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guard [+],
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grid [+],
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file [+],
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father daughter [+],
fat16 file system [+],
faster horses [+],
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external source [+],
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everything [+],
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eve [+],
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etch a [+],
erv [+],
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cat feeder [+],
case midi [+],
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board [+],
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arm based [+],
ardunio [+],
arduinodashboard [+],
arduino powered [+],
aquarium [+],
apc ups [+],
apc [+],
antoine [+],
antique phone [+],
antique [+],
ant [+],
answering questions [+],
anna [+],
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animation [+],
animated graphics [+],
animal husbandry [+],
andrew robinson [+],
andrei [+],
ancient [+],
analog test [+],
analog controllers [+],
amplifier [+],
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ambilight [+],
aluminum plate [+],
altair 8800 [+],
altair [+],
alarm system [+],
alarm clock [+],
air tube [+],
advent calendar [+],
advent [+],
adk [+],
adc [+],
ada [+],
aa batteries [+],
a. padow [+],
ARM [+],
1980s [+],
time [+],
project [+],
led [+],
zipit,
z80 assembly,
yellow flag,
xoscillo,
xkcd,
wwii,
written patterns,
wraps,
would you like to play a game,
world of warcraft,
world,
workshop,
workbench area,
workarounds,
work study job,
work,
words of wisdom,
wopr,
woot off,
woot,
wont,
wireless radios,
winfred,
wine bar,
winduino,
windows service,
window keyboard shortcuts,
wind,
willing partner,
wild sounds,
wiimote,
wii remote,
wii nunchuck,
whiteboard,
while,
when,
wheelbarrow,
wheel,
what,
welts,
webserver,
webpage,
webclient,
web slots,
web interface,
web,
weather shield,
wearable,
weapons of war,
weakness,
way communications,
waxing,
wave shield,
watering system,
waterfall,
water heater,
water distiller,
water distillation,
warm fuzzy feeling,
wall e,
vote,
volts,
voltage signals,
voltage divider,
voltage,
volt supply,
vladimir,
visualizer,
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vision projects,
vision,
visible leds,
virtual security,
virtual band,
video sync,
video streams,
video log,
video game system,
video clip,
vibrotron,
vibrato,
vibration sensor,
vibrant colors,
vga monitor,
vga,
vfd,
veteran,
vendicator,
vegetable,
vegas,
variety,
valentinheun,
valentine s day,
valentine,
utpal,
usb host,
usb,
unpleasant experience,
unit,
unbricking,
unboxing,
ultrasonic transducers,
ultrasonic sensors,
ultrasmall,
ultimate,
uart,
txtbomber,
twu,
twilio,
twentyten,
tweets,
tweeting,
turrets,
tube,
truckload,
trouble,
trolls,
tripwire,
tripod,
trigger,
travis goodspeed,
travis,
travelling light,
trap,
transmitter,
transistor,
transceiver,
traffic signal,
trackuino,
tracking camera,
track,
toy tank,
touchpad,
touchosc,
touch tone telephone,
touch screen,
touch interface,
topsoil,
toolkit,
tool,
tons of fun,
tones,
tone system,
tone,
tomato,
tokyo,
toggle,
todays,
today,
tod,
tobe,
tip line,
tip,
timer,
time radio,
time player,
time lapse,
time jeremy,
time digital,
time cruise,
time clock,
tim higgins,
tim anderson,
tilt camera,
ti 84 graphing calculator,
thrustmaster formula 1,
thrift store,
thrift,
three signs,
thread,
thomas jefferson high school,
third leg,
thin air,
thermostat,
thermos,
thermo cam,
thermal sensor,
thermal printer,
theatre,
tft lcd panel,
tft,
texas,
testing,
terry,
terrarium,
terminal windows,
terminal icon,
tennessee technological university,
temperature sensor,
temperature monitoring,
temperature monitor,
temperature meter,
temperature fluctuations,
temperature control module,
temperature air,
teletype machine,
teletype,
telephone control,
teenage children,
technology,
technological advance,
techb,
teamspeak,
teachable moments,
tcp connection,
taking a closer look,
tachometer,
syyn,
sync separator,
swipe,
sweet game,
superstition,
super,
sumo style,
sumo robot,
substantial savings,
subsection,
styrofoam,
string,
stream music,
stream,
strange twist,
story,
stock version,
sticky,
steve hoefer,
steve,
stereo receiver,
stephen albers,
stephanie,
step,
steep learning curve,
steel balls,
station,
staples easy button,
standalone hardware,
standalone,
stamp board,
stage,
stable temperature,
spoofer,
sponges,
sponge,
spi,
speed controllers,
spectrum analyzer,
specialty plants,
speakers,
sparring partner,
sparkfun,
space station,
space program,
space,
spaaaaaace,
source internet,
source driver,
sound localization,
sound effects,
sort,
song,
solid state relay,
solder,
solar panels,
solar panel,
solar,
software suite,
software pieces,
software disclaimer,
social news,
social media influence,
snuggle,
snooze button,
sniffer,
snare drum,
snail mail,
small satellite,
sleep patterns,
sleep,
sled races,
skillet,
ski,
sketches,
skeleton,
skateboard,
sitting on the curb,
site,
sip,
simple,
simon says game,
simon says,
signal,
sight,
sieber,
sided pcb,
side,
siberian husky,
shockingly,
shingo,
shiftbrite,
shift registers,
shift,
shelf unit,
shelf solution,
shawn of the dead movie,
shark,
several different ways,
seven segment display,
set,
servo motors,
servo motor,
servo,
server room,
server performance,
server monitoring,
server,
series 1,
series,
serial protocol,
serial connector,
sergio,
sequel,
sentry gun,
sentry,
self regulating,
segway,
segment lcds,
seeed,
security toolbox,
sebastian alegria,
sebastian,
sean,
script,
scott,
scoreboard,
scooter computer,
scooter,
science,
school of thought,
school,
schematics,
scanner,
satisfaction,
santa,
sandeep,
san diego,
sampler,
sam,
salvaged,
salvador brazil,
salvador,
salty,
ryan palser,
ryan,
russell,
russ,
rule,
rube goldberg,
royer,
royboy,
roy,
rover,
rotary dial,
roomba,
room,
rom,
roll,
roland tr 707,
roland tr ,
roland,
rocket,
rock paper scissors,
rock,
rocco,
robotouch,
robotics club,
robotic arm control,
robot movement,
robot artist,
robo,
rob miles,
rob,
road bike,
riley porter,
rich,
rgb leds,
rfid tag,
rfid readers,
rf transmitter,
reward system,
reverse,
retro radio,
retro game,
retro,
retake,
restoring,
resolution limitations,
resistor,
resin material,
reset pin,
rescue,
replays,
replacement,
reflow,
reddit,
red bull,
recycling efforts,
recycling,
recycled,
receiver,
receipt printers,
receipt printer,
receipt,
rebecca black,
real time,
reading,
reader,
rca jacks,
rapid prototyping,
range sensor,
range finder,
range,
random time,
ralph kistler,
rainbow,
rain,
radio telemetry,
radio one,
radio hack,
radio controlled,
radio board,
radiation sensor,
radiation level,
radiation,
racing,
race cars,
race car,
race,
r c tank,
r c cars,
quiz o,
quiz game,
quiz,
quite some time,
quit,
quinten,
quality,
pyxis,
python script,
pyrosphere,
pwm signals,
pwm,
puzzle box,
putting on a show,
push button,
puppetry,
punching,
puff switch,
public transportation,
public laboratory,
ps3 controllers,
prototyping tool,
prototyping capabilities,
prototyping area,
props,
project boxes,
programmer,
programmable rover,
programmable gate array,
programing,
program memory,
professional features,
processor core,
processing,
printer,
previous research,
previous project,
pressure gauge,
predator costume,
predator,
precision resistor,
precision,
power punch,
power on self test,
power glove,
power battery,
pov led,
pour,
potentiometer,
pot,
port,
popularity,
poor man,
poker tournament,
poker,
pnp transistors,
plushie,
plotter,
playstation 2 controllers,
playstation,
player piano,
platform,
plastic printer,
plastic hose,
plastic,
plant biology,
pir sensors,
pir sensor,
ping,
pinball project,
pinball,
pin spacing,
pin interface,
pidato,
picture,
pick and place machine,
pick,
picaxe,
physical game,
php,
photo cell,
phone side,
phillips ambilight,
phillip torrone,
philip hayton,
peter hamilton,
peter davenport,
pet toys,
persistence of vision,
persistence,
peripherals,
peril,
people with physical disabilities,
peggy,
peep show,
peep,
pcbs,
pc. yes,
pc. it,
pattern,
patrick mccabe,
patent pending,
patch wires,
pat norton,
pat,
party lighting,
party goers,
partner,
part,
paper feeder,
panoramic,
panel,
paintball,
packet reporting system,
pachinko machine,
pachinko game,
pachinko,
own library,
own accord,
owen,
override,
osc,
original library,
opto interrupter,
option,
optical sensor,
optical drives,
optiboot,
open source software packages,
open source software,
open source hardware,
open source driver,
ongoing project,
on the go,
oliver nash,
oliver,
ojisan,
oems,
oddity,
occifer,
obd ii,
o meter,
nursery room,
nursery,
npn transistors,
novel applications,
notifier,
nostalgic purposes,
northampton uk,
northampton,
norbert po,
nonsense,
nokia 5110,
noisemakers,
nmea data,
nixie tubes,
nixie tube,
nixie display,
nixie,
nintendo ds,
nimbus,
nils vogil,
nexus,
next morning,
newcastle,
new location,
new game,
new feature,
new,
networked device,
network professionals,
network communication systems,
network analyzers,
network,
netbook,
net,
nesbot,
nerf,
neophytes,
necessity is the mother of invention,
nba hangtime,
navigation system,
navigation devices,
natively,
nathan long,
nathan,
nasa,
nanode,
nano sumo,
naima,
musical tones,
musical interface,
music mike,
mushroom,
multidisplay,
multi meters,
mr. stabby,
mr stabby,
movie,
mouse,
mountain ski resort,
motorized camera,
motorcycle,
motor,
motivating factors,
mother of invention,
moogle,
mood light,
monochrome lcds,
monkey,
monitor,
moment,
moisture control,
modeling,
model rocket,
model airplanes,
model,
mod code,
misc,
mips processor,
minute,
miniature pinscher,
mini usb,
mini milling machine,
mini mill,
mindwave,
mindflex,
mind control,
mind,
million,
mill,
mile,
mike baxter,
midi interface,
midi guitar,
midi groove,
midi file,
midi device,
midi controllers,
microsoft,
microphone circuit,
microphone,
microcontroller projects,
microcontroller platform,
micro servos,
michael nash,
michael gerstenmayer,
michael,
mice,
mhz band,
methane sensor,
message,
merkz,
memory lapses,
memory board,
megavallometer,
medical,
mechanical claw,
measure radiation,
measure,
maxbot,
max7219,
max,
matthew garten,
matt richardson,
matrix clock,
master,
massachusetts,
mashup,
marshmallow peeps,
mark fickett,
mario cup,
marcus,
manuel,
man against machine,
makiwara,
makerfaire,
main goal,
mailbox,
mail,
magnetic levitation device,
magnetic field,
magnetic core memory,
magnetic card,
magnet wire,
macke,
maayan migdal,
lunar eclipse,
lunar,
luna mod,
luge track,
luge,
lucky larry,
