Autor: Quad Oner
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Meet Arduino – and UNO Q! – at Maker Faire Rome
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom October 17th to 19th, the Gazometro Ostiense in Rome will once again become a playground for innovation as Maker Faire Rome returns to celebrate the brilliant minds turning ideas into reality. As a Gold Partner, we’ll be there with our biggest booth ever in Hall 41, bringing together people, projects, and…
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This wild haptic system can be used to build vehicles
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) slowly grow in adoption, their shortcomings become more obvious. Most glaringly, they only engage users’ sense of sight and hearing. Haptic tactile feedback is almost non-existent and so picking up a “sword” in VR feels like picking up a VR controller, because that’s what…
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Novel mechanism makes refreshable braille displays practical
Reading Time: 2 minutesTactile displays — particularly for use as refreshable braille displays — have always been a challenge to design and fabricate, as they require so many moving parts. Every dot needs its own actuated mechanism and there needs to be dozens or hundreds of dots squeezed into a small space. Conventional micro actuators…
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SoilTile turns earth into an oversized touchpad
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re used to interacting with electronic technology that is cold, rigid, and overwhelmingly artificial. The device you’re reading this on doesn’t resemble anything found in nature and, consciously or not, you see it as something separate from the natural world. But what if the dividing boundary was less distinct? How would that…
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A new chapter for Arduino – with Qualcomm, UNO Q, and you!
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday we’re sharing some truly exciting news: Arduino has entered into an agreement to join the Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. family! This is a huge step in our journey – one that allows us to keep growing, thriving, and making technology accessible to everyone, while bringing our values of openness, simplicity, and community…
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This Arduino Nano R4-controlled hourglass simulates sand with LEDs
Reading Time: 2 minutesOutside of playing board games, hourglasses are almost entirely pointless these days. And yet, they’re still incredibly satisfying. Watching the sand fall in a steady and consistent stream is downright mesmerizing. Sadly, you probably can’t make your own hourglass unless you happen to be very skilled at glassblowing. But you can create…
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This chest contains the beating heart of Davy Jones
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise really likes to make figurative elements and metaphors quite literal, as shown in Dead Man’s Chest when the chest in question is shown to contain the actual beating heart of Davy Jones. That’s a fun visual that Grendel Studios’ Erik Finley turned into a real-life…
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Gathering weather telemetry with a Nano 33 BLE Sense payload
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost model rockets don’t do anything practical — they just go up really fast and then come back down more slowly to land in a field somewhere. Those launches can still be a lot of fun to watch, but they aren’t exactly useful. However, the sky has plenty of data of worth…
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This mint tin radio is a fresh take on emergency communication
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost of us get our news via the internet these days, which is only natural given the convenience and availability. But during an emergency, such as weather extreme enough to cause power or network outages, the internet may be inaccessible. How do you learn vital information in that scenario? The answer is…
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Introducing a new Bluetooth provisioning flow — With the UNO R4 WiFi
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re excited to roll out a new Bluetooth provisioning flow on Arduino Cloud — and the UNO R4 WiFi is the first board to support it! Say goodbye to cables and complicated steps: setup is now faster and smoother. Wait, what is provisioning? Provisioning is the process of securely registering your Arduino…
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Building a DIY GPU with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesA GPU (graphics processing unit) is a specialized computer component for, primarily, rendering graphics. That RTX 5090 that you took out a second mortgage to buy is one example. But GPUs are useful for far more than just playing the newest games at max settings; their parallel processing capabilities make them desirable…
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This robot picks locks using brains instead of brawn
Reading Time: 2 minutesA physical lock, like what secures your front door, has a finite and calculable number of combinations, just like a digital keypad does. There are a set number of pins in the lock and each can be one of a set number of lengths. Each of those numbers varies based on manufacturer…
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Dive into satellite IoT with the new Arduino-compatible Iridium Certus 9704 Development Kit
Reading Time: 3 minutesIoT (Internet of Things) devices can be very useful, but they do, by definition, require internet access. That’s easy enough when Wi-Fi® is available, and it is even possible to rely on LoRa® and cellular data connections to transmit data outside of urban areas. However, deploying an IoT device to a truly…
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Alvik Fight Club: A creative twist on coding, competition, and collaboration
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat happens when you hand an educational robot to a group of developers and ask them to build something fun? At Arduino, you get a multiplayer robot showdown that’s part battle, part programming lesson, and entirely Alvik. The idea for Alvik Fight Club first came to life during one of our internal…
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Concept Bytes’ coffee table tracks people and walks itself across a room when called
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe term “mmWave” refers to radio waves with wavelengths on the millimeter scale. When it comes to wireless communications technology, like 5G, mmWave allows for very fast data transfer — though that comes at the expense of range. But mmWave technology also has some very useful sensing and scanning applications, which you…
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Building a Wi-Fi robot controller that accepts voice commands
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe whole point of a robot is that it can operate without direct control input from an operator. Except there are many exceptions and it isn’t uncommon for roboticists and operators to require direct control. The Tinkering Techie needed to add that capability to his rover robot and built his own Wi-Fi…
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This automatic emergency braking system protects RC cars
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is a story as old as time (or at least the 1960s): kid gets an RC car for Christmas and excitedly takes it for spin, but crashes it into a wall within five minutes and tears ensue. The automotive industry has cut down on accidents by implementing automatic emergency braking safety…
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This unique electronic toy helps children learn their shapes
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt isn’t a secret that many kids find math to be boring and it is easy for them to develop an attitude of “when am I ever going to use this?” But math is incredibly useful in the real world, from blue-collar machinists using trigonometry to quantum physicists unveiling the secrets of…
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This machine automatically scans books from cover to cover
Reading Time: 2 minutesHard data is hard to find, but roughly 100 million books were published prior to the 21st century. Of those, a significant portion were never available in a digital format and haven’t yet been digitized, which means their content is effectively inaccessible to most people today. To bring that content into the…
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The PlatypusBot is a TurtleBot3-inspired robot built from vacuum cleaner parts
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all love the immense convenience provided by robot vacuum cleaners, but what happens when they get too old to function? Rather than throwing it away, Milos Rasic from element14 Presents wanted to extract the often-expensive components and repurpose them into an entirely new robot, inspired by the TurtleBot3: the PlatypusBot. Rasic…
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Why we chose Claude for the Arduino Cloud AI Assistant
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe know that introducing AI into your coding environment comes with questions – about safety, accuracy, privacy, and trust. That’s why we want to be transparent about how we built the recently-announced Arduino AI Assistant in the Cloud IDE, and why we chose to power it with Claude by Anthropic, available via…
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This 1D camera captures 2D images of things it can’t see
Reading Time: 2 minutesYes, the title of this article sounds pretty crazy. But not only is it entirely possible through the lens of physics, but it is also practical to achieve in the real world using affordable parts. Jon Bumstead pulled it off with an Arduino, a photoresistor, and an inexpensive portable projector. Today’s digital…
