Arduino

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

Continue Reading September 24th, 2010 Brian Jepson6

World Maker Faire NY: $22.50 kit turns Arduino into retro video game

Available only at World Maker Faire NY this weekend, Wayne and Layne’s just-launched Video Game Shield turns your Arduino into a TV video game system. You can clone retro games like PONG in 100 lines of code, and you can even get into some fancier stuff, like a 3D raytracer. (Both are shown in the video).

Continue Reading September 24th, 2010 Brian Jepson

Playing with the Arduino-compatible Beagle Board Trainer

The Beagle Board Trainer from Tin Can Tools is a nifty daughterboard for the Beagle Board, offering level shifters for the built-in outputs such as GPIO, I2C, and SPI. This enables you to talk to 3.3v and 5v devices (the Beagle Board works with 1.8v signaling). Tin Can Tools sent me a Trainer board to take out for a spin.

Continue Reading September 19th, 2010 Brian Jepson

Arduino + Motorcycle = Motoduino!

Heatsync Labs member Rene Sanchez built this kicking motoduino bike computer for his motorcycle, using a bunch of parts from Adafruit, a custom welded enclosure, Makerbotted connectors, and some ingenuity.

Continue Reading September 17th, 2010 Matt Mets

DIY pillbox laser projector

What do you get when you combine a laser pointer, pillbox, and an Arduino? If you’re maker Raul Aguaviva, you’ll get an awesome DIY laser projector, of course. In addition to its relatively spartan design, the creative use of a heptagonal pillbox for a polygon greatly reduces the overall cost and complexity of the device.

Continue Reading September 16th, 2010 Adam Flaherty4