lucid dreaming,
lucid,
lucas fragomeni,
lucas,
low dropout regulator,
low cost,
low bandwidth,
love song,
lot,
long range,
london,
lol,
logo,
localization,
local science,
lm386 audio amplifier,
live,
little monkey,
little ditty,
little bird,
little,
liquid cooling,
lior,
linux,
link libraries,
link aggregation,
link,
line telephones,
line printers,
lightning,
lighting rigs,
lighting options,
lighting improvements,
lighting control,
lighting,
light fixture,
lifehacks,
libraries,
libations,
liam,
levitation,
levistone,
level functions,
leonids meteor shower,
leonard,
leigh honeywell,
leigh,
legitimate network,
leg support,
left image,
led message board,
led display,
leather work,
leather,
lcds,
lcd screen,
lcd interface,
lcd games,
lawnbot,
launch,
latter category,
latency issues,
latency,
last friday,
lasers,
laser tracker,
laser tag,
laser light show,
larson,
lap tray,
lantern battery,
lantern,
labview,
kosaka,
knitting machine,
knitting,
klout,
klok,
kitchen,
kit cars,
kinect,
kind,
kim pimmel,
kim,
keypad,
keyboard,
key pad,
kerry,
ken,
katie,
kaossilator,
k nex,
justin dailey,
justin,
junk pile,
joystick,
jouni,
jonathan snow,
jon sowman,
jon,
johngineer,
john eischer,
john,
johannes,
jim,
jerry,
jeremy blum,
jeremy,
jeff keyzer,
jeff,
jeenode,
jayesh,
jay collett,
jay,
javier martin,
java app,
java,
japan,
janzo,
jan sieber,
jamaican style,
jailbreak,
jacob,
jack in the box,
jack gassett,
jack,
iteration,
item,
itay,
israel,
isp programmer,
isaac,
irrigation,
iraq,
ir sensor,
ir module,
introduction,
intervalometer,
internet wirelessly,
internet radio stations,
internet based,
internation space station,
internals,
internal eeprom,
interfacing,
interface cable,
interesting websites,
interesting gifts,
interactive art installation,
interactive art,
interactive,
interaction design,
intelligent,
installation,
inspiration,
ins and outs,
input technology,
input output,
initial performance,
infrared sensor,
infrared emitter,
information,
inductor,
inductance,
indoor air quality,
inbox,
inaccurate,
impressive,
ihsan kehribar,
ian stewart,
iain,
hybrid,
hunter scott,
hunter,
hulbert,
hud,
house,
hot weather,
host mode,
host,
hopefully,
homebrew,
home videos,
home theater pc,
home stretch,
home statistics,
home decorating,
home alarm system,
holiday party,
hobby servos,
hobby market,
hit,
high voltage power supply,
high voltage power,
high voltage dc power supply,
high voltage,
high altitude balloon,
hiduino,
hiccups,
hey,
hex code,
hero,
heck,
headsets,
header,
head to head,
hdsps,
hdsp,
hardwood floors,
hardware software,
hardware side,
hardware package,
hardware hacking,
hangman,
handhelds,
hamster,
hammock,
ham,
halo,
halloween props,
hall effect sensor,
hal 9000,
hal,
hackvision,
hacking game,
hacker group,
hacker community,
guy,
gunshots,
gun,
gullet,
guitar rocks,
guitar hero,
guided missile,
guide,
gsm gprs,
growling,
growing mushrooms,
ground,
groove box,
gregory,
greenhouse,
green lantern oath,
green,
grave warnings,
graphics adapter,
graphic eq,
grand idea,
gps solutions,
gps module,
gps enabled,
government,
google travelling,
goofs,
goodspeed,
good measure,
glove,
gist,
giant hill,
giant,
giacomo,
george hopkins,
george,
generation,
geiger counter,
geiger,
geek,
gavin smith,
gas sensor,
garten,
garry,
garden rakes,
garage sales,
garage door,
gantt,
gaming,
gameduino,
gameboy,
game pits,
game controls,
game controller,
game chris,
game cartridge,
game boy,
galvanometers,
galvanic skin response,
gain entry,
gadgeteer,
futuristic,
fusion,
furnace,
fun quiz,
full,
fukushima,
ftdi usb,
ftdi chip,
ftdi,
frustromantic,
frostbite,
friend martin,
friend,
friedrich,
fridge,
fret,
fresh water,
frequency measurement,
freetronics,
free input,
free drinks,
fred,
frame clock,
frame,
fragility,
fraction,
fqdn,
fpga board,
fpc,
foul mouthed,
forwards,
forum member,
formula 1 racing,
ford taurus,
footsteps,
footprint,
foot switch,
foot range,
foot,
foamboard,
foam board,
foam,
flyback transformer,
flyback,
flexible printed circuit,
flex sensors,
flashing,
flash circuit,
flash animations,
flash,
flaming,
flamethrowers,
flamers,
flame bait,
flame,
fixing,
first tip,
first impressions,
first glance,
firebird,
fireball,
fire,
finished projects,
finder,
financial considerations,
filler,
field programmable gate array,
field,
festivities,
fellow hacker,
fellow countrymen,
felix vorreiter,
felix,
feline buddy,
feature sets,
favoritism,
faucet,
fascination,
fancy schmancy,
falling from the sky,
facebook,
face,
fabrication methods,
fabricating,
fabio varesano,
fabienne serriere,
fabienne,
eye movement,
external hardware,
extensibiltiy,
exploring the city,
existence,
erik,
eras,
equipment,
equinox,
eprom programmers,
epoxy,
entry,
entertainment,
enigma machine,
engineering student,
engineered,
enforcement circles,
enc28j60,
emulating,
emf detector,
emf,
emergency room staff,
elements,
electronics components,
electronic wind,
electronic speed control,
electronic safes,
electronic goodies,
electronic dice,
electronic bird,
electronic,
electromagnet,
electroax,
electricity bills,
electrical projects,
electric skillet,
eischer,
eight legs,
effect,
ees,
eeprom,
eeg,
eee pc,
ed zarick,
eclipse,
eatc,
easy sms,
easy,
earthquake alarm,
earthquake,
dynamic duo,
dynamic dns,
dwight,
duino,
dual tone multi frequency,
dtmf,
ds18b20,
ds1307,
ds. for,
drunkennes,
drums,
driver,
drip coffee,
drinking with friends,
drinking,
drink,
dremel,
drawbot,
drag,
doug jackson,
doug,
double helix,
dotklok,
doorbell,
dog,
documentary,
dns status,
dna strand,
dna,
diy er,
ditches,
distraction,
distiller,
distillation unit,
distillation process,
distance,
dishwasher,
dish,
dirt,
directional buttons,
dimitri diakopoulos,
digital to analog converters,
digital thermometers,
digital picture frame,
digital pianos,
digital input,
digit,
digilent,
didn,
dice game,
device,
development demo,
development,
devastation,
dev kit,
detroit,
detect,
destroying,
desk,
designing digital,
design,
derek wales,
delta theta,
delightful piece,
degree in electrical engineering,
defcon,
decoder,
dead bug,
dc power supply,
dawn,
david findlay,
daunting task,
datasheets,
darpa grand challenge,
danny bertner,
daniel,
dan mattox,
dan julio,
dan flisek,
dan,
d dslr,
custom protocols,
custom patches,
custom libraries,
custom java,
custom enclosure,
current project,
curb,
cue,
cubesat,
crusher,
cruise,
crowd,
crossover cable,
creeper,
creative implementation,
creative idea,
craftwork,
couple projects,
couple days,
costume,
cost,
core,
cord,
coral aquarium,
copper tubing,
copper mountain ski resort,
copper mountain ski,
copper mountain,
converter chip,
conversion,
convergence,
convenient service,
controller unit,
control purposes,
contests,
conditioner,
computer program,
computer checks,
complexity,
complete control,
competition,
compatible system,
compact layout,
community knowledge,
community collaboration,
communications protocol,
communication towers,
common tasks,
commercial offerings,
combo locks,
combination locks,
combination code,
combination,
colorado,
color signals,
color regions,
collett,
collaborative development,
colin,
cold winters,
cold one,
cold cathode,
coffee table,
code puzzle,
code,
coal mines,
cnc mill,
cloud cover,
closed caption,
close proximity,
clones,
clock settings,
clock module,
clock cycles,
clock crystal,
climbers,
client,
clicking,
click,
cleaning machine,
claw,
classic,
city of chicago,
city,
circus,
circuit simulation software,
circuit,
christian pigeon,
chris marion,
chris hulbert,
chris dillon,
chonotune,
chipkit,
chip architecture,
chip,
chime,
chile,
child protective services,
chicken coop,
chicken,
chibimo,
chatbox,
charles gantt,
charles,
charging,
channel,
change,
chalmers university,
cga monitors,
cga monitor,
cga,
centralized location,
cellular connection,
cell shield,
cell phones,
cell,
celebrity gossip,
catea,
cat tracker,
cat flaps,
cat door,
cascata,
carry,
carnegie melon university,
carlos agell,
carlos,
cardboard frame,
car computer,
capturing,
capabilities,
cans,
canon dslr,
canon,
canada,
can crusher,
camera rig,
calm down,
calculator,
cad files,
cable,
c gps,
c batteries,
c arduino,
buzzle,
button pad,
button,
bus,
bum,
build,
bubble mixture,
bubble,
brushless dc motors,
bruno ratnieks,
bruno,
bristol board,
bristol,
bringing,
brian,
brevet,
breathalyzers,
breathalyzer,
breakout clone,
breakout,
breadboarding,
breadboard,
brazil,
brainstorming,
brains,
brain wave,
brain library,
boxes,
bouncy bubbles,
bottom,
boost converter,
booby traps,
booby,
bondo,
bogdan,
body percussion,
bobuino,
board cameras,
bluewraith,
bluetooth module,
bluetooth dongle,
blowing,
blood alcohol content,
blood,
blog,
blinkm,
bit,
bird feeder,
bird electronics,
bird,
bios update,
biomedical equipment technician,
biofeedback system,
biofeedback,
binary time,
bill of materials,
bill,
bicycle computer,
bicycle,
bench,
ben north,
ben johansen,
bells and whistles,
bells,
behold,
beeps,
beep,
bedfellows,
bed,
becky stern,
beat,
beagleboard,
baud rate,
battlefield,
bathroom mirror,
bathroom,
basic stamp,
bangs,
bandwidth meter,
bandwidth,
band,
balloon,
balancing,
bag,
avr isp,
avr chip,
avian friends,
avian,
autonomous robotics,
automatically,
automatic temperature control,
automatic packet reporting system,
automated,
automate,
authentic sound,
august 21,
audio sync,
audio menu,
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atlantic city casinos,
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asteroids,
assembly,
artist,
artificial grass,
art installation,
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arkos,
arduinos,
arduinobot,
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ardudelta,
arcade scene,
arcade rom,
arcade,
ara kourchians,
aprs,
april fools,
april,
anthony,
annoyance,
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analyzing,
analyzer,
analog to digital converter,
analog phone systems,
analog meter,
analog joystick,
analog control,
analog circuits,
analog camera,
analog bandwidth,
analog,
amount,
ambient lighting,
ambient,
amateur radio,
amarino,
alumi,
altitude sickness,
altitude,
all sorts,
alegria,
alcohol sensor,
alchohol,
albers,
alan,
air drums,
air conditioner,
air,
admiration,
adapter,
adam outler,
adam meyer,
adam kemp,
adam harris,
adam greig,
adafruit,
activity,
acquisition modules,
accurate clock,
accessibility modifications,
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If you want to see what kind of abuse you’re causing your body when out on those single-track rides this system is just the thing. It’s an Arduino data logger that [Wdm006] takes along on the rides with him. When he gets back home, a Python scripts captures the data dump and graphs it. It [...]
