sleep

How-To: Sleep Mask

Stash buster alert! Looking for a quick project that uses up extra fabric scraps, but actually yields something useful? This sleep mask tutorial from Kathreen on Whipup will do the trick! The mask looks super-comfy, and it would be perfect to have on hand for afternoon naps and long flights. Take that, incredibly bright streetlight […]

Sleepy Arduino saves power

Sleepy Arduino saves power

Got a nice Arduino project that needs to be battery-powered, but you want it to keep running for a long time? Well, the fine folks at Lab 3 might have just the solution for you. They hooked up a photoresistor and a buzzer to an Atmega 168 microcontroller running Arduino to make a digital nightingale. […]

Arduino sleep tracker project

Arduino sleep tracker project

As part of her research at the MIT Media Lab, Anita Lillie did some investigations of her own sleep habits recording motion sensor data via Arduino – I outfitted myself with sensors that would help me determine how my position changes over the course of a night’s sleep. I used three accelerometers as tilt sensors, […]