Franklin Dattein

Introduction

I have started thinking about producing some Kiteboarding T-Shirts and perhaps start a small Kite Wear Company about six months ago. As a software developer, I am comfortable with computers and I thought I could do the designs myself, after watching some Illustrators Tutorials on the internet. I quickly realized that I was completely wrong. I have no skills neither talent to create artistic designs. Thus, I went to the Auto Tracing Tools, such as Corel Trace and some others.
Their result were even worse than my manually generated designs.
I had no choice, if I wanted to produce high quality t-shirts, I would have to hire a professional designer.

I did some budged estimates and I almost gave up due to the high cost to produce a vector design. It was about U$100,00.  To be honest it is not a that expensive for a established company. However, I hadn’t a established company, I was not even thinking about creating a company. I was willing to produce small quantities of 5 or 10 different designs. In this case, the U$100,00 for images would be too expensive.
In order to produce T-shirts with good quality and an affordable price, we have to find and talented and affordable  designer and a base image to start.

Requirements

This paragraph is to explain what are the requirements involved in the life-cycle of the t-shirt production, such as tools, prototyping, vectorization, printing, colors, fabric types and cuts.

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Plug it and Arduino read rotation !

This post is a copy of the Original post on EBay. I am replicating it here because ended items on Ebay are not indexed by Google, the author’s page is written in Chinese and doesn’t contains the Source code. If you are the author and you are obset with this, please get in touch.

This Potentiometer module is a simple knob that provides a variable resistance, which we can read into the Arduino board as an analog value. By turning the shaft of the potentiometer, we change the input signal to analog pin.

Building interactive work is as easy as piling bricks, just plug it to our Arduino Sensor Shield with a buckled cable, and make it looks professional and neat.

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Arduino light sensor module for Sensor Shield

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Based on LDR (Light Detect Resistor), this Light Sensor Module measures the environment light intensity and input data to Arduino through the analog IO port of Sensor Shield. Great tool for light following robot, gardening system or home alert system.

Building interactive work is as easy as piling bricks, just plug it to our Arduino Sensor Shield with a buckled cable, and make it looks professional and neat.

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Plug it and Arduino senses temperature !

Based on thermistor, this Temperature Sensor Module measures the environment temperature and input data to Arduino through the analog IO port of Sensor Shield. Great tool for gardening projects, home alert system etc.

Building interactive work is as easy as piling bricks, just plug it to our Arduino Sensor Shield with a buckled cable, and make it looks professional and neat.

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Plug it and Arduino can sense magnet!

The magnetic reed switch module is a wonderful tool for designers who would like to turn a circuit on and off based on proximity. A digital “high” value is given when approached by magnet in around 1 inch (depends on strength of the magnet)

Building interactive work is as easy as piling bricks, just plug it to our Sensor Shield with a buckled cable, and make it looks professional and neat.

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Arduino Sound Sensor Module for Sensor Shield

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Example code to read data from the sensor:
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Arduino Buzzer Module for Sensor Shield

Original Ebay post.

This is a small buzzer for the Sensor Shield. It creates different noises based on the different frequency of I/O toggling. All you need to do is to plug in the buzzer module to sensor shield, and tell the function which pin you’d like to use, the frequency you want to hear, and the duration to play that frequency.

Building interactive work is as easy as piling bricks, just plug it to our Buzzer Module with a buckled cable, and make it looks professional and neat.

Example code to play melody:
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Arduino Sensor Shield V4 digital analog module & servos

This is a copy of the original post on Ebay
Arduino Sensor Shield V4.0 allows you to connect to various modules like sensors, servos, relays, buttons, potentiometers……….just plug & play.

Each functional module has buckled port with VCC, GND and Output, which has corresponding port on the Sensor Shield, connected with a plain 2.54mm dual-female cable you may start playing already. Buckled brick cables are like cement for bricks, make the connections easier, secure and more professional looking.

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Plug it and Arduino can sense your presence of object by infrared!

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The Infrared Reflectance Sensor Module carries a single infrared LED and phototransistor pair in an inexpensive, tiny module that can be mounted almost anywhere and is great for obstacle detection of robot and home alert system. The optimal sensing distance is within 50cm (20 inches).

Building interactive work is as easy as piling bricks, just plug it to our Arduino Sensor Shield with a buckled cable, and make it looks professional and neat.

The Infrared Reflectance Sensor Module simply gives a digital signal when it detects infrared reflection from a person or object, so the code is exactly as the one we would use for a pushbutton. Please be noted that, when reflection is detected, it gives a “low” value.

int ledPin = 13;       // choose pin for the LED
int inputPin = 2;      // choose input pin (for Infrared sensor)
int val = 0;           // variable for reading the pin status

void setup() {
  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);   // declare LED as output
  pinMode(inputPin, INPUT);  // declare Infrared sensor as input
}

void loop(){
  val = digitalRead(inputPin);  // read input value
  if (val == HIGH) {            // check if the input is HIGH
    digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);  // turn LED OFF
  } else {
    digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // turn LED ON
  }
}








red light at the back to show presence of object 

Ever wanted to control the lights from your home computer?
Or perhaps some other appliance in the house?

This post is a copy of this Arduino Relay on Ebay. I am replicating it here because ended items on Ebay are not indexed by Google, the author’s page is written in Chinese and doesn’t contains the Source code. If you are the author and you are obset with this, please get in touch.

Appliances with high voltage and current can’t be controlled by the Arduino digital IO ports directly, we need a relay to solve this problem. The Arduino Relay module allows Arduino Sensor Shield with digital outputs to control larger loads and devices like AC or DC Motors, electromagnets, solenoids, and incandescent light bulbs.

-Featuring Omron G5LE relay-Switching capacity of 250 Vac / 5 Vdc -LED indicator display the output status of the Relay Module-Compatible with our Arduino Sensor Shield

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