Morse code beacon using Arduino
Any hams out there that need a quick-and-dirty morse code beacon? Then you might be interested in Mark VandeWettering’s Arduino Based Morse Beacon.
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Tetris meets Arduino
Like Tetris, but tired of playing it alone in the dark on your Game Boy? Well, now you can rejoice, for Luyza Pereira and Bettina Hiel have brought Tetris into the era of physical computing with their installation Tetris meets Arduino.
DIY sonar visualizer with Processing + Arduino
Lucky Larry made this neat looking radar visualizer for an ultrasonic scanner, using Arduino and a Processing sketch
An operating system on my Arduino? Say it ain’t so!
This looks like an interesting development: Youtube user ArduinoWill claims to have managed to shoehorn an operating system onto the tiny microcontroller system, called Pyxis OS.
VR bike ride through Google Street View
Maker Aki Mimoto wrote in to let us know about his exciting new Arduino/VR/Web app mashup. He’s wired up his wife’s bike on a stationary platform to an Arduino using a reed sensor. Using the sensor data from the bike, along with data from a head mounted display (HMD), Ari is able to accurately pinpoint his position within Google Street View.
Programming a microcontroller without a computer
Say you want to build a re-programmable toy, but the person you are making it for doesn’t have access to a computer. How could you do it?
Making Football Hero
We never do the same thing twice, and the projects can be pretty stressful as we’re always taking a risk and sticking our necks out, often doing things that have never been done before. We also work with relatively small budgets. Luckily it’s almost always worth the hard work though.
The Maker scene and the general explosion in low cost high technology have been a huge inspiration to us. Many of the things we do would have been pretty much inconceivable ten years ago. It’s also important that we try to work with technologies that the world and his dog aren’t all trying to innovate with. So for example we’ve stayed away from augmented reality as pretty much everyone is trying to create something with those tools.
