Freddie points to the current temperature on the Mercury Thermometer

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 16th, 2022 Nearly everyone is familiar with the mercury thermometer and how it uses the expansion of the element to display ambient temperatures. But in Instructables member TurboSnail’s latest project, they attempted to turn this concept on its head by making a thermometer that uses the iconic Freddie Mercury to show the temperature without the […]

ElectriPop inflates 3D Mylar forms using electrostatic energy

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 14th, 2022 If you’ve ever stuck a balloon to your head, you know that static energy is powerful enough to overcome gravity. It is also possible to produce that energy on demand by running electrical current through some materials, including metalized Mylar sheets. In a recent project from Carnegie Mellon University’s […]

Automated window system helps keep the greenhouse climate regulated

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 9th, 2022 Greenhouses are excellent ways to grow plants due to their compact nature and the fact that they can absorb and store the sun’s light as heat to keep their internal temperature higher than outside. But when it comes to adding ventilation for cooling things down, decreasing the humidity, or […]

Graffiti robot paints like a human

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 9th, 2022 Robots are capable of far more precise and accurate motion than humans are. That is great when you want a robot to assemble a PCB or perform heart surgery. But it’s a problem when you want robots do something creative — they’re just too perfect. The lack of human-introduced […]

This system continuously monitors water levels for seven houses

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 8th, 2022 For the last 50 years, Ovidiu’s Romanian village has relied on a small water source located at a spring, but due to increased droughts, they have since been dependent on an additional well. So far, the process of switching on the pump to refill the main reservoir has been done […]

This DIY driving assistant helps with parking and blindspot monitoring

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 8th, 2022 When it comes to driving a car, one must always be on alert for possible obstacles and other drivers in the next lane over for changing lanes. But because older vehicles that lack built-in blind spot detection or parking sensors would require quite pricey upgrades, Redditor cisco_s_spedgang decided to make […]

Ready to transform the enterprise world? We are!

Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you ever wished you could bring the accessibility, simplicity and power of the Arduino ecosystem into your work environment, you’re not alone.  Whether you’re a Gen Z or a Millennial engineer, developer or entrepreneur, and whether you’re beginning your first job, founding a startup or progressing in your career, you’re bringing to the table […]

Ready to transform the enterprise world? We are!

Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you ever wished you could bring the accessibility, simplicity and power of the Arduino ecosystem into your work environment, you’re not alone.  Whether you’re a Gen Z or a Millennial engineer, developer or entrepreneur, and whether you’re beginning your first job, founding a startup or progressing in your career, you’re bringing to the table […]

LittleZone is a tribute to the 1980 video game Battlezone

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 6th, 2022 Back in 1980, the video game Battlezone was released, and it marked a major advancement in the world of computer graphics since it was the first game with a 3D first-person perspective. In it, the player must pilot a tank around a battlefield and fire at targets in an […]

Arduino CLI 0.23 makes your projects future-proof with Build Profiles

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis new release of Arduino CLI delivers more than the usual bug fixes and performance enhancements. Today we’re delighted to bring you Build Profiles. These have been long in the works and we kept it a bit hush-hush despite releasing a public RFC a bit shy of a year ago. Build Profiles Sometimes Arduino users […]

Meet Nikola, a camera-enabled smart companion robot

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 6th, 2022 For this year’s Embedded Vision Summit, Hackster.io’s Alex Glow created a companion robot successor to her previous Archimedes bot called Nikola. This time, the goal was to embed a privacy-focused camera and microphone system as well as several other components that would increase its adorability. The vision system uses a Nicla Vision […]

GetFit is a DIY fitness tracker based on the Nano 33 BLE Sense

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 3rd, 2022 When it comes to fitness tracking, the average consumer would most likely reach for a smartwatch or similar wearable band. These all work by using their internal accelerometers and gyroscopes to sense motion and detect when a certain action, such as stepping or lifting a weight, has been completed. […]

A real-world health bar for Old School RuneScape

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 3rd, 2022 For those of us of a certain age, RuneScape provides a deep sense of nostalgia. The original RuneScape MMORPG died off in popularity many years ago, but Old School RuneScape, which launched in 2013, recently gained traction once again. As with most MMORPGs, Old School RuneScape gives the player […]

Using an old printer to create organic pottery

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 2nd, 2022 Traditional pottery has been around for many thousands of years and is known for the mixing, shaping, and baking of clay in order to create artful items. Tools such as the pottery wheel and kiln are iconic, and Guillermo Perez Guillen wanted to make a pottery wheel of his own that […]

Get fit while you scroll TikTok with the PELOTok!

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 2nd, 2022 The convenience of smartphones combined with our infinitely scrolling social media feeds has led to some less-than-ideal results, including the fact that a person can sit down and be entertained for hours without even realizing it. This inactivity and lack of exercise can lead to a whole host of […]

These intelligent slippers sense regular activities and falls using machine learning

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 1st, 2022 When it comes to activity monitors such as smartwatches, rings, and pendants, they are often considered cumbersome or too difficult to keep track of, especially for the elderly with memory or dexterity problems. This is why the team of Jure Špeh, Jan Adamic, Luka Mali, and Blaz Ardaljon Mataln […]

Start your new career at Arduino

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — June 1st, 2022 If you think you love Arduino now, wait until you work here! There are several open positions right now that we wanted to make you aware of, and encourage you to apply for. Arduino Work Culture Since you’re here on the Arduino blog anyway, we probably don’t need to […]

SafeDrill uses tinyML to encourage proper drilling technique

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — May 31st, 2022 For those new to DIY projects that involve the use of power tools, knowing when a tool is being used in an unsafe manner is of utmost importance. For many, this can include employing the wrong drill bit for a given material, such as a concrete bit in a […]

Sketch the current time with this Magna Doodle clock

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — May 31st, 2022 The Magna Doodle is a classic children’s toy that works by embedding a layer of iron shavings just below the surface of a canvas and then using a magnetic pen to pull them up, thus showing whatever lines might have been drawn. Steve Turner had the idea to automate […]

Arduino User Groups are back in your maker-hood

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou might recall that we mentioned the triumphant return of Arduino User Groups (AUG) during Arduino Week? Well, the in-person maker meetups are now back! We’ve got some very ambitious plans for Arduino User Groups, so let’s take a look at what’s happening right now, and what’s coming soon to your maker-hood. What Are AUGs? […]

A whole new user experience for Arduino Cloud is rising

Reading Time: 3 minutesArduino Team — May 30th, 2022 Arduino Cloud has a new container for all the cloud services. You can take a look by clicking the Arduino Cloud button in the main header on any of the website’s pages. Once you’re in there, you’ll be greeted with three new varieties of Arduino Cloud My Arduino Cloud […]