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!
It’s been really busy this week for all of us in the Maker Shed. We have been working on a lot of new open source products, and I even made and few Arduino how-to’s using some of our new sensors. Also, we have been gearing up for Maker Faire in San Mateo. I can’t believe […]
Check out this neat tutorial for creating glitchy VGA signals from Arduino, via Adafruit.
BakerTweet from BakerTweet on Vimeo. Via adafruit comes this awesome use of embedded tweeting, a bakery device that can alert hungry stomachs to what (please don’t make me say it) tweets are coming out of the oven. Sweet. The BakerTweet prototype is made up of an Arduino Duemilanove, Arduino Ethernet Shield, Ladyada Proto Shield, a […]
Tom Igoe just sent me this really cool project that he made on the Arduino Mega and in Processing. He used (2) 8×8 LED matrices and an Arduino Mega to recreate Pong. Next, he ported the Arduino code over to Processing. He said it took 10 minutes to port the entire code. That’s fast! You […]
In this video, Limor of Adafruit Industries shows how she laser-cuts masks for PCBs for easier application of solder paste (think: silk-screen inking) and then uses her reflow robo-skillet, controlled by her new Safe-T-Flow controller, to solder an SMT chip onto one of her Boarduino clone kits. Making the Safe-T-Flow part II – Using it! […]
I stopped by Eyebeam in NYC on Tuesday to chat with Tom Igoe about the new Arduino MEGA and few other projects that he is working on. I took a quick video and some pictures of the new board to share with our readers. If you don’t already know, Tom is the Area head for […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool After experimenting a bit with ARToolKit, melkaone came up with this intriguing demo for an augmented reality sculpting system with force feedback via Arduino – As you can see, this is just a proof of concept, I only worked on it this morning, but I think it has great potential. […]