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[Spork] over on the Netduino forums wanted to push the limits of what his little board could do. He put together a chronometer to measure the velocity of rifle rounds and Nerf darts using an Arduino-compatable CPLD shield. The project is built around a pair of commercial CED M2 chronograph sensors; because people have the tendency to shoot through these [...]
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[Robert Mibus] took on a project which his kids could present to Mom on Mother’s Day. It’s an LED heart built into a ring or necklace box. The series of white LEDs are animated in a chase pattern. The project let [Robert] push his comfort boundaries by moving past a stock Arduino board. Inside you’ll [...]
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Here’s two builds that print text to a TV with only two pins: Still Alive with an Arduino After seeing all the builds that play Still Alive, [Bob] decided to take a 1972 amber monitor and recreate the cut scene at the end of Portal. The build uses the TVout library for Arduino. There were a few problems [...]
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[Andy] is getting his garden up and running. This year it’s been pretty cold so he decided to get small plastic domed tunnel which acts as a mini greenhouse. To help monitor that environment he built this sensor array which displays temperature and soil moisture readings. Temperature is quite simple. He’s using a TMP36 sensor [...]
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[Joseph] wrote in to share this home automation system he’s working on as a college project. He calls it the Room Engine and the house-side of the hardware is built on top of the circuit you see here. This is the most basic part of the REBoard, which is meant to connect to a computer [...]
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Not long after [CulinarilySpeaking] got into the Arduino game, he began to want more IO pins and a larger program space for more ambitious projects. This, of course, led him down the path towards the Sanguino, the ATMega644-based dev board with many more IO pins than Arduino boards based on the ATMega328. Instead of buying new, [CulinarilySpeaking] [...]
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[Andy] is taking the complexity of a smartphone-controlled garage door down a notch with this project. He’s not interested in checking on the state of the door (open or closed) using a video feed, or in controlling the thing from anywhere in the world. He just wants to use his Android as the remote control and [...]
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We’ve seen Arduino-based game controllers before, but the UnoJoy project wants to make it easy for you to plug them into a gaming console. The project is targeted at the Arduino UNO. Why only that hardware… isn’t Arduino universal? Well yes, but in this case the bootloader needs to be overwritten so that the Arduino [...]
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+ So at first glance we were thinking there wasn’t much special about this clock. It’s based on an Arduino and displays the time using a character LCD screen. But then we realized that there’s no battery-backed RTC and no buttons. How the heck do you set the time on this thing? [Mossblaser] is using [...]
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This radio controlled car controller replacement is a great project to try some new things with that fancy hardware you’ve got sitting around. The hack comes in two parts, the receiver and the transmitter. They’re communicating via Bluetooth so if you only want to build one side of the hardware you should be able to make most [...]
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Here’s a way to program an Arduino wirelessly while still using the stock IDE. It uses an alternative bootloader called SuperDuplex along with an IR receiver like the ones used for TV remotes. As you can see, this does take two parts. There is the target device which has the IR receiver, as well as [...]
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When [Antoine] and his family leave home for a few days, they usually have to find a neighbor who is willing to care for their cats while they are away. Instead of bothering the people who live next door, he decided it would be best to build an automatic cat feeder (Translation) instead. [Antoine] originally tried [...]
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Since the Arduino was launched years ago, many ‘shields’ or add-on boards providing additional functionality have been released. There are hundreds of different shields, from video capture shields to touch screen shields. Now that the Raspberry Pi is out in the wild, it was only a matter of time before a RasPi to Arduino shield [...]
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We’ve seen the Arduino used to flash BIOS chips several times now. But these hacks are almost always the result of a bad flash. This time around [GNUtoo] is interested in putting a tool in your hands which can be used to flash Coreboot to your motherboard. His offering uses the Arduino Uno, but there [...]
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[Kirill] wrote in to share his Arduino-based PIC programmer. It is capable of writing to the 18F family of chips, including 18F2XXX and 18F4XXX. We think that’s pretty exciting because this line of chips has USB functionality and there are bootloaders out there that let you program them via USB. So if you wanted to build [...]
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Because reaching over a few feet to turn off a switch is too much to bear for [Bruce], he connected his desk lamp to the Internet. It’s a pretty cool build that’s the perfect tutorial for connecting just about anything to the internet. For his build, [Bruce] used an Arduino with a relay attached to [...]
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Instructibles user [Danjovic] managed to get his hands on an Atari 2600, but all the joysticks were damaged beyond repair. Instead of building an atari joystick from scratch, he looked to a slightly newer generation of gaming and decided to us an NES controller instead. This was done fairly easily with the aide of an [...]
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This is a wiring diagram that [Soranne] put together when developing a method of programming PIC microcontrollers using an Arduino board. You can see that he takes care of the 12V issue by connecting the Master Clear (MCLR) pin to an external source. This comes with one warning that the Arduino should always be reset [...]
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We see a lot of LED matrix projects. They’re fun, and you can learn a lot of basic lessons during the build. But this one is out of the ordinary. [Rtty21] built an oddly sized, and sound controlled matrix shield for his Arduino. That’s it right there, the shield is the large chunk of protoboard [...]
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This Arduino BASIC interpreter will make a really fun one-day project if you’ve already got the parts on hand. [Usmar A. Padow] put together an Arduino Uno, SD card, four line character LCD, and PS/2 keyboard. but he’s also included alternative options to go without an LCD screen by using a computer terminal, or without [...]
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[Unusualtravis] came up with this fairly slick electronic catapult. This easy to construct and moderately cheap rig has an arduino as the brains and controls for 3 servos. One is the release, another controls tension, and the third controls the angle. Both the circuit and the construction are very simple making this a perfect weekend [...]
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[DanNixon] has put together this unique interactive table concept. Usually, when we see the term interactive table, we think of an LED grid. That just happens to be what we see the most of. While this table does, in fact, have an LED grid in the table top, it also has several other features and [...]
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Let’s be honest, you’re going to have trouble getting kids to play text-based adventure games these days. But this is one way to get them interested. This weekend you should get together with niece, nephew, son, or daughter and help them build their own hardware and program it with an adventure game. One last project [...]
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Check it out, a Sip-and-Puff Arduino shield. This is an assistive technology that allows the physically challenged to control things using a plastic air tube. Different combinations of sucking (Sip) or blowing (Puff) differentiate between control commands. In this case the device is used to control an iPod dock, but [Bob Johnson's] Kickstarter project seeks [...]
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Here’s a quick and easy little robot with a not-so-pint-sized brain. [Dikos] over at grobot, slapped together some gutted micro servos, an Arduino pro mini, H bridge chip, and a solar key-chain charger to make this little three wheeled cutie. The robot boasts some very simple object avoidance thanks to the Sharp GP2Y0A21YK analog IR [...]
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[Tom Fleet] spent the dreary weekend inside learning how to drive this T6963C based graphic LCD controller. Although this is his first time venturing away from HD44780 character displays, the availability of an Arduino library helped him go from being a newbie to coding his own animated graphics. The hardware setup is straight-forward. The screen [...]
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[Joe] sent us an email to show off his latest build. Tank Wars is the beginning of a video game/robot hybrid. You control the tank via an iPad, telling it where to go and how to fire. You have real life targets, in this case another robot. When you hit your target, the interface is [...]
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[Will Finucane] of Revolt Labs/Mad Science Blog was looking for a way to keep his cats happily fed while away on a short vacation, so he put together a cheap and easy automatic feeder to ensure that his pets didn’t go hungry while he was away. We’ve seen different iterations of automatic pet feeders here [...]
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[Dustin Andrews] built this add-on board which works as a proximity sensor. He wanted a standalone sensor for his Arduino projects which would use a single pin as a trigger. This lets him alert the Arduino when an object approaches the sensor without the need for polling or extra code on the Arduino side of [...]
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From time to time we find ourselves in the mood for some Chiptunes. You know, the music that accompanied all of the best 8-bit console games? These days there are a lot of projects that use the audio chips of yore to recreate the sounds, but you’re always faced with the issue of sourcing those [...]
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In the Hackaday Froums, [Colecago] shares his experience collaborating with [Ben Heck]. They were building some “Robot Luggage”, and you can see the episode after the break below. The idea was that they would build a piece of luggage that would follow you through an airport instead of having to be dragged. [Colecago] shares a [...]
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[Basil Shikin] was thinking about different types of locks, and was trying to come up with a locking solution that he had yet to see. It dawned on him that he had never come across a lock triggered by music, so he set off to construct one of his own. He ordered a wooden chest [...]
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If you’re looking for something to do on a boring Sunday afternoon, how about dusting off your Arduino and playing a text adventure? [Louis] wrote in to tell us about his project called AZIP, an app that will let you play classic 1980s text adventures on your Arduino. The famous Infocom text adventure games such [...]
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This Arduino MIDI sequencer has no shortage of ways to display loop info. The screen above is a touch-sensitive interface that acts as the user input. But if this screen is not visible, you can still see which tracks have activated samples for each beat and what effects are being used. That’s thanks to the collection [...]
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Depending on how you view them, red light cameras are a great way to get people to drive carefully, or an utter nuisance. We agree with the latter opinion, as does [Dave], so he built a handy little device that alerts him when he’s about to approach one of these intersections. His Red Light Camera [...]
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DIY book safes are well and good, but if you give someone enough time to peruse your book collection, the 3-inch thick “Case study on Animal Husbandry Techniques during the 14th Century” is likely to stand out among your collection of hand-bound “Twilight” fan fiction. In an attempt to teach his friend a bit about [...]
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We don’t have much personal experience with DOF hardware, but this Arduino library which reads and compensates for three-axis magnetometer and accelerometer data looks very impressive. It should work for existing hardware, but there’s also a demo design using a Honeywell HMC5883L compass and a Freescale MMA8453Q accelerometer which you can build yourself. Unfortunately these come [...]
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It’s surprising what lengths people will go to in order to bring functionality to their smart phones. In this case, [Tadpol] wanted a way to develop for his Arduino on an iOS device like an iPad or iPhone. He figures it’s possible to rewrite the IDE as HTML5, but since that’s a pretty large mountain [...]
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[Oryx] grew up with the bleeps and bloops of an Atari ST, so it comes as no surprise he would want to relish in his nostalgia by playing with the YM2149 sound generator he recently picked up on eBay. Like most of us, [Oryx] went to his old standby, the Arduino, when it came to connect this bare [...]
