Schlagwort: tech
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Convert an old hour meter to track your job time
Reading Time: 2 minutesHour meters are common for many types of machinery, because they serve a similar to purpose as your car’s odometer. When time running is a more important metric than distance, an hour meter is a good choice. And because they’re common, it is easy to find hour meters in any style you…
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Build your own high-quality ARCTOS robot arm
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you want a robot arm, either for some practical job or just fun, you have a lot of options. There are many consumer and industrial robot arms on the market, but the models that aren’t glorified toys tend to be pricey. You can also build your own. If you go that…
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Fall detection system with Nicla Sense ME
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe challenge Personal safety is a growing concern in a variety of settings: from high-risk jobs where HSE managers must guarantee workers’ security to the increasingly common work and study choices that drive family and friends far apart, sometimes leading to more isolated lives. In all of these situations, having a system…
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Presenting our first 3 Project Hub competition selections!
Reading Time: 3 minutesOur recently launched “Arduino Project of the Month” initiative adds a pinch of competition to our community’s passion for sharing. Out of the dozens of new entries added in February, we are now happy to announce our first top three selections, highlighting interesting projects for everyone to learn, test, and improve upon! …
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This mod tunes the guitar so you don’t have to
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlaying the guitar is a great way to impress people at beach parties, but learning to play the guitar isn’t easy. Even grasping the basic theory is a big task and that’s before you even start to practice finger positioning and movement. That’s why Tolgahan Çogulu and Selçuk Keser built this Automatic…
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This robot car accepts voice commands or operates autonomously
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fantastic thing about Arduino boards and maker hardware as a whole is that they make creativity accessible. Just a few decades ago, it would take serious expertise and a generous budget to build even a simple robot. But with the technology available today, Parikshit Pagare was able to create this robot…
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Stewart platforms actuate Doc Ock tentacle
Reading Time: 2 minutesOctopus tentacles are, essentially, long continuous muscles — a bit like your tongue. That anatomy gives octopuses incredible dexterity, but it is very difficult to replicate in robots. Artificial “muscle” fiber isn’t very practical yet, which is why roboticists turn to more conventional means of actuation. Cable-driven tentacles are popular, but they…
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Celebrate Star Wars Day with this list of force-inspired projects
Reading Time: 3 minutes“May the Fourth be with you” is one of those sayings that has been ingrained into our culture thanks to the popularity of Star Wars, and few things represent its impact more than the custom props, costumes, and projects that fans from around the world have constructed. To celebrate this year’s “holiday,”…
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Introducing the new Value Selector and Dropdown Widgets for Arduino IoT Cloud dashboards
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe’re excited to announce the release of two new widgets to the Arduino IoT Cloud: the Value Selector and Value Dropdown Widgets. In this blog post, we’ll be exploring the benefits of the new widgets, how to use them, and how you can take advantage of this latest feature. The Arduino IoT…
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A PCB shaker perfect for a maker
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are a few approaches to making your own PCBs at home, and perhaps one of the most interesting yet potentially tedious methods involves making a UV-resistant mask and then etching away the non-copper areas with an acid bath. This etching step requires constantly moving the acid across the board’s surfaces for…
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This GIGA R1 WiFi-powered wearable detects falls using a Transformer model
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor those aged 65 and over, falls can be one of the most serious health concerns they face either due to lower mobility or decreasing overall coordination. Recognizing this issue, Naveen Kumar set out to produce a wearable fall-detecting device that aims to increase the speed at which this occurs by utilizing…
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The Environmental Sense Mask monitors air quality in real-time
Reading Time: 2 minutesHazardous pollution in the form of excess CO2, nitrogen dioxide, microscopic particulates, and volatile organic compounds has become a growing concern, especially in developing countries where access to cleaner technologies might not be available or widely adopted. Krazye Karthik’s Environmental Sense Mask (ES-Mask) focuses on bringing attention to these harmful compounds by displaying ambient…
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How to solve an energy crisis with technology and automation
Reading Time: 5 minutesEnergy crises are nothing new, but they’re always painful. Right now, the world is dealing with a serious energy crisis that has led to skyrocketing utility bills, economic uncertainty, and widespread questions about how we supply our homes with power. One of the biggest questions being asked right now is, “how do…
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Build your own tachometer with an IR sensor and an Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesA tachometer is a device that display the speed of a rotating object. The most well-known example is the automotive tachometer, which shows a driver the RPM of the engine — information that is particularly useful when the car has a manual transmission. But there are many other uses for tachometers and…
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An Arduino Leonardo-powered, 3D-printed robotic arm designed from scratch
Reading Time: 2 minutesGetting started in the world of robotics can be a very challenging task, even for more experienced hobbyists, due to how difficult it can be to achieve smooth and precise motion through programming. Frustrated by the lack of accessible options, the YouTuber known as “Build Some Stuff” decided to not only design his own, but…
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Detect a crying baby with tinyML and synthetic data
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen a baby cries, it is almost always due to something that is wrong, which could include, among other things, hunger, thirst, stomach pain, or too much noise. In his project, Nurgaliyev Shakhizat demonstrated how he was able to leverage ML tools to build a cry-detection system without the need for collecting real-world data himself.…
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Bendy robotic tank steers by flexing
Reading Time: 2 minutesJames Bruton has become something of a YouTube sensation by experimenting with unusual drive mechanisms for his robots. While he does do other things, most of his projects seem to focus on designing, building, and evaluating drive types that are far outside of the norm. His newest project is no different. It…
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This basketball sculpture sinks shots for socialites
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you aren’t part of that world, you may be making the mistake of thinking that art galleries are full of boring paintings for stuffy socialites. In reality, there are all kinds of different art galleries and some of them have some pretty interesting pieces. Kinetic art is always the most exciting,…
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Arduino IDE 2.1 is now available!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’re happy to share that version 2.1 of the Arduino IDE is out! Among the many updates and fixes, this latest release includes two main highlights: A full redesign of the Library Manager panel, which is now more usable and clear, along with an improved search engine. A full redesign of…
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Automatically monitor and irrigate your raised garden bed with the Arduino Cloud
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a part of his new raised garden bed project, Shawn Murphy was looking for ways to improve his backyard even further with intelligent IoT systems. Apart from the existing 1800W solar panel array, he also wanted a device that could report current weather and soil conditions in real-time and even perform some watering tasks without…
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Furby modified to recite the wisdom of Jorge Luis Borges
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor our younger readers: the Furby is a toy released in 1998 by Tiger Electronics and that saw tremendous success in the following years. Each Furby is a little animatronic creature that resembles the Mogwai from the Gremlins films, but more colorful. When first unboxed, they speak “Furbish,” but then transition to English. While…
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ECLIPSE is a beautiful ring lamp that lightens progressively
Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever exited a dark movie theater in the middle of the afternoon and found yourself blinded by the sudden transition to bright sunlight? Etienne Leroy faces the same problem after watching a movie on his home projector and turning on the lights. Because those lights are intense and instantly come…
