Kickstarter: If at First you Don’t Succeed…
What happens if your Kickstarter campaign fails? Then break your product down, figure out what actually works, and try the whole thing again. That’s what Zach Supalla and the Spark team have done.
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!
Arduino-Controlled Artificial Window
German maker Helmut Wittek created a fake window to brighten up a windowless room. It has white, yellow, red, and blue LEDs triggered depending on the time of day, creating a sunrise at dawn and a sunset at dusk. The video shows the effect sped up, 3 seconds per hour. This tutorial describes the building […]
Now Available in the Maker Shed: The New Arduino Robot!
The new Arduino Robot was available at Maker Faire for the first time and now we have a limited number of them available online in the Maker Shed! The Arduino Robot is the first robotics platform officially supported by Arduino.cc and arrives fully assembled and nearly ready to run.
Super Awesome Sylvia Builds a Pulse Sensor Pendant
In Super Awesome Sylvia’s latest video, she walks through a build for an Arduino-powered pulse sensor pendant.
Controlling LEDs with Charlieplexing
MAKE contributor Andy has created a great tutorial to introduce you to the utility of “Charlieplexing,” a method for controlling multiple LEDs without the use of multiple microcontroller pins. With charlieplexing you can turn on or off one LED at a time. To light more than one LED at a time, you can scan the LEDs by turning a sequence of them on and off really fast.
DIY 3D Laser Scanner Using Arduino
The principle behind this scanner is the typical of a line scanner. A laser beam intercepts the object to be measured and a camera, positioned at a known angle and distance shoots a series of images. With some trigonometry considerations and optic laws it is relatively easy to reconstruct the Zeta dimension, the measurement of the distance between the object and the camera.
The Toa Mata Drumbots Return
Italian maker and sound producer Giuseppe Acito returns with his robot percussion band by combining LEGO Bionicle bots, Arduino Uno, and an iPad MIDI sequencer app.