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Access doors with a color card locking system!
Reading Time: 2 minutesAccess doors with a color card locking system! Arduino Team — March 12th, 2018 When you swipe a card through a reader, you expect it to read a magnetic stripe on one end. In other circumstances cards might contain an RFID chip, but what if the card only had a pattern of…
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Spirotrope combines a Stirling engine, a Spirograph, and an Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesSpirotrope combines a Stirling engine, a Spirograph, and an Arduino Arduino Team — March 12th, 2018 Witaya Junma decided to combine creations from three different time periods: a Spirograph (1965), Stirling engine (1816), and an Arduino board developed in the 2000s to form a unique art piece. What he came up with…
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One LED Matrix Table to rule them all
Reading Time: 3 minutesGermany-based Andreas Rottach’s multi-purpose LED table is an impressive build within a gorgeous-looking body. Play games, view (heavily pixelated) images, and become hypnotised by flashy lights, once you’ve built your own using his newly released tutorial. LED-Matrix Table – 300 LEDs – Raspberry Pi – C++ Engine – Custom Controllers This is…
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PipeCam: the low-cost underwater camera
Reading Time: 3 minutesFred Fourie is building a low-cost underwater camera for shallow deployment, and his prototypes are already returning fascinating results. You can build your own PipeCam, and explore the undiscovered depths with a Raspberry Pi and off-the-shelf materials. Materials and build In its latest iteration, PipeCam consists of a 110mm PVC waste pipe with…
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Pong embedded in a vintage Sony Watchman with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minutePong embedded in a vintage Sony Watchman with Arduino Arduino Team — March 8th, 2018 There’s perhaps no other game more classic than Pong, and likely none that require fewer control inputs, making it perfect for “porting” to a Sony Watchman. While an amazing piece of tech when introduced in the…
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Coding is for girls
Reading Time: 5 minutesLess than four years ago, Magda Jadach was convinced that programming wasn’t for girls. On International Women’s Day, she tells us how she discovered that it definitely is, and how she embarked on the new career that has brought her to Raspberry Pi as a software developer. “Coding is for boys”, “in…
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Automate a rubber strip door with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomate a rubber strip door with Arduino Arduino Team — March 7th, 2018 In order to separate their office and shop areas, NYC CNC installed a rubber strip assembly that had to be pushed out of the way every time someone wanted to walk through. Although functional, it was also quite…
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LED cubes and how to map them
Reading Time: 2 minutesTaking inspiration from a cube he had filmed at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, Germany, polyfloyd gathered friends Sebastius and Boekenwuurm together to create their own. The build As polyfloyd’s blog post for the project notes, Sebastius led the way with the hardware portion of the build. The cube is made…
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CTC 101: Giro d’Italia + CTC Faire in Barcelona
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe last couple of weeks have kept the Arduino Education team extremely busy. While some of us were presenting CTC 101 to teachers all across Italy, others were in Barcelona for the CTC 101 Faire with more than 4,000 upper secondary students showcasing the projects they created as a result of the…
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Connect Pour!
Reading Time: 2 minutesConnect Pour! Arduino Team — March 6th, 2018 What do you get when you combine Connect Four with beer pong? Connect Pour, of course! After inspiration from a much larger basketball version, this hacker decided to make a game that allows you to throw ping pong balls into Solo cup targets. When…
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Voice-controlled magnification glasses
Reading Time: 3 minutesGo hands-free in the laboratory or makerspace with Mauro Pichiliani’s voice-controlled magnification glasses. Voice Controlled Glasses With Magnifying Lens This video presents the project MoveLens: a voice controlled glasses with magnifying lens. It was the my entry for the Voice Activated context on unstructables. Check the step by step guide at Voice…
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Barcode reader for visually impaired shoppers
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo aid his mother in reading the labels of her groceries, Russell Grokett linked a laser barcode reader to a Raspberry Pi Zero W to read out the names of scanned item. RASPBERRY PI TALKING BARCODE READER My mom is unable to read labels on grocery items anymore, so I went looking…
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A DIY hardware watchdog for your mining rig
Reading Time: 2 minutesA DIY hardware watchdog for your mining rig Arduino Team — March 2nd, 2018 Vadim Panov wanted a way to automatically restart a PC that was simple and cheap to make. For this task, he turned to an Uno due to its wide availability; however, any Arduino board with at least one…
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Test your aim in this carnival-style IR target game
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTest your aim in this carnival-style IR target game Arduino Team — March 2nd, 2018 For a class assignment, Matt Robb along with teammates Kara and Andrew needed to make a project using an Arduino and various other components. What they came up with was a carnival-style game that uses a…
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Petoi: a Pi-powered kitty cat
Reading Time: 3 minutesA robot pet is the dream of many a child, thanks to creatures such as K9, Doctor Who’s trusted companion, and the Tamagotchi, bleeping nightmare of parents worldwide. But both of these pale in comparison (sorry, K9) to Petoi, the walking, meowing, live-streaming cat from maker Rongzhong Li. Petoi: OpenCat Demo Mentioned…
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Simulate sand with Adafruit’s newest project
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Ruiz brothers at Adafruit have used Phillip Burgess’s PixieDust code to turn a 64×64 LED Matrix and a Raspberry Pi Zero into an awesome sand toy that refuses to defy the laws of gravity. Here’s how to make your own. BIG LED Sand Toy – Raspberry Pi RGB LED Matrix Simulated…
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Happy birthday to us!
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that today is 28 February, which is as close as you’re going to get to our sixth birthday, given that we launched on a leap day. For the last three years, we’ve launched products on or around our birthday: Raspberry Pi 2 in 2015; Raspberry…
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Measure RPM with an IR sensor and Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesMeasure RPM with an IR sensor and Arduino Arduino Team — February 27th, 2018 When dealing with robotics and other electronics projects, it can be important to know how many revolutions a motor is making. From here, you can infer the distance that your device has traveled, or any number of other…
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New free online course about building makerspaces
Reading Time: 2 minutesHelping people to get into making is at the heart of what we do, and so we’ve created a brand-new, free online course to support educators to start their own makerspaces. If you’re interested in the maker movement, then this course is for you! Sign up now and start learning with Build…
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Make your own 3D-printed robotic vacuum with Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake your own 3D-printed robotic vacuum with Arduino Arduino Team — February 26th, 2018 Tired of cleaning your house? A robotic vacuum may be the logical solution, but if you’re “theking3737” something off-the-shelf just isn’t quite cool enough. Created as part of a school project, he was responsible for the hardware design,…
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Transition from Scratch to Python with FutureLearn
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith the launch of our first new free online course of 2018 — Scratch to Python: Moving from Block- to Text-based Programming — two weeks away, I thought this would be a great opportunity to introduce you to the ins and outs of the course content so you know what to expect.…
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Let an Arduino notify you when the coffee is ready
Reading Time: 2 minutesLet an Arduino notify you when the coffee is ready Arduino Team — February 23rd, 2018 Hacker “wesgood,” apparently not satisfied with randomly checking the office coffee pot to see if a fresh brew was available, decided to make his own notification system. His device uses a current sensor to monitor power…
