This DIY machine provides encouragement at the touch of a button

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis DIY machine provides encouragement at the touch of a button Arduino Team — September 7th, 2020 When a task is difficult, or you’re going through something challenging, a little encouragement can be just what you need. If, however, there’s no one else around, YouTuber JBV Creative has come up with what could be the […]

Introducing a new way of browsing Arduino

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis article was written by Isabela Freire from the Design Team. On behalf of the Arduino Design and Web Teams, we’re proud to announce a new navigation for our online ecosystem to improve your Arduino experience. Arduino’s commitment is to put our users in the center of what we do and make complex technology easy. […]

Say hi to Sourino, a robotic mouse for kitties (and kiddos)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSay hi to Sourino, a robotic mouse for kitties (and kiddos) Arduino Team — September 2nd, 2020 Sourino — which comes from the French word for mouse, “souris,” plus Arduino — is a small robot by 11-year-old maker Electrocat, meant to entertain kitties and kids alike. The device features a 3D-printed body roughly shaped like […]

GorillaBot, an eight-servo racing quadruped

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGorillaBot, an eight-servo racing quadruped Arduino Team — September 1st, 2020 La Toulouse Robot Race is an annual racing event held in Toulouse, France, which includes a 10-meter autonomous sprint for multi-legged robots. The current record for quadrupeds is 42 seconds, so Sebastian Coddington decided to construct a robot in hopes of taking the category at […]

How IoT device provisioning to the Arduino IoT Cloud works

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis article was written by Luigi Gubello, Arduino Security Team. Be kind to the end user. At Arduino, we like to develop powerful ideas into simple tools. This is the spirit behind our team’s efforts in launching our IoT Cloud platform: making the Internet of Things accessible and easy for everyone. We can now offer […]

OpenBot leverages smartphones as brains for low-cost robots

Reading Time: 2 minutesOpenBot leverages smartphones as brains for low-cost robots Arduino Team — August 27th, 2020 High-end robotic systems are still out of price range of most individuals, and even many research labs. Smartphones, however, with an astonishing array of computing power, sensors, and networking capabilities, are commonplace and becoming more powerful every day. To leverage these […]

MIDI-controlled slide whistle made with an Arduino Due

Reading Time: 2 minutesMIDI-controlled slide whistle made with an Arduino Due Arduino Team — August 26th, 2020 Slide whistles and recorders can be great for learning music, and perhaps a bit of fun, but what about teaching a robot to play such a wind instrument? The Mixed Signal’s MIDI-controlled system could used for just that. The project is comprised […]

The BallCuber is a robotic device capable of solving a 4x4x4 Rubik’s cube

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe BallCuber is a robotic device capable of solving a 4x4x4 Rubik’s cube Arduino Team — August 24th, 2020 Rubik’s cubes are traditionally 3x3x3, and have been solved by robotic systems in a variety of different ways. But what about a 4x4x4 variant? Such a device presents expanded solving challenges, which creators Thibault and Florent […]

CLI and IDE get better together

Reading Time: 2 minutesCLI and IDE get better together Arduino Team — August 24th, 2020 This article was written by Silvano Cerza and Ubi de Feo from the Arduino Tooling team. Over the past two months our newly established Tooling Team has taken over operations concerning the Arduino CLI and Pro IDE. We’ve been silent at work in […]

Automated lawn irrigation with some valves and an Arduino Nano 33 IoT

Reading Time: 2 minutesAutomated lawn irrigation with some valves and an Arduino Nano 33 IoT Arduino Team — August 21st, 2020 There have been plenty of projects designed to automate lawn irrigation, however these normally refer to systems that open a single valve and turn on the sprinklers — all the sprinklers — at one time. Due to […]

Bring the power of easy connectivity into everyday life and business with the Arduino IoT Cloud

Reading Time: 2 minutesEasy for beginners, fast for professionals! The next phase of Arduino’s cloud platform enables everyone to breathe digital life into everyday things. The full release of Arduino IoT Cloud provides an end-to-end solution that makes building connected projects easy for makers, IoT enthusiasts, and professionals from start to finish. Arduino IoT Cloud’s low-code approach helps you […]

