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ASPIR is a full-size, Arduino-powered humanoid robot
Reading Time: 2 minutesASPIR is a full-size, Arduino-powered humanoid robot Arduino Team — November 3rd, 2017 Building robots can be difficult, and if you want to construct something humanoid, designing the mechanics alone can be a significant task. ASPIR, which stands just over four feet tall, looks like a great place to start. John Choi’s…
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Mother Angry After School's Robocall Keeps Mispronouncing Daughter's Name As A Racial Slur
Reading Time: 3 minutesNicomi Stewart, a mother in Rochester, New York, is “disgusted” after an automated call sent to her phone from the city’s school district mispronounced her daughter’s name as a racial slur. Stewart’s daughter is named Nicarri. Stewart told WHAM TV the message clearly began, “This is Edison Career and Technology High School. Your…
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Manipulate time with this Arduino-controlled LED glove
Reading Time: 2 minutesManipulate time with this Arduino-controlled LED glove Arduino Team — November 2nd, 2017 While you might not be able to actually manipulate time, this glove by YouTuber “MadGyver” certainly makes it appear that way. His glove, shown in the video below, uses a gigantic LED controlled by an Arduino Nano to allow…
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An Arduino-controlled geodesic greenhouse and chicken coop
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn Arduino-controlled geodesic greenhouse and chicken coop Arduino Team — November 1st, 2017 Danish industrial design student Mikkel Mikkelsen decided to do something a little different this spring, and constructed a self-sufficient geodesic greenhouse dome. His dome, which was planned using this online calculator, now stands roughly 13 feet tall, providing space for…
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Automate Halloween with the Stack-O-Lantern memory game
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomate Halloween with the Stack-O-Lantern memory game Arduino Team — November 1st, 2017 While Halloween has come and gone, it’s not too early to start brainstorming for next year’s jack-o’-lantern hack. Perhaps you’re thinking about lighting a pumpkin with an Uno-powered array of LEDs, or activating a shield to play scary recorded noises. If,…
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Capturing a complex TV commercial with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesCapturing a complex TV commercial with Arduino Arduino Team — October 31st, 2017 Ever wonder how studios like Oslo-based Flambert get perfectly timed (and complex) shots of “disasters,” such as the destruction of a birthday party setting seen in the Coop Obs! commercial below? While the moving camera position was handled by…
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An Arduino vibe bowl screw feeder
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Arduino vibe bowl screw feeder Arduino Team — October 26th, 2017 Vibratory bowls, which feed small parts up a long curved ramp, are essential elements in many types of automated manufacturing. While the video seen here doesn’t get into how the bowls themselves are made, a crucial part of the…
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Ivy is a massive 240-step sequencer
Reading Time: 2 minutesIvy is a massive 240-step sequencer Arduino Team — October 24th, 2017 Most musical sequencers use an array of buttons to control sounds played in 16 or perhaps 32 steps. As seen here, Moscow-based artist Dmitry Morozov (aka ::vtol::) created an installation called “Ivy” wth not 16, but 240! The sequencer is…
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Building an ALS communication device with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuilding an ALS communication device with Arduino Arduino Team — October 24th, 2017 The father of hacker Ricardo Andere de Mello’s good friend has ALS. His symptoms have become worse recently, causing the loss of much of his motor control. To help with the situation, de Mello decided to build a device that…
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Students invent a low-cost electric wheelchair kit with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents invent a low-cost electric wheelchair kit with Arduino Arduino Team — October 23rd, 2017 While electric wheelchairs are a vital tool for those with restricted mobility, they typically cost around $2,500, an amount that’s not the most affordable. To address this problem, a group of students from Aviv High School in…
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The Weather Followers randomizes your digital experience
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Weather Followers randomizes your digital experience Arduino Team — October 20th, 2017 As our lives become more and more automated, we tend to rely on computers and unseen algorithms to “protect” us from unapproved experiences. In order to illustrate this concept, and hopefully introduce serendipitous events to our digital lives, David…