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Being the smart consumer he is, [Denis] usually looks at the price per pound when comparing similar products at the grocery store. When it came time to buy a few AA batteries, he didn’t have any data to go on. To solve his little conundrum, [Denis] decided he would test several brands of batteries and [...]
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If you just got your hands on a shiny new Android phone and are looking for a fun project to try out, you might want to check out this simple Arduino exercise that [Mike Mitchel] put together. Everyone needs a starting off point for hacking, and [Mike] thought that combining and Arduino and Android handset [...]
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[Martyn] is restoring a 32-year-old Honda motorcycle, so when the ancient speedometer broke last year he thought it was prime time to start of a digital speedometer project. We’re loving the results so far, and would love seeing it on a nicely restored bike. Instead of the relative horror of driving 40 LEDs with a [...]
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[Martin] sent in a great guide to a simple Arduino based theremin. It’s a very small build – just a single common IC and some passive components – and easy enough to build in an afternoon. The theremin is based on a simple LC oscillator built around a 7400 quad NAND gate IC, a wire [...]
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If the kids have lost interest in that RC car or truck you bought them over the holidays, [Randy Sarafan] from Instructables has a few ideas that might help make the toys fun again, while teaching your kids a bit about electronics in the process. In his writeup, he shows how to swap out the [...]
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If you’ve got a pet that roams freely in and out of your house, you may find yourself wanting to more closely regulate how they come and go. [tareker] was looking to keep his cat indoors at night when dangerous animals might be lurking in the neighborhood, but he didn’t want it to become a [...]
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It seems that more often than not, [Steffest] finds himself inspired to rock out on his guitar without a percussion section to back him up. Like any enterprising hacker/musician would be wont to do, he built a robotic drummer to join in when he got the urge to play. His DrummerBot is driven using an [...]
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A media player based on an Arduino and SD card has been done to death several times over, but that doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate [Matt]‘s MSP430 audio player. It’s a very nice piece of work that supports a FAT16 file system and only takes up 54 bytes of RAM. To make his dream of [...]
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Many of the hacks featured here inspire others to build on the creator’s work, and on occasion the positive feedback brings the hack to market. Last year we told you about [Wayne’s] creation, a system aimed at tracking down would-be game console thieves. He received a bunch of requests to document the tracker in full, [...]
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[Kyle Gabriel] moved into a house with a nice tract of land behind it, but due to his busy schedule he had yet to plant the garden he so desperately wanted. He worried that his hectic life and busy hours would lead to accidentally neglecting his garden, so he built a water collection and automated [...]
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When [Chris Nafis] built an addition onto his historical home he found that a Radon problem, previously mitigated with plenty of concrete, seemed to rear its ugly head yet again. He eventually resigned himself to installing a Radon fan and detector – the latter of which offered no way to store measurement data. He wanted [...]
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[Kalle Hyvönen] just finished building his own aquarium lights. He used four powerful soft-white LEDs, mounting them on a pair of heat sinks to keep things cool. Now he could have just connected them to the power supply and plugged it into the wall, but instead he included is own controller. An Arduino drives the [...]
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We never imagined that [David Lee Roth] would mesh well with an Arduino, that is until Flickr user [tgtsfkncld] showed off his [Roth] Scream Box a few days ago. The unassuming box resembles sort of a nondescript “Easy Button”, but its payload is far more entertaining than whatever Staples could have possibly recorded for their [...]
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Sometimes, an Arduino just doesn’t have enough horsepower. Whether you’re gathering loads of sensor data and sending it over the web via Ethernet, or just trying to build a home-brew video game, it’s very easy to run into the limitations of the Arduino platform. [Rik] and his fellow classmates may have a solution to this [...]
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[Adam] was tired of plopping the same components over and over into his Arduino-based designs. He spent part of his weekend laying out a small board that would host everything he needed and could be built as a single component for all future projects. Above you can see the project he calls SMDuino, an Arduino [...]
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[Mark] from SpikenzieLabs was wrapping up a project using an Arduino the other day and found himself in need of a few more I/O pins. He could have added extra circuitry to the project, but he decided to see if he could gain a few pins by removing a few components instead. He put together [...]
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What can you do with a broken Compaq SLT 286? Its briefcase-like size and shape actually make for a pretty interesting portable electronic prototyping station. [Philip] gutted the components and started adding back the items he most commonly uses when developing a project. He shares all of the details in the video after the break. [...]
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The crew at Cooking Hacks in Zaragoza wrote in to share a new shield they developed for the Arduino platform. There are a hundred different shields out there that do this and that, but we think their 3G/GPRS shield looks pretty slick. The base shield contains a WCDMA and HSPA compatible 3G modem as well as [...]
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Sure, squirrels may bother the average home owner, but few have attempted as creative a way to control them as this automated water turret. Check out the video after the break to see how this was accomplished, but if you’d rather just see how the squirrels reacted to getting squirted, fast forward to around 16:00. [...]
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There’s a fine line between solving problems that don’t exist and solving problems that no one recognizes until a solution is found. The former shows up with housewares peddled on late-night infomercials, while the latter is summed up by [Henry Ford], “If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” [Dave]‘s [...]
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While young children have the tiny hands and fingers that most hackers/tinkerers wish they possessed from time to time, their fine motor skills aren’t always up to par when it comes to operating complicated electronics. People are always looking for ways to make their home entertainment systems accessible to their kids, and [Humpadilly] is no [...]
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[Dominik] built a fun musical toy for his daughter [Anna]. It’s a jukebox that lets her play her favorite tunes using RFID tags to select between them. The project is simple, yet robust. The enclosure is a wooden craft box that you can pick up for a couple of bucks. Inside there’s an Arduino with [...]
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This mannequin head was purchased years ago on sale for less than $3. As with many things one sees while shopping, it didn’t have a purpose at the time, but seemed like it would be useful later. Add in an Arduino, some servos, and electronics parts that were acquire in a similar manner, and you [...]
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Whether you’d like to do some real-time logging of data, or just want to control a project with your Android phone, [Thomas]‘s Arduino-Android Bluetooth connection instructable is sure to be useful [Thomas]‘ build uses the very inexpensive JY-MCU Bluetooth module that’s available on eBay or dealextreme. This Bluetooth module ties directly into the Tx and Rx [...]
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Whether you’re used to dropped wifi connections, or your housemates are using up all the bandwidth for streaming, we’ve all see the spinning octet of disks that is the YouTube loading animation. [technocrat] thought it would be a great idea to actually become YouTube and set out on designing a physical manifestation of the loading [...]
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[Peter Sobey] had a solar hot water heater installed in his home, which worked great until he relocated his kitchen to a neighboring room. Now a good bit further from the tank, the hot water reaching his sink was tepid at best due to the increased distance and temperature limiting mixer valve in the new [...]
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[Simon] is in the middle of restoring/building himself an Austin 7 Special out in his garage, and like most tinkerers, found that music helps to move the process along. He happened to have an old Bakelite generator phone out in the garage as well, and figured that he might as well have it do something [...]
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If you’ve run out of I/O pins on a project and need a way to add user input you can find a slew of port expanders that work with various communications protocols like I2C and 1-Wire. But if you just want to add in some buttons without reaching for an extra IC you’ll love this [...]
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If you’re a big Minecraft fan, the folks at [radikaldesign] have something that might be of interest to you. (Translation) Inspired by some of their Minecraft-loving friends, they have developed Minestation – a weather station for your Minecraft game. The concept is simple. Here in the real world we have the ability to look out the [...]
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[John Philip’s] brother has a sizable room set aside for his model railroad setup, and he was looking for something interesting to add to his brother’s collection. Rather than construct something for the railroad itself, he decided that an early 1900’s-style semaphore railroad signal would make a great novelty item for the room. The project [...]
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If you are thinking of building your own flight/racing sim setup at home, you might want to check this out. [Alex] from the Garoa Hackerspace in Säo Paulo, Brazil put together a slick setup that makes projector image calibration a breeze. When building a wraparound screen for such a simulator, you are likely to run [...]
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If you ever wanted your name out on the Internet, now is your time to shine. [Chris] hooked up an Arduino to the Internet and is streaming the results of combing through Twitter live to the entire world. The SocialBot9000, as [Chris] calls his build, is an Arduino Uno connected to an Ethernet shield and an LCD [...]
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[Lars] shows you how to get a perfect score on the first four levels of BIT.TRIP RUNNER by using an Arduino to time and send button presses. This is a pretty simple game that uses a couple of buttons to jump or slide past obstacles. The constant speed of the character makes it quite easy [...]
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As a kid, metal detectors seemed like great fun. Every commercial I saw beckoned with tales of buried treasure “right in my own back yard” – a bounty hard for any kid to pass up. In reality, the process was both time consuming and tedious, with little reward to be had. [Gareth] liked the idea [...]
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[Kevin] has been working on reverse engineering the protocol used by the Arduino IDE and porting it to the Arduino platform. Now that his BootDrive project is nearing completion, he’s ready to give every Arduino the ability to program another Arduino over an SD card. BootDrive isn’t terribly different from using an Arduino as an ISP, [...]
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We really like this take on a conductive wire maze game. It’s the result of a 48-hour hackathon in Belgium which required that all projects stemming from the event use an Arduino. We think [Jan] and [Kristof] made perfect use of the prototyping device in the time allotted. The event organizers thought so too because [...]
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[Deadbird] wanted to recreate some guitar pedal effects that he heard on a music video. The thing is, you can end up spending a bundle on hardware unless you’re crafty like he was. He grabbed a Whammy 4 pedal, but decided to forego using a $125 MIDI controller and sourced an Arduino to perform MIDI-based [...]
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[Joe Fernandez] is fairly new to the hardware side of the hobby, but he seems to have easily found his way on this project. He wanted to build his own web-bridge for his Toro lawn sprinkler system. He pulled it off with style and shows off the spoils of his work in the clip after [...]
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So let’s say your using an Arduino in your project. You already have the hardware-based serial interface working with one portion of the project and need a second serial port for unrelated hardware. The obvious solution is to write one in software. But this is a place where working in the Arduino environment gets really [...]
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[JD] at isotope11 was looking for a way to get instant feedback whenever a developer broke a piece of software they were working on. After finding a 48 inch tall traffic light, he knew what he had to do. Now, the entire development team knows the status of their code from a traffic light hanging [...]
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[Boris Landoni] put together a guide to using an inexpensive 3-axis accelerometer with Arduino. The chip that he chose for the exercise is an MMA7455L made by Freescale. It’s got a lot of nice features packed into it, using hardware to do some of the things you’d need software for with other chips like reporting [...]
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We all love the Arduino, but does the Arduino love us back? There used to be a time when the Arduino couldn’t express it’s deepest emotions, but now that [Nick] hooked up a speech synthesis chip from a Speak & Spell, it can finally whisper sweet robotic nothings to us. The original 1980s Speak & [...]
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[Quinn Dunki] got some free stuff from Element14 to evaluate, including this Mircrochip WiFi module. It’s been used as the centerpiece of an Arduino shield in the past, and she grabbed a copy of that library to see if it would play nicely with an ATtiny chip. What follows is a struggle to de-Arduino the [...]
