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 couldn’t keep up. […]

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 arduous task, displaying your […]

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, he embedded switches […]

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 was able to construct […]

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, which now also […]

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 a simple solution: a […]

Hacker Uses 3D Printer to Build Machine That Cracks Combination Locks in 30-Seconds

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHacker Samy Kamkar has created a 3-D-printable Arduino-based lock-opening machine called “Combo Breaker.” Simply attach it to a Master Lock combination locks, turn it on, and the machine will do the rest in a maximum of 5-minutes with absolutely no human interaction required. Kamar says: “The machine pretty much brute-forces the lock for you. You […]