Kevin Rye posted an update on his Temperature Shield project we covered previously: It’s amazing how close I came to matching my 3D model! It’s just like I imagined it. I had already loaded my sketch before assembling it, so it was just a matter of crossing my fingers and plugging it in. Boom! It works like a […]
Category Archives: Arduino
LEWE: the biometric wristband
Boris Landoni from Open Electronics writes about a new open source project the LEWE, a wristband that reads biometric: The Lewe project aims to collect and use available technologies to make a low cost idea that is applicable to all sectors using sensors for data collection. This project goal is the development of a communication protocol, […]
NRF24L+ library for XC16
Arhi writes: I ported some NRF24l+ library long time ago but was having lot of problems with it trough time, it was not easy to use and had some conceptual problems that could only be solved by a complete rewrite so I looked around and found a very well written library for NRF24l+ made for […]
Video: Deploying software updates to ArduSat in orbit
Jonathan Oxer VK3FADO gave this presentation at the recent 2014 Linux conference in Perth, Western Australia. The ArduSat project aims to give hobbyists, students and space enthusiasts an opportunity to design and run their own experiments in space. “By choosing a standardized platform based on the hugely popular Arduino hardware design, ArduSat allows anyone to […]
The Drinkmotizer – a Raspberry Pi drink mixing robot
Cabe Atwell wanted a way to have a robot serve up a mixed drink efficiently and economically. He developed the Drinkmotizer, which uses a Raspberry Pi in combination with an Arduino to construct the dream project of many a maker. What makes this drink mixing robot different from other designs? Cabe says this machine builds […]
MEGA MINI assembly, part II
Kevin Rye posted an update on his MEGA MINI project: This was just supposed to be a proof of concept for the GPS clock; basically a trial run. However, it could very well be a finished project on its own. I could just put it in an enclosure and it would be good to go. With […]
Last call for entries to Hack the Arduino Robot competition
Today (January 26) is the closing date for initial idea submissions for the Hack The Arduino Robot contest sponsored by RobotChallenge. This year RobotChallenge in cooperation with Arduino and RS Components presents a new open source competition – “Hack the Arduino Robot!”. To apply for this competition you need to submit a short description of […]
Open source PID controller (DIY Arduino shield)
Tom posted his Arduino PID controller shield in the project log forum: Program a temperature profile to mash beer or reflow solder. Here’s how. This full featured open source PID controller uses a DIY stripboard shield for Arduino Uno and compatible boards. Firmware based on osPID massively revamped and extended, blood was sweated over new auto […]
Digital clock using 7 segment display controlled using TV remote
Zxlee wrote a post on his blog detailing his digital clock on 7 segment controlled with TV remote: When the Arduino first power up, it will display time information on 7 segment displays. Besides that, the LCD will display the time, date, temperature and day of week information. Basically, this is the main part of the program. The program […]
OpenBCI EEG project
The OpenBCI project is an open source project with the goal of expanding the availability of hardware for maker experimentation with brain wave measurement. It was recently fully funded on Kickstarter. According to the developers, OpenBCI is a versatile and affordable 8-channel EEG signal capture platform built around Texas Instrument’s ADS1299 Analog Front End IC. […]
30C3 video: Programming FPGAs with PSHDL
In this presentation from the recent Chaos Communications Congress conference in Hamburg, Germany, Karsten Becker highlighted the Plain Simple Hardware Description Language (PSHDL) programming language for FPGAs. PSHDL is a new language that purports to have a much better syntax similar to C, making it easier for developers to learn. If you’ve tried to learn […]
Online tool and AT commands for M2M modules
Surya writes with this reference to a guide for a tool an Online AT Command Tester for use with an attached wireless/cellular module. This topic refers to Machine to Machine (M2M) device communications which take AT commands over serial connections. The tool was developed with the M10 Quectel Arduino GSM shield in mind. Via the […]
An Ultrasonic eye for the visually impaired
Dhavalis build this Netra project, an ultrasonic eye for the visually impaired: Netra is an eye for visually impaired, a device based on Echolocation principle. It uses Arduino Micro, Ultrasonic sensor and vibrating motor. Vibration of the motor increases with decrease in distance and vibration decreases with increase in distance between device and object in front. […]
An ARDUINO Yun security guard
Boris Landoni from Open Electronics writes: Let’s capitalize on the Yun Arduino new features to create an electronic “guard dog”, which allows you to watch your stuff, a hidden corner of the backyard or our car silently laying in the garden. Here we wanted to face a small project, but one you would not be […]
JTAG adapter for Arduino Micro
Baoshi writes: For the holiday season I get myself an AVR JTAGICE3. Holding the new shiny emulator and a bunch of Arduino boards, what shall I do? Of course to hop onto the all-hail Atmel Studio and ditch the toy-alike Arduino software. Reason being? Debugging Arduino code with serial console is no fun. I need […]
Temperature Shield for Bare Bones Arduino v3, Part I
Kevin Rye writes: With version 3 of my Bare Bones Arduino boards off being fabbed, as well as the laser-cut acrylic, it was time to go ahead a design my first shield. I have a ton of 7-segment displays that I’ve sourced over the years from various tear-downs of stuff from the garbage. I’ve been […]
Car proximity v2
Bithead writes: The transceiver I created for the original solution was based on an Arduino Uno with an Xbee shield. I put the assembly inside a Sparkfun Arduino Project Enclosure which measures 87x64x28mm. This has worked well for about 1.5 years now, but there is room for improvement: 1. I’d like to shrink the enclosure […]
Video: Maker Faire NY 2013: Arduino NFC
In this video from the 2013 Maker Faire New York, Don Coleman takes the stage in New York to discuss Near Field Communication (NFC) using the Adafruit and Seeed Studio NFC shields on an Arduino. Coleman is a software developer and is co-authoring a book on NFC, PhoneGap and Arduino for O’Reilly. Via Make.
Arduino LCD Smartie OLED project
Rupert Hirst writes, “I decided it was time to build my own version with the features that should have been in the official hardware”: LCD Smartie is open-source (cough!) software which allows a character LCD display to be used as an auxiliary display device for a PC. The program has built in support for many […]
Updating CC3000 firmware with Arduino
Kyle Gordon purchased a CC3000 module from EBay and found that it wasn’t completely compatible with the Arduino library available from Adafruit. The problem arose from the module having an earlier firmware version. So Kyle devised a method using two Arduino Pro Minis to load updated firmware to the CC3000. For more details, you can […]