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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…
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Desafío STEM + Arduino Podcast [Español]
Reading Time: 2 minutesDesafío STEM + Arduino Podcast [Español] Arduino Team — November 13th, 2017 Con el fin de apoyar a los nuevos participantes del Desafío STEM 2017, Arduino y Telefónica se han unido para crear una serie de tres podcast, abiertos al público en general, conducidos por David Cuartielles. Desafío STEM es un concurso…
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Mini Strandbeest goes electric with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMini Strandbeest goes electric with Arduino Arduino Team — November 9th, 2017 Strandbeests, as originally conceived, are gigantic PVC creatures that walk across the sand under wind power. While building one is certainly an enormous undertaking, smaller models are available that let you experience this strange kinetic motion in a more…
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Maker Faire Rome 2017: Call for Volunteers
Reading Time: 2 minutesMaker Faire Rome 2017: Call for Volunteers Arduino Team — November 7th, 2017 Planning on attending Maker Faire Rome next month? We’re currently seeking volunteers to join our team during the event—staffing tables and displays, leading one-on-one workshops and demos, and providing technical assistance when necessary. If you volunteer with us for one shift, you…
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Simple Computer Gesture Control with Arduino and Python
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSimple Computer Gesture Control with Arduino and Python Arduino Team — November 6th, 2017 As outlined in this Circuit Digest write-up, with the right hardware, you can now control your computer using hand gestures. While interesting, this kind of technology can be a little expensive. But if you’d like to augment your notebook…
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Use all your old-school game controllers with the turn of a dial
Reading Time: 2 minutesUse all your old-school game controllers with the turn of a dial Arduino Team — November 6th, 2017 IT professional (and Arduino cap fan) John Milner had a minor problem. While his retro gaming setup could emulate a wide variety of systems and games, it was still missing the tactile feedback of the…
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Linux support comes to Arduino Create
Reading Time: 2 minutesLinux support comes to Arduino Create Arduino Team — November 3rd, 2017 We’re excited to announce a new update to the Arduino Create web platform, which will enable fast and easy development and deployment of IoT applications with integrated cloud services on Linux-based devices. What this means is that users will be able…