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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis window blinds controller follows the sun Arduino Team — April 3rd, 2018 Blinds let you see out and let the light into your dwelling, then flip them down when you need privacy or darkness. They do, however, have their disadvantages in that the cords constantly get mixed up and tangled, and—most importantly—they’re not automated! […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Yùn Rev.2 is here! Massimo Banzi — March 29th, 2018 Since its launch in 2013, the Yùn–a small Linux machine and a microcontroller in a small Arduino form factor–found its way into hundreds of thousands of projects and professional applications. Last year, we decided that it was time for a refresh and began working […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesCTC, a project from the 2015 edition CTC stands for Creative Technologies in the Classroom, an initiative from Arduino Education aimed at helping teachers get up to speed with 21st century skills in the context of STEAM. We have been working with CTC since 2013, with our first experience in Castilla La Mancha, Spain. During […]
Reading Time: 2 minutespedalSHIELD MEGA is a programmable guitar pedal for your Arduino Arduino Team — March 27th, 2018 If you want to create new guitar sounds without having to redo your pedal wiring every single time, the pedalSHIELD MEGA from ElectroSmash could be just what you’re looking for. The pedalSHIELD MEGA takes input from a guitar via […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCheck the time on a glow-in-the-dark plot clock Arduino Team — March 26th, 2018 If you thought plot clocks that write on a tiny whiteboard were cool, this project takes things to the next level, jotting down the time not with a dry-erase marker, but with a UV LED on a glow-in-the-dark sticker. The device […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesSave the date: Arduino Day 2018 is Saturday, May 12th! Arduino Team — March 23rd, 2018 For the fifth year in a row we are inviting the open-source community to join us for Arduino Day 2018 on Saturday, May 12th! Arduino Day is a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s birthday. It’s a 24 hours-long event–organized by the community and our team–where people […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesA beautifully finished Arduino temperature and humidity sensor Arduino Team — March 21st, 2018 Jay and Jamie wanted a temperature and humidity sensor for their workshop. Instead of buying something off the shelf or hooking up an Arduino with the proper sensor and breadboard, they went the extra mile. The duo crafted a beautiful walnut enclosure—compete […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDesafío STEM 2017/18 in Spain dcuartielles — March 20th, 2018 Telefónica Educación Digital, the education branch of Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica, arranged a contest for students in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) for the second year. While the 2016/17 edition of the contest was launched only in Spain, 2017/18’s took place […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThese interactive hair extensions can communicate over Bluetooth Arduino Team — March 20th, 2018 For the most part, the next generation of wearable technology development has been focused around your wrist, arm, ears, and even your face. Hair, however, remains a unique and much less explored material… until now, at least. That’s because the team […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteControl your computer sheet music with the PartitionsDuino Arduino Team — March 19th, 2018 Performing an instrument well is hard enough, but flipping through sheet music while playing can slightly delay things in the best case, or can cause you to lose your concentration altogether. Music displayed on a computer is a similar story; however, Maxime Boudreau […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Pong clock displays the time and temperature in score-like fashion Arduino Team — March 19th, 2018 If you need to get creative with something useful, clocks are always great objects to hack together. One idea, in particular, is this Pong Clock from Brett Oliver. Oliver’s Arduino-powered device is based off of a similar project by Nick Hall, and […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe recently sponsored one of the labs at Lulea University in Sweden, the INSPIRE (INstrumentation for Space and Planetary Investigation, Resources and Exploration) Lab. It is not just any lab, it is the lab from Prof. Mari Paz Zorzano and Prof. Javier Martín-Torres, both known for their work in the possibility of discovering water on […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuilding interactive plant lamps with Arduino Arduino Team — March 15th, 2018 As part of a physical interaction and realization course at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a team of students decided to build an interactive installation called “Alone Together” Their setup consists of sensor-equipped, networking artificial plants. The leafy plant model, dubbed “Thorulf,” uses […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAntique Coke machine enhanced with Arduino can counter Arduino Team — March 15th, 2018 “ChrisN219” is the proud owner of an antique Coke machine that he uses to store his favorite beverages. While a very cool decoration, it doesn’t have a way to reveal how many cans are left. To add this functionality, he turned to […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesOn March 10th, I was a guest speaker at Maker Faire Cairo 2018 as a representative of Arduino. I took the opportunity as I had never been to Egypt and was really curious about the maker culture there. You can imagine that different cultures are always going to adopt ideas in various ways and Maker […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou can now use Arduino to program Linux IoT devices Arduino Team — March 13th, 2018 Today, at Embedded Linux Conference 2018, Arduino announced the expansion of the number of architectures supported by its Arduino Create platform for the development of IoT applications. With this new release, Arduino Create users can manage and program a […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesParisian collective Hackerloop have made a custom non-lethal weapon with 3D printing; DIY prosthetic Nerf gun is triggered using electrodes that detect muscle activity. In the litany of crazy projects involving 3D printing, this ranks somewhere near the top; a prosthetic Nerf Gun that fires foam bullets. Credit belongs to the Hackerloop collective of tinkerers […]
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 colors on it? […]
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 is the Spirotrope, […]
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 early ’80s, the current […]
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 annoying, so they devised a […]
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 CTC 101 2017-18 […]