Add an Arduino-based tachometer to your CNC router

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdd an Arduino-based tachometer to your CNC router Arduino Team — January 30th, 2018 In order to get a good cut with a CNC router, the cutting tool speed needs to be properly set. Since his CNC didn’t come with RPM feedback, Troy Barbour came up with his own solution using an Arduino Nano along with […]

Dotter is an Arduino-powered dot matrix printer

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDotter is an Arduino-powered dot matrix printer Arduino Team — January 29th, 2018 While largely supplanted by more modern forms of printing, dot matrix printers still have their fans. Few, however, are more dedicated than Nikodem Bartnik, who constructed his own model that pulls paper up to 55cm wide and as long as he needs under […]

Fall asleep with the help of LEDs and an Arduino

Reading Time: 2 minutesFall asleep with the help of LEDs and an Arduino Arduino Team — January 29th, 2018 While some fall asleep nearly immediately with no assistance, others need the drone of a fan or a dedicated noisemaker to help them relax. The Fall Asleep Device, also known as “FADing,” by Youz takes a different approach. FADing shines an […]

Create a custom Kerbal Space Program cockpit with Arduino

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate a custom Kerbal Space Program cockpit with Arduino Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 When you play a video game, the controls are normally a compromise between what you have available (a keyboard/mouse) and the actions you’re trying to convey. This, however, wasn’t good enough for Kerbal Space Program enthusiast Hugo Peeters, who instead […]

Crawl through a 1D LED dungeon with TWANG!

Reading Time: 2 minutesCrawl through a 1D LED dungeon with TWANG! Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 While video games have grown more and more complex over the last few decades, TWANG takes things in the opposite direction as an Arduino Mega-based 1D dungeon crawler consisting of an RGB LED strip. The player—a dot—is controlled via an accelerometer mounted to […]

Arduino Create plans for education now available!

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Create plans for education now available! Arduino Team — January 24th, 2018 Today, we’re excited to announce that Arduino Create is now available for schools with Chrome OS devices in their classrooms. With Arduino Create, students and teachers will be able to tinker with Arduino hardware and programming in a collaborative, always up-to-date environment. […]

This Arduino infinity mirror lights up to music

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Arduino infinity mirror lights up to music Arduino Team — January 23rd, 2018 Infinity mirrors, which make light appear to stretch to infinity by bouncing light between two mirrors, are incredible to observe. Hacker “Evocate” decided to go the extra mile and not only illuminate the inside of his mirror arrangement, but used an […]

Make an interactive coffee table with Arduino and LEDs

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake an interactive coffee table with Arduino and LEDs Arduino Team — January 22nd, 2018 Rather than buying a coffee table, Marija from Creativity Hero decided to build her own, adding an array of 45 programmable LEDs on top of a pine base. An Arduino Mega is used to take input from 45 sensors corresponding to […]

Edgytokei is a 3D Printed Clock Inspired by Nunchucks

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a clock design inspired by martial arts weaponry banned from playgrounds all over the world. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the Edgytokei, made with Arduino and 3D printing. Don’t Miss: 3D Printed Clock: 19 Great Projects to Tell the Time Designer Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi created a faceless clock that is able to tell […]

Light up the elements with this periodic table display

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLight up the elements with this periodic table display Arduino Team — January 16th, 2018 If you took chemistry at any point in your life, you were exposed to the periodic table, which organizes different atomic structures by their atomic number. It’s an amazing chart, demonstrating just how much “stuff” our world is made up […]

RFID-controlled dry cleaner machine displays glowing leaves

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRFID-controlled dry cleaner machine displays glowing leaves Arduino Team — January 16th, 2018 While you may not give dry cleaning conveyors much thought, Andrew Quitmeyer and Madeline Schwartzman’s “Replantment” exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery uses them in an entirely new way, along with glowing silicone molds of leaves from all over the world. The […]

Robotic playing card dealer made with cardboard

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRobotic playing card dealer made with cardboard Arduino Team — January 16th, 2018 Ruben, aka “Ruubz0r,” a mechanical engineering student, was tasked with building a smart object. As he enjoys card games, he decided to make a playing card distributor. The resulting device uses a single servo to slide cards off of a deck, along with […]

Automatically open doors with Arduino!

