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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomatic trash can optimized for battery life Arduino Team — December 15th, 2017 If you have a trash can with a lid, you’ve probably accepted the small inconvenience of opening it with your hand and foot. YouTube hacker MadGyver, however, came up with a different solution using an Arduino Nano and a micro servo to […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSlide the “time clock” into position with Arduino Arduino Team — December 14th, 2017 Years ago, if you wanted to track employee hours, you needed to have them punch a time card. Saunders Machine Works, however, uses a facial recognition system running on an iPad for this purpose, meaning they had to figure out how […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis DIY machine mixes your favorite three-ingredient cocktail Arduino Team — December 12th, 2017 Do you and your friends have a favorite cocktail? If so—and if it has three ingredients—then this Arduino-based cocktail machine from YouTuber “GreatScott!” may be worth checking out. The device is capable of mixing three liquids, which in GreatScott’s case consist […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Imperializer makes quick work of metric conversions Arduino Team — December 6th, 2017 When you work in a machine shop, you often need to convert numbers from metric to imperial. As long as you have to do this on a regular basis, why not make a tool to do so easily? Instead of pulling […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBuild your own antenna rotator/satellite tracking device Arduino Team — December 5th, 2017 After finding that purchasing a tracking device for his satellite dish would be quite expensive, YouTuber “Tysonpower” decided to simply build one himself. What he came up is an assembly made with 3D-printed parts and extruded aluminum that uses a pair of […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBuilding an 8-step keyboard sequencer with Arduino Arduino Team — November 20th, 2017 Sequencers, as YouTuber “LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER” explains, are musical devices that go through a sequence of tones one by one. While this can be done quite simply with a 4017 counter chip, if you instead substitute in an Arduino board for the counter, you […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn excellent two-sided UV exposure box Arduino Team — November 16th, 2017 If you want to make your own custom PCBs at home, one method is to paint a circuit board blank with photosensitive material, then expose the portion you don’t want to UV light using a printed transparency. After a process of etching and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMini Strandbeest goes electric with Arduino Arduino Team — November 9th, 2017 Strandbeests, as originally conceived, are gigantic PVC creatures that walk across the sand under wind power. While building one is certainly an enormous undertaking, smaller models are available that let you experience this strange kinetic motion in a more approachable size. These are […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesManipulate time with this Arduino-controlled LED glove Arduino Team — November 2nd, 2017 While you might not be able to actually manipulate time, this glove by YouTuber “MadGyver” certainly makes it appear that way. His glove, shown in the video below, uses a gigantic LED controlled by an Arduino Nano to allow objects such as […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn Arduino-controlled geodesic greenhouse and chicken coop Arduino Team — November 1st, 2017 Danish industrial design student Mikkel Mikkelsen decided to do something a little different this spring, and constructed a self-sufficient geodesic greenhouse dome. His dome, which was planned using this online calculator, now stands roughly 13 feet tall, providing space for crops, along with […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMake an Arduino-controlled boost gauge for your racing sim dash Arduino Team — October 18th, 2017 If you’re really serious about car racing games, at some point you may want to upgrade your instruments from being on-screen to physically residing in your living room. While this would appear to be an arduous task, displaying your […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAn Arduino Mouse Wiggler! Arduino Team — October 10th, 2017 If, for whatever reason, you need your computer to stay awake without changing its settings, that’s easy—just remember to shake your mouse back and forth intermittently! If remembering to do that over and over seems like too much work, then here’s a simple solution: a […]