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Although we’re sure they exist, we wouldn’t want to meet anybody that can’t look back fondly on the halcyon days of youth that included playing hide-and-go-seek. Some kids never grow up and continue the tradition with geocaching or orienteering, but that sense of limitless discovery wanes over time. [Kurt] came up with a small scavenger hunt [...]
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[Patrick] decided to make a computer controlled etch-a-sketch. While the idea is not that new, there is always a different way to accomplish a goal. An Arduino is used to control a pair of stepper motors which were sourced for pretty cheap, and even came with their own driver. Next a stand was mocked up [...]
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The sales team in [Chuck’s] office is a pretty competitive bunch as you might expect, and they decided that they wanted a system which would allow them to challenge one another during their weekly meetings. The competition involves answering questions posed by their manager, but hand raising only works for so long – they needed [...]
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[Andrew] and his brother had some time (and a lot of ping pong balls) on their hands, so they decided to have some fun and built a remote-controlled ping pong ball turret. Arduino aside, the turret is cheap and easy to build as [Andrew’s] writeup explains. The firing mechanism was constructed using a pair of [...]
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[Udo Klein] was working with some 1N4148 transistors and was interested in the specs relating to their performance at different temperatures. The forward voltage actually changes quite a bit depending on temperature and wondered if this could be reliably measured. He hacked his own LED shield for the Arduino to use as a 1×20 thermal [...]
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What uses a fire extinguisher, a bike pump, and provides hours of probation, community service, and possibly jail time? If you said an automatic graffiti writer you’re correct! [Olivier van Herpt] calls this little job the Time Writer. We call it defacing property… but tomato, tomahto. Details are a bit scarce, but you get a [...]
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In the interests of interface archaeology, [Martin] sent in the Tworse Key, a telegraph key that posts to Twitter using Morse code. It’s a fantastic build that nearly looks like something out of the 1900s. We’ve seen a ton of Morse keyboards over the years, but never one so well-engineered for a single purpose. The guts [...]
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[Brad] had an extremely productive January 18th. Considering how many websites went dark to protest SOPA, we can’t blame him. While considering what he could get done if popular Internet time sinks went dark on command, [Brad] thought of the Stop Online Productivity Avoidance box. This build will redirect all traffic to sites like reddit, hacker [...]
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Simulators might have lost their cool for a lot of gamers, but [Fergo] is trying for a comeback. He built an electronic dashboard for a car racing simulator. [Fergo] spends most of his track time on iRacing, an MMO racing simulator. Possibly due to a little bit of influence from Formula 1 steering wheels, he wanted [...]
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[Pete] has a cool new tutorial creating a re-imagining of the Atari classic “River Raid” for the PIX-6T4 micro controller based game system. The PIX is a netduino on a larger board featuring 2 analog controllers, a speaker, an sd card and an 8×8 monochrome LED display. With a resolution that low, it may make [...]
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When [Paul Rea] started work with his current employer, he was intrigued by a traffic light that sat unused near the entrance of the “Engineering Loft” where he was stationed. He promised himself that he would get it working one day, but several years passed before he had the chance to take a closer look [...]
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It’s no secret that seven-segment displays are an easy and useful way to relay data, so [Kelvyn Panici] decided to put together a minimalst, self-contained display for use around the house. The display itself is a 16-digit model he picked up from DealExtreme for under $10. He wanted to find a microcontroller small enough to fit [...]
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[Ladyada] has been working on FLORA, her wearable electronics platform, for a few months now. Even though it has just been announced the specs look much better than the previous queen of the hill, the Arduino LilyPad. Going down the spec sheet for both the FLORA and the LilyPad, we see that FLORA has twice as much [...]
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Here’s one way to really keep the component count low. [David] developed an NES controller that doesn’t use any buttons. The copper clad has been milled to provide a pad which registers a button push based on capacitance. The board has a SIL header at the top, making it easy to plug into the Arduino [...]
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The team over at the Louisville Hackerspace LVL1 is not going to be outdone when it comes to collecting environmental data. They put together this Frankenstein of sensor boards that lets you collect a heap of data showing what is going on around it. At the center-left a small Arduino clone is responsible for collecting [...]
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The team over at the Louisville Hackerspace LVL1 is not going to be outdone when it comes to collecting environmental data. They put together this Frankenstein of sensor boards that lets you collect a heap of data showing what is going on around it. At the center-left a small Arduino clone is responsible for collecting [...]
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As one of the founders of Netscape and the Mozilla Project, [Jamie Zawinski] is no stranger to frustration elicited from syntax errors, terrible implementations, and things that don’t work even though they should. This familiarity of frustration is what makes [jwz]‘s command line controlled curtains so great; it’s rare to see someone so technically proficient freaking [...]
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[Ishan Karve] works in some bizarro world where the building management demands that all servers and Uninterruptible Power Supplies be shut down at the end of each evening. While inconceivable to most systems admins, he has no recourse but to comply. This means that his employees need to turn things off before they leave for [...]
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[Mark VandeWettering] was experimenting with a simple transmitting circuit and an Arduino. The circuit in the project was designed by [Steve Weber] to broadcast temperature and telemetry data using Morse Code. But [Mark] wanted to step beyond that protocol and set out to write a sketch that broadcasts using the Hellschreiber protocol. This protocol transmits [...]
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I2C as many of you know, is a simple serial interface for many peripheral devices to micro controllers, but it can quickly become confusing to people who may not be accustom to it. Because of that, I2C tutorials are always welcome, and this new tutorial by [Embedds] does an excellent job of how to use [...]
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[Alex] was digging through his closet and came upon an old PS2 game pad for Dance Dance Revolution. He hated the idea of throwing it out just slightly more than the idea of playing DDR again, so he decided to find a way to reuse it. He was a big fan of the game Simon [...]
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[Asher Glick] wrote in to share a project he has been working on with his friend [Kevin Baker], a 4x4x4 RGB LED cube. The pair are students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and also members of the newly-formed Embedded Hardware Club on campus. As their first collaborative project, they decided to take on the ubiquitous LED [...]
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If you’re looking to remotely control things around the house, but can’t do it over the Internet or via WiFi, the TiDiGino just might have what you’re looking for. [Boris Landoni] from Open Electronics sent some information on the TiDiGino our way, and it certainly looks like a useful device if you’re in need of [...]
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[Craig Lindley] recently finished building his own RGB LED cube project. It’s made up of four layers of 4×4 LED grids, but you may notice that the framework that supports the structure is not the usual ratsnet of wires we’ve come to expect. They’re actually long, thin circuit boards. [Craig] grabbed the Rainbow Cube kit sold [...]
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Need PID control in your next project? Perhaps this little beauty can help. It’s an Open Source PID controller that also follows the Open Hardware guidelines. [Brett Beauregard] based the project on the newly minted Arduino PID library which he wrote. In the video after the break [Brett] takes apart the device, walking through some of [...]
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[HC] took a gander around the Googles and saw a number of people trying to read NAND flash chips with an Arduino. It’s an interesting problem; at 16 Megahertz, [HC] is looking at about 60 nanoseconds per instruction cycle, and flash chips normally operate around 20 ns. He got the build working, and was able [...]
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[Andrew Robinson] and his co-workers are lucky enough to have a Keurig coffee maker in their office, though they have a hard time keeping track of who owes what to the community coffee fund. Since K-Cups are more expensive than bulk coffee, [Andrew] decided that they needed a better way to log everyone’s drinking habits [...]
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After taking the Stanford Machine Learning class offered over the Internet last year, [David Singleton] thought he could build something really cool. We have to admit that he nailed it with his neural network controlled car. There’s not much to the build; it’s just an Android phone, an Arduino and a toy car. The machine [...]
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We’re past the winter solstice and the days are getting longer, but that doesn’t mean we’re not sick of the sun setting around 5 in the afternoon. There is a way to get more sunlight through our windows – a heliostat. Lucky for us, [Gabriel] sent in his Open Source Sun Tracking / Heliostat project that [...]
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The folks at The Quad Cities Collaboration and Hackerspace (QC Co-Lab) were trying to find something to build for their first big project, and had to look no further than the wall for inspiration. The north end of their facility is home to a huge 15×17 glass block wall that happens to face a well-traveled [...]
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This proof-of-concept is just waiting for you to put it to good use. [Mike Tsao] wrote an Arduino sketch that lets him decode incoming audio data which could be used to program the device. He’s calling the project TribeDuino because it decodes an audio file which is actually the firmware update for a Korg Monotribe. [...]
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[Dino] wanted to make this New Year’s celebration a bit more interesting, but he can’t make it to New York for the ball drop. Instead, he decided to make his own mini display in his workshop. Obviously he’s working with a slightly smaller budget than the folks at Times Square, but we think his display [...]
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There’s not much to be gained by living in a discotheque but colored lights are awesome, especially when they’re as well implemented as [michu]‘s StripInvaders. The StripInvaders project takes a gigantic 5 meter LED strip with WS2801 controllers and turns it into an Ethernet-enabled 24 bit display with the new Arduino Ethernet. While the Ethernet-enabled may seem a [...]
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[Andrew] shows us one way to reuse all those strands of Christmas lights you used for decoration this year. He had a friend that was helping with stage props for a local musical and ended up using his skills to build a lighted sign with some animation capabilities. The original plan was to cut out [...]
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[Erv] was putting his holiday shopping list together and decided that instead of buying his friends something from the store, he would give them something a bit more useful. A former Electrical Engineer by trade, [Erv] typically prefers PIC microcontrollers, but he says that Arduinos are just so convenient to use for prototyping that he [...]
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You’re out at night and playing a boisterous game of flashlight tag. But how can you tell if you’ve been mortally wounded by your opponents light beam? [Kenyer] solved this problem by building a flashlight tag damage sensor which is worn by each participant. It adds a bit of the high-tech equipment used with laser [...]
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[Nirav] painted this masterpiece by hand… with a little help from a computer. He calls it the semi-automatic paintbrush because you do need to move it over the canvas by hand, but a computer decides when to dispense the ink. He’s using a piece of hardware we looked at back in September called the InkShield [...]
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[Axel] wanted to participate in the CheerLights project this holiday season, but not one to always follow the rules he decided to make his display a bit different than most others out there. While the lights at his house are synchronized with the CheerLights project, he programmed his Cheeriobot with a little added personality. Normally, [...]
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Most holiday light displays we see this time of year are stationary, or at least confined to somebody’s home. [Marco Guardigli] wanted to take his lights on the go, and thought that a light up winter hat would be perfect for showing off his holiday spirit. In the winter he sports a sturdy wool felt [...]
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[Bill Porter] is helping a friend out by designing a simple security system for her home. It relies on Xbee modules to alert a base station when doors are opened, or a pressure mat is stepped on. The door sensors are quite simple, and you’re probably already familiar with them. One part mounts to the [...]
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14 year-old [Connor Smith] has been busy this holiday season, thinking up ways to improve the lighting situation at home. A few weeks ago he put together this 3-channel light controller to toggle his parents’ external lights, incorporating an Arduino for control. The Arduino was used to switch the channels on and off at specified [...]
