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Create a custom Secret Santa trivia box with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesCreate a custom Secret Santa trivia box with Arduino Arduino Team — December 20th, 2017 Participating in Reddit’s Secret Santa this year, hacker “Haxxa” decided to go all out, picking out not only several gifts for the recipient, but an Arduino-powered trivia box to house them in. In use, an Arduino Nano onboard…
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Interact with the virtual world in a whole new way
Reading Time: 2 minutesInteract with the virtual world in a whole new way Arduino Team — December 20th, 2017 As reported by the Creative Applications Network, “Tangibles Worlds explores the effects of tactile experience as a catalyst for full immersion in VR.” The project by Stella Speziali takes the form of three separate boxes, along with…
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This control panel references your favorite sci-fi films
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis control panel references your favorite sci-fi films Arduino Team — December 19th, 2017 While you may question if some of the blinking lights and buttons in science fiction movies actually do anything, you’d still really like to hit those buttons just to see what happens, right? If that sounds like you,…
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Star Wars fan creates an Arduino-powered rebel pilot chest box
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStar Wars fan creates an Arduino-powered rebel pilot chest box Arduino Team — December 19th, 2017 If you’d like a rebel fighter pilot suit, complete with the automated chest box, then look no further than this excellent build from “badjer1.” It features a chest box with the same dimensions seen in…
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Automatic trash can optimized for battery life
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomatic trash can optimized for battery life Arduino Team — December 15th, 2017 If you have a trash can with a lid, you’ve probably accepted the small inconvenience of opening it with your hand and foot. YouTube hacker MadGyver, however, came up with a different solution using an Arduino Nano and…
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New search engine and Arduino reference!
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew search engine and Arduino reference! mastrolinux — December 14th, 2017 The Arduino web team has working hard behind the scenes improving our legacy systems. Now, it’s time to work on something more interesting for the team and more useful for our community! From here on out, we will update you every month on the latest and…
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Slide the “time clock” into position with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSlide the “time clock” into position with Arduino Arduino Team — December 14th, 2017 Years ago, if you wanted to track employee hours, you needed to have them punch a time card. Saunders Machine Works, however, uses a facial recognition system running on an iPad for this purpose, meaning they had…
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3D-printed miniature roller coaster powered by Arduino Mega
Reading Time: < 1 minute3D-printed miniature roller coaster powered by Arduino Mega Arduino Team — December 13th, 2017 While many enjoy roller coasters, few can claim the same dedication of engineer Matt Schmotzer, who 3D-printed a 1/25th scale replica of Invertigo, a boomerang coaster at Kings Island in Ohio. As reported on 3D Printer Chat,…
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This DIY machine mixes your favorite three-ingredient cocktail
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis DIY machine mixes your favorite three-ingredient cocktail Arduino Team — December 12th, 2017 Do you and your friends have a favorite cocktail? If so—and if it has three ingredients—then this Arduino-based cocktail machine from YouTuber “GreatScott!” may be worth checking out. The device is capable of mixing three liquids, which in…
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Create a beat by nodding your head
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate a beat by nodding your head Arduino Team — December 11th, 2017 If you are really enjoying a song, you may start to bob your head to the tunes, but what if you could instead create actual music with this subtle movement? That’s exactly what Andrew Lee’s “Nod Bang” system…
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Santa’s Shop is an animated storytelling installation
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSanta’s Shop is an animated storytelling installation Arduino Team — December 7th, 2017 Santa’s Shop is an amazing Christmas display consisting of trains, animated figurines, a rotating tree, and several other interesting holiday-themed gadgets. The decoration features hundreds of 3D-printed parts and many handmade characters, controlled by 46 servos and a total…
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The Imperializer makes quick work of metric conversions
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Imperializer makes quick work of metric conversions Arduino Team — December 6th, 2017 When you work in a machine shop, you often need to convert numbers from metric to imperial. As long as you have to do this on a regular basis, why not make a tool to do so easily?…
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Build your own antenna rotator/satellite tracking device
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBuild your own antenna rotator/satellite tracking device Arduino Team — December 5th, 2017 After finding that purchasing a tracking device for his satellite dish would be quite expensive, YouTuber “Tysonpower” decided to simply build one himself. What he came up is an assembly made with 3D-printed parts and extruded aluminum that…
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A chronograph rig for high-speed glass photography
Reading Time: 2 minutesA chronograph rig for high-speed glass photography Arduino Team — December 5th, 2017 To capture images of bullets “interacting” with various objects, photographic hacker Tyler Gerritsen created an impressive chronograph rig, able to measure the speed of a bullet launched from a rifle at 1000 meters per second. While the concept of measuring…
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Come and visit Arduino at Maker Faire Rome this weekend!
Reading Time: 2 minutesCome and visit Arduino at Maker Faire Rome this weekend! Arduino Team — November 30th, 2017 Starting tomorrow, Friday, December 1st, the Arduino team will be exhibiting at the 5th annual Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition. Those heading to Rome over the weekend (December 1st -3rd) are invited to swing by…
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Create the smart home gadget of the future with Alexa and Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesCreate the smart home gadget of the future with Alexa and Arduino Arduino Team — November 21st, 2017 We’re excited to announce a new challenge with Amazon Alexa and Hackster.io, which invites the Arduino community to design the smart home gadgets of the future. Makers have already come up with exciting ways to integrate Alexa and Arduino into…
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Antique grandfather clock retrofitted with Arduino control
Reading Time: 2 minutesAntique grandfather clock retrofitted with Arduino control Arduino Team — November 20th, 2017 When you see a mechanical clock, you know on some level that it took a vast amount of expertise and craftsmanship to get working, but you might also assume that this could all be swapped out very easily with modern…
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Building an 8-step keyboard sequencer with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuilding an 8-step keyboard sequencer with Arduino Arduino Team — November 20th, 2017 Sequencers, as YouTuber “LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER” explains, are musical devices that go through a sequence of tones one by one. While this can be done quite simply with a 4017 counter chip, if you instead substitute in an Arduino board for…
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DIY vending machine with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDIY vending machine with Arduino Arduino Team — November 17th, 2017 Have you ever wanted a vending machine for snacks but didn’t know where to start? With an Arduino Mega, some motors, and an infrared sensor to detect coins, Dejan Nedelkovski decided to build his own using only hand tools. The DIY vending machine’s structure…
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An excellent two-sided UV exposure box
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn excellent two-sided UV exposure box Arduino Team — November 16th, 2017 If you want to make your own custom PCBs at home, one method is to paint a circuit board blank with photosensitive material, then expose the portion you don’t want to UV light using a printed transparency. After a process…
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Creating a classroom quiz machine with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesCreating a classroom quiz machine with Arduino Arduino Team — November 14th, 2017 Quiz games, where contestants try to “buzz” in and answer questions make for fun televised game shows, but they can also be great for making learning fun. In order to avoid paying several hundred dollars for an official quiz…
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Star Wars fan builds an Arduino-powered R4-P17 replica
Reading Time: 2 minutesStar Wars fan builds an Arduino-powered R4-P17 replica Arduino Team — November 13th, 2017 Alejandro Clavijo, together with his father Jerónimo, spent two years building the first official fan-made model of the R4-P17 Star Wars droid. For those not familiar with this family of droids, R4-P17 was the robot companion to the…
