As the preeminent tool for makers, Arduino is a versatile platform that covers almost every type of creative making. With its simple-to-use coding language and fun programming concepts, Arduino enables users to create modern electronics with ease. From beginner level projects like flashing LED lights to more advanced builds such as interactive robots, there are an endless number of possibilities when it comes to building projects with Arduino. Whether you are new or an experienced builder in search of fresh ideas, these posts will provide interesting Arduino tutorials and unique ideas that may spark your creativity and motivate you take on any type of maker project!
I like this demonstration of an alternate input device by Paul Bishop. He built an Arduino light pen using an Arduino, television, and photoresistor. It works by displaying a series of flashing boxes on the screen, and using the photoresistor to measure if there was a change in the amount of light that it saw […]
Jaroslaw Lupinski designed the Senpai (Shield for Extra Nimble Programming of Arduino) shield, to make it easy to program AVR microcontrollers using an Arduino: If you want to take your device to the next level, you’ll need to program a bare AVR chip to run the code you’ve developed. If you want to build around […]
After a quick search of the posts I’ve written for MAKE, it’s clear that I overuse the word “awesome.” It’s not news to me, but I had no idea how bad my problem was. In fact, I think you could say that I abuse the word. In order to cut down on my usage of […]
The good kind. You know, with little marshmallow candies shaped like chicks baby birds. Built by Kyle Ringgenberg:
In the spirit of Easter, I’ve designed and constructed an audio-animatronic “Peep” Show. This is inspired by a long-running pun amongst of group of friends of mine. Total part count: 10 Servos, 29 LEDs, 1 Arduino, 1 Audio Decoder IC, 1 Push Button, 1 0.5 W Speaker, ~650 Lines of Code, 3 Sheets of Foamboard, 5? of Balsa Wood, 3? of Dowels, 25? of Wire, & 11 Peeps.
[Thanks, Rachel!]
Michael Krumpus, a Hack Factory member who created the Hackvision gaming system, has come out with two fantastic new Arduino shield kits that he’s selling from his own store: The Video Experimenter shield is an Arduino shield that lets you do all kinds of experiments with video. * Overlay text and graphics onto a video […]
Paul Strohmeier built this beautiful animated origami bird flock system using a flexible stretch sensor, an Arduino, and some servos.
SAMSA is based on the Wiring board, with an ATmega128 microcontroller, and SAMSA II on the Arduino Mega, with an ATmega1280. Both are pretty similar, tough the ATmega1280 has 8 KB SRAM, twice the ATmega128. For SAMSA II the Arduino IDE was not used. The software was written directly in C++, using some libraries from […]
