MAKE’s Illustrated Board Glossary
Development boards come in different types, sizes, and feature sets. Here are common parts and terms to compare different boards.
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!
Refill a Water Bowl with the Pet Water Warden and Weekend Projects
Use an Arduino, MakerShield, and ethernet shield to build an automatic water dispensing system to fill up your pet’s water bowl while you’re away. The sensors connected to the circuit know when the bowl is low – and filled – with water, and it can even tweet when the reservoir runs out!
HaDuino: An Arduino That Opens Beer Bottles
The HaDuino is a joke project by Brian Benchoff of Hackaday: an Arduino with a bottle opener shape cut into the PCB.
Laser-Cut Octorotor
Jared Reabow’s sweet multirotor is made entirely of laser-cut parts, other than the electronics, and it took only 8 hours to build, including a dinner break…
Build a Basic IR Motion-Sensing Camera with Weekend Projects
Combine some common components and several pieces of software into one, and assemble this microcontroller-driven motion-sensing camera that records VGA resolution pictures to SD card.
A Neophyte’s Path Through the DARC
Join me as a take a neophyte’s walk through the DARC and attend introductory workshops on making and using personal drones at the Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference.
Silicon Chef Female-Focused Hardware Hackathon
San Francisco-based Hackbright Academy offers 10-week software engineering fellowships for women, and last weekend, on October 5, they hosted their first female-focused hardware hackathon called Silicon Chef.
