Kategorie: Technology
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More Unity: Dive deeper into 3D worlds, game design and programming
Reading Time: 4 minutesOur ‘Intro to Unity’ educational project path is a big success, sparking lots of young people’s passion for 3D game design and programming. Today we introduce the ‘More Unity‘ project path — the perfect next step for young people who have completed our ‘Intro to Unity‘ path. This new free path is…
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UNO R4: The new dimension of making
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe revolutionary UNO R4, announced on Arduino Day, is now available on the Arduino Store! The fourth version of the iconic, beloved UNO adds a whole new dimension to the world of DIY and making revolutionized by the simple 8-bit microcontroller over a decade ago. Take your maker potential to new heights:…
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Intelligently control an HVAC system using the Arduino Nicla Vision
Reading Time: 2 minutesShortly after setting the desired temperature of a room, a building’s HVAC system will engage and work to either raise or lower the ambient temperature to match. While this approach generally works well to control the local environment, the strategy also leads to tremendous wastes of energy since it is unable to…
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Welcome home! An original Astro Pi computer back from space is now on display at the Science Museum
Reading Time: 5 minutesAfter seven successful years on the International Space Station, 250 vertical miles above our planet, the original two Astro Pi computers that we sent to the ISS to help young people run their code in space have been returned to Earth. From today, one of these Astro Pi computers will be displayed…
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Adafruit Feather RP2040 review
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Feather ecosystem continues to grow, and the Adafruit Feather RP2040 ($11.95) still stands strong amongst all the variations of Feather boards. The board features an RP2040 32-bit Cortex-M0+ dual core running at ~125MHz, perfectly packaged into the Feather form factor. This allows you to add dozens of different shields and…
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This converted RC car uses a Portenta H7 to drive itself
Reading Time: 2 minutesJeremy Ellis is a teacher, and as such, wanted a longer-term project that his students could do to learn more about microcontrollers and computer vision/machine learning, and what better way is there than a self-driving car. His idea was to take an off-the-shelf RC car which uses DC motors, add an Arduino Portenta…
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation and edX: A new way to learn about teaching computing
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are delighted to announce that we’ve joined the partner network of edX, the global online learning platform. Through our free online courses we enable any educator to teach students about computing and how to create with digital technologies. Since 2017, over 250,000 people have taken our online courses, including 19,000 teachers…
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Meet Arduino Pro at tinyML EMEA Innovation Forum 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn June 26th-28th, the Arduino Pro team will be in Amsterdam for the tinyML EMEA Innovation Forum – one of the year’s major events for the world where AI models meet agile, low-power devices. This is an exciting time for companies like Arduino and anyone interested in accelerating the adoption of tiny…
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MCM/70 Reproduction
Reading Time: 3 minutesHardware challenges Keen to build his own repro version, Michael began to source components. While obtaining a keyboard was straightforward, from Dave at osiweb.org, he wasn’t sure how to reproduce the MCM/70’s unique APL keycaps. After considering making his own, he discovered a helpful UK supplier of custom keycaps. Michael used Inkscape…
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James Bruton builds a walking AT-AT robot
Reading Time: 2 minutesWas there anything more exciting than watching AT-ATs walk across Hoth towards the Rebel base for the first time? Those massive machines were iconic and helped to solidify The Empire Strikes Back as the best movie set in the Star Wars universe. After experiencing disappointment with AT-AT toys that couldn’t walk, James Bruton built his own…
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This Star Wars-inspired display shows volumetric objects in 3D space
Reading Time: 2 minutesA little over a year ago, Maker Mac70 set out to build an inexpensive DIY version of a volumetric display — a system which enables users to view objects in 3D, without the need for special glasses or extremely fancy components. But unlike in the Star Wars series, this system relies on a projector that…
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Build your own human horse race arcade game using Arduino and Strava
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery arcade seems to have one particular game that appeals to the gamblers among us: the horse race game. That game has several model horses and people can gamble on the outcome of their race. The results are either random or controlled by the players through some sort of input mechanism. In…
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Join us at Sensors Converge in Santa Clara
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ll be in California at the Santa Clara Convention Center June 20nd-22th for Sensors Converge, where the building blocks of IoT converge. As North America’s largest electronics event for design engineers, Sensors Converge brings together all the industrial components for innovative end to end commercial solutions design. Arduino will be there to…
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This Arduino reads punch cards for cloud computing
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou already know that computers store and interpret data in binary: ones and zeroes. There are many, many ways to store binary data, because it works with anything that can maintain at least two states. In the early days of computing, punch cards were common. They were paper cards with a grid…
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Young people designed 15,000 images for astronauts in Astro Pi Mission Zero 2022/23
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the Columbus module of the International Space Station (ISS), there are two Astro Pi computers called Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla. These computers run the programs young people create as part of the annual European Astro Pi Challenge. For this year’s Astro Pi Mission Zero, young people sent us over 15,000…
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Recreating the famous Miller-Urey experiment with Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvolution is fact — at least as much as anything is a “fact” in the scientific sense. What is still very much in question is abiogenesis, which is the origin of life from inorganic compounds. Evolution is the mechanism that took unicellular life to our current biodiversity, but scientists don’t know exactly…
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Creating intelligent IoT devices with ChatGPT and Arduino Cloud: A journey into natural language interaction
Reading Time: 5 minutesArtificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) are changing the way we interact with technology. With advancements in machine learning and data processing, we now have AI-powered virtual assistants, chatbots, and voice recognition systems that can understand and respond to our queries in a natural, human-like way. One such technology is…
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Launch your model rockets over LoRaWAN with this MKR WAN 1310-powered system
Reading Time: 2 minutesDesigning, constructing, and launching your own model rockets is a great hobby for learning more about the world of aerodynamics, computer simulations, and physics as a whole. But when it comes to actually lighting the solid rocket fuel to achieve ignition, the user normally lights a fire directly on a fuse or…
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RAD Expansion Unit
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor those unaware, the REU plugged into the C64’s expansion port and added extra memory while also allowing for direct memory access (DMA) transfers – something the Sidekick64 couldn’t do. This meant data could be transferred to and from the main system memory whole bypassing the MOS Technology 6510/8500 CPU. “My RAD…
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Meet the next top three Project Hub entries — anything is possible!
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the third time that we’ve selected three outstanding projects in the Arduino Project of the Month competition, highlighting the wide range of our users’ contributions to our growing Project Hub. For April we go from tanks to tunes – because why not? Anything is possible with just a few components,…
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How we’re learning to explain AI terms for young people and educators
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat do we talk about when we talk about artificial intelligence (AI)? It’s becoming a cliche to point out that, because the term “AI” is used to describe so many different things nowadays, it’s difficult to know straight away what anyone means when they say “AI”. However, it’s true that without a…
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mail2code lets you program via email
Reading Time: 2 minutesGetting started with physical computing presents a challenge to newcomers, whether due to the cost of acquiring hardware, learning how to manipulate GPIO pins, and being able to easily view what others have done to achieve their results. Norbert Heinz, who runs the site and YouTube channel HomoFaciens, therefore decided to build a system that anyone can…
