey, any other geeky minds around?
Thanks for such a great response! That controller looks really cool, and very neatly done It certainly seems a large world to get into, I'm a novice with the coding side of things but am keen to learn and play.
No Arduinos yet, but I did start dabbling with a Pi3. Got a couple of high current relay "hats" with four 10-amp relays per board. Unfortunately, all development seems to be in the Debian/Ubuntu world. I'm a RedHat man from way back, so naturally I stuck Centos7 on it. It makes a fantastic little 8-core server, but sadly there really aren't any routines yet on RHE to control any of the hat functions. I.E., I can't control the relays so far. I guess I'll have to bite the bullet and use an official OS distribution until i get better at it.
My intention is to stick it in a large control box I have outside so I can remotely operate the pumps, fountains, and lights for my backyard ponds and waterfalls.
soundguy that sounds a cool project, would you sync to music?
Intelligent relay control is something I'm aiming for myself, being able to control custom items via either OSC or MIDI would be ideal.
Just took a look the Pimoroni, I see what you mean Stevolution2018 - I think I need to learn more about code and processors to understand what I'm looking at!
gooeygunge said: soundguy that sounds a cool project, would you sync to music?
Intelligent relay control is something I'm aiming for myself, being able to control custom items via either OSC or MIDI would be ideal.
That's what I'm working toward. Doing some RGB landscape, pond and strip lights and they'll all be controlled by one or more SOCs. Relays will run the water pumps. I have a few adaptors that lets you control RGB via the industrial lighting protocol DMX-512. You can plug the lights right into a lighting controller console, but I'm going to run them via software with a USB-to-DMX dongle. Not sure how it will all be set up just yet. Probably going to take me a few summers to get it to do what I want.
Love you, too
) it seems very promising as a potential gungetank controller! 
It certainly seems a large world to get into, I'm a novice with the coding side of things but am keen to learn and play. 
