Here’s a simple Arduino EMF detector by Aaron ALAI: This is an improved version of an Arduino EMF detector from Aaron ALAI. It uses one resistor and a piece of wire to detect if there is any EMF (elector-magnetic field) … Read more
Øyvind Dahl writes, “I just hacked a 75 year old radio into an iPhone dock. I used a simple amplifier circuit, parts from an old speaker, an Arduino, some LEDs and a mini dock plug.” You can find more info … Read more
Welcome Arduino Yún – the first member of a series of wifi products combining Arduino with Linux: Massimo Banzi announced it some minutes ago during his annual “The state of Arduino” presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area: Arduino Yún is … Read more
John Boxall over at Tronixstuff has a series of Arduino tutorials. This chapter fifty-one of a series will show you how to use MC14489 LED display driver ICs with Arduino: Recently we’ve been looking at alternatives to the MAX7219 LED display … Read more
Alessandro Grossi developed this DIY 3d scanner. The primary ingredients in this project are readily available and include a line laser, an Arduino, stepper motor, stepper motor driver (up to 12800 steps), 12V power supply, IR LED and a digital … Read more
Here’s an Arduino Workshop book by John Boxall of Tronixstuff, a hands-on introduction to Arduino with 65 projects: Although there are seemingly endless Arduino tutorials and articles on the Internet, Arduino Workshop offers a nicely edited and curated path for … Read more
TheHardwarer has designed this WiFiDuino, an Arduino board that has a WiFi module: WiFiDuino is a new Arduino board that has a WiFi module. The circuit is based on the famous open source “Arduino Micro” from Arduino and Adafruit. To … Read more
The crew at Element 14 has announced the release of a combo R-Pi/STM32 interface board compatible with Arduino shields. The Embedded Pi is based on the STMicroelectronics STM32F103 MCU and is open-source (see Technical Documents for schematic, layout and BOM). … Read more
In this video from the Oracle Learning Library, Vinicius Senger and Marcelo Quinta demonstrate how to repurpose old Java ME mobile devices in hardware hacking projects. This talk, which was originally presented at last October’s Oracle Open World conference in … Read more
Spark Core: Wi-Fi for Everything (Arduino Compatible) The Spark Core is an Arduino-compatible, Wi-Fi enabled, cloud-powered development platform that makes creating internet-connected hardware a breeze. This little board packs a punch: with a 72 MHz ARM Cortex M3, the best … Read more
Jeff Murchison has some updates on his ArduinoISP Deluxe Shield project: Now with LED indicators (heartbeat, error, and programming) and ATtiny2313/4313 support! The newest version of the ArduinoISP Deluxe Shield, version 2.5 This is an update to an earlier project, the ArduinoISP … Read more
William built this Karma controller and wrote a detailed explanation on his blog describing the build: My latest project is the Karma Controller, which has seven buttons to control Reddit Enhancement Suite. I made two revisions. The second is custom etched (which … Read more
Looks like Arduino has made it to the small screen! The Following is an American TV Series which premiered last January and telling the story of former FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) and his attempts to recapture serial killer … Read more
Luca wrote a short tutorial on how to develop a small website that gets data from Arduino: In this tutorial, I’m going to show how to develop a small website that gets data from Arduino (using your ethernet shield), stores … Read more
Kerry Wong documented his sweep generator build: In this post I will show you a simple sweep generator I built. It can be used to generate both the sweep waveform and synchronization signal needed for any function generator that has … Read more
Tronixstuff has a review of “Magpie” Arduino Uno-compatible board from Little Bird Electronics: Starting with the subject of this review – the “Magpie” board from Little Bird Electronics in Australia. It seems that a new Arduino-compatible board enters the market … Read more
Trandi blogged about his Stepper motor bluetooth serial driver project: How to put together a simple bluetooth driver for a nice little stepper motor (Mitsumi M35SP-11HPK) that I salvaged from an old Canon printer. It uses a small Attiny85 (the … Read more
Rave shades: The self assemble LED glasses kit These Rave Shade – LED Glasses look like a ton of fun. They are Arduino based and use 74HC595 shift registers to light all the LEDs. At first I though it was … Read more
Here’s an interesting project the Chipper – ATtiny Programming and Prototyping Shield built by Ben Rothschild: As a high school senior and electronic enthusiast, I recently built a programming shield for 10 different types of ATtiny chips that can be … Read more
David Neevel of W&K Blog had been thinking about modding a guitar to use as a keyboard for some time. As shown in this video, he recently got down to business, interfacing the MIDI output through an optoisolator circuit to … Read more
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