Automatic guitar strumming with Arduino Uno and chopsticks
If you like to make music, but don’t consider yourself particularly talented, YouTuber Make It And Fake It has come up with an innovative solution. Her device uses an Arduino Uno, along with a hobby...
View ArticleAutomated IC testing with Arduino Mega
Arduino boards by themselves are, of course, great for making a wide array of projects. Sometimes, however, you’ll need to add other integrated circuits (ICs) for extra functionality. If you want to be...
View ArticleScribble is an Arduino-controlled haptic drawing robot
As part of his master’s studies at Eindhoven University, Felix Ros created a haptic drawing interface that uses a five-bar linkage system to not only take input from one’s finger, but also act as a...
View ArticlePour Reception turns water into radio controls
Using a capacitive sensing arrangement, artists Tore Knudsen, Simone Okholm Hansen, and Victor Permild have come up with a way to interact with music with two glasses of water. One pours water into a...
View ArticleRecreate Optimus Prime’s blaster with Arduino
YouTuber Bob Clagett has dreamed of creating his own life-sized Optimus Prime ion blaster for years, and now after hours of 3D printing and finishing, he finally has something worthy of that universe....
View ArticleYouTuber creates an organ out of 44 Furbies
If you think Furbies have become extinct, think again, as musical hacker “Look Mum No Computer” has decided to revive a number of them to create his own Furby Organ. To make this horrifying yet awesome...
View ArticleWater speakers enhanced with an Arduino Mega
Maker “cool austin” is a fan of water speakers, which pulse jets of water inside plastic enclosures to the beat of your music, but thought they could be improved. What he came up with is a multi-tower...
View ArticleVideo game head tracking with Wii Remote camera
While the Nintendo Wii has been on the market for well over 10 years, its controllers continue to provide a variety of tools for hacking. One component you may want to consider for your next hack is...
View ArticlePlay Striker Air Hockey on a capacitive touch surface
After discovering capacitive touch interactions with a Makey Makey device and an Arduino Leonardo, Jason Eldred realized it could also be used to control the Unity game engine. After a night of...
View ArticleLevitate water drops with RGB LEDs and Arduino
Water normally falls from the sky to the ground, the time fountain from hacker isaac879 appears to work much differently. As shown in the video below, water droplets somehow levitate from a circular...
View ArticleLunar landing conspiracy put to rest(?) with LIDAR
On July 20th, 1969 man first set foot on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission, or so they say. If it was faked, or so the theory goes, one would think that there were a few details that don’t quite add...
View ArticleStrange vocal interactions with ‘you, me and all these machines’
Moscow-based artist ::vtol:: is back again with an interesting interactive exhibit entitled “you, me and all these machines.” His latest work, a collaboration with Lovozero, allows two participants to...
View ArticleDesigning an Arduino-powered split-flap display
If you’d like a split-flap display with numbers and letters, options tend to be quite expensive. This though was no problem for hacker “scottbez1” who reports that after “only” two-plus years of work,...
View ArticleLet an Arduino notify you when the coffee is ready
Hacker “wesgood,” apparently not satisfied with randomly checking the office coffee pot to see if a fresh brew was available, decided to make his own notification system. His device uses a current...
View ArticleMake your own 3D-printed robotic vacuum with Arduino
Tired of cleaning your house? A robotic vacuum may be the logical solution, but if you’re “theking3737” something off-the-shelf just isn’t quite cool enough. Created as part of a school project, he was...
View ArticleMeasure RPM with an IR sensor and Arduino
When dealing with robotics and other electronics projects, it can be important to know how many revolutions a motor is making. From here, you can infer the distance that your device has traveled, or...
View ArticleTest your aim in this carnival-style IR target game
For a class assignment, Matt Robb along with teammates Kara and Andrew needed to make a project using an Arduino and various other components. What they came up with was a carnival-style game that uses...
View ArticleA DIY hardware watchdog for your mining rig
Vadim Panov wanted a way to automatically restart a PC that was simple and cheap to make. For this task, he turned to an Uno due to its wide availability; however, any Arduino board with at least one...
View ArticleConnect Pour!
What do you get when you combine Connect Four with beer pong? Connect Pour, of course! After inspiration from a much larger basketball version, this hacker decided to make a game that allows you to...
View ArticleCTC 101: Giro d’Italia + CTC Faire in Barcelona
The last couple of weeks have kept the Arduino Education team extremely busy. While some of us were presenting CTC 101 to teachers all across Italy, others were in Barcelona for the CTC 101 Faire with...
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