Category Archives: Arduino

eNTuino based biped robot

WebWarrior sends a video of a eNTuino based biped robot: Junior is a Biped Robot based on eNTuino (Arduino-Compatible) platform. Robotics enthusiasts can make the best of the quality electronics platform, smartly designed mechanics and the wonderful Arduino IDE to create some jaw dropping moves. Integrating Wireless (Zigbee, WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM/GPRS) and Sensors will be […]

Controlling Arduino via Android mobile device

Kerimil over at Arduino forum posted this simple how to on controlling an Arduino board with an Android mobile device. He describes, “The circuit is just a Bluetooth module, Arduino UNO, LED, resistor and some wires. The LED can be switched on using buttons as well as voice activation (anything that contains the word ‘on’,’off’ […]

Arduino V3B-K magstripe reader library

matthewg42 has released this library for using V3B-K magstripe readers with Arduinos on Gitub. He describes, “This is more or less a wrapper around Stephan King’s code which has been floating around the nets for a while. I fixed a small problem with a potential buffer overflow if someone jiggles a card around while it […]

New book: LEGO and Arduino Projects

We’ve been informed of the new MAKE publication by authors John Baichtal, Matthew Beckler and Adam Wolf entitled LEGO and Arduino Projects: Projects for extending Mingdstorms NXT with open-source electronics. The purpose of the book is to acquaint beginners with the both Mindstorms and the Arduino platform and how they can be interfaced using open […]

Arduino based stereo 7 band equalizer display

Here’s a tutorial describing how to design a stereo 7 band equalizer display using an Arduino and two MSGEQ7 ICs. The MSGEQ7 does most of the work by reading the input signal and outputting 7 voltage levels depending on the strength of their respective bands in the signal. The output is time multiplexed, meaning you […]

8 digit 7 segment display with SPI interface

Raj designed this 8 digit 7 segment display with an SPI interface using a MAX7219 display driver: The SPI7SEGDISP8.56 module can be interfaced with any microcontroller that has 3 I/O pins available. If the microcontroller features a built-in hardware SPI, then the display module can be interfaced as a SPI slave device. In that case […]

R-Pi as Arduino HDMI server

jokkebk over at Code and Life has developed a simple “HDMI server” for the Raspberry Pi that uses pyserial to receive commands over Pi’s serial interface, and pygame to display graphics primitives according to those commands. An Arduino client was written to send these commands to the Pi, drawing a string of blue rectangles to […]

Universal re-routing board for Arduino shields

While visiting Dimitri’s workshop in Shenzhen he showed us the MIX-UP board. It’s an Arduino shield that let’s you re-route any digital or analog signal (excluding D0 and D1 pins) to any pin on a shield. The board is populated with a bunch of DIP switches which control the routing of the pins. MIX UP […]

Simulator for Arduino v0.98

Simulator for Arduino is a software tool currently being developed. The development team views this product as beneficial in teaching, debugging, software testing prior to acquisition of hardware and easier development of complicated sketches. For additional info and downloads visit the Simulator for Arduino site. They also have a product datasheet available for download. Note: […]

Arduino doomsday countdown clock shield

Tully wrote to us about his latest project, the Arduino doomsday clock shield. The board features six 7-segment displays counting down up to the end of the Mayan calendar. Hey Ian, I want to show off one of my recent creations, the Doomsday Clock Arduino Shield. You can use it to countdown the final hours […]

How to give your Arduino Ethernet shield wireless capability

Connecting your Arduino to the internet is cool, but it’s even cooler to connect over WiFi. Luca explains how to connect your Arduino Ethernet shield to a cheap WiFi router to give it WiFi access. If you want to boost the security and privacy of your home’s wifi network, you may buy residential proxies. Sometimes […]

Arduino Esplora comprehensive dev kit geared toward beginners

Beginners to the MCU scene may want to check out the Arduino Esplora. This new board design is open source and based on the Arduino Leonardo. The Leonardo’s ATmega32u4 is augmented by the inclusion of a number of on-board peripherals, including a microphone, LDR, accelerometer, potentiometer, analog joystick, temperature sensor and sound and light output […]

Pinoccio – An open source wireless hardware and software platform

Bryan pointed us to the Pinoccio. It’s an Arduino compatible Wireless platform. It’s based on the ATMega128rfa1 microcontroller with an 802.15.4 compliant radio built in. It also features a LiPo charger and battery, making it easy to recharge over USB. The project is open source and hosted on github. Via contact form.

Visual Micro Arduino IDE for Visual Studio

Tim Leek informs us that the Visual Micro crew have extended their Arduino IDE for Visual Studio to include a unique Arduino debugger. “The debugger includes many features such as trace/break/step and update of variables on a running Arduino. The IDE and debugger has been successfully tested with various Seeduino boards. The debugger and graphical […]