BubBowl displays in-beverage messages with electrolysis

Reading Time: < 1 minuteBubBowl displays in-beverage messages with electrolysis Arduino Team — November 4th, 2019 Ads, notifications, and other messages surround us today, and if you were overwhelmed before, researchers at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, Japan have figured out how to print text and images in your cup of coffee! This system, dubbed “BubBowl,” uses electrolysis to dynamically […]

Check your run time on a stretchable electroluminescent stopwatch ‘tattoo’

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCheck your run time on a stretchable electroluminescent stopwatch ‘tattoo’ Arduino Team — November 4th, 2019 A stretchable light-emitting device becomes an epidermal stopwatch.Image: Adapted from ACS Materials Letters 2019 Imagine if your watch wasn’t mounted on your wrist, but was instead integrated into a sort of temporary tattoo on the back of your hand? Such […]

Check your run time on a stretchable electroluminescent stopwatch ‘tattoo’

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCheck your run time on a stretchable electroluminescent stopwatch ‘tattoo’ Arduino Team — November 4th, 2019 A stretchable light-emitting device becomes an epidermal stopwatch.Image: Adapted from ACS Materials Letters 2019 Imagine if your watch wasn’t mounted on your wrist, but was instead integrated into a sort of temporary tattoo on the back of your hand? Such […]

Every jack-o’-lantern needs a pair of animatronic eyes

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery jack-o’-lantern needs a pair of animatronic eyes Arduino Team — October 31st, 2019 If you’d like your jack-o’-lantern to stand out, a pair of animatronic eyes should do the trick. While there are numerous ways that you can go about this, few (if any) look as good as the set made by Will Cogley […]

Pen plotter? Laser engraver? This DIY machine gives you both!

Reading Time: 2 minutesPen plotter? Laser engraver? This DIY machine gives you both! Arduino Team — October 30th, 2019 If you find yourself debating between a pen plotter or laser engraver, this project by Patrick Panikulam lets you have the best of both worlds in style. The DIY device pulls a writing instrument in the X-axis using a […]

Cisco switches converted into a cocktail machine

Reading Time: 2 minutesCisco switches converted into a cocktail machine Arduino Team — October 29th, 2019 If you want to whip up a cocktail, you can measure out the components by hand, or you could use a robotic assistant like this setup by creator Sven Tantau. Tantau’s project employs an Arduino Nano to control 24 peristaltic pumps via […]

Surf Window is an interactive beach diorama that displays surf conditions

Reading Time: 2 minutesSurf Window is an interactive beach diorama that displays surf conditions Arduino Team — October 29th, 2019 While some of us live directly beside the beach, others—the vast majority, in fact—reside inland where we can’t see the waves on a day-to-day basis. As a solution to this issue, surfer-maker Luke Clifford came up with his […]

Baby Cheetah is a mini, MIT-inspired quadruped robot

Reading Time: 2 minutesBaby Cheetah is a mini, MIT-inspired quadruped robot Arduino Team — October 29th, 2019 Since we can’t all have the MIT Mini Cheetah at home, Jegatheesan Soundarapandian decided to make his own version — measuring just 23 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm. As shown in the video below, the aptly named “Baby Cheetah” […]

Arduino IoT Cloud: Support for ESP8266 and other third party boards

Reading Time: 3 minutesWith the latest release of Arduino IoT Cloud (version 0.8.0) we did a lot of work behind the scenes, and while it might be transparent to most users, it introduced some big changes. But the one we’re most excited about is that the Arduino IoT Cloud has begun supporting a number of third party devices. […]

5 Arduino projects to get you Halloween-spired

Reading Time: 2 minutes5 Arduino projects to get you Halloween-spired Arduino Team — October 28th, 2019 October 31st is almost here and we’re all super excited, because this is the perfect time for some DIY fun! Nothing to wear? Not a problem! Need a spook-tacular decoration? We’ve got just the thing. To help get you into the spirit, we’ve […]

New Arduino Pro IDE: A closer look

Reading Time: 4 minutesLast weekend we announced that we’re working on the new Arduino Pro IDE and we got a huge response! Let’s take a deeper look at what is in store. Here are the choices you have to develop code from Arduino today — some you might know, others you might not — and how they paved […]

