Loveduino, a heart-shaped Arduino board
Over at Make: Japan, Takumi Funada posted this lovely Arduino-compatible Loveduino board.
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!
Image deblurring using inertial measurement sensors
Interesting paper from Neel Joshi, Sing Bing Kang, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Richard Szeliski at Microsoft Research, describing how they mounted 3 gyroscopes and a 3-axis accelerometer on a DSLR to record the camera’s motion while a picture is being taken, and used that data to automatically deblur the resulting image at the software level. From their abstract:
New in the Maker Shed: MicroSD card breakout board
The MicroSD card breakout board from the Maker Shed makes logging data with your Arduino really easy. Simply connect 4 wires to the digital pins of your Arduino, along with +5V and GND, and you will be reading and writing data to a micro SD card using the SDfat library. Features Onboard 5v->3v regulator provides […]
In the Maker Shed: XBee & Xbee Adapter kit bundle
The XBee & XBee Adapter Kit bundle from the Maker Shed is designed to make adding wireless point-to-point or mesh networking to your next project a lot easier. The kit includes an XBee, the XBee adapter PCB, and all components necessary to build the adapter. This kit is really easy to build, even if you’ve […]
Make a networked face sensor with Processing
This Codebox explores how to use a web server to collect sensor data from a Processing sketch. As an example, we’ll use OpenCV to periodically detect and report number of faces that appear in your webcam’s field of view. You might use something like this at a conference or art show to see how many people are interested in a particular session or exhibit. Using this data feed, you might then create a mobile app that would show you where the most people are at a conference at any given time.
Collin’s Lab: USB Hacking with Arduino
Collin does a little hacking to get his USB-based MIDI keyboard to talk to his Arduino.
In the Maker Shed: Arduino Nano 3.0
The Arduino Nano 3.0 is a surface mount breadboard compatible version of the ever-popular Arduino micro controller. It’s small, has integrated USB, and is breadboard friendly. It has more or less the same functionality of the Arduino Duemilanove, but in a different package. Physically, it’s missing the power jack, but it can still sense and […]