A Simple Trip Wire
With a few easy steps build a trip wire!
Wire cutter/stripper
Networked On Air Light
You may have seen those “On Air” lights at film, radio or television studios. Now that anyone can broadcast video over the internet, it’s time to learn how to build your own “Now Streaming” light that even wirelessly checks to see if you’re streaming! This guide will show you how to: Set up the XBee […]
Anti-Robber Pressure Pad
Use a simple circuit and paper crafts to make your own burglar alarm! Here’s how.
Learn About Microcontrollers by Building a Mintronics: MintDuino
The MintDuino is perfect for anyone interested in learning (or teaching) the fundamentals of how microcontrollers work. It will have you building your own microcontroller from scratch on a breadboard, and then easily programming it from almost any computer via the Arduino programming environment. Unlike pre-built microcontrollers, the MintDuino demonstrates the specific relationship between the […]
Pixelmusic 3000
In 1976, Atari introduced Atari Video Music, a plugged-in music visualizer designed by Pong creator Bob Brown that bridged the yawning gap between consumers’ stereos and their TV sets. The quirky, psychedelic pixelation device never caught on, but watching it in action today (check it out on YouTube), one is taken back to another time, […]
Living Room Baja Buggies
Do you like radio-controlled (R/C) cars? Do you like the desert, but hate the heat? Well, with wireless cameras on board, these radio-controlled racers give you virtual reality telepresence.
Hacking the Wii MotionPlus to Talk to the Arduino
The Wii MotionPlus (wm+) uses i2c (Inter-Integrated Circuits) for all of its communications. To learn how to make the Arduino talk to the wm+, we’ll program the Arduino to talk to it using the i2c protocol. This tutorial will show you how to wire the wm+ to the Arduino and toss some code into a […]