Meet David Cuartielles, Arduino co-founder with a passion for education

Reading Time: 3 minutesSince very early on I developed an interest in education. During my studies I worked as afterschool teacher in math, physics, chemistry, and languages. Shortly after graduating from my MSc in Engineering I became a teacher at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmo University, Sweden. For over a decade I worked in the […]

You can make this 3D-printed, Arduino-powered IR thermometer yourself

Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou can make this 3D-printed, Arduino-powered IR thermometer yourself Arduino Team — October 24th, 2019 If you want to measure the temperature of an object, one very convenient way is to use an infrared thermometer. MN Maker didn’t have one, and after wondering just how hot a component was getting, he decided to simply build […]

Check the time, date and conditions on this ILC1-1/8L clock

Reading Time: 2 minutesCheck the time, date and conditions on this ILC1-1/8L clock Arduino Team — October 24th, 2019 While OLED displays and the like are extremely versatile, there’s still something really charming about vintage VFD tubes. Christine Thompson (AKA ChristineNZ) in fact built her latest clock specifically to use eight ILC1-1/8L VFD tubes, which each stand nearly […]

Wall-mounted world map shines brightly with fiber optics

Reading Time: 2 minutesWall-mounted world map shines brightly with fiber optics Arduino Team — October 23rd, 2019 Apparently not content with looking at a map in a book or on a computer screen, YouTuber ShareAHack.com decided to CNC cut and mount a projection of the world onto his apartment’s wall!  The build was completed in sections and pieced […]

3D printer modified to print with Perler beads

Reading Time: < 1 minute3D printer modified to print with Perler beads Arduino Team — October 23rd, 2019 Perler beads allow you to make fun designs by melting these tiny colored objects together, but why arrange them by hand when you can have a machine do it for you? That’s the idea behind this hack by YouTuber knezult11, where […]

The grilled cheese-making robot of your dreams

Reading Time: 3 minutesUmmm…YES PLEASE! Cheeseborg: The Grilled Cheese Robot! More cool stuff at http://www.tabb.me and http://www.evankhill.com Cheeseborg has one purpose: to create the best grilled cheese it possibly can! Cheeseborg is fully automated, voice activated, and easy to move. With Google Assistant SDK integration, Cheeseborg can even be used as a part of your smart home. Does […]

Arduino Pro IDE (alpha preview) with advanced features

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Pro IDE (alpha preview) with advanced features mastrolinux — October 18th, 2019 Live from Maker Faire Rome on Saturday, October 19th at 16.00 CET, Massimo Banzi and Luca Cipriani will push the button to release the new Arduino Pro IDE (alpha) — watch this space. The simplicity of the Arduino IDE has made it […]

Make music with a stepper-driven, 3D-printed tonewheel

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake music with a stepper-driven, 3D-printed tonewheel Arduino Team — October 17th, 2019 YouTuber “The Mixed Signal” has come up with a fun way to make music: spinning a gear-like ferromagnetic tonewheel next to a homemade coil pickup.  A stepper motor turns the wheel using a CNC shield under Arduino control. When set up, it’s […]

TAMI is an interactive trig learning table

Reading Time: 2 minutesTAMI is an interactive trig learning table Arduino Team — October 17th, 2019 Trigonometry is a struggle for some students. Perhaps one of the reasons for this is that instruction can be something of a one-way street, and concepts can be hard to grasp until more technical building blocks are learned.  As seen here, researchers […]

Here’s what you can expect from Arduino at Maker Faire Rome 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s what you can expect from Arduino at Maker Faire Rome 2019 Arduino Team — October 16th, 2019 We’re just days away from Maker Faire Rome — The European Edition, taking place October 18-20th at Fiera di Roma. This year’s Arduino booth, which will be located inside Pavilion 8, will be broken up into three […]

Get started with machine learning on Arduino

Reading Time: 12 minutesThis post was originally published by Sandeep Mistry and Dominic Pajak on the TensorFlow blog. Arduino is on a mission to make machine learning simple enough for anyone to use. We’ve been working with the TensorFlow Lite team over the past few months and are excited to show you what we’ve been up to together: […]