Last week-end we just had a good time at the Maker Faire of Shenzhen, hosted in the wonderful OCT District. We were invited by Eric Pan from Seeedstudio (thanks Eric for the good time!). The Maker Faire has been a priceless experience to get in touch with the chinese maker community, as well as networking […]
Arduino goes to Shenzhen: the Hollywood of hardware products Continue Reading
My partner and I wanted to make heart rate monitor that does more than simply measure a user’s heart rate. Our heart rate monitor talks! Each button gives a verbal description of its functionality and makes the measurements visible on the screen. This monitor will save the last four readings, display them, average them, and
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Ideas and Sketches Squat Coach – Detects the depth of your squats and assesses your form. Flex sensor is positioned to run up the back of knee joint Etch-A-Sketch – Arduino version of Etch-A-Sketch game. Users control stylus with 2 rotational potentiometers Adaptive Lighting – LED changes brightness depending on lighting of room. Photo cells
Creating A SoundBox Using Arduino Continue Reading
Readings in Physical Computing Ch 6. pgs 87-136 (this week and next week) Ch 7: Serial Communication [137-143; 149-150; 153-161] Before the lab You should have already successfully installed the Arduino environment on your laptop, built the LED circuit, and successfully load/run the “blink” program to make the LED blink. Congratulations! In lab exercise Objective In
Digital I/O with Arduino Boards Continue Reading
Here at Mikamai, we often organise events and hackathons. After the last hackathon, someone left an old doll, and it was kinda creepy… so why not make it even creepier? I decided to put two red LEDs instead of the eyes, and a vibration sensor to turn on the LEDs when you shake the doll.
The Creepy Doll using Arