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This strange robotic fish swims like a lamprey
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 12th, 2021 Roboticists often look to nature for inspiration. That makes sense, because animals are very efficient machines, thanks to millions of years of evolution. Even our most sophisticated technology doesn’t come close to matching a common housefly. But we can get closer to mimicking nature at larger…
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Sharing Arduino Education courses is easier than ever
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the past few years, Arduino Education has expanded, offering new learning solutions to teachers and students around the world. Today, we have more than 10 kits with exciting online courses for STEM teachers and learners ranging from middle school to university. When creating these products, we were delighted to collaborate with…
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Enhance your Arduino development with fast and easy debugging from Segger
Reading Time: 3 minutesEnhance your Arduino development with fast and easy debugging from Segger Arduino Team — August 12th, 2021 Arduino has partnered with Segger to further support developers in creating their own embedded systems, implementing compatibility of Segger debugging solutions with Portenta boards. Debuggers are the scalpel that allows a developer to dissect any…
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Arduino-based control panel streamlines laser cutting
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 11th, 2021 Laser cutters require quite a lot of power and laser tubes need active water cooling, which means you need a coolant reservoir and a water pump. You also need an exhaust fan to remove smoke, which will reduce the laser’s efficacy. Add in a computer, positioning…
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This lamp consists of 122 LED-lit domes on a sphere, controllable over Bluetooth
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 11th, 2021 There are already countless projects that utilize individually addressable RGB LED strips in some way or another, except most of them lack a “wow” factor. This is one problem that Philipp Niedermayer’s Sphere2 Lamp does not suffer from, as it is a giant sphere comprised of 122 smaller domes…
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Holo Clock is a novel 3D-printed clock that tells time using a pair of rings
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 10th, 2021 Simply looking at a traditional analog clock sitting on a wall somewhere got pretty boring for one Instructables user who goes by saulemmetquinn, which is partially why they wanted to create a novel design instead. Their device uses almost entirely 3D-printed components that come together to…
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Reconstruct core samples virtually from sand with the Magic Sand Slicer
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 9th, 2021 FDM 3D printers work by taking a model, creating many thin slices of it, and then extruding plastic to produce the desired shape. But what happens if you want to reverse that process, e.g. take many tiny slices of something and build a model digitally? This…
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Play SNES SPC audio files from your browser using original hardware and Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 9th, 2021 Listening to those classic 16-bit sounds from the ’90s video game era brings back a wave of nostalgia for those who grew up with a console. On the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, outputting sound was accomplished by an integrated circuit called the SNES Audio Processing Unit…
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This autonomous chess-playing robot will beat its human opponents nearly every time
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 8th, 2021 Almost done with his degree in mechanical engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology student Josh Eckels had the inspiration to put what he learned to the test by creating an AI-powered robot that plays chess against a human opponent. The system is essentially a giant cube fashioned from a…
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This Arduino-based machine is an easy and efficient way to cut strips of paper
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 6th, 2021 Sometimes, art projects can require the creation of many different pieces of material to be used in the construction of an item. Imagine wanting to build a mosaic out of construction paper but then realizing you’ll need hundreds of tiny strips that are each cut to…
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An open source desk to showcase your projects, complete with swappable panels
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 4th, 2021 Almost every maker has run into the problem of not being able to find a convenient display or power source for their project prototype, and thus leading to minor delays and some frustration. However, YouTuber Another Maker has come up with an open source desk concept that makes…
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This massive five-axis CNC machine is 3D-printable
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 4th, 2021 CNC (Computer Numerical Control) mills, routers, and lathes are indispensable manufacturing tools. If you need a part that adheres to tight tolerances, you turn to a CNC machine. Industrial CNC equipment is usually large, heavy, and very expensive. But small models exist for light-duty hobby jobs.…
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Hacking an old Nintendo Zapper into a wireless remote
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 4th, 2021 Those of us who have experienced the Nintendo Zapper while playing games such as Duck Hunt will probably have fond memories of it. However, with the rapid disappearance of CRT TVs and the aging of the physical mechanisms, YouTuber DuctTape Mechanic wanted to give an old Zapper…
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The Explore IoT Kit gets a mini-makeover
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 3rd, 2021 A year after the Arduino Education Explore IoT Kit launched globally, we’ve been improving the content of the kit and have made a few tweaks and upgrades! Since launch, we’ve been working with educators around the world on how we can make the kit even better…
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A flask of goo that moves to the groove
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Team — August 1st, 2021 Ferrofluid is an interesting substance that is attracted to a magnetic field. While manually playing with a flask of such goo is interesting for a few minutes, GreatScott! had other ideas. His 3D-printed rig arranges a half-dozen custom electromagnets on the side of the flask. This allows…
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This magnetically levitated globe is an attractive piece of home decor
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — August 1st, 2021 While trying to think of his next project, Herwig Taveirne came up with the idea to craft some kind of levitating display that can showcase certain objects. Some of the criteria included completely magnetic levitation, stable floating, and overall safety since magnets can get quite hot when…
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Arduino-powered pinewood derby car scale measures center of gravity
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 30th, 2021 Constructing and racing a pinewood derby car is a great way to introduce young children to the world of engineering and mathematics. Many competitions will limit how heavy a car can be to avoid unfair advantages when it comes to momentum, meaning that contestants will try…
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Mr Innovative made an automated machine to cut four different colors of wires
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 30th, 2021 We all know as makers that trying to cut those little wires to the perfect length can be one of the most tedious and frustrating aspects of soldering together a project. Whether it is because the wire cutters slipped or the lengths of the conductors are…
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Create projects fast, with no coding, using Oplà IoT Kit templates
Reading Time: 3 minutesCreate projects fast, with no coding, using Oplà IoT Kit templates Arduino Team — July 30th, 2021 Templates are here for the Oplà IoT Kit. This is a new feature that takes you from unboxing your kit to uploading a sketch and getting a project up and running in record time. And…
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Fire foam balls from this Arduino-based wireless Nerf sentry turret
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 28th, 2021 Named the grand prize winner of Instructables’ Arduino Contest, a maker known as otjones99 has created an interesting take on the classic Nerf sentry turret design by building one that uses an FPV headset to see and fire at targets. The turret consists of a turntable for moving the…
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Pomodor-glow! Improve your study session with this colorful countdown timer
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — July 28th, 2021 Studying without getting distracted can pose a significant challenge to students, which is why having small productivity hacks could be beneficial. Alexandra Charland — who goes by alch_emist on Instructables — wanted to try out the popular Pomodoro technique, which involves working for 25 minutes uninterrupted…
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The P-CNC Plotter is a DIY drawing machine ‘disguised as a quadruped robot’
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe P-CNC Plotter is a DIY drawing machine ‘disguised as a quadruped robot’ Arduino Team — July 27th, 2021 In their quest to create a portable CNC plotter, Instructables user tuenhidiy combined several PVC pieces with a couple of motors to build the P-CNC Plotter. The small machine — which was designed to resemble a…
