Schlagwort: arduino
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Sense the future of smart agriculture with Arduino Edge Control
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 22nd, 2021 The Arduino Pro lineup continues to grow with the introduction of the new Arduino Edge Control. This is a remote monitoring and control solution optimized for outdoor environments. Easy deployment makes it suitable for smart agriculture, precision farming, and other intelligent control applications in remote locations.…
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Bringing Snake to your coffee table
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 21st, 2021 Snake is a classic game — more a genre of games — that dates all the way back to 1976 with the release of the Blockade arcade game. Many consoles and devices have received variations of Snake, putting it in the same league as Tetris and block breakers. Now Ty and Gig…
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This Arduino-controlled ball launcher lets your pup play fetch for hours
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 21st, 2021 Many dog breeds require a lot of exercise and mental stimulation to be healthy and happy, but not many of us want to spend our time endlessly throwing a tennis ball. That’s why Connor Benson used an Arduino Nano to build an automatic ball launcher that…
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Building a better battery analyzer with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 19th, 2021 Your favorite device has just run out of juice, so you quickly take off the cover and reach into that old stash of alkaline batteries you have lying around. After trying countless combinations, you still cannot be sure they’re working properly, as each one has been…
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It’s easier than ever to add two-way communication to Arduino devices
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 19th, 2021 There’s a brand new device-to-device communication feature available now in the Arduino IoT Cloud. It’s something we’ve been working on for a long time. So we’re excited to see how it’ll add a whole new connected dimension to your Arduino projects. What is “device-to-device” communication? Internally…
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Customizable artificial intelligence and gesture recognition
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 15th, 2021 In many respects we think of artificial intelligence as being all encompassing. One AI will do any task we ask of it. But in reality, even when AI reaches the advanced levels we envision, it won’t automatically be able to do everything. The Fraunhofer Institute for…
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A splendid steampunk tea maker
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 14th, 2021 Prolific project maker and Arduino lover Alain Mauer has made a rather splendid tea maker project with a steampunk twist. Despite Mauer being based in Luxemburg, we’d have to say this feels like a very British Arduino application. Crumpets or Battenburg, anyone? Putting the “Tea” in…
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The Arduino Forum is now completely renovated (and it’s so nice)
Reading Time: 3 minutesArduino Team — April 13th, 2021 It was a long Monday with the Arduino forum closed for maintenance, wasn’t it? Many people had to hold back their Arduino-related questions for an entire day… panic! But before getting mad at us, read on and you’ll understand it was for an extremely good cause.…
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Finger Bend is a DIY textile flex sensor
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — April 13th, 2021 You can turn on an LED with a button or switch, but what about by bending your finger? Willpower Studios’ textile flex sensor, dubbed Finger Bend, presents a method for such an interface. Inside the custom sleeve is a piece of piezoresistive stretch fabric, which…
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This auto-adjusting PVC system lifts hand sanitizer to the perfect height
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — April 12th, 2021 You’ve probably seen hand sanitizer stations popping up all over the place. While this seems to be a good thing, if you’re not exactly average height-wise, it’s likely they weren’t exactly designed for you. As a way to help both tall and short, and especially…
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LOPES helps prioritize your tasks with LEDs
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — April 12th, 2021 As spotted on Reddit, the Light Based Optical Productivity Enhancement System (LOPES) is an Arduino Nano Every-powered device that lights up depending on the tasks that you have left to complete. The Nano takes input from five copper touch sensor plates on the top, which…
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April 12th: Scheduled maintenance planned for the Arduino website
Reading Time: 2 minutesApril 12th: Scheduled maintenance planned for the Arduino website Arduino Team — April 9th, 2021 Don’t worry if you’re unable to access certain areas of the Arduino website next Monday (April 12th). We’re carrying out some scheduled maintenance to bring you a few exciting new features. Primarily we’re updating the forum platform.…
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Test your Arduino projects with GitHub Actions
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis article was written by Per Tillisch from the Arduino Tooling Team. The Arduino team created some tools that make it easy to automate a check for whether your Arduino sketches compile. Used with GitHub Actions, the tools allow anyone to set up a simple “smoke test” on every commit and pull…
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Eyecam is a creepy webcam shaped like a human eye
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — April 8th, 2021 How much of what you did today has been monitored and recorded? If you don’t know, or haven’t considered it, then this anthropomorphic webcam by researchers at Saarland University in Germany might just start up that mental conversation. That’s because their Eyecam is always watching.…
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DehneEVSE is a custom, Nano 33 IoT-controlled EV charging station
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 7th, 2021 Sebastian Dehne decided to build a custom electric vehicle (EV) charging station for his Nissan Leaf from scratch, as what he calls “a real full stack project.” He notes that creating your own gives you total control over the system, and it’s both fun and cheaper than purchasing…
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Top 10 creative projects from Arduino Day Community Challenge
Reading Time: 5 minutesWith over 170 creative projects sent in from around the world, choosing just 10 winners for the Arduino Day Community Challenge was almost impossible. Hopefully you were with us on Arduino Day, and saw the winning projects being unveiled during the live stream. But we also wanted to send out another big…
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An Arduino ECG device with an integrated display
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — April 6th, 2021 As Peter Balch explains, COVID-19 can sometimes give rise to cardiac complications. So, while not presented as an actual piece of medical equipment, he decided to construct an ECG (electrocardiogram) unit using an Arduino Nano for control along with an integrated 320×240 SPI display. His…
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Camera assistant takes shots of your workbench from above
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — April 6th, 2021 “Have you ever wished you had an extra pair of hands in the workshop to handle the camera, while you were concentrating on your project?” KronBjron has, which led them to create an automated overhead camera assistant to help document instructional videos. The device hangs a…
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Arduino helps control the world’s largest Nintendo Switch
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino helps control the world’s largest Nintendo Switch Arduino Team — April 5th, 2021 Do you enjoy playing your Nintendo Switch, but get tired of losing it due to its small size? Michael Pick may have just the answer with his massive version of the console — which measures in at 70″…
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This futuristic-looking device actively discourages you from touching your face
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — April 2nd, 2021 For a variety of reasons, including potential virus transmission, it’s a bad idea to touch your face too often. If you need a little “help” to break this habit, then you might consider the STOP Face Touching Device by DesignMaker. The system takes the form of…
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April 6th: Scheduled maintenance planned for the Arduino website
Reading Time: < 1 minuteApril 6th: Scheduled maintenance planned for the Arduino website Arduino Team — April 2nd, 2021 Some areas of the Arduino website will be temporarily unavailable on Tuesday, April 6th. Don’t worry if you’re unable to access certain areas of the Arduino website next Tuesday. We’re carrying out some scheduled maintenance to…
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QRTape is a reel-to-reel QR code music player
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — April 2nd, 2021 QR codes are normally used to convey short snippets of information, such as web addresses. Chain a few of them together, as “The Resistor Network” was able to do in the video below, and you can produce a non-negligible amount of storage. Dubbed QRTape, the project employs custom…
