When you work in a machine shop, you often need to convert numbers from metric to imperial. As long as you have to do this on a regular basis, why not make a tool to do so easily? Instead of pulling out a phone or taping a calculator to their CNC machinery, NYC CNC came … Continue reading The Imperializer makes quick work of metric conversions
The Imperializer makes quick work of metric conversions
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Santa’s Shop is an animated storytelling installation
Santa’s Shop is an amazing Christmas display consisting of trains, animated figurines, a rotating tree, and several other interesting holiday-themed gadgets. The decoration features hundreds of 3D-printed parts and many handmade characters, controlled by 46 servos and a total of 12 Arduino boards. Bringing the installation to life was no small task, requiring over 2,000 hours … Continue reading Santa’s Shop is an animated storytelling installation
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Create a beat by nodding your head
If you are really enjoying a song, you may start to bob your head to the tunes, but what if you could instead create actual music with this subtle movement? That’s exactly what Andrew Lee’s “Nod Bang” system accomplishes. An accelerometer mounted to a pair of headphones senses nods in order to dictate the beat, … Continue reading Create a beat by nodding your head
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This DIY machine mixes your favorite three-ingredient cocktail
Do you and your friends have a favorite cocktail? If so—and if it has three ingredients—then this Arduino-based cocktail machine from YouTuber “GreatScott!” may be worth checking out. The device is capable of mixing three liquids, which in GreatScott’s case consist of vodka, cranberry juice, and grapefruit juice (also known as a Sea Breeze), in a … Continue reading This DIY machine mixes your favorite three-ingredient cocktail
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3D-printed miniature roller coaster powered by Arduino Mega
While many enjoy roller coasters, few can claim the same dedication of engineer Matt Schmotzer, who 3D-printed a 1/25th scale replica of Invertigo, a boomerang coaster at Kings Island in Ohio. As reported on 3D Printer Chat, the CAD model took only a week to complete, but 3D printing this 4’ x 8’ creation took … Continue reading 3D-printed miniature roller coaster powered by Arduino Mega
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New search engine and Arduino reference!
The Arduino web team has working hard behind the scenes improving our legacy systems. Now, it’s time to work on something more interesting for the team and more useful for our community! From here on out, we will update you every month on the latest and greatest activities… Today, we are announcing a pair of major features that are only a mere preview … Continue reading New search engine and Arduino reference!
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Slide the “time clock” into position with Arduino
Years ago, if you wanted to track employee hours, you needed to have them punch a time card. Saunders Machine Works, however, uses a facial recognition system running on an iPad for this purpose, meaning they had to figure out how to sense employees of different heights. What they came up with is a fixture … Continue reading Slide the “time clock” into position with Arduino
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Automatic trash can optimized for battery life
If you have a trash can with a lid, you’ve probably accepted the small inconvenience of opening it with your hand and foot. YouTube hacker MadGyver, however, came up with a different solution using an Arduino Nano and a micro servo to open the lid whenever someone places a hand near the unit’s ultrasonic sensor. … Continue reading Automatic trash can optimized for battery life
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This control panel references your favorite sci-fi films
While you may question if some of the blinking lights and buttons in science fiction movies actually do anything, you’d still really like to hit those buttons just to see what happens, right? If that sounds like you, then something like this rocket ship panel from maker “r570sv” might be just the thing for your … Continue reading This control panel references your favorite sci-fi films
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Star Wars fan creates an Arduino-powered rebel pilot chest box
If you’d like a rebel fighter pilot suit, complete with the automated chest box, then look no further than this excellent build from “badjer1.” It features a chest box with the same dimensions seen in the movies that lights up randomly, and even allows bored pilots to play a game of Pong on its double-LED … Continue reading Star Wars fan creates an Arduino-powered rebel pilot chest box
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Create a custom Secret Santa trivia box with Arduino
Participating in Reddit’s Secret Santa this year, hacker “Haxxa” decided to go all out, picking out not only several gifts for the recipient, but an Arduino-powered trivia box to house them in. In use, an Arduino Nano onboard feeds queries to the gift recipient on an LCD display, allowing them to answer using one of three … Continue reading Create a custom Secret Santa trivia box with Arduino
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Interact with the virtual world in a whole new way
As reported by the Creative Applications Network, “Tangibles Worlds explores the effects of tactile experience as a catalyst for full immersion in VR.” The project by Stella Speziali takes the form of three separate boxes, along with an Oculus Rift headset. When a hand is placed in one of these boxes, the user is virtually transported … Continue reading Interact with the virtual world in a whole new way
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These students made their own Guitar Hero-like video game
If you’d like to create your own simulated guitar from scratch, you’ll want to check out this project by Cornell ECE students Jake Podell and Jonah Wexler. It uses four conductive strings on the neck to sense which note is selected, along with a pick wired as input to tell when the string has been … Continue reading These students made their own Guitar Hero-like video game
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Turn a flatbed scanner into a PCB UV exposure device
If you want to create your own custom PCBs, you could design it and wait for a fab house to send it back, dealing with any errors, or you could do it yourself. Hacker Andras Kabai decided to go for the second option, and made his own UV exposure tool to help him with the process … Continue reading Turn a flatbed scanner into a PCB UV exposure device
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Monitor your sleep quality with Arduino
While it can be difficult to get enough sleep, at least you can try to make it as restful as possible when you are in bed. That’s the idea behind this project by Julia Currie and Nicholas Sarkis, who developed an Arduino Nano-based sleep monitor for their final ECE 4760 project at Cornell. The bulk … Continue reading Monitor your sleep quality with Arduino
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Ultrasonically levitate particles and liquid
If you thought the power of levitation was only available to magicians (and perhaps magnets) then check out this amazing project from Asier Marzo. It uses an Arduino Mega to control an 8×8 array of ultrasonic transducers, which when carefully coordinated using a simulation program, not only can suspend a particle but cause it to … Continue reading Ultrasonically levitate particles and liquid
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Designing an Arduino-powered Braille generator
Did you know that embossing machines needed to generate Braille characters can cost thousands of dollars? After finding this out, hacker Carlos Campos decided to design and build his own using 3D-printed parts, along with an Arduino Mega and a RAMPS board for control. Instead of punching each dot, the device pushes a pin out … Continue reading Designing an Arduino-powered Braille generator
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Control lights and sounds with the Arduino-powered LED Eclipse
If you need a MIDI device that can be programmed as your own unique light and sound controller, then Jon Bumstead’s LED Eclipse may be just what you’re looking for. The circular device, roughly the diameter of a large plate, is constructed out of 30 layers of MDF, and boasts 10 capacitive sensors made with … Continue reading Control lights and sounds with the Arduino-powered LED Eclipse
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Playing chiptunes on an old reed organ with Arduino
After finding an organ left outside to rot, hacker “tinkartank” decided to use it for his own purposes, adding push buttons under each key as inputs to an Arduino Mega. He also reused the control rods with potentiometers as a secondary input method, and added a tiny OLED to display the system’s menu. With this unique … Continue reading Playing chiptunes on an old reed organ with Arduino
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RoboGlove assists users with gripping objects
The RoboGlove project is a robotic glove by students at the Université Libre de Bruxelles that is designed to assist the wearer when continuously gripping objects. This is accomplished by a series of three servos that transmit force through cables for the index finger, middle finger, and thumb. Control is via an Arduino Uno, which … Continue reading RoboGlove assists users with gripping objects
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