Create a digital clock out of 24 analog clocks

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCreate a digital clock out of 24 analog clocks Arduino Team — July 7th, 2020 What if you were to use the hands of a clock not as an individual display, but as part of an array that moves together to form digits? That’s the idea behind Clockception by “Made by Morgan,” which utilizes 48 servo motors […]

Change the volume of any app on your PC with the turn of a knob

Reading Time: 2 minutesChange the volume of any app on your PC with the turn of a knob Arduino Team — July 7th, 2020 Overall computer volume control is important, but what if you want to get more granular, adjusting sound from various applications individually? Rather than going through a series of menus and on-screen sliders, Ruben Henares’ […]

Singing Toilet

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou gotta roll with it The system is built around a Raspberry Pi, a HiFiBerry AMP to output high-quality sound to a hidden speaker, and an Arduino Mega to take readings from eight Hall effect sensors. In each toilet roll holder, a 3D-printed part contains a circular four-pole magnet that triggers the Hall effect sensor […]

Build a comment-critiquing keyboard adapter using TensorFlow Lite and Arduino

Reading Time: 2 minutesBuild a comment-critiquing keyboard adapter using TensorFlow Lite and Arduino Arduino Team — July 7th, 2020 If you’ve ever left an online comment that you later regretted, this anti-troll bot will keep that from happening again by letting you know when you’re being a bit too harsh. The device — which was created by Andy […]

Capture cinematic shots with this motorized slider and pan-tilt camera mount

Reading Time: 2 minutesCapture cinematic shots with this motorized slider and pan-tilt camera mount Arduino Team — July 6th, 2020 DIY camera sliders are a great way to get professional-looking video shots on an amateur budget, but few can compare to the quality of this project by “isaac879.” His device features a pan/tilt mechanism outlined in a previous video, […]

The three pillars of the Arduino CLI

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Arduino CLI is an open source command line application written in Golang that can be used from a terminal to compile, verify and upload sketches to Arduino boards, and that’s capable of managing all the software and tools needed in the process. But don’t get fooled by its name: the Arduino CLI can do […]

HAT Hacker HAT review

Reading Time: 2 minutesSupplied fully assembled, it’ll work with any 40‑pin Raspberry Pi model. Pimoroni has thoughtfully included six metal PCB standoffs (with screws) for spacing and securing it, and/or the attached mini or full-size HATs, via pairs of the eight mounting holes provided. Pin checking No extra software is required. So, in theory, you just mount your […]

Old becomes new again with this glowing clock

Reading Time: 2 minutesOld becomes new again with this glowing clock Arduino Team — July 3rd, 2020 Whether for work or play, and now for various video/voice socials that have been set up, “chebe” spends most of the day at their desk — so much so that, in some instances they lose track of time. To address the […]

This puck-slapping robot will beat you in table hockey

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis puck-slapping robot will beat you in table hockey Arduino Team — July 3rd, 2020 Mechanical table hockey games, where players are moved back and forth and swing their sticks with a series of knobs, can be a lot of fun; however, could one be automated? As Andrew Khorkin’s robotic build demonstrates, the answer is […]

Make a 3D camera

Reading Time: 6 minutesKit you’ll need to build a 3D camera Prepare Raspberry Pi To create 3D photographs, we need to be able to take two photos simultaneously, about 5 cm apart. These images can then be processed into a variety of different formats such as parallel view, cross-view, or anaglyph (when you wear red/green glasses). As this is […]

Modified printer simplifies home PCB fabrication

Reading Time: < 1 minuteModified printer simplifies home PCB fabrication Arduino Team — July 2nd, 2020 In many locations you can get PCBs made fast, cheap, and of very good quality. In Brazil, where Vítor Barbosa lives, this isn’t the case, so he built a “haxmark460” PCB printer to help manufacture circuits at home. The build modifies a Lexmark E460dn laserjet […]

Arduino Security Primer

Reading Time: 5 minutesSSL/TLS stack and HW secure element At Arduino, we are hard at work to keep improving the security of our hardware and software products, and we would like to run you through how our IoT Cloud service works. The Arduino IoT Cloud‘s security is based on three key elements: The open-source library ArduinoBearSSL for implementing […]

BeeMonitor

Reading Time: 3 minutes“The aim of the project was to put together a system to monitor the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years,” explains Glyn. “Bees need all the help and love they can get at the moment and without them pollinating our plants, we’d […]

This robo-dog sprays poison ivy with weed killer

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis robo-dog sprays poison ivy with weed killer Arduino Team — July 1st, 2020 Poisonous plants, like poison ivy, can really ruin your day. In an effort to combat this “green menace,” YouTuber Sciencish decided to create his own quadruped robot. The robotic dog is equipped with two servos per leg, for a total eight, […]

Share your keyboard and mouse with Barrier

Reading Time: 4 minutesDownload Barrier to Raspberry Pi Barrier is used to share a keyboard between Raspberry Pi and other computers: Windows PC, Mac, or Linux (even a second Raspberry Pi). We’re going to use Barrier to share a keyboard and mouse connected to our Raspberry Pi to a Windows PC on the same network. First, install Barrier […]

Argon Neo & Argon Fan HAT review

Reading Time: 3 minutesAlongside the fan, The Argon Fan HAT provides a power button, which can perform safe shutdown, forced shutdown, and reboot Raspberry Pi. Putting it together As with other cases (such as Flirc), the metal part of the case connects to the CPU and RAM (with included thermal paste). The metal case acts as a passive […]

Coffee Maker Greenhouse

Reading Time: 3 minutesA beans to an end Having eventually figured out how to disassemble the original machine, Jeremy then turned his attentions to using its features in a new way. “There’s an air pump that, when activated, causes water (or presumably coffee) to go out the spout,” he says. “It seems that it pressurises the liquid chamber […]

The Arduino CLI just got some new exciting features

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe arduino-cli tool just got some new exciting features with the release of 0.11.0: Command-line completion External programmer support Internationalization and localization support (i18n) Command-line completion Finally, the autocompletion feature has landed! With this functionality, the program automatically fills in partially typed commands by pressing the tab key. For example, with this update, you can […]

Build your own classic games console in The MagPi #95

Reading Time: 2 minutesMigration Museum A museum celebrating the diversity of London’s residents comes to life when visitors linger near its artefacts. The Room To Breathe interactive displays are the handiwork of Chris Owens and his colleagues from  Clay Interactive. Just one of the many incredible community projects that use Raspberry Pi to make the world a better […]

A tabletop bowling game with automated scoring

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA tabletop bowling game with automated scoring Arduino Team — June 24th, 2020 Do you love to bowl? Are you still unable to do so due to the pandemic? Then this project by high school engineering teacher “lainealison” is right up your alley! This rig features a 5½ foot (1.68 meter) lane made of MDF, along […]

Machine vision with low-cost camera modules

Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you’re interested in embedded machine learning (TinyML) on the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense, you’ll have found a ton of on-board sensors — digital microphone, accelerometer, gyro, magnetometer, light, proximity, temperature, humidity and color — but realized that for vision you need to attach an external camera. In this article, we will show you […]

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