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Hack a Day alum [Will O’Brien] recently upgraded his phone, and was trying to find a use for his old one. He always wanted a remote starter for his Subaru Outback, but wasn’t interested in paying for an off the shelf kit. Since he had this old smartphone kicking around, he thought that it would [...]
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There’s a million and one ways to play around with MIDI and an Arduino. It’s trivial to have a ‘duino spit out a scale to a MIDI keyboard, or even respond to SysEx messages to change a lighting or effects rig. There’s one thing that has eluded MIDI-duino builders, though: implementing a MIDI synthesizer with [...]
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They say that the holidays are a time to gather with others, which usually translates into spending time with friends and family. The folks at ioBridge Labs thought that while friends and family certainly are a big part of the holidays, it would be pretty cool to gather together flocks of strangers by using the [...]
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[Minisystem] has a thing for dynamo powered bike lights. He wanted to measure how well his latest is working, but just logging the current flow through the LEDs wasn’t enough for him. He picked up a cheap Lux meter and hacked into the circuit to log measurements while he rides. He started by cracking open [...]
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[Milton] sent in a build that censors every ‘F’ word on TV, and not just the one that rhymes with ‘duck,’ either. His setup sounds the alarm every time someone inside the moving picture box says a word that contains the letter F. The build is based around Nootropic Design’s Video Experimenter Shield. This neat little shield [...]
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[John Boxall] took a different route for a single-input combination lock. This unit uses a Ping ultrasonic range finder to input a four digit code. It’s a hardware upgrade, but uses the same basic concept as his button-based combo lock. That design used an Arduino to measure how long you hold down a single button, [...]
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Ah, the end of the 4th financial quarter – the magical time of increased sales, being at work the entire time the sun is up, and holiday parties. For [Andy] at National Instruments, though, things don’t seem too bad. He built a neat Christmas light suit to entertain everyone with his brilliant persona. [Andy] always [...]
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[Josh] and his lab partner [Eric] needed a final project for their Embedded Systems Design class, and thought that designing an Arduino shield would be a cool idea. They noticed that there are plenty of ways to get an Arduino to keep time, though none that they knew of utilized WWVB (Atomic Time) signals directly. [...]
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While we normally see piezo elements being used to output audio, [Veedo] thought that they could be used in a more useful manner. He bought way too many piezo film tabs and decided to use them to build a makeshift seismic sensor. The piezo tabs came with weights attached at one end, though while testing [...]
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Want to host a Jeopardy tournament with your friends? Looking to add a bit more fairness to your school’s knowledge bowl? Perhaps you should build some buzz-in hardware of your own. Here you can see [Matt Hanson's] take on this idea. He used one Arduino to gather not just buzzer info, but also keypad data [...]
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[Fjord Carver] brings together an RGB LED and CdS Photoresistor to make a color sensor. Those Cadmium Sulfide lights sensors usually have a very wide swing of resistance when exposed to varying levels of light sensitivity. That makes for great resolution when reading them using the ADC of a microcontroller. The LED comes into play by shining [...]
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[Eric Ayars] has a nice cast iron Christmas tree stand at home, but the only drawback is that the stand makes it hard to see just how much water is available to the tree. Last year we covered a small gadget he created to help keep tabs on the water level, but as several of [...]
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When most people think about a telegraph key, a piece of 1890s tech with a lever that moves up and down comes to mind. These ‘straight keys’ were terrible for telegraphers and led to repetitive stress injuries like carpel tunnel syndrome..Iambic keys came along and move the contacts to a horizontal position. If you ever [...]
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We know that measuring the speed of light with an Arduino is possible. It’s just that the implementation is hard. Last month we saw [Udo]‘s blinkenlight shield that can be used as a line scan camera. It’s a neat piece of kit, but [Udo] really wants to submit something for the Buildlounge laser cutter giveaway, [...]
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The guys at BuildLounge wrote us to share a giant LED sign they came across in the submission pile for their “Win a Laser Cutter” contest that’s currently under way. [Stephen Shaffer] helps run a huge party called Fantastic Planet, for which the group typically outsources the lighting arrangements. They got tired of hiring light [...]
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Here’s a project that looks to eliminate the PC necessary for pushing weather station data to the Internet. When you think about it, getting data from your own weather sensing hardware to a site like Weather Underground doesn’t require very much processing at all. The largest chunk of the puzzle is a window to the [...]
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The Arduino is an excellent first embedded development kit, provides a great introduction to electronics, and has the potential to get children into programming. [David] thinks throwing C at non-programmers isn’t the best way to learn programming, so he developed ArduBlock , a graphical programming language for the Arduino. We’ve seen a number of graphical, block-based programming [...]
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Trade shows are all about attracting attention and getting people to learn about your product, so what could be better than a custom-built RC blimp? Sure, you could just buy one, but what’s the fun in that? After several design iterations, [Tretton37] came up with a blimp known as the [LeetZeppelin] controlled by an Arduino, [...]
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[Jbremnant] wanted to try his hand with ANT+ wireless networks. This protocol is designed for light-weight and low-power consumer electronics, like heart rate chest straps and bicycle computers (Garmin brand devices for example). There are already libraries out there for Arduino, but [Jbremnant] found that most of them were written as slave-only code. He set [...]
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[Elco Jacobs] used to let his beer ferment in the kitchen, but when things got too hot over the summer, he had to suspend his ale making for a few months. Not wanting to have to put production on hiatus again, he modified an old refrigerator into an awesome fermentation unit he calls the UberFridge. [...]
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Finally an Arduino shield that does nothing The folks at Evil Mad Scientist labs have finally created the Googly Eye Shield for Arduinos. With it’s pass-through .100 headers, it adds googly eyes to your Arduino projects. Of course, instead of in addition to the googly eyes you could add a breadboard, making it somewhat useful. A million fake [...]
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This OWI robot arm has been hacked to add position sensors and Arduino control. [Chris Anderson] took one look at the Launchpad controlled OWI from earlier today and said “wait a minute, I’ve already posted my own version of that project”. Well, that will teach him not to tip us off about his hacks! The [...]
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The guys over at brainwagon just finished up ANGST, the Arduino n’ Gameduinio Satellite Tracker, a build that displays 160 different satellites in Earth orbit on any SVGA monitor. The build is of course based off an Arduino and Gameduino shield. A real-time clock is always needed for a satellite tracker, so a DS1307 RTC [...]
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Ever thought of using touch sensors on your projects but didn’t because it would be too much work? [Paul Stoffregen] proves that it can be pretty easy if you use the CapSense library for Arduino. Here he’s created three touch sensors, connecting them to the Teensy microcontroller with two resistors each. The larger resistor (looks [...]
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In the quest for a diy laser cutter made from DVD burner parts (that hack’s still in the works) this guy ended up with a junk box full of optical-drive leftovers. He put some of that surplus to good use by building this stroboscope. As the media spins, the white LED just out of focus [...]
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Apparently there was a Nuclear Taco eating contest at the 2010 Codebits Conference. The team from altLab, a Hackerspace in Lisbon, didn’t partake but the discomfort of those that did was burned into their memory. This year, the altLab members decided to build a spciy taco monitoring helmet as part of the conference’s 48 hour [...]
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Behold the uWave, a microwave oven that plays YouTube videos while it cooks. [Kevin] and three classmates at the University of Pennsylvania developed the project for the 2011 PennApps hackathon. It uses a tablet computer to replace the boring old spinning food display microwaves are known for. Now, an Arduino reads the cook time and [...]
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[Grissini] hasn’t had the best of luck when it comes to personal audio players. He estimates that he’s gone through about half a dozen iProducts/iKnockoffs over the years, which ultimately adds up to a lot of money poured right down the drain. Rather than lay down his cold hard cash for yet another music player [...]
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[BadWolf] managed to make some free time to get back to his own electronic projects. This time around he’s created a security system for his car. It’s patched into the ignition, preventing the engine from starting when the key is turned. A driver must first insert the key, then type the combination on a keypad [...]
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[Kris] wanted to make the telecommuting employees at his office feel a little more in control of their virtual presence in the office. He gave them a way to look around without needing to go into full-blown robotics. This laptop stand has a Lazy Susan connected to a servo motor to give the user control [...]
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[Jerome Kelty] is a big fan of the movie Stargate, and when he saw it for the first time, he wanted one of the awesome helmets worn by the Horus Guards. This isn’t the kind of thing you would normally find at your local costume shop, so he knew that he would have to build [...]
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This clever hack uses an Arduino to do a brute force attack on a computer’s BIOS. In theory, this technique could be used for other programs, but it’s use would be limited since there’s no way to account for too many wrong passwords. The Arduino generates and outputs the possible password emulating a USB keyboard. [...]
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[Peter] was tired of crawling behind his desktop computer to switch between headphones and speakers. We feel his pain, as the headphone port on our computer speakers has its own demonic hum rendering the jack useless to us. His solution was to build this output selector board, then control it via the network. A relay [...]
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If you ever wondered how the Arduino came into being, check out [IEEE Spectrum's] article entitled “The Making of Arduino.” From it’s humble origins in Northern Italy, the Arduino, as shown by a large number of projects featured at [HAD], has become the go-to processor for DIY processing power. It’s cost (around $30) and ease-of-use [...]
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We think this is an intriguing take on half-tone art. It’s a CNC machine that uses an Arduino and two stepper motors to draw on a paper-covered drum. But you’re not just going to set it and forget it. To simplify the device, the Z-axis is not mechanized, but requires the dexterous opposing digit of a [...]
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[Paul] was looking to spice up his holiday decorations this year, so he picked up some GE Color Effects lights and started hacking away. We’ve already seen how hacker-friendly these LED bulbs are, which is why [Paul] decided to give them a try. His ultimate goal was to synchronize several sets of lights from one [...]
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OK, year-old pop culture references aside [Kyle] dropped us a line to show us his tutorial on using interrupts with your Arduino. Given the single core nature of your average Arduino’s AVR you pretty much have two choices for monitoring occasional un-timed inputs: Either check an input at an interval (which risks missing the signal [...]
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Here’s a simple camera setup that lets you make your own panning time-lapse videos. It uses a couple of motors driven by an Arduino to snap successive still images which can later be rolled into a video format. [Acorv] was not thrilled with the fact that his new Lumix LX5 didn’t have a time-lapse option built-in. [...]
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[Charles Gershom] has been tinkering around with his keyboard and Arduino in order to build his own version of a MIDI controlled synthesizer. It looks like he’s gutted the enclosure of some commercially available MIDI hardware to use for the project. This works nicely since it gives him both the MIDI and audio jacks that he needs. [...]
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Although there are other ways to do this, [Rod] has decided to write up his method of using two Arduinos and the I2C protocol to expand an Arduino’s IO capacity. As seen in the picture above, you’ll sacrifice 2 analog pins, but if you happen to need IO and have an extra Arduino lying around, [...]
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This fully-addressable RGB LED matrix was built by [John Graham-Cummings]. He didn’t start from scratch, but wisely repurposed a strand of GE Color Effect lights and built a pleasant looking case in which to mount the G-35 hardware. We’ve seen this hardware used in a similar way before. Because each ‘bulb’ has its own microcontroller, [...]
