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Serial servos have big advantages over PWM hobby servos. Learn how to use them with our Oxocard microcontroller!
Discover Smart Servos with the Oxocard Connect
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p3a is a Wi-Fi pixel art player built on the ESP32-P4. It is a 4-inch smart art frame that plays animated artworks ("gifs") directly from the internet or from local SD card. It is a playful decorative item and a fun desktop companion.
Desktop Pixel Art Player p3a
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Our nifty Oxocard microcontroller comes with a beginner-friendly NanoPy language — but it also runs super-popular CircuitPython.
Programming the Oxocard Connect with CircuitPython
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Instead of a cuckoo bird, the Makey robot appears out of this Oxocard clock every hour!
Cuckoo Clock 2.0
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Surprise the family by making a quick but dazzling LED star topper with Oxocard and a Pixelmatrix Cartridge. Programming not required, but easy to customize!
Build Your Own Holiday Star With LEDs — Glowing DIY Decorations for the Festive Season!
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Print, build, and animate your own musical ghosts using Bottango’s free animatronic software.
Animatronic Singing Spirits: Building Musical Ghosts With Free Software
Young Makers
Build your first AI project using a micro:bit board and Google's Teachable Machine
Anyone Can Use AI
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All instruments are inventions, and all music is made up — so make your own, using microcontrollers
Exploring the Microverse: Making Music With Microcontrollers
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This tiny circuit will annoy friends and family with its piezo buzzer that makes unwanted sounds, and an LED that will blink in the wee hours of the night.
Prank Your Friends with This Chirping, Blinking Throwie
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Make use of a Raspberry Pi to build a network scanner that will keep track of the hosts connecting to your local network. It’s actually pretty easy to do.
Build a Raspberry Pi Scanner that Tracks the Devices Connected to Your Local Network
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Scare trick-or-treaters precisely when you want to with the help of some Wi-Fi enabled microcontrollers and Node.js.
Control Animatronic Halloween Props from Your Phone
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The Jetson TX1 Cat Spotter uses advanced neural networking to recognize when there's a cat in the room — and then starts teasing it with a laser.
Nvidia Jetson TX1 Cat Spotter and Laser Teaser
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Who doesn't love the mechanical feel of typing on a typewriter? Two brothers hacked a typewriter to tweet out the messages they typed.
Hack a Typewriter to Tweet What You Type
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Build a (pretend) bedtime scanner to repel creepy critters — so easy a kid can operate it.
Monster-B-Gone Keeps Kids Safe from Creepy Bedroom Critters
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Elektrosluch is a device for listening to electromagnetic fields. It works as a translator of oscillations from electromagnetic domain, through electric domain to audible domain. This is a tutorial on making your own basic version.
Weekend Project: Listen to Weird Sounds from Electromagnetic Fields
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Follow along as we show you how to use an ESP8266 to wirelessly control a DC water valve.
How to Build a Cheap Wi-Fi Controlled Water Valve
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It’s a giant DIY TV! Hang your LED screen on a wall, or take it to your next outdoor festival and blow people’s minds.
Construct a Giant LED Video Screen

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