Dries Depoorter’s installation displays real-time sunsets and sunrises via unsecured CCTV cameras

Reading Time: 2 minutesDries Depoorter’s installation displays real-time sunsets and sunrises via unsecured CCTV cameras Arduino Team — August 19th, 2020 Sunrises can be beautiful, not to mention sunsets, but seeing both at one time would seem to be an impossibility. Dries Depoorter, however, has developed an installation that displays the two events as they happen on side-by-side screens, using […]

Steampunk ‘Help is coming’ Raspberry Pi alert system

Reading Time: 3 minutesTom Lee decided to combine his household with his sister-in-law during lockdown so that she could help him make childcare more manageable. The problem was, Tom’s household was a smidge frantic in the mornings, as the family struggled to be up and ready in time for his sister-in-law’s arrival. Enter this Raspberry Pi–powered tracking device, […]

DIY shadow box portrays seasons in luminescent style

Reading Time: 2 minutesDIY shadow box portrays seasons in luminescent style Arduino Team — August 19th, 2020 Centas wanted a project for his new laser cutter, and decided to make this beautiful crafted tree shadow box. While the cutting is impressive enough by itself, to take this from “cool” to “ultimate,” he added 86 individually controllable LEDs and a […]

This air hockey robot never loses

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis air hockey robot never loses Arduino Team — August 18th, 2020 Air hockey is normally a two-player affair, but not for this student-built robot. The table features a designated human goal with a touchscreen GUI for settings and control. The second goal is guarded by an autonomous striker, attached to a pair of steppers […]

This Arduino-powered spectrophotometer uses a little prism to create rainbows

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Arduino-powered spectrophotometer uses a little prism to create rainbows Arduino Team — August 17th, 2020 Invented back in the 1940s, a spectrophotometer is a scientific instrument used to measure how different wavelengths of light are absorbed by a sample. Daniel Hingston decided to build his own spectrum analysis device as a fun Arduino experiment, […]

Arduino-controlled robot arm is ready to play you in a game of chess

Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino-controlled robot arm is ready to play you in a game of chess Arduino Team — August 15th, 2020 If you’re tired of playing chess on a screen, then perhaps you could create a robotic opponent like Instructables user Michalsky. The augmented board runs micro-Max source code, enabling chess logic to be executed on an Arduino Mega […]

Keep your pool under control with ARDUPOOL

Reading Time: 2 minutesKeep your pool under control with ARDUPOOL Arduino Team — August 13th, 2020 Having a pool can be a great way to relax during the summer, but keeping the water crystal clear and safe to swim in can be a challenge. To help, engineer Diego Gomez has developed the Arduino Mega-powered ARDUPOOL, which is now crowdfunding […]

Bring two analog meters out of retirement to display temperature and humidity

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBring two analog meters out of retirement to display temperature and humidity Arduino Team — August 10th, 2020 Tom of Build Comics created a unique analog weather station that shows temperature and humidity on a pair of recycled gauges. An Arduino Nano reads the levels using a DHT22 sensor and outputs them in the proper format […]

Chicken coop door automation with Arduino

Reading Time: < 1 minuteChicken coop door automation with Arduino Arduino Team — August 6th, 2020 When Geert Wanten’s wife got tired of opening up the chicken coop to let them out in the morning, he decided to automate the situation using an Arduino Nano. Wanten’s DIY system calculates the sunup/sundown via info from a DS1307 RTC module, pulling […]

The Science Journal is graduating from Google — coming to Arduino this fall!

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis post was written by Valentina Chinnici, Arduino Product Manager. Arduino and Google are excited to announce that the Science Journal app will be transferring from Google to Arduino this September! Arduino’s existing experience with the Science Journal and a long-standing commitment to open source and hands-on science has been crucial to the transfer ownership […]

Arduino X-ray imaging phantom simulates lung movement

Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino X-ray imaging phantom simulates lung movement Arduino Team — August 5th, 2020 Imaging phantoms are used to evaluate and test medical devices, such as X-ray machinery, where a human subject would be impractical and/or dangerous. In order to simulate the motion and deformation of a lung, Stefan Grimm created an Arduino-powered phantom at a […]