Here’s a tutorial on the TOS-100 Arduino stepper driver shield. The TOS-100 is an Arduino compatible Shield capable of driving one stepper motor up to to 1.7A that utilizes the Trinamic Motion Control TMC260 motor driver chip. For added compatibility with other arduino shields, the TOS-100 allows you to choose nearly any pin for any […]
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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 […]
LED sign control board replaced with Arduino
Bob picked up a huge LED matrix sign on eBay that has power supply problems. After fixing the power supply, he decided to replace the controler boards with an Arduino. Via Hacked Gadgets.
Arduino burglary prevention
michu figures thieves rarely enter a house if they think someone is home. You might fool a burgler by leaving on a light or TV when you go out, but what a waste of electricity. This simple Arduino project simulates the lighting of a TV, making it look like it’s on while consuming far less […]
OpenPipe open hardware MIDI bagpipes
The OpenPipe crew designed a MIDI-USB shield for the Arduino that can turn just about anything into a musical instrument. To demonstrate the shield they built the open source bagpipes in the video above. Via Hacked Gadgets.
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 […]
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 wireless capability
It seems the Ethernet Shield is unnecessary if you want to connect your Arduino to WiFi via the cheap TP-Link WR703N router. This is due to the fact that the router can be hacked with OpenWrt making it a Linux box with a fully functional USB. For those of us who are not afraid of […]
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 […]
Magic Mouth – an Arduino speech shield
Want to get your Arduino to speak? Here is an open source shield that will do just that. Magic Mouth is built on a single sided board making it easy to home manufacture. It uses an ATmega168 to generate speech, and it communicates with the Arduino over I2C. It’s an all through hole, single sided […]
Arduino based stage design
Like large things that light up? Here’s a Arduino based stage design consisting of eight large wooden letters lighted by 110 LED modules. Arduino and application code are released on GitHub. I made with some friends an Arduino based Stage Design: eight 80cm high wooden letters and 110 Led modules controlled by a Processing application. […]
Coolest Arduino ever
Here’s the coolest Arduino clone we’ve come across. It’s a Metaboard clone, which is an Arduino compatible board that does away with the FT232 USB to UART IC, and instead uses the software bit-bang USB bootloader USBaspLoader. The design was laid out onto a single layer in Eagle. It was printed out on a sheet […]
Breadboard with an integrated Arduino
BizzyBee breadboard is a simple concept. Take an Arduino, and stick it into the breadboard. You get access to the Arduino pins through a header sticking out of the center of the breadboard. The concept is modular, with an FTDI and power board add on, and a separate Arduino shield compatible breakout board. Via Electronics […]
Crayola ColorStudio HD Pen hack
Hack a Crayola ColorStudio HD Pen and load it up with your own Arduino sketch. The pen uses a PIC microcontroller to pulse a reed relay which is picked up by the capacitive screen on the tablet. An app on tablet decodes the pulses, and changes the color of the paint brush. Rob pried it […]
I2C multiplexer shield controls 8 independent I2C buses
Sometimes I2C addresses can over lap, or maybe you need to use more than one of the same device. The I2C multiplexer shield is a way to control 8 I2C buses from a single I2C peripheral on a microcontroller. Voltage translation is also handled by the multiplexer chip. It was built on an Arduino shield […]
Driving 4 8×8 LED matrices via the HT1632C and an Arduino
Luca wrote a tutorial on how to drive four 8×8 LED matrices connected to the HT1632C IC via the Arduino. The HT1632C is a LED driver IC capable of controlling 256 LEDs. It uses a custom 3pin serial interface. The Arduino sketch for the demonstration displayed in the video is available.
Guitar Hero wireless foot pedal talking to the Arduino
Tom wanted to operate the panning of his webcam via foot pedal. The solution he came up with was to use the old Guitar Hero wireless pedals. He reverse engendered the PlayStation protocol to allow his Arduino to communicate with the pedals. What he ended up with were 2 wireless pedals with linear position reporting. […]
Mechanical Donkey Kong
Martin designed the Arduino controlled mechanical Donkey Kong game. The game area is laser cut, while Mario is mounted on a metal rod, which is controlled via two servos, allowing it to move around and jump. Controls are read by the Arduino through a NES controller. Via Hacked Gadgets
The Akafugu nixie clock
Here is another open source Nixie clock. It’s built with 3 boards stacked on top of each other. One for the high voltage power-supply, one for the control, and one to hold the nixies in place. Uses an Atmega328P microcontroller with Arduino bootloader and firmware preloaded. The firmware is written in Arduino, and is fully […]
Visualizer Arduino shield up and running
Matseng soldered his Visualizer Arduino shield. You might remember these PCB as the with the cool dithered “eye” artwork on the back. The shield shows the state of the each Arduino pin – ‘Hi’ or ‘Low’: It seems like both the hardware and firmware is ok. I just had to lower the value of a […]