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Integrating a Nintendo Power Glove with today’s VR technology
Reading Time: 2 minutesIntegrating a Nintendo Power Glove with today’s VR technology Arduino Team — October 19th, 2017 When the Power Glove was released in the early 1990s, the idea that you could control games with hand motions was incredible, but like the Virtual Boy that followed years later, the hardware of the day just…
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Make an Arduino-controlled boost gauge for your racing sim dash
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake an Arduino-controlled boost gauge for your racing sim dash Arduino Team — October 18th, 2017 If you’re really serious about car racing games, at some point you may want to upgrade your instruments from being on-screen to physically residing in your living room. While this would appear to be an…
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Antique organ speaks clues at an escape room
Reading Time: 2 minutesAntique organ speaks clues at an escape room Arduino Team — October 17th, 2017 When tasked with converting an antique pump organ—sort of a miniature version of a full-sized pipe organ—into part of an escape room puzzle, hacker Alec Smecher decided to turn it into a vocal MIDI device. To accomplish this,…
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A Playmobil Wedding Band
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Playmobil Wedding Band Arduino Team — October 16th, 2017 Two of Boris Werner’s friends, both musicians, were getting married, so for a unique gift he decided on a miniature stage setup with a Playmobil bride and groom as the guitarists. After some research and ordering quite a few parts, he…
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Be among the first to try the Arduino IDE 1.9 Beta
Reading Time: 3 minutesToday we’re very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce the new development cycle of the Arduino IDE. As you may have noticed, we’ve been continuously removing functionality from the Java package, and migrating them to a collection of external tools. We began this project by moving the build logic to arduino-builder,…
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An Arduino Mouse Wiggler!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Arduino Mouse Wiggler! Arduino Team — October 10th, 2017 If, for whatever reason, you need your computer to stay awake without changing its settings, that’s easy—just remember to shake your mouse back and forth intermittently! If remembering to do that over and over seems like too much work, then here’s…
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Mac OS High Sierra makes the Mac a teeny, tiny bit better — for free
Reading Time: 9 minutesApple CEO Tim Cook (R) views the MacBook Pro in the demo room after an Apple media event in Cupertino, California, U.S. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach More It’s no shock that Apple puts most of its effort into improving the iPhone. The iPhone is a cash cow big enough to be heard from the…
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MIZUHO: Here's why Facebook has 'a realistic opportunity' to enter China in 2018
Reading Time: 3 minutesMark Zuckerberg China More Facebook has a „realistic opportunity“ to enter China in 2018, Mizuho analyst James Lee wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. Lee came to the conclusion after meeting „various industry contacts“ in China during a recent trip. He outlined a few factors that he believes increase the…
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Apple’s wireless charger may not ship with the new iPhones at launch
Reading Time: 2 minutessamsung wireless charging pad More Apple is expected to include wireless charging as a core feature in the iPhones it launches on Tuesday, but Apple’s own wireless charger may not ship along the new iPhones. A new report from Apple’s Asian supply chain indicates that Apple still needs „technological breakthroughs“ before it…
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The top 8 features we expect from Apple's next iPhone
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis Tuesday, Sept. 12 (AAPL) Apple will unveil its highly anticipated 10th anniversary iPhone. And while the notoriously secretive company isn’t giving us any information about the handset — we’re not even sure if it’s going to be the iPhone X or iPhone 8 or if we’ll see both — that hasn’t stopped…
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Apple's App Store is about to get a lot better with iOS 11
Reading Time: 3 minutesApple’s (AAPL) App Store doesn’t just boost the iPhone and iPad — it’s a boon for an entire subsection of the economy. Without the App Store, we likely wouldn’t have things like Uber, Seamless, Lyft, Snapchat (SNAP) or Tinder. Heck, even companies like Spotify, Facebook (FB) Messenger and Yelp (YELP) wouldn’t be…
