Schlagwort: #technology
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Light Deck is a MIDI Lightroom controller
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 21st, 2021 Using Adobe Lightroom can be a tedious process, especially for those who don’t have their keyboards set up with a hundred macro shortcuts. Andrea Lunaro wanted to make this process easier by constructing a large, physical bank of buttons and potentiometers that can be used to perform…
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Arduino enables USB mouse support on custom 6502 homebrew computer
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 21st, 2021 The MOS Technology 6502 was one of the most popular processors of the 8-bit era. It found a home in legendary computers like the Commodore 64, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, and Apple II. Even the NES had a custom implementation of the 6502. Because the 6502…
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This Arduino radio looks like something from 100 years ago
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 20th, 2021 As time has progressed, personal radios have shrunk from the size of a large filing cabinet down to a tiny circuit that can be integrated into other ICs. Instructables user exposedwire wanted to bring back the experience of a vintage 1920s radio set, so they built one out of…
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Review: Electronic Clock for Raspberry Pi Pico
Reading Time: 2 minutesLifting off the rear panel reveals the electronics and two female headers to mount your Raspberry Pi Pico (not included). First, however, you’ll need to flash Pico with the software. The online manual is confusing, as there’s no need to compile anything with terminal commands if using a Raspberry Pi: just drag…
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Interview: Matt Gray
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA YouTuber with a penchant for making, with an amazing Raspberry Pi-powered Game Boy Camera
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PocketView is an LED display that shows info through clothes and other fabrics
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 16th, 2021 When receiving a notification on your phone, it can be a tedious process to take the device out of a pocket, unlock the screen, and then read the message. In order to make viewing simple information much faster, University of Waterloo researchers developed a small pocketable…
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This wizard-themed book nook diorama features a face detection system, LEDs, and an ePaper display
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 16th, 2021 The fantastical world of wizards and magic is one that can be explored by reading a book, and what better way to represent this than building your very own interactive diorama within a reading corner? Well, that is exactly what Andy of element14 Presents created when he…
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Zippy
Reading Time: 3 minutesTomasz Burzy is among those enthralled by NASA’s endeavour. “I became interested in robotics a while ago and love seeing the work of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Boston Dynamics,” he says. “The Mars rovers quickly became my favourite pieces of engineering and when I saw Perseverance, I wanted to build a…
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Connect your space heater to the Arduino Cloud and control it via Alexa
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 13th, 2021 Being able to design your own custom smart home device is a great way to both have fun experimenting with various hardware/software and to escape the walled IoT device ecosystems that so many users find themselves trapped within. One maker who goes by mrdesha came up with…
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Build an Android tablet with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 6 minutes01 Raspberry Pi hardware You’ll need a Raspberry Pi 4 for this project so that you can make the most out of your custom tablet, although you can use a Raspberry Pi 3B+, Raspberry Pi 400, and Compute Module 3 with emteria. Emteria also supports HDMI on Raspberry Pi so you can…
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Keybow 2040 review
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt comes with one of three sets of key switch types depending on your preference: mechanical (clicky-clacky), linear (silent), and tactile (silent with some resistance). All versions have an LED in the switch which is fully programmable, and the keys are standard sized so you can easily swap them out for others…
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Package Thief Deterrent
Reading Time: 3 minutesFlour power Following the theft of a package from his porch earlier in the year, Ryder decided to take action. “It had never happened to me before and I was a little frustrated,” he recalls. “I’d been doing some image classification work at the time, and figured this would be a great…
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Instantly test your cables by plugging them into this device
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 7th, 2021 Cables come in a wide variety of styles and attempting to diagnose a potential fault in one of their tiny wires can be tricky, especially without access to fancy test equipment. To combat this problem, TechKiwiGadgets created a small device called the Touch Screen Cable Tracer, which…
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Duco is a wall-climbing robot that paints circuit murals
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 6th, 2021 When we think of circuits, we tend to picture wires or PCB traces. But a circuit is anything that conducts electricity between components. Today we have more options than ever before thanks to material like conductive ink and thread. Utilizing conductive ink on a large scale,…
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Duco is a wall-climbing robot that paints circuit murals
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 6th, 2021 When we think of circuits, we tend to picture wires or PCB traces. But a circuit is anything that conducts electricity between components. Today we have more options than ever before thanks to material like conductive ink and thread. Utilizing conductive ink on a large scale,…
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OPINION: A life in electronics
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis, in turn, enabled me to take a combined Physics & Electronics degree at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic. When I went for an interview, my first encounter with a strong Geordie accent did leave me wondering where the hell I was. The maths module had three lectures about programming in Fortran II,…
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OMNi is a modular, omnidirectional robot for museum duties
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 5th, 2021 Museums allow people to explore topics in history, science, and much more through the use of exhibits that are often comprised of screens or some other interactive medium. Staff are given the role of visiting each one periodically and checking to see if they still work…
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Portenta H7 Lite Connected hits another sweet spot for pro users
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 5th, 2021 We launched the powerful Portenta H7 last year. The more targeted Portenta H7 Lite just a few weeks ago. And we’re back (already!), with another new product that fills the gap between the previous two versions. It’s known as Portenta H7 Lite Connected, but we like…
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The Graffomat is a giant plotter that automates graffiti art
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 4th, 2021 After visiting the large graffiti walls near his workshop in Berlin, Niklas Roy wanted to get involved by constructing a machine that can do the painting for him. In its most basic form, the system — which Roy calls the Graffomat — consists of two axes that work together…
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The Arduino Store has been upgraded
Reading Time: 3 minutesYou might have noticed that the shopping experience on the Arduino Store has changed a little. We wanted to let you know what we’ve been working on to supercharge the store. Arduino Store — A New Experience On the surface of the Arduino Store, you’ll notice a slightly different layout. There are…
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miniLIGO gravitational wave detector
Reading Time: 4 minutesUnderstanding space has always interested Husni Almoubayyed, so he was attracted to the idea of something that can monitor gravitational effects “stretching and contracting space around us on a very tiny scale”. While there was no expectation of building their own LIGO device, not least because of the expense involved, Husni and…
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Eolim STEAMMIANS Kit helps teach young kids about electronics through interactive stories
Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino Team — October 1st, 2021 Teaching children concepts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is extremely important as the world is becoming even more dependent on people with those skills. To help achieve this goal, Leyla Tawfik, Serena Cangiano and the Ethafa team came up with a series of interactive learning…