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomatically open doors with Arduino! Arduino Team — January 12th, 2018 Tired of doing the mundane task of opening your door? This hack from Sieuwe Elferink takes care of that for you, using an Arduino Uno for control. When someone comes within 50 cm of an ultrasonic sensor attached to the door, the Arduino uses […]

Create an Arduino Mega-powered, cable-cutting machine

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate an Arduino Mega-powered, cable-cutting machine Arduino Team — January 12th, 2018 What do you do when faced with measuring and cutting a bunch of cables? If you’re Edward Carlson, you “simply” build a machine to do it for you! While it may not save time on this run, at least on the next occasion […]

The Edgytokei is a nunchucks-inspired edge clock

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Edgytokei is a nunchucks-inspired edge clock Arduino Team — January 11th, 2018 Just when you thought you’d seen every possible hacked clock design, creator Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi has come up with something new: a faceless clock that is able to tell time with two hands that never make a full rotation. Instead, an Arduino […]

Recreating the Apollo Guidance Computer Display and Keyboard with Arduino

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecreating the Apollo Guidance Computer Display and Keyboard with Arduino Arduino Team — January 11th, 2018 Nearly 50 years ago, mankind made the giant leap of being able to travel to the moon. To celebrate, ST-Geotronics has come of with a replica of the Apollo Guidance Computer Display/Keyboard, or AGC DSKY as it’s abbreviated. The […]

Build a block balancing game with Arduino and servos

Reading Time: 2 minutesBuild a block balancing game with Arduino and servos Arduino Team — January 8th, 2018 If you’re tired of classic tower building games like Jenga or stacking cards and would like a new challenge, “mr_fid” has come up with a game where you balance blocks on a tree assembly. The nicely crafted device then moves around […]

Add colorful effects to your 1980s boombox with Arduino and LEDs

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdd colorful effects to your 1980s boombox with Arduino and LEDs Arduino Team — January 5th, 2018 While ’80s-style boomboxes have their own unique character, per hacker “Dancorp’s” excellent mod, it’s clear that they could be improved dramatically with programmable LEDs. This build uses a capacitive filtering arrangement to feed line out signals from the boombox […]

Rick and Morty fans will love this butter robot

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRick and Morty fans will love this butter robot Arduino Team — January 4th, 2018 Up until the present day, if you need butter, you simply ask another human to “pass the butter,” leading to minor inconvenience and awkwardness. Engineering students in Brussels have come up with a novel solution: a robot that brings the butter […]

Build a six-wheeled RC vehicle for any terrain

Reading Time: 2 minutesBuild a six-wheeled RC vehicle for any terrain Arduino Team — January 4th, 2018 In order to create the ultimate off-road RC rig, “asrebro” designed his own six-wheeled vehicle, operated with the help of Arduino. To give it decent range and reliability, the hacker turned to a stock transmitter and receiver, but routed the PWM signals […]

RoboGlove assists users with gripping objects

Reading Time: 2 minutesRoboGlove assists users with gripping objects Arduino Team — January 3rd, 2018 The RoboGlove project is a robotic glove by students at the Université Libre de Bruxelles that is designed to assist the wearer when continuously gripping objects. This is accomplished by a series of three servos that transmit force through cables for the index […]

Playing chiptunes on an old reed organ with Arduino

Reading Time: < 1 minutePlaying chiptunes on an old reed organ with Arduino Arduino Team — January 3rd, 2018 After finding an organ left outside to rot, hacker “tinkartank” decided to use it for his own purposes, adding push buttons under each key as inputs to an Arduino Mega. He also reused the control rods with potentiometers as a secondary […]