Schlagwort: tech
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Jumperless breadboard makes prototyping a breeze
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost makers start their initial electronics prototypes on a breadboard, which is great for quickly setting up temporary circuits. But forming the connections requires jumper wires and even a basic project quickly becomes a rats’ nest of wiring that is difficult to manage. Tracking down issues within that tangle of wires is…
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Introducing support for the new Nano ESP32 board in Arduino Cloud
Reading Time: 2 minutesGreat news for Arduino enthusiasts! The new Nano ESP32, just released on July 17th, is now officially supported by the Arduino Cloud. This powerful combo brings MicroPython and IoT capabilities right to your fingertips, simplifying all your smart devices projects. The Nano ESP32‘s native MicroPython support empowers you to code in Python…
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Arduino Cloud is ISO 27001 certified
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt Arduino, we embrace security as an integral part of the development lifecycle in order to provide secure hardware, software, and digital services to our customers. That’s why we are happy to announce that Arduino Cloud services are now certified for ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (ISO 27001). ISO 27001 is an internationally recognized standard…
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Custom vacuum controller facilitates the construction of vacuum tubes
Reading Time: 2 minutesVacuum tubes used to be the building blocks of computation and the drivers of screaming guitar amplifiers, but they’re rare today — so rare that there are virtually no manufacturers producing new units. If you shop for vacuum tubes, most of what you’ll find is either used or NOS (new old stock).…
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Adding a turbo readout to a vintage PC case
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you are young, you may not remember the turbo buttons of the 1990s. These existed for backwards-compatibility with older games and software that wouldn’t run properly at the blazing-fast processor clock speeds of the time. The turbo button simply told the CPU to run at a slower clock speed that would…
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This Nicla Vision-based fire detector was trained entirely on synthetic data
Reading Time: 2 minutesDue to an ever-warming planet thanks to climate change and greatly increasing wildfire chances because of prolonged droughts, being able to quickly detect when a fire has broken out is vital for responding while it’s still in a containable stage. But one major hurdle to collecting machine learning model datasets on these…
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Magic office gadget encourages coworkers to solve problems
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether it’s budget issues, lack of time management, or simply not having any ideas for solving the issue at-hand, dealing with coworkers who bring up these problems is a pet-peeve of element14 Presents host Mark Donners. In response, he built a simple wall-mounted ornament consisting of a series of magic wands that prods coworkers to…
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UNO R4 Stars: Meet Greta Galli
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe launch of the Arduino UNO R4 marks a huge leap forward for our community. For us, it’s also the chance to celebrate the people who bring our ecosystem to life with their bright ideas, radiant enthusiasm, and shining insight. That is how the UNO R4 Stars blog post series began: to highlight makers who…
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New backscatter technology promises cost-effective reliability
Reading Time: 2 minutesTraditional bi-directional wireless communication requires both a receiver and a transmitter at either end. Your laptop, for example, needs to receive a signal from your Wi-Fi router, but it also needs to transmit a signal back to that router. That transmission requires power proportional to the strength of the signal, which is…
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A snore-no-more device designed to help those with sleep apnea
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite snoring itself being a relatively harmless condition, those who do snore while asleep can also be suffering from sleep apnea — a potentially serious disorder which causes the airway to repeatedly close and block oxygen from getting to the lungs. As an effort to alert those who might be unaware they…
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Building a dedicated 3D printer hot end controller with the Arduino UNO R4 WiFi
Reading Time: 2 minutes3D printers need to set their hot ends to a very specific temperatures suited to the filament material and keep them at those temperatures throughout the printing process. Most use PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) control for that purpose, which modulates power according to an algorithm that prioritizes stability and prevents feedback oscillations. But what…
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Small PoV display uses CD drive motor for high-speed rotation
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe human brain and eyes are imperfect, so your visual perception has a limited “frame rate.” That is somewhere between 30 and 60 frames per second (fps). Most films are 24fps, which is part of the reason they don’t quite look like real life. Once you reach the upper limits of the human visual…
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Clem Mayer created a handheld BASIC computer badge with the Arduino UNO Rev3
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough we recently launched the new 32-bit Arduino UNO R4, Clem Mayer wanted to honor its 8-bit predecessor by making something special using the Rev3. Drawing on old hardware designs, the ZX-81 is an 8-bit computer based on the Z80 processor which has 1KB of RAM and 1KB of EEPROM available for the…
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Channel your inner Bruce Lee with this DIY reflex coach
Reading Time: 2 minutesVideo games are popular because they provide a clear and reliable loop of effort and reward. If you smash the baddie, you get experience; get enough experience and you level up. But real life isn’t like that and there is little direct correlation between effort and reward, which is dissatisfying. Gamification techniques…
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UNO R4 Stars: Meet Gustavo Silveira
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe launch of the Arduino UNO R4 marks a huge leap forward for our community. For us, it’s also the chance to celebrate the people who bring our ecosystem to life with their bright ideas, radiant enthusiasm, and shining insight. That is how the UNO R4 Stars blog post series began: to…
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Real-time alerts for your IoT projects: Discover Triggers and Notifications in Arduino Cloud
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn the world of IoT, staying informed about your project’s status and events is crucial. Imagine receiving prompt notifications when your temperature sensor detects a critical temperature, or when your security camera detects motion in a restricted area. These real-time alerts enable you to take immediate action, prevent issues, and ensure the…
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The Squirrel Box aims to bring trust to smart agriculture
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt may not be as exciting as other fields, but agriculture is incredibly important to humanity and technological advances have increased yields, efficiency, and productivity many times throughout history. All of the evidence suggests that smart agriculture is going to be at the heart of the next big technological leap and that…
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This remote-controlled, highly mobile robot features a 4DOF arm and an onboard camera
Reading Time: 2 minutesStatic manipulators and mobile robot chassis each have their own advantages, and so by combining the two into a single platform, AadhunikLabs was able to realize both at the same time. The base frame is comprised of four individual wheels, each with their own high-torque geared motor and driven by a pair of VNH3ASP30 DC…
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MiuraKit simplifies pneumatic robot design
Reading Time: 2 minutesSoft robotics is a challenging field, because it comes with all of the difficulties associated with conventional robotics and adds in the complexity of designing non-rigid bodies. That isn’t a trivial thing, as most CAD software doesn’t have the ability to simulate the flexibility of the material. You also have to understand how the…
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Introducing the Nano ESP32: THAT’S I(o)T!
Reading Time: 2 minutesCreate your first – or your next – IoT project with the new Arduino Nano ESP32. The latest addition to our wide range of tiny boards with mighty features pairs the accessibility and flexibility of the Arduino ecosystem with the potential of the low-power ESP32-S3 system-on-a-chip microcontroller. This means you can keep…
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This Bluetooth tank is a perfect first robot
Reading Time: 2 minutesMany kids and adults have an interest in electronics because they want to build robots. But it can be difficult to figure out where to even start. There are hundreds of kits on the market and the options are endless where you veer into custom territory. But if you’re looking for a…
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Experiment with new tools for MicroPython
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt the end of last year (November 2022) we announced initial support for MicroPython in the Arduino ecosystem, and continued to quietly work on the toolkit for this language. We continuously expand the list of Arduino boards for which a MicroPython firmware is provided (available here) Additionally, we are now releasing new…
