Schlagwort: arduino
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This Arduino-powered machine folds your shirts at the push of a button
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis Arduino-powered machine folds your shirts at the push of a button Arduino Team — July 21st, 2020 Inspired by an old FlipFold TV ad, YouTuber Ty Palowski decided to make his own automated shirt folding machine. Palowski’s device is made in four folding sections, which lie flat to accept the…
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This automated perpetual calendar is a beautiful way to watch the years pass by
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis automated perpetual calendar is a beautiful way to watch the years pass by Arduino Team — July 20th, 2020 Troy Hawkins (AKA “tomatoskins”) had come across an interesting wooden perpetual calendar, which used a trio of rings to show the month, day, and day of the week. The only problem is…
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Creating a convenient calculator for unit conversions
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreating a convenient calculator for unit conversions Arduino Team — July 19th, 2020 Whether you work in meters, feet, inches, or kilometers — or any number of other units corresponding to properties that you need to convey — conversions are a fact of life when making things. While this could mean…
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Painting robot with ‘twin’ control scheme
Reading Time: 2 minutesPainting robot with ‘twin’ control scheme Arduino Team — July 16th, 2020 For a class project, University of Stuttgart students Ekin Sila Sahin, Lior Skoury, and Simon Treml came up with a unique painting robot named the Physical Twin. The Physical Twin travels on a three-wheeled chassis and mounts a four-axis arm with a…
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A hand-following AI task lamp for your desk
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA hand-following AI task lamp for your desk Arduino Team — July 15th, 2020 As you work on a project, lighting needs change dynamically. This can mean manual adjustment after manual adjustment, making do with generalized lighting, or having a helper hold a flashlight. Harry Gao, however, has a different solution…
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DIY cable cam made from RC car and 3D-printed parts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDIY cable cam made from RC car and 3D-printed parts Arduino Team — July 14th, 2020 Cable-mounted cameras can be a lot of fun for capturing moving footage. Although commercial cable cam options can be expensive, this system by Kasper Mortensen of MAKESOME is comprised of 3D-printed components with a receiver and…
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Deck out your ride with an Arduino-controlled spoiler
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDeck out your ride with an Arduino-controlled spoiler Arduino Team — July 14th, 2020 Car spoilers can provide downforce for better performance, or simply give the appearance of speed. To take things to another level, Michael Rechtin designed his own custom wing that doesn’t just sit there, but pitches up and…
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The MemGlove detects hand poses and recognizes objects
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe MemGlove detects hand poses and recognizes objects Arduino Team — July 14th, 2020 Hand movements have long been used as a computer interface method, but as reported here, the MemGlove from a team of MIT CSAIL researchers takes things several steps further. This augmented glove can sense hand poses and how it’s applying…
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A 7-foot-tall 7-segment display
Reading Time: 2 minutesSeven-segment displays are normally diminutive items, able to show info from a clock or other device, in a size that’s easily tucked away when not needed. Jegatheesan Soundarapandian’s single-digit display, however, is just the opposite standing at nearly seven feet tall. The project is constructed out of cardboard, with a PVC spine for…
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Meet MrK_Blockvader, a little mobile robot that’s lots of fun
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the simplest ways to make a mobile robot involves differential steering, where two wheels move at different speeds as needed to turn and a ball caster keeps it from tipping over. The MrK_Blockvader is an excellent take on this type of bot — demonstrated in the first clip below — featuring…
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Don’t try this at home: Colin Furze creates a semi-automatic potato cannon
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDon’t try this at home: Colin Furze creates a semi-automatic potato cannon Arduino Team — July 9th, 2020 Colin Furze decided that he needed a potato cannon for his DIY screw tank, and after making a manually loaded version, he automated the process. What he came up with uses a pair of…
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Rebuilding a Passap E6000 knitting machine with Arduino and Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 2 minutesRebuilding a Passap E6000 knitting machine with Arduino and Raspberry Pi Arduino Team — July 8th, 2020 Irene Wolf is the owner a Passap E6000, a computerized knitting machine which features pair of needle beds, and decided it was time to give it an upgrade. In particular, she wanted the ability to…
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Robotic cornhole board guarantees three points every time
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRobotic cornhole board guarantees three points every time Arduino Team — July 8th, 2020 You may have seen Mark Rober’s automated dartboard or Stuff Made Here’s backboard, which use advanced engineering to create apparatuses that ensure you “can’t miss.” Now that summer is in full swing, what about a robotic cornhole board?…
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Create a digital clock out of 24 analog clocks
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate a digital clock out of 24 analog clocks Arduino Team — July 7th, 2020 What if you were to use the hands of a clock not as an individual display, but as part of an array that moves together to form digits? That’s the idea behind Clockception by “Made by Morgan,” which…
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Change the volume of any app on your PC with the turn of a knob
Reading Time: 2 minutesChange the volume of any app on your PC with the turn of a knob Arduino Team — July 7th, 2020 Overall computer volume control is important, but what if you want to get more granular, adjusting sound from various applications individually? Rather than going through a series of menus and on-screen…
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Build a comment-critiquing keyboard adapter using TensorFlow Lite and Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuild a comment-critiquing keyboard adapter using TensorFlow Lite and Arduino Arduino Team — July 7th, 2020 If you’ve ever left an online comment that you later regretted, this anti-troll bot will keep that from happening again by letting you know when you’re being a bit too harsh. The device — which was…
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Capture cinematic shots with this motorized slider and pan-tilt camera mount
Reading Time: 2 minutesCapture cinematic shots with this motorized slider and pan-tilt camera mount Arduino Team — July 6th, 2020 DIY camera sliders are a great way to get professional-looking video shots on an amateur budget, but few can compare to the quality of this project by “isaac879.” His device features a pan/tilt mechanism outlined in…
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The three pillars of the Arduino CLI
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Arduino CLI is an open source command line application written in Golang that can be used from a terminal to compile, verify and upload sketches to Arduino boards, and that’s capable of managing all the software and tools needed in the process. But don’t get fooled by its name: the Arduino…
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Old becomes new again with this glowing clock
Reading Time: 2 minutesOld becomes new again with this glowing clock Arduino Team — July 3rd, 2020 Whether for work or play, and now for various video/voice socials that have been set up, “chebe” spends most of the day at their desk — so much so that, in some instances they lose track of time.…
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This puck-slapping robot will beat you in table hockey
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis puck-slapping robot will beat you in table hockey Arduino Team — July 3rd, 2020 Mechanical table hockey games, where players are moved back and forth and swing their sticks with a series of knobs, can be a lot of fun; however, could one be automated? As Andrew Khorkin’s robotic build demonstrates,…
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Modified printer simplifies home PCB fabrication
Reading Time: < 1 minuteModified printer simplifies home PCB fabrication Arduino Team — July 2nd, 2020 In many locations you can get PCBs made fast, cheap, and of very good quality. In Brazil, where Vítor Barbosa lives, this isn’t the case, so he built a “haxmark460” PCB printer to help manufacture circuits at home. The build modifies…
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Arduino Security Primer
Reading Time: 5 minutesSSL/TLS stack and HW secure element At Arduino, we are hard at work to keep improving the security of our hardware and software products, and we would like to run you through how our IoT Cloud service works. The Arduino IoT Cloud‘s security is based on three key elements: The open-source library…