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Hackaday reader [Kieran] volunteers at an outdoor haunted house attraction called the “Disenchanted Forest”. Attendees are lead through the haunted forest by a volunteer, who helps keep everyone on the predetermined trail. The trail is usually lit by small LED fixtures that the group constructed, but the organizers wanted to make the lights more interactive [...]
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[monkeysinacan] wanted to add a fog machine to his Halloween display, but he says that the cheaper consumer-grade models are pretty unruly beasts. He cites short duty cycles and tricky fog control as his two biggest gripes with these sorts of foggers. He decided make the fogging process a little more manageable, and modified his [...]
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[linux-dude] always wanted to have a binary clock, but he didn’t want to pay someone else to make it for him. Additionally, he was looking for a compact alarm clock he could take on the road, rather than relying on the one in his hotel room. Inspired by other binary clock projects he has seen [...]
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The crew at the Milwaukee Hackerspace are pretty serious about their beer. They used to have a fridge filled with cans, available to all at the hackerspace, but they decided to beef things up and create a secured beer dispensing system. Like many others we have seen, their kegerator is built into an old refrigerator, [...]
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Although Dogs and other animals love to mark their territory with urine, this technique has been generally ignored by human beings. Despair no more, fellow homo sapiens, we have now developed the ability to check-in on foursquare through your information stream. This device is descriptively called “Mark your Territory.” Although this is not currently available [...]
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[Shawn] was looking for a way to shake up his decorations this Halloween and decided to build a new prop for his front yard. He had a pair of old oil barrels in his garage and thought they would look great with a little bit of work. He bolted the pair of barrels together, then [...]
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[Udo] figured out how to turn a bunch of LEDs into a very low resolution camera. The build is based around [Udo]‘s Blinkenlight shield he’s been developing over the past year. The camera operates under the idea that there’s really not much difference between a LED and a photodiode; LEDs can do light emission and [...]
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So Halloween finally arrived, we hope you had enough time to pull off your frightening feats in the way you had originally envisioned. Now it’s time again to look to the future and start planning this year’s Christmas decorations. Lights are always a popular theme, and this year you might want to look into DMX [...]
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[Phil] had a bunch of Shiftbrite modules set aside for an LED table project, but before he could get around to it, he decided to use them to build a prop for his friend’s bachelor party. Expecting plenty of drunken revelry, he constructed the Arduino Wine-o-Meter – a carnival “Test your strength” style breathalyzer. The [...]
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After seeing a writeup online that demonstrated how to build an “Emergency Party Button”, [spikec] knew that he had to have one of his own. He happened to have a USAF B-8 stick grip from an A-10A aircraft laying around, and figured it would be perfect for controlling the A/V system in his basement. The [...]
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Never get between a man and his salami. [Mike] needed a way to control temperature, humidity and airflow with his meat curing setup. Of course he could modify a refrigerator and humidifier to be controlled separately, but [Mike] decided the best course of action would be to control line voltage with an Arduino. [Mike] started [...]
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[Greg] was looking for something to build using his recently acquired Arduino, and with Halloween approaching, he thought a cool light display would make a great project. He browsed around online and found this tutorial that shows how to build a chorus of singing pumpkins controlled by a computer’s parallel port. Since he didn’t have [...]
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If you haven’t taken the time to put your decorations together it’s time to get a move on. With Halloween just around the corner big elaborate displays are pretty much out of the question, but [Boris] and the team over at Open Electronics have a simple project that’s sure to be a hit with the [...]
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[Cosimo Orlando] has a Motorola Xoom tablet. It’s an Android device that works great as a tablet, but can double as a Laptop when you need it to by adding a keyboard. The problem he was having is that the USB On-The-Go cables that he tried were never the right size or orientation. So he [...]
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If you have been chomping at the bit to give drag and drop Arduino programming a try, Minibloq is finally in Beta and ready for you to test! We mentioned the application back in April of this year, when [Julián da Silva] was still in the early stages of developing the software. His graphical programming [...]
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If you’re familiar with using a compass (the tool that points to magnetic north, not the one that makes circles) the concept of holding the device level makes sense. It must be level for the needle to balance and rotate freely. You just use your eyes to make sure you’re holding the thing right. Now [...]
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You too can paint your favorite meme in light with just a few tools. [Skywodd] brought together a couple of different projects to make this happen. He had already built a large POV display and now uses a DSLR with long exposure to create light paintings (translated). The Arduino-powered display is built from a strip [...]
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Desperately in need of a graduation paper, [Andrei] decided to build a few computer controlled recon vehicles (PDF warning), and we’re really impressed with the minimalist approach [Andrei] took. The Computer Operated Recon Entity (C.O.R.E.) mk. I is based around a laptop. Instead of an Arduino, [Andrei] used a car stereo amp to control the [...]
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Wanting to test the response curves on some analog parts, [Don Sauer] devised a way of using simple tools to graph analog tests on a computer. Here you can see the results of testing NPN, PNP, NMOS and PMOS transistors, but modifying the input circuitry would let you test just about anything you want. [Don] [...]
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The creation you see above is the work of art student [Daniel Bertner] who is wrapping up his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He calls the incredibly intriguing, yet somewhat disturbing device “TIM”, which is short for Tracking Interactive Mechanism. A culmination of different projects he [...]
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[Kaushlesh Chandel] prototyped a few projects on his Arduino that use an HD44780 Character LCD. Wanting to keep these projects in one piece, but not sacrifice his Arduino board, so he etched his own LCD backpack that is Arduino compatible. If you’ve never made it past the Arduino board to build a module that only uses [...]
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[Alex] wrote in to let us know he just completed a pretty major upgrade to his PopCARD RFID vending machine system. You may remember that earlier this year he added an Arduino based RFID reader to a soda machine so that thirsty patrons could pay with plastic instead of cold hard cash. That system worked, [...]
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When [Peter] saw the Sparkfun Magician robot chassis in a recent new product post, he knew instantly that he had to have one for a telepresence project that had been kicking around in his head for a while. Onto the robot chassis, he added an Arduino to provide the brains of the bot, an Adafruit [...]
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For all you teledildonics enthusiasts, there’s a new Vibrator shield for the Arduino. It gets better: you can use the Pen15 shield with a Kinect for wholesome and natural fun at home. Decency and a ‘safe for work’ style prevents us from putting everything we know on the front page, so keep reading after the [...]
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Many of you are familiar with the Arduino. Many of you hate it…* This post isn’t about the Arduino. It is about the processor that is at the heart of many Arduino boards. If you are in the camp of people who can’t understand why others dislike the Arduino so much, this series is for [...]
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The crew at the Netherlands-based Bitlair hackerspace love their music, and have set up a digital jukebox for their workshop using mpd and fookebox. One problem that you run into with a bunch of different people working in one place is that everyone has their own distinct taste in music. The rhythmic “wub wub wub” [...]
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[El Artis] just finished building an audio spectrum analyzer that uses a character LCD. The uses an Arduino to drive the display, but unlike other meters that use the microcontroller for analysis, [El Artis] is using a discrete IC for that task. This project uses the MSGEQ7 graphic equilizer display filter chip to grab frequency data [...]
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[Ray] wrote in to share a great project he just recently wrapped up, an open-source sprinkler valve controller. Built in collaboration with Wired Magazine’s editor-in-chief [Chris Anderson], the sprinkler controller is designed to replace the limited commercial sprinkler timers that typically come with a new home sprinkler setup. Their system greatly expands on the idea [...]
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The Zigroller is a Zigbee remote-controlled balance bot. Although balance bots have been featured on [HAD] before, the Zigroller appears to be well-built and the project is well documented. Besides a section on hardware, the software for this build is documented here. The theory behind a balancing bot like this is given in this [MIT] [...]
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[zmashiah] has a nice Nova tube amplifier in his living room, and he often forgets to turn it off once he’s done listening to music. He feels guilty when this happens, as it not only shortens the lifespan of his stereo, but it’s not exactly the greenest behavior either. Rather than let his receiver idle [...]
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Instructables user [XenonJohn] recently put together a fantastic tutorial detailing how he made an RFID-controlled jukebox. The Magic Music Table was created for a disabled child, who is unable to use a CD payer, nor navigate small buttons and menus on MP3 players. He originally though about making the buttons more accessible a la the Frankenkindle, [...]
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If you’re trying to lose some weight, [Grissini] has got the just the thing you need! He recently tweaked his refrigerator to throw out insults each time its opened, though not for his own physical well-being. While we imagine that an abusive refrigerator would help curb your appetite for late night snacks, [Grissini] makes no [...]
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Focus stacking makes for fantastic macro images, but the process can be tedious without the right tools. While some focus stacking rigs require the camera to be moved away from the subject in small increments, others choose to keep the camera stationary while focusing the lens before each shot. Both methods produce great results, but [...]
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[Taylor] popped a new graphics card into his computer, but before he could settle in for a round of gaming, his card started to overheat. He eventually tracked the problem down to an undersized power supply, but the prospect of cooking his new GPU to death made him think twice about how he was monitoring [...]
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If there were a contest for the most thorough step-by-step project log [Kurt] would the champion. He recently a posted 150 step build log for his fleece-covered Portal turret project. If you can get over the need to click-through 30 pages of steps, there’s a lot to like about this project. First, what it doesn’t [...]
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If you ask us, there’s no substitute for learning by doing. But often the hardest part of acquiring new skills is coming up with the idea for a project that utilizes them. [Mike Rankin] wanted to develop a project using laser cut acrylic, and settled on building a control box for an RGB LED strip. [...]
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[Mime] likes to make puzzles and games for his friends to play, often using recycled electronics to construct them. He had been contemplating a sound-based game for some time when he came across an old rotary phone at a garage sale that would be perfect for what he had in mind. He calls his creation [...]
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Ah, the Arduino. Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that part of its accessibility comes at the expense of speed and efficiency. We honestly like the platform as well as all of the others out there, because we believe that everything has its proper place and purpose. The crew over at Make, Hack, [...]
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For most of the working world, the onset of autumn and winter in the Northern hemisphere means one thing – waking up well before the sun rises to get a start on the daily grind. [Brent] from Freeside Atlanta knows that routine well and decided to build himself a sunrise alarm clock in an attempt [...]
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If you’re looking for a simple Ardunio project, why not replicate the first personal computer? After discovering the Arduino, [Mark] realized recreating really old computers would be a fun project. An Altair 8800 was on the table, but the sheer number of blinkenlights, switches and the Intel 8080 CPU made that a fairly difficult project. [...]
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The answer, of course, is a word clock. This is actually [Eric's] second version of a word clock. Like the first one, it uses 114 LEDs to back light the words on the display. In his first iteration he used an Arduino to drive a Charlieplex array of lights. It was an 11 by 10 [...]
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[Don] put together a guide that will help you build your own Ambilight Clone for about $40 plus the cost of an Arduino. He’s using it with the HTPC seen above, and utilized modular concepts in building it so that you can easily disconnect your Arduino board when you want to use it for prototyping. For RGB [...]
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Here’s a couple of clocks that use Arduino boards to control inexpensive clockworks. The concept is quite simple, and perhaps best outlined by [Matt Mets'] article on the subject. As it turns out, these clockworks are driven by a coil, forming a device that is quite similar to a stepper motor. If you solder a [...]
