Turn up the Volume With an Audio Hacker Shield
Nootropic Design’s Audio Hacker Shield adds some majorly cool noisemaking capabilities to your Arduino. It lets you can record, store, and replay audio, mix samples, create audio effects and new sounds.
Arduino
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!
An Early Look at the Cortado—the Arduino You’ll Never Plug In
The Cortado board from Punch Through is a new Arduino compatible board with built-in Bluetooth LE. An Arduino compatible board with built-in Bluetooth LE isn’t a new idea, but the Cortado does things differently.
Santiago Mini Maker Faire : Oculus Rifting & DIY Instrument Band
This past weekend, thousands of Chileans descended upon a lovely little park in central Santiago called Parque Quinta Normal. I arrived around 11am on a bright and sunny Saturday morning. I walked through the entry gates of the park and when I saw a huge yellow circus tent in the middle of the park, I knew I was in the right plac
Making it in China
Right after the overwhelming experience of Maker Faire Rome I left Europe for a week a quick tour in China. There are a lot of cool things happening there. I’d been to China twice before for a very short time so this time I wanted to spend a few days to meet with people and take part in some cool events going on in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
A New WiFi Board Appears: Introducing the WildFire
Meet WildFire, an Arduino-compatible board for serious network and Internet-connected applications by our friends at Wicked Device, now available in the Maker Shed. Thanks to WildFire’s onboard TI CC3000 Wi-Fi module, the increased memory size of the ATmega1284p processor and a MicroSD Card slot, you can create applications with larger data requirements and greater I/O needs than most internet-connected Arduino projects.
One Small Step for a Humanoid…
Walt Disney famously said, “the way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” That’s the journey some 65 teams in the Make-GE Robot Hack have undertaken. In just a few short weeks their small steps became a running stampede. The final Robot Hack is tomorrow.
Deploy Weekend Projects to Send Sensor-Activated SMS Alerts
Cellular Sensor Sentinel is a fun and accessible way to explore basic sensors while simultaneously learning about core cellular protocols GSM & GPRS.
