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!
SilverHalo’s Digital thermostatic beer refreshment regulator – he writes… This is my work in building an Arduino based digital thermostat for controlling my DIY kegerator. The project is based around the Arduino and uses a LM35 sensor for temperature measurement, a solid state relay for turning on/off the refridgerator, and a serial LCD panel for […]
If you built a kit in the Maker Shed at Maker Faire Austin, you might have gotten some help from Jimmie Rodgers, the creator of one of the newest additions to the Maker Shed Store, the Open Heart Kit. It’s an array of LEDs that you hook up to an Arduino, and can be programmed […]
Our friend Massimo from the Arduino project wrote in to tell us about this cool competition… I’m writing to tell you about a competition at the school where I teach. Domus Academy is a design school in Milano which has different masters in design, fashion, car design and interaction design. Every year they have a […]
Massimo Banzi writes over at the Arduino blog: After a couple of years of prototypes, tests and announcements, finally we have produced an ethernet shield for Arduino. This module gives Arduino the ability to open connections to other Internet hosts or behave like a server, for example a simple web server. We like this design […]
Yesterday I wrote about a great new book that I picked up at Maker Faire. Actually, I picked up 2 new books at Maker Faire, the other one was Getting Started with Arduino by Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino. Massimo did a great job explaining all about this amazing little micro-controller and basic electronics. Here […]
This looks like a cool project that uses an Arduino & Processing to generate LED graphics based on MIDI inputs. I really like how it is housed inside an old slide viewer. A while ago I found an interesting post on the arduino forums about a guy who made a 8×8 LED panel for his […]
I’ve found the power jumper on Arduino (Diecimila, NG, etc.) comes in handy for quickly powering down a project – helpful when you’d rather not disconnect the DC or USB power. Even handier if you actually replace the jumper with a little slide switch, like so – And who can resist the super-bonus leftover jumper! […]
