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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBiTipText enables text entry across two index finger-worn keyboards Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 Typing with your thumbs on a smartphone has become an everyday activity for many, but what if you could enter text by simply tapping on your index fingers? With BiTipText, that may soon be a reality. The researchers’ prototype consists […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteArduino Pro IDE v0.0.6-alpha.preview is out! Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 You can now install third party cores! We have developed a handy “Boards Control” feature to help you identify and configure third party boards. Try it out and give us your feedback. Highlights for this release include: Support for third party cores UX […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I’d made a video about controlling servo motors using a Raspberry Pi and I wanted to follow that up with a simple, practical project that would put Raspberry Pi-controlled servos into action,” he explains. To that end, the Hamster Feeder was created as a tutorial for his YouTube channel, ExplainingComputers. “It would just need a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteControl your IKEA smart blinds with an IR remote Arduino Team — May 5th, 2020 Hacker “replayreb” recently obtained some IKEA FYRTUR motorized blackout shades, but wasn’t satisfied with the stock remote control that comes with them. Instead he wanted to be able to open and shut the blinds with the same remote that he […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesNailz turns your fingernails into wearable input system for smart devices Arduino Team — May 4th, 2020 Researchers at UNIST in South Korea have developed a novel system for smart device input using touch-sensitive fingernails, called Nailz. As noted in the team’s paper, fingernails have long served as a site for body extension and are […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe board’s main connections for inputs and outputs are 3.5 mm screw terminals. As well as a single relay, there are three analogue inputs, three buffered inputs, and three sinking outputs. All of these are tolerant to voltages up to 24 V – which is fine for controlling a plethora of household devices that typically have a […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis tape measure shows the time of day in inches Arduino Team — May 1st, 2020 Tape measures are great for determining length, width, and height. But what about the fourth dimension, time? Normally you’ll need a different device to show this ever-changing entity, but creators Alex Fiel and Anna Lynton have managed to turn […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesTemperature & Light sensor projects: You’ll need Both projects in this tutorial make use of the PiAnalog Python library that lets you connect analogue sensors to Raspberry Pi without special hardware. Although these projects sense temperature and light, you could easily adapt them to use other types or resistive sensor, including stress sensors, variable resistors, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecreating Sega’s Columns with Arduino! Arduino Team — April 30th, 2020 In the early ’90s, Sega shipped its Game Gear console with a falling-block puzzle game called Columns. This Tetris-like game invited users to match colored “jewels” on the ground with lines of three new colors that drop from above. Michael A. Maynard envisioned building his own […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article was written by César Garcia, researcher at La Hora Maker. Welcome to the second article in this series on ventilators! As we’ve seen last week, ventilators are critical pieces of infrastructure. They must work reliably for long periods of time without missing a beat. Today we will uncover what are the different phases involved […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesClick here to buy The MagPi magazine issue #93 Work from home with Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi 4 is seeing a boom in use as a desktop computer for the home. Whether you’re working with Raspberry Pi, or learning, or looking to do video chat; Gareth Halfacree’s Work from home feature has all the information […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesSchools have recently had to make a sudden and seismic shift in the way they teach. As both educators and students get used to remote learning, the onus is now more on parents to support their children through homeschool, and that means parents themselves need support. At Arduino Education, we want to help you and […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdd Arduino to your resume – the Arduino Certification Program is now available in Simplified Chinese Arduino Team — April 28th, 2020 With thousands of users around the world entering the Arduino Certification Program, we are excited to announce the availability of the first Arduino Certification Program: Arduino Fundamentals in Simplified Chinese. Localized in partnership […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn amazingly overkill model rocket launch controller Arduino Team — April 28th, 2020 Eddy Robinson has spent the last six months building a model rocket complete with a thrust vector control system for stabilization, along with a correspondingly epic launch console. His “overkill controller” is packed inside a rugged case and flips open to reveal […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThousands of people have started engaging with Digital Making at Home. They’ve also had kids sharing their projects. Digital Making at Home is for kids who want to get into making things with technology and need a few pointers. If you or your friends are looking for ideas of how to entertain youngsters or simply want new […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe like yelling at our digital home assistant thing to skip the track it’s currently playing. It feels very Star Trek. Sometimes it’s more dramatic to wave the music away – just like with the Wavepad. This radio reads out your notifications from a variety of services. It doesn’t have an old-fashioned news bulletin voice, […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWraPr is a spool-based system for creating and modifying 3D objects Arduino Team — April 24th, 2020 When you purchase a spool of thread or wire, you expect it to be relatively uniform, spun in place with automated machinery that has been developed over hundreds of years. Researchers from MIT’s Media Lab, however, have come […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis article was written by César Garcia, researcher at La Hora Maker. SARS-CoV-2 virus has been spreading around the world since December 2019. The virus causes a coronavirus disease 2019, also known as COVID-19. This respiratory illness can cause a severe acute respiratory syndrome. Critical patients often require a ventilator during their stay at Intensive […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis maker turned an antique typewriter into a MIDI drum machine Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2020 Vintage typewriters are truly amazing pieces of technology, but unlike modern keyboards, they are decidedly one-purpose machines. William Sun Petrus, however, had other ideas for his 1920s-era Remington Portable typewriter, augmenting hammers with wires as inputs to an […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHands-on with the Arduino CLI! Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2020 In our last post, we told you that the Arduino CLI’s primary goal is to provide a flexible yet simple command line tool with all the features and ease of use that made Arduino a successful platform, and enable users to find new ways […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes“My project [PiVidBox] is a simple-to-use Raspberry Pi based media centre that even children as young as three years old can use,” he tells us. “It provides a simple, physical interface that’s based on old and most likely discarded hardware. It’s simple, because instead of a full-blown graphical interface that may be too complicated for […]