Rick and Morty fans will love this butter robot
Up until the present day, if you need butter, you simply ask another human to “pass the butter,” leading to minor inconvenience and awkwardness. Engineering students in Brussels have come up with a...
View ArticleBuild a six-wheeled RC vehicle for any terrain
In order to create the ultimate off-road RC rig, “asrebro” designed his own six-wheeled vehicle, operated with the help of Arduino. To give it decent range and reliability, the hacker turned to a stock...
View ArticleAdd colorful effects to your 1980s boombox with Arduino and LEDs
While ’80s-style boomboxes have their own unique character, per hacker “Dancorp’s” excellent mod, it’s clear that they could be improved dramatically with programmable LEDs. This build uses a...
View ArticleBuild a block balancing game with Arduino and servos
If you’re tired of classic tower building games like Jenga or stacking cards and would like a new challenge, “mr_fid” has come up with a game where you balance blocks on a tree assembly. The nicely...
View ArticleThe Edgytokei is a nunchucks-inspired edge clock
Just when you thought you’d seen every possible hacked clock design, creator Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi has come up with something new: a faceless clock that is able to tell time with two hands that never...
View ArticleRecreating the Apollo Guidance Computer Display and Keyboard with Arduino
Nearly 50 years ago, mankind made the giant leap of being able to travel to the moon. To celebrate, ST-Geotronics has come of with a replica of the Apollo Guidance Computer Display/Keyboard, or AGC...
View ArticleCreate an Arduino Mega-powered, cable-cutting machine
What do you do when faced with measuring and cutting a bunch of cables? If you’re Edward Carlson, you “simply” build a machine to do it for you! While it may not save time on this run, at least on the...
View ArticleAutomatically open doors with Arduino!
Tired of doing the mundane task of opening your door? This hack from Sieuwe Elferink takes care of that for you, using an Arduino Uno for control. When someone comes within 50 cm of an ultrasonic...
View ArticleLight up the elements with this periodic table display
If you took chemistry at any point in your life, you were exposed to the periodic table, which organizes different atomic structures by their atomic number. It’s an amazing chart, demonstrating just...
View ArticleRFID-controlled dry cleaner machine displays glowing leaves
While you may not give dry cleaning conveyors much thought, Andrew Quitmeyer and Madeline Schwartzman’s “Replantment” exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery uses them in an entirely new way, along...
View ArticleRobotic playing card dealer made with cardboard
Ruben, aka “Ruubz0r,” a mechanical engineering student, was tasked with building a smart object. As he enjoys card games, he decided to make a playing card distributor. The resulting device uses a...
View ArticleMake an interactive coffee table with Arduino and LEDs
Rather than buying a coffee table, Marija from Creativity Hero decided to build her own, adding an array of 45 programmable LEDs on top of a pine base. An Arduino Mega is used to take input from 45...
View ArticleCrawl through a 1D LED dungeon with TWANG!
While video games have grown more and more complex over the last few decades, TWANG takes things in the opposite direction as an Arduino Mega-based 1D dungeon crawler consisting of an RGB LED strip....
View ArticleCreate a custom Kerbal Space Program cockpit with Arduino
When you play a video game, the controls are normally a compromise between what you have available (a keyboard/mouse) and the actions you’re trying to convey. This, however, wasn’t good enough for...
View ArticleArduino Create plans for education now available!
Today, we’re excited to announce that Arduino Create is now available for schools with Chrome OS devices in their classrooms. With Arduino Create, students and teachers will be able to tinker with...
View ArticleThis Arduino infinity mirror lights up to music
Infinity mirrors, which make light appear to stretch to infinity by bouncing light between two mirrors, are incredible to observe. Hacker “Evocate” decided to go the extra mile and not only illuminate...
View ArticleDotter is an Arduino-powered dot matrix printer
While largely supplanted by more modern forms of printing, dot matrix printers still have their fans. Few, however, are more dedicated than Nikodem Bartnik, who constructed his own model that pulls...
View ArticleAdd an Arduino-based tachometer to your CNC router
In order to get a good cut with a CNC router, the cutting tool speed needs to be properly set. Since his CNC didn’t come with RPM feedback, Troy Barbour came up with his own solution using an Arduino...
View ArticleKid’s kitchen beeps with the help of an Arduino
While Roald Hendriks is quite pleased with the build quality of the IKEA DUKTIG play kitchen, it does lack one thing—the ability to say “beep.” This feature was requested by his daughter, who for her...
View ArticleRotary encoders and Arduino combine for awesome universal remote
In his latest hack, “Matlek” has come up with an entirely new take on the universal remote, using a pair of rotary encoders instead of an array of buttons to output up to 400 individual signals. One...
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