Building a nano sheet machine @ Fablab RUC Sometimes even very expensive and well build equipment breaks. This recently happened to researcher Biljana Mojsoska, a chemist at Roskilde University. She was working with nano sheets, an anti-bacterial coating for medical surfaces, as her machine stopped working. The fact that such equipment can be so expensive […]
Category Archives: Arduino
Back to basic – Mini CNC plotter
tuenhidiy shared detailed instructions of how to easily build your own low-cost Arduino mini CNC plotter from old DVD/CD player, project instructables here. I have become too concerned with complicated details or new things, and now I should concentrate on basic, simple and important ideas. Getting back to basics, to start learning CNC, today I’d […]
Yaesu FT-817 companion display
Andy (G7UHN) over at SWLing Post has written an article detailing the build of his genius companion control display for the Yaesu FT-817 transceiver: Like so many I love getting out portable with my FT-817 but I do seem to spend so much of my operating time fiddling through the soft-keys because my most used […]
Arduino OLED display shield
Florinc posted his Arduino OLED display shield project: The 2.4″ I2C OLED display I had sitting idle is too big for the “Promini OLED Clock shield”, yet a perfect candidate for a regular Arduino shield. This is how it looks soldered on a prototype shield with two buttons on top, attached to wsduino running the […]
(Not a) triple tube geiger counter
Doz’ triple tube geiger counter project, that is available on GitHub: So, two little switching power supplies, one for the DOB-50 and CTC-5 as they have similar operating voltages, and one higher voltage one for the DOB-80, a simple op-amp comparator to output the pulses to an Arduino to process and display the results. The […]
μSim: PICmicro instruction simulator
Dilshan has published a new build: μSim is a lightweight PIC™ CPU and ALU simulator. This simulator supports the PICmicro mid-range instruction set and designed to work on both PC and Arduino platforms. Compare with most of the other emulators, μSim does not provide all MCU features and peripherals. This simulator design as a minimalistic […]
HDSP clock with SCD5583 display
FlorinC’s HDSP clock with SCD5583 display: Here is another interesting “intelligent” LED matrix display, whose name actually makes some sense (unlike HDSP-2354, among many others): SCD5583A. I reckon it means: “Serial Character Display with 5x5x8 dot matrix”. 3 is the code is for green (0 for red, 1 for yellow). More details on Wise time […]
Automatic keyboard switch tester
James made this automatic keyboard switch tester, that is available on GitHub: It uses a servo to turn a robotic finger that slowly presses the switch down. When it detects that the switch has closed, it lights up the LED and waits 100 ms for the contacts to settle, before slowly releasing the switch until […]
An ESP8266-based temperature, humidity and line voltage monitor
KA7OEI’s temperature/humidity/line voltage web server/telemetering device: As anyone who reads this blog probably knows, I have a bit to do with the operation and maintenance of the Northern Utah WebSDR – a remote receiver system that allows anyone with Internet access and a web browser to listen to the LF, MF, HF and some of […]
Measure voltage and current with the Tiny V/A Meter
Here’s KarlTorp’s palm-sized Tiny V/A: Tired of replugging your multimeter when you want to measure both voltage and current on a small project? Tiny V/A meter is the device you need! Via Arduino Blog. Check out the video after the break.
DIY ARC reactor CPU performance monitor, powered by an Arduino
Michael @ the-diy-life.com posted detailed instructions of how to build your own Arc reactor CPU performance monitor: In this project, I’m going to be showing you how to turn one of these popular DIY arc reactor kits into a useful Arc Reactor CPU performance monitor for your computer. It plugs into one of your computers […]
cVert, a truly random MIDI controller
cVert, a truly random MIDI controller @ danny.makesthings.work cVert is the result of an idea I’ve been kicking around for years, and took a few months of work to bring to fruition. The idea was to use a Geiger counter as a true random number generator to give a non-deterministic input for computer art or […]
Arduino to Nokia 84×48 LCD Heartbeat Display
Bob writes: I am working on some Arduino biometric designs perhaps for a new book. So far I have created the two line 1602 LCD display and now the Nokia 84×48 display. The Nokia display is more fun to work with since I can do a oscilloscope like display across the screen. I am working […]
3d printed portable arcade controller
Facelesstech has published a new build: So I recycled the Arduino pro micro off of one of my old controllers, In doing so I messed the pin 16 up so I had to use one of the analog pins instead. The wiring was quite simple really. I ran a ground wire round all the buttons, […]
Making an unusual and beautiful single-digit clock
A DIY single-digit clock using Arduino Nano, RTC and 3D printed 7-segment digit: Generally at whatimade.today we post original projects we dream up ourselves. Today’s post is a little different. We’re going to describe how we constructed Mirko Pavleski’s single-digit clock. We made it because it’s a fun project, wonderfully impressive to look at, and […]
DIY Arduino RC receiver for RC models and Arduino projects
Dejan @ howtomechatronics.com shows how to make an Arduino based RC receiver: Now these two devices can easily communicate and we can use them for controlling many things wirelessly. I will explain how everything works through few examples. In the first example we will use this Arduino RC receiver to control a simple car consisting […]
Bidirectional detection with ultrasonic sensors
Bidirectional detection with ultrasonic sensors @ ArduinotehNiq Check out the video after the break.
High-voltage FLASH programming on ATTINY85
ATTINY85 High-Voltage Flash programmer @ td0g.ca: The Atmel ATTINY85 is a great chip (cheap, easy to use, supported in the Arduino IDE). Unfortunately it only has 5 IO pins, which limits its usability. There are guides on using a High-Voltage Programmer (HVP) to change the Reset pin into an IO pin. However, that prevents you […]
Mechanical 7 segment display clock using an Arduino & 28 servos
Michael shows us how to build a mechanical 7 segment display clock using an Arduino and 28 servos: I built a countdown timer a couple of months ago using a two digit mechanical 7 segment display which was driven by 14 servos and an Arduino Mega. It came out quite well and a number of […]
Building a pulse oximeter
John Keefe made this DIY pulse oximeters, that is available on Github: The heart (ha) of the project is the Pulse Oximeter and Heart Rate Sensor, which includes the sensor itself, a tiny brain to make the measurement calculations, and two “Qwiic” connections. Qwiic is Sparkfun’s system of making it easier to wire up sensors. […]