Making Fun: Color-Hunting, Christmas Tree-Controlling CheerBot
Build a robot that controls your Christmas lights and similar lights around the world
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!
Check out the Maker Shed’s Arduino & Robots Gift Guide!
Pick up gifts for the robotically inclined with the Arduino & Robots Gift Guide put together by the Maker Shed team. For beginners, there are no-soldering required projects like the Tin Can Robot Kit and the Makey Makey Standard Kit, which turns nearly anything you can think of into a computer key. For the more advanced, give a Getting Started with Arduino Kit v3.0 to those who wish to build electronics projects that sense and react to stimuli.
Teaching Programming Logic to the Ultimate Beginners: Children
How do you teach programming to children with no prior programming experience?
Turn up the Volume With an Audio Hacker Shield
Nootropic Design’s Audio Hacker Shield adds some majorly cool noisemaking capabilities to your Arduino. It lets you can record, store, and replay audio, mix samples, create audio effects and new sounds.
An Early Look at the Cortado—the Arduino You’ll Never Plug In
The Cortado board from Punch Through is a new Arduino compatible board with built-in Bluetooth LE. An Arduino compatible board with built-in Bluetooth LE isn’t a new idea, but the Cortado does things differently.
Santiago Mini Maker Faire : Oculus Rifting & DIY Instrument Band
This past weekend, thousands of Chileans descended upon a lovely little park in central Santiago called Parque Quinta Normal. I arrived around 11am on a bright and sunny Saturday morning. I walked through the entry gates of the park and when I saw a huge yellow circus tent in the middle of the park, I knew I was in the right plac
Making it in China
Right after the overwhelming experience of Maker Faire Rome I left Europe for a week a quick tour in China. There are a lot of cool things happening there. I’d been to China twice before for a very short time so this time I wanted to spend a few days to meet with people and take part in some cool events going on in Shanghai and Shenzhen.