If you have a project that uses a bunch of Arduinos, how can you get them to communicate together? Scott Lawrence from The Geodesic Sphere shows us how to daisy chain multiple Arduinos together via their serial ports. He used this technique for his long-term Animatronic Avian project inspired by Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room. [via […]
There’s a brewing dispute over a $157,571 fully backed Kickstarter “smARtDUINO: Open System by former ARDUINO’s manufacturer”. The Arduino team just posted some of the issues up (check out the comments as well) – some trademark, some about who/what may have, or may not have worked with the Arduino factory and how this Kickstarter was promoted to its backers. The big question is, what should Kickstarter do?
Schuyler St. Leger presented an “Arduino 101” session at the Desert Code Camp software developer conference, held in Arizona last weekend. A 12-year-old maker and member of HeatSync Labs Makerspace in Mesa, AZ, Schuyler is a quite simply a prodigy. Schuyler does a remarkably good job explaining Arduino and walking through the basics. His pacing […]
Looking for a way to network enable your Arduino projects without wires? Look no further, you need the Arduino WiFi Shield available in the Maker Shed! This shield fits atop your Arduino and will connect to an 802.11b/g network with relative ease. The shield comes completely assembled and uses pass through headers allowing other shields […]
Do you want to add a simple wireless remote control to your Arduino projects without spending a bundle? The Minty Mote Kit (available in the Maker Shed) can be used for door bells, basic home automation, a simple robot controller and more.
Cécile Babiole’s Bzzz! The Sound of Electricity sculpture seems to embody the promise of the Arduino as being a microcontroller that artists can use to develop an idea without a lot of technical gruntwork: The sculpture has a radial form, arranged around a sound wave generator at the centre of a room surrounded by a […]
After a delay from hurricane Sandy, MaKey MaKeys have arrived in the Maker Shed! In case you haven’t heard, the MaKey MaKey is a Arduino based interface for computer interaction. It lets you to turn nearly any somewhat conductive object (like oranges, bacon, or your labradoodle) into a keyboard key.
