Build your own automatic bean sprouter for superfood meals

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — September 13th, 2022 Mung bean sprouts are a very popular food throughout Asia, as they are nutritious and extremely easy to grow. While you can certainly purchase these bean sprouts at your local markets, you can also take advantage of their easy cultivation to grow your own. Doing so is affordable and […]

Simon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator

Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator Arduino Team — September 13th, 2022 Many types of calculators exist beyond those basic models that everyone used in elementary school. The most common is the scientific calculator, including the iconic Texas Instruments TI-83. Programmer’s calculators contain buttons and functionality designed to help with coding, with […]

Simon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator

Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator Arduino Team — September 13th, 2022 Many types of calculators exist beyond those basic models that everyone used in elementary school. The most common is the scientific calculator, including the iconic Texas Instruments TI-83. Programmer’s calculators contain buttons and functionality designed to help with coding, with […]

Simon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator

Reading Time: 2 minutesSimon Boak’s SB116 is a TI Programmer-inspired DIY calculator Arduino Team — September 13th, 2022 Many types of calculators exist beyond those basic models that everyone used in elementary school. The most common is the scientific calculator, including the iconic Texas Instruments TI-83. Programmer’s calculators contain buttons and functionality designed to help with coding, with […]

tinyML device monitors packages for damage while in transit

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — September 10th, 2022 Although the advent of widespread online shopping has been a great convenience, it has also led to a sharp increase in the number of returned items. This can be blamed on a number of factors, but a large contributor to this issue is damage in shipping. Shebin Jose Jacob’s solution involves […]

This piece of art knows when it’s being photographed thanks to tinyML

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis piece of art knows when it’s being photographed thanks to tinyML Arduino Team — September 9th, 2022 Nearly all art functions in just a single direction by allowing the viewer to admire its beauty, creativity, and construction. But Estonian artist Tauno Erik has done something a bit different thanks to embedded hardware and the […]

Building an experimental wave drive tank

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — September 8th, 2022 There are many ways to make a thing ambulatory beyond simply slapping on some wheels. James Bruton often experiments with these unique drive mechanisms, whether they are practical or not. In his newest video, he built what he calls a “wave drive” to propel a tank-like robot. This experimental […]

Detecting and tracking worker falls with embedded ML

Reading Time: 2 minutesCertain industries rely on workers being able to reach high spaces through the use of ladders or mobile standing platforms. And because of their potential danger if a fall were to occur, Roni Bandini had the idea to create an integrated system that can detect a fall and report it automatically across a wide variety of scenarios. […]

Mass scale with the new Arduino Cloud CLI

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Arduino IoT Cloud enables makers, IoT enthusiasts and professionals to build easily connected projects based on a wide range of Arduino, ESP32, and ESP8266 boards. Following Arduino’s vision, it has been carefully designed to provide the most user-friendly and intuitive experience, abstracting the complex tasks that create barriers for users who are not familiar […]

This wrapping machine makes wire harness creation a breeze

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — September 5th, 2022 Many products require the use of wire harnesses, which are essentially bundles of cabling that connect one subsystem to another, such as a car engine’s sensors to the ECU. DIY projects can also find themselves needing one, but having to manage the wiring without tangles or unwanted bends can […]

Automating precise welds with an Arduino

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — September 5th, 2022 Welding is a skill that takes years to perfect, and yet consistently placing a TIG welder in exactly the right spot many times over is nearly impossible. To assist with this process, a few of element14 Presents host Kaleb Clark and his company’s clients had constructed two rigs using PLCs but needed […]

40+ Ideas For Your Next Home Automation Project with Arduino Cloud

Reading Time: 3 minutesArduino Team — September 2nd, 2022 Home automation has increasingly become a need in our lives. Without even noticing it we have been adding connected elements to our homes and buildings to make our lives easier and nowadays we are surrounded by electronic devices that monitor our environment, control our lighting systems and appliances, and […]

Arduino improves the compilation terms for the free plan in the online IDE

Reading Time: 3 minutesOnline interactive development environments (IDE) have taken off during the recent years. Traditionally, local IDEs were considered the best tools for programming as they were usually faster than their online counterparts. But the arrival of new web programming frameworks and the standardisation of high-speed internet connections have improved the user experience of interactive editors using […]

Convert an old telephone into a MIDI instrument

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — September 1st, 2022 MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a fantastic standard because it is versatile enough to encompass almost all instruments, but simple enough to work with using low-power digital hardware. A typical MIDI message contains three bytes. The first is a status byte that describes the action (like “note on”) […]

Controlling a bionic hand with tinyML keyword spotting

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 31st, 2022 Traditional methods of sending movement commands to prosthetic devices often include electromyography (reading electrical signals from muscles) or simple Bluetooth modules. But in this project, Ex Machina has developed an alternative strategy that enables users to utilize voice commands and perform various gestures accordingly. The hand itself was made from five SG90 […]

Monitoring the force of a 20-ton hydraulic press

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 29th, 2022 Material testing often comes down to breaking stuff and measuring how much force it took to do so. How a thing breaks is a result of different strength properties. There are many different types of strength, but mechanical engineers are most concerned with tensile, compressive, shear, and torsional strength. […]

Classic Macintosh gets a massive ePaper display

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 24th, 2022 The original Apple Macintosh computer, launched in 1984, was fundamental for ushering in GUIs (graphical user interfaces). It wasn’t the first personal computer to feature a GUI operating system and the concurrent Apple II still retained a more traditional command line interface for years, but we largely have the […]

An Arduino controls this strange two-wheel steering e-bike

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 24th, 2022 James Bruton loves to experiment with unusual vehicle drive systems and configurations to find out how they perform under the dynamic conditions of real-world use. Internal combustion engines and driveshafts don’t tend to fit in those vehicles, so Bruton often utilizes electric motors. He usually turns to Arduino to […]

New display technology features magnetic pixels

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 24th, 2022 Display technology, from cathode-ray tubes to LCD screens, exists to convey information to humans visually and it does that very well. But the lack of physical presence makes visual displays useless for almost everything else. The blind can’t feel pixels and computers need resource-intensive algorithms to make sense of […]

Building an electronic pantograph with Hall effect sensors

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 22nd, 2022 A pantograph is a machine that lets an artist copy an image by tracing the original. Traditional mechanical pantographs use a complex linkage system to move the output pen relative to the stylus. While 1:1 pantographs do serve a purpose, the real value comes from a pantograph’s ability to […]

Star Wars-themed device monitors indoor environmental conditions

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 22nd, 2022 We don’t need to tell you that Star Wars is a wildly popular franchise. If you include all of the movies, video games, novels, theme park attractions, and so on, it is the fifth-highest-grossing media franchise of all time (somehow just behind Winnie the Pooh). Because of its popularity, Star Wars themes find their […]

Transforming a 3D printer into a four-axis camera slider

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 19th, 2022 When creating videos, making smooth, level movements at a constant speed is often a very important requirement, as sudden changes can leave viewers uncomfortable. But rather than purchasing an expensive gimbal-stabilized rig or a commercial motorized camera platform, Instructables user dslrdiy decided to devise their own four-axis system using a repurposed 3D […]