Year: 2011

Arduino Book Giveaway Winners

We were floored by the number of comments that we got for our Getting Started with Arduino book giveaway (377!). Lots of folks had great questions about the Arduino and some of you pitched in with answers. We’ll sift through this content now and use it to create a crowdsourced Arduino FAQ. Thanks to all […]

Braised Lamb Shanks

I love me a good stew, but mine have always fallen flat; I can never quite get the meat to that golden, falling-off-the-bone stage. This recipe for divine braised lamb shanks finally solved my problem! I don’t have a slow cooker, but I followed the tip at the bottom and stuck my dutch oven in, […]

Bot Blows Really Big Bubbles

Bot Blows Really Big Bubbles

I held off on “giant,” because, well, there’s really big, and then there’s giant. And, as cool as your Arduino-brained bubble blowing robot is, Instructables user zvizvi, the bubbles it blows are not truly giant IMNSHO. Check out zvizvi’s and the other winning entries in Instructables’ recent Microcontroller Contest.

Networked “On Air” Light

Networked “On Air” Light

You may have seen those “On Air” lights at film, radio or television studios. Now that anyone can broadcast video over the internet, it’s time to learn how to build your own “Now Streaming” light that wirelessly checks to see if your streaming! You can use the basics of this project for any kind of wireless notifier.

For more information about this project, check out:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/networked-on-air-light-for-streaming-broadcasters.html