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 photo pool 5Volt created some reusable development hardware for Arduino – and subsequently came up with some eye-pleasing compositions suitable for classroom wall-hanging. – Mini circuits to go with Arduino In the Maker Shed: Arduino Diecimila
todbot writes– Here’s a really quick 3D model of BlinkM, if anyone needs it. It’s accurate to ~0.1mm. And here it is plugged into the awesomely done Arduino Diecimila model by Jon-Paul from the Google 3D Warehouse. SketchUp is pretty great, but I found a problem with it if you’re trying to make accurate to-scale […]
Remember this LED turn signal bike jacket we posted a while back? Well Leah Buechley made a tutorial for making your own. It has a button on each sleeve for activating the turn signals. The instructable includes a handy sewing/wiring diagram and lots of key insights into sewing a circuit for an LED turn signal […]
Shooting time-lapse photos would seem a simple task for today’s modern imaging equipment – but in most circumstances a pricey ‘intervalometer’ device is necessary. Have no fear, Arduino user LordYo is on the case. I’ve built an intervalometer for Canon SLR cameras (e.g. EOS 300-400, DigitalRebel) based on Arduino. I call it the Intervaluino. If […]
Rob Faludi and Kate Hartman have been working on a way to integrate the LilyPad Arduino with XBee radios and they have released the first draft of this experiment. They are looking to expand into some PCBs which will be available soon and licensed under Creative Commons. XBee LilyPad
This is a nice how-to for interfacing an SD card and an Arduino. The forum post has a link for the necessary library and the schematics. There is also some sample code to get you up and running fast. Read more on How to read/write an SD card via an Arduino Related: AVR based USB […]
One of our readers sent in the really interesting data logger. It uses an Arduino to capture the Nunchuck’s accelerometer data and stores it to the eeprom. I used a Microchip 25AA512 eeprom. It holds 64000 bytes. Normally the accelerometer data for each axis is in a range of about 1 to 1000. I scaled […]
