Schlagwort: miniature painting
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Motion-controlled Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots will make you feel like Jackman in Real Steel
Reading Time: 2 minutes2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of time, but the concept was pretty neat. There is something exciting about the idea of fighting through motion-controlled humanoid robots. That is completely possible today — it would just be wildly expensive at the scale seen in the…
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The Swervebot is an omnidirectional robot that combines LEGO and 3D-printed parts
Reading Time: 2 minutesRobotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup all the way to crawling legs. Alex Le’s project leverages the reliability of LEGO blocks with the customizability of 3D-printed pieces to create a highly mobile omnidirectional robot called Swervebot, which is controllable over Wi-Fi thanks…
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A Game Boy is the worst and best option for a car’s dash
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and indicator lights. But how many of those do you actually look at on a regular basis? Likely only one or two, like the speedometer and gas gauge. Knowing that, John Sutley embraced minimalism to use…
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This robot can dynamically change its wheel diameter to suit the terrain
Reading Time: 2 minutesA vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance. The most obvious is gearing, with larger wheels increasing the ultimate gear ratio — though transmission and transfer case gearing can counteract that. But wheel size also affects mobility over terrain, which is why Gourav Moger and Huseyin Atakan…
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This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone
Reading Time: 2 minutesBasic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a fast food drive-thru meal. But that doesn’t mean drones are easy to control. That is actually quite difficult, but manufacturers are able to work off of established reference designs. In a video that perfectly…
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Export data from Arduino Cloud to AWS S3
Reading Time: 3 minutesManaging your IoT data just got a whole lot easier — Arduino Cloud, now lets you send your time series data straight to AWS S3. With this seamless connection, organizing and analyzing your data is a breeze. In case you don’t know, Arduino Cloud is a robust, integrated platform that simplifies the…
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Prototype faster and smarter in 2025: Meet the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit
Reading Time: 3 minutesLaunching today at CES 2025, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is here to revolutionize how professionals approach prototyping. Designed to empower engineers, designers, and innovators from all walks of life, this kit provides everything you need to turn your ideas into functional prototypes quickly, efficiently, and without conventional limitations. Available in…
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This telescope can intelligently point itself anywhere in the sky
Reading Time: 2 minutesKnown by their characteristic mounting solution, Dobsonian telescopes are the standard in amateur astronomy due to their lower cost and ease-of-use. But after seeing how some of the larger, motorized telescopes at observatories can simply pivot to a target of interest, one member from the FabLab at Orange Digital Center Morocco wanted to…
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Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote? Eric Tischer didn’t think he…
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This autonomous go-kart only needs a camera to navigate a workshop circuit
Reading Time: 2 minutesAutonomous vehicles, and self-driving cars in particular, are probably one of the most enticing technologies of the 21st century. But despite a great deal of R&D and even more speculation, we have yet to see a self-driving car that can actually operate on real public roads without any human oversight at all.…
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See how this homemade spectrometer analyzes substances with an Arduino Mega
Reading Time: 2 minutesMaterials, when exposed to light, will reflect or absorb certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum that can give valuable information about their chemical or physical compositions. Traditional setups use a single lamp to emit white light before it is split apart into a spectrum of colors via a system of prisms, mirrors,…
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Does your sample contain DNA or RNA? DIYNAFLUOR can tell you on a budget
Reading Time: 2 minutesLab equipment is — traditionally at least — tremendously expensive. While there are understandable reasons for those costs, they are prohibitive to anyone operating outside of a university or corporate lab. But as the “citizen science” movement has grown, we’ve seen more and more open-source and affordable designs for lab equipment hitting…
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Deploy your smart meeting room management system with Arduino GIGA
Reading Time: 3 minutesManaging shared spaces, especially meeting rooms, can be a headache in busy offices. At Arduino, we’ve experienced it firsthand in our flexible and dynamic offices around the world – where colleagues could often be seen wandering around with their laptops, trying to find a quiet place for videocalls or brainstorming sessions. We started…
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Exploring Alvik: 3 fun and creative projects with Arduino’s educational robot platform
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlvik is cute, it’s smart, it’s fun… so what can it actually do? To answer this question, we decided to have fun and put the robot to the test with some of the most creative people we know – our own team! A dozen Arduino employees volunteered for a dedicated Make Tank…
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UNO Rev3 or UNO R4? Choosing the perfect Arduino for your project
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Arduino UNO is legendary among makers, and with the release of the UNO R4 in 2023, the family gained a powerful new member. But with two incredible options, which UNO should you pick for your project? Here’s a breakdown of what makes each board shine, depending on your needs, skills, and…
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Arduino Education at Bett 2025: Shaping the future of K-12 and HE
Reading Time: 3 minutesMark your calendars… Arduino Education is coming to Bett UK 2025! Taking place for three days from January 22nd-24th at the ExCeL exhibition center in London, Bett is the ultimate global event for educational innovation. We are attending the stand with our partner CreativeHut again this year. Join us at our booth…
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Turn your old Android smartphone into an Arduino screen with the RemoteXY app
Reading Time: 2 minutesEach component you add to your Arduino project increases its complexity and the opportunity for mistakes. But most projects require some “auxiliary” hardware — components that you use to interact with the Arduino or to help it do the job you’re asking of it. Buttons and displays are great examples. But as…
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This nature-inspired display reacts to ambient sounds
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all need ways to calm down and relax, and few things are as effective as nature itself. Taking inspiration from organic patterns and smooth, flowing waves, dzeng on Instructables has built an LED wall light that responds in real-time to the sounds within a room. The project started out as a 2D vector graphic that…
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Speed up your project’s compile time by up to 50% in Arduino Cloud!
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt Arduino, we know how precious your time is when you’re building your next big project or experimenting with new ideas. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce a game-changing update to the Cloud Editor Builder — the engine behind compiling your sketches in Arduino Cloud. This update is all about you: making…
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Move Mario remotely with this online N64 controller system
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console. Modern consoles may do so wirelessly, but the effect is the same: direct input. But what if you connected a “controller” to the internet? Then you could play from anywhere and that is exactly what Redditor Lovelyroyalette achieved…
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Explore e-paper technology with Nano Matter and the new EPDK-Matter from Pervasive Displays
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re excited to share that Pervasive Displays has just launched the E-Paper Development Kit for Matter! This groundbreaking, self-contained kit is designed to revolutionize how smart home devices use e-paper displays, enhancing user experience while driving down energy consumption. Created in collaboration with us and our long-time partner Silicon Labs, this kit marks…
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A new Plug and Make Kit challenge! A game of rhythm and creativity
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Arduino Plug and Make Kit is all about unleashing creativity while simplifying the process of turning ideas into reality. It enables everyone to focus on the fun of creating with the power of the UNO R4 WiFi and a user-friendly, modular design – bypassing the complexities of traditional circuit building. Case in…