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Some of our favorite hacks are those made with scrap materials, so we were delighted to see a contest being held by the German technology magazine c’t which focuses on using salvaged components. “Mach flott den Schrott” is the name of the competition, which loosely translates to “Make fast the scrap”. German builder [Mario Lukas’] [...]
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An Arduino can handle running a small LED cube on its own, but if you’re planning on building something big, eventually you are going to run out of pins. For something like an 8x8x8 cube, odds are you will have to turn to shift registers to get the job done. While you could design a [...]
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[Wolf] had a Polar brand exercise watch that wirelessly monitored a chest strap that sends it heart rate data. It sounds like there’s some way to transfer data from the watch to a computer, but it’s only meant for use with Polar’s website. He wanted to do a little more with the equipment so he [...]
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[Tobie] seems to have a bit of a rat problem. While most people would be inclined to simply buy the oversized Victor spring-loaded rat traps and call it a day, [Tobie] is a bit more humane. To help remedy his problem while also ensuring that no rats are harmed in the process, he built the [...]
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Here’s a wall hanging for the reception area that let’s your customers play retro games while they wait. To give you some sense of scale, the buttons to the right (labeled Start/Jump but we would call them A and B) are arcade buttons larger than traditional arcade buttons. The screen itself is a Samsung widescreen computer [...]
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[Privatier] wrote in to let us know about lxardoscope, his project that lets you use an Arduino as hardware input for a Linux-based oscilloscope display. This implementation offers two channels with about 3000 samples per second from each. He touts some of the GUI options like vertical resolution between 2mV and 10V per division. That part [...]
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The Arduino folks took advantage of Maker Faire New York to announce their new line of products. There’s several interesting new additions to their product line. They’ve got a WiFi shield in the works that utilizes a module from H&D Wireless in conjunction with an AVR32 processor to take the workload off of the ATmega [...]
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This little beast is named Mechatron. Built by a father/daughter team called Beatty Robotics, the goal was to build something “retro-futuristic, tough, and industrial”. We think they definitely pulled off some of their goals here. Weighing in at nearly 50 pounds, Mechatron is still very agile, as you can see in the video below. He [...]
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At [mkanoap’s] office, they have a software package that monitors their various servers’ health, but they wanted a separate indicator to display the status of their most critical systems. They put together a simple list of criteria for their display, including the ability to view the status without a computer, and that it share the [...]
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[Larry] and [Carol] just upgraded the coop to make their lives easier, and to help keep the chickens happy. The image above is a chicken’s-eye-view of the newly installed automatic door. It’s a guillotine design that uses the weight of the aluminum plate door to make sure predators can’t get in at night. This is [...]
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If you’re contemplating a quadcopter build here’s a way to add stabilization hardware without breaking the bank. The BaronPilot project uses an Arduino and a Wii Motion Plus module to ensure an even keel for your flying projects. The hardware inside of the Motion Plus includes two gyroscopes, which the BaronPilot monitors for changes in [...]
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When the Louisville hackerspace LVL1 was discussing the purchase of a new laser cutter, a member said, “I could build one before you get around to buying one.” The gauntlet was thrown down, a challenge was set, and the race was on to build a tiny laser cutter before the hackerspace took delivery of their [...]
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[Ed Rogers] has the unfortunate privilege of living right next to a set of train tracks, and as a man who holds his sleep in high regard, he needed to find a way to keep the noise in his bedroom to a minimum. To combat the sound of passing trains, he built himself a system [...]
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Relief is here from long compile times when developing firmware for your Arduino project. [Paul] was puzzled by the fact that every file used in a sketch is fully recompiled every time you hit upload–even if that file didn’t change. To make things more confusing, this behavior isn’t consistent across all Arduino compatible hardware. The [...]
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Looking to use his Arduino when on-the-go, [Oleg] has been working on a way to use the Android ADK terminal emulator with the Arduino. The Android side uses ADK features along with a custom application. [Oleg] received help from his friend [Victor] when developing the program for Android (you can check out our own Android [...]
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The team at Wicked Device has been working on working on a way to upload Arduino sketches over Ethernet for the Nanode and Arduino Ethernet boards. The team has gotten far enough along to show the world, and the new boot loader shows a lot of promise. A new boot loader was needed to perform this magic. The [...]
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[Julian] wanted a way to remotely control various appliances and lights around his house without spending an arm and a leg on home automation. He also desired the ability to easily switch what items he was controlling without a ton of hassle. Since he couldn’t find anything reasonably priced to do what he desired, he [...]
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Yup. We have all been there. You throw together a really elaborate Arduino project that only really needs a couple pins, far fewer than the Arduino’s native microcontrollers have to offer. Well fear not, [Thatcher] has solved just this problem by adding some ATTtiny cores to the Arduino IDE. His blog details the process from [...]
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[Nicolas C Lewis] is churning out inkjet print head shield kits for Arduino. If you’ve always wanted to label or brand objects as part of a project this greatly simplifies the process. Using his all through-hole design, an Arduino can print at 96 dpi. At first we had trouble figuring out what we could use [...]
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[Chris] wrote us to share a neat technique he has been using to program the Arduinos he uses in his projects. He likes to build bare bones Arduino clones rather than sacrifice full dev boards, and instead of programming them via traditional means, he is using his computer’s sound card. He builds a simple dead [...]
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[Adam] from Teague Labs wrote in to share a new gadget they built to help demonstrate the capabilities of the Teagueduino. Their table top video game in a box was made with a bunch of electronic components they had sitting around, as well as soda straws, plenty of painter’s tape, and some popscicle sticks. When [...]
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ArduinoArts is animating an inexpensive Ikea lamp as a contest entry. Seeed Studio’s Toy Hacking Contest calls for the competitors to work their magic using the Grove Toy Kit, which is an extensible sensor connection system for the Arduino. Most of the items in the kit were used to add interactivity to the lamp. Check [...]
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ElecFreaks is selling a new color sensing module based on the TSC230 sensor. They’ve posted a demonstration using an Arduino that shows off what this sensor is capable of. The module includes four white LEDs which give a baseline of light to help normalize readings when reflected off of differently colored surfaces. The white balance [...]
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[Dimitris] decided to build a homemade alarm system, but instead of triggering a siren, sending an SMS message, or Tweeting about an intrusion, he preferred that his system call him when there was trouble afoot. He says that he preferred a call over text messaging because there are no charges associated with the call if [...]
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How much memory do you really need? We suppose it’s not really our place to judge how you misuse use memory in your projects. But we do appreciate the clean and orderly technique that [Eric Rogers] uses to add multiple SPI SRAM chips to an Arduino. The heavy lifting is done with a CPLD shield [...]
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Nothing makes you feel the pressure of getting out of bed in the morning like a ticking-time-bomb on the bedside table. It may look like it came in the mail from ACME, but all that went into this is some wooden dowels covered in craft paper and an Arduino-compatible board. The 7-segment display can act [...]
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The team at Eschelle Inconnue wanted to “trace a sound cartography of Islam” in Marseilles, France, so they came up with a clever little GPS walking tour powered by an Arduino, MP3 playback module, and a surface transducer speaker. The team used a Processing app to define geographic areas where each MP3 file would play. [...]
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[MyMagicPudding] wanted to try his hand at hobby electronics, so he decided to go all-in and build himself a PIP-Boy 3000. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the PIP-Boy 3000 is a wrist-mounted computer from the popular Fallout video game series. The PIP-Boy is based around an HTC Desire HD mobile phone, which [MyMagicPudding] [...]
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[Andy] stuffed some more RAM onto an Arduino Mega and his three-part walk through on the design, construction, and software is a great read and one of the more ‘hard core’ Arduino builds we’ve seen. The build is centered around a 512K × 8 SRAM module [PDF warning]. Because the RAM is divided up into about 512,000 [...]
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If you’re paying big bucks for those floor-to-ceiling windows why not make them into a canvas for your art as well. Der Kritzler is a motorized plotter that can make this into a reality. It’s a laser-cut pen holder suspended from a pair belt pulleys. Those belts have counterweights, which make it easier for the [...]
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[Garrett] over at MaceTech was approached by a friend who needed a light-up mohawk installed on a Viking helmet, and he needed it ASAP. Now, [Garrett] does tons of work with LEDs but it’s not every day you are asked to construct a sound-responsive LED mohawk. He had all sorts of LEDs and other bits [...]
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It’s officially September now (in some parts of the world), and that means we’ve been watching the Christmas decorations go up on the floor of Costco, Walmart and Target for the last few weeks. As a small test of reality, [Eric] decided to build an electronic advent calendar that counts down the days until Christmas. [...]
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[Jochem] has always been fascinated by chaos in nature, whether it’s a swarm of ants or evolution in action in a petri dish. His insect orchestra takes the chaos in the natural world and changes it into something completely artificial. In this case, MIDI. For the build, a light sensor was placed at the bottom [...]
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When you need a mechanism to detect the water level within a container or tank, you have several different options. Most people opt for a simple float or probe that sits in the water, while others use optics to sense when the water is reaching an undesired level. This device built by [Danilo Abbasciano] uses [...]
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At Hack A Day, we’re pretty big Minecraft fans so you can imagine our interest when we saw [Ben Purdy]‘s real-life Minecraft block. The build uses a projector system to display a block onto a cardboard box and reacts to being ‘mined’ just like in the game. Block animation is handled by a piezo sensor, [...]
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[Mike] sent in a project he’s been working on – a port of a BASIC interpreter that fits on an Arduino. The code is meant to be a faithful port of Tiny BASIC for the 68000, and true to Tiny BASIC form, it fits in the very limited RAM of the Arduino. True to Tiny [...]
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When it comes to learning about microcontrollers, everyone has to start somewhere. [Lady Ada] recently posted a tutorial on burning the Arduino bootloader to standalone chips for those just getting started with the micro. The tutorial cites a common situation, where someone is working on a project using an Arduino chip but they don’t want [...]
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There’s something calming about looking up into the night sky and seeing an array of shining stars off in the distance. [Marou] is a big fan of stargazing, but sometimes conditions are not optimal, so he decided to bring the stars inside. His idea was to build a ceiling lamp that didn’t bask the room [...]
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The 2011 Burning Man festival starts in just a few short days, and with that we have an excellent mutant vehicle accessory that no insane desert dweller should be without. An Arduino powered fire cannon sequencer! [Paul] was asked by Lostmachine’s [Andy] to spice up the flame effects on their Priate Ship mutant vehicle and [...]
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So if you’re knee deep in an Arduino-based project and you want to constantly monitor all of the micro’s pins, what’s the best way to go about it? [Jonathan Clark] from LVL1 in Louisville was looking to keep a closer eye on his board and whipped up an application he calls ArduinoDashboard. Programmed in Processing, [...]
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To test his new skills with his Arduino, [Ben] decided that he would build a robot. With no particular need to fill other than the need to build something cool he chose to build himself a tree climbing robot. He designed the body of the robot in Google Sketchup before beginning the build. The body [...]
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We hate to admit it, but we missed out on the TI Chronos watch deal last week. While we’re still a little bit burned over the fact that these watches sold out so fast, [Ahmet] sent in his Open Source Bluetooth Watch and we’re thinking this could eventually be a decent replacement. The watch is [...]