Another quick & easy option for those getting started with the popular micro – Little-Scale posted a quick rundown on using a solar cell for Arduino sensory applications. The solar panel used in this example was rated at 2V and 25mA. Do not use a solar panel rated in excess of 5V. Doing so may […]
Here’s a how-to regarding the detection of volatile organic compounds using Arduino and a TGS2620 sensor – This lets your Arduino smell (and hence you program responses to) overall gas levels for a variety of nasties, including ethanol, methane, formaldehyde, and a bunch of other volatile organic compounds. No explanation as to how refraining from […]
A user on the Arduino forums built this high-speed photo flash trigger – I used Arduino to build a trigger for my camera’s flash. It turned out to work really well! The write up includes an explanation of how camera triggers work and the benefits of using Arduino. One benefit of using a microcontroller like […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ludo_d built a custom MIDI touchpad controller using Arduino – Started from a scavenged Cirque Glidepoint resistive touchpad (PS/2 compatible), 2×8 LCD (in 4 bit mode), two buttons and a serial Arduino board. The buttons when pressed allow to set the Continuous Controller number by gliding the finger on […]
Longing for a more collaborative play dynamic in music games, Kevin Lim and Shawna Hein came up with a new direction to take the genre – straight toward the land of jug band. Jug music has strong social and even humorous connotations – a perfect antidote to the solo button-racing so prevelant around the time […]
Upcoming classes @ the Hacktory, Philadelphia, PA – Arduino – On Saturday, April 26, the Hacktory will offer its popular Intro to Arduino for Artists and Makers course, which demonstrates the use of the Arduino, an open-source physical computing platform (www.arduino.cc), and its applications in interactive art and DIY electronic projects. Students will connect a […]
Brock used an arduino to generate glockenspiel sequences from a magnetic stripe reader. The casual video demo (with some charming text corrections) demonstrates how Arduino can make physical projects much more approachable for newcomers. – Brockenspiel [via] Related: DIY doorbell(s) From the pages of MAKE: MAKE:01 p.108 Magnetic stripe reader – subscribers, read this article […]
