Arduino-based speed detector
Mike Chambers built this excellent looking arduino-based speed detector.
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Autonomous armed cellbot sentry
A robot army’s got to start somewhere, right? Not quite an army yet, but definitely in the minion category, Squirt, from cellbot hacker Michael Winter means business. Pesky vermin beware!
Hackvision, an open-source video game system
MAKE subscriber James wrote in to share the Hackvision, an open-source video game system based around the Arduino platform.
O’Reilly author Alasdair Allan on citizen science, Perl, Arduino, and more
Amongst other emerging tools the Arduino platform has made building cheap sensor platforms within the easy reach of amateurs, and professionals, alike. One of the projects I’ll be talking about in the book is a pollution detecting hoodie which live logs geo-located level of pollutants to the Internet and alerts you to increased local pollution with embedded LEDs.
How-To: Arduino Blinking Bike Patch
By Becky Stern Here I’ll show you how to add flashing LEDs to your backpack for fun and safety. I used a LilyPad Arduino with a rechargeable lithium-polymer battery for flatness and re-usability. The LEDs blink in a marquee pattern, two at a time, in patriotic red, white and blue. This project also appears as […]
New family of Arduino Boards: available immediately at World Maker Faire NY
The Maker Shed at World Maker Faire NY is always an exciting and store to set up, as we unload box after box of DIY Kits, Tools, Books, and Fun. One of the most exciting parts is when we unveil new products, and today we are proud to be launching the new family of Arduino Boards at World Maker Faire NY.
Modkit – a graphical programming environment for Arduino
Modkit is a new kind of graphical programming environment that makes programming things in the physical world as easy as dragging and dropping little virtual code blocks in a web browser.. Heavily inspired by the Scratch programming environment (from MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group), Modkit enables anyone including kids, artists and inventors to build with electronic kits and components including motors, sensors, lights, sound and the popular Arduino and Arduino compatible development boards
