Tom Igoe

Tom Igoe teaches the sensor workshop class smd heads the physical computing area at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.

Author of these Magazine Articles

Getting Started with Microcontrollers
Choose the right controller for your project and your skill level.
From MAKE: 25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 42

Get in the Game
Make all kinds of game controllers using an accelerometer or other sensors.
From MAKE: 25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 71

How to Make a Motion-Sensitive Camera Trap
Build a camera trap (hidden automated camera) for wildlife observation.
From MAKE: 22: Remote Control / Wireless page 60

Wireless Motion Sensing Made Easy
XBee radios track every hit in roller derby action!
In DIY: Circuits from MAKE: 14: Optics page 125

Net Data Meter
Antique voltmeter displays current air quality from the web.
In DIY: Circuits from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles page 133

It's Email Time
Innocent-looking "clock" monitors the unread-message pileup in your inbox.
In DIY: Circuits from MAKE: 06: Robots page 117

Sensor Interfaces
How circuits communicate with the outside world.
In Skill Builder from MAKE: 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 160

Photographer for these Magazine Articles

Get in the Game
Make all kinds of game controllers using an accelerometer or other sensors.
From MAKE: 25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 71

Wireless Motion Sensing Made Easy
XBee radios track every hit in roller derby action!
In DIY: Circuits from MAKE: 14: Optics page 125

Net Data Meter
Antique voltmeter displays current air quality from the web.
In DIY: Circuits from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles page 133

Illustrator for these Magazine Articles

Get in the Game
Make all kinds of game controllers using an accelerometer or other sensors.
From MAKE: 25: Microcontrollers and Arduino page 71


MAKE: Online Extras

Unsafe At Any Amperage?
Behind the scenes of our high-voltage dilemma: whether to publish a dangerously cool project in MAKE magazine's "Fringe" issue.
by Tom Anderson, Gareth Branwyn, Shawn Connally, Dale Dougherty, Mark Frauenfelder, Joe Grand, Saul Griffith, William Gurstelle, Bunnie Huang, Tom Igoe, Mister Jalopy, Steve Lodefink, John MacNeill, David Pescovitz, Charles Platt, Paul Spinrad, Phillip Torrone; March 16, 2007