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!
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Flickr user usopyon and friends created this internet-enabled cotton candy machine. It consists of an Arduino-powered colored sugar mixer, which dispenses measured amounts of pink, green, and blue sugar to create a uniquely colored puff of cotton candy for each user. Yum!
Our comrades in the Maker Shed have given us one of their awesome Projects Pack for Arduino V2 kits to give away in the Make: Arduino area! The giveaway will run through Wed midnight (4/20), ending at 11:59m PDT. We’ll be giving a lucky winner one of these kits, worth over $100! To be eligible, […]
Software, meet hardware. The Netduino Plus from the Maker Shed is an open source electronics platform using the .NET Micro Framework. The board features a 32-bit microcontroller and a rich development environment, making it a perfect solution for engineers and hobbyists alike.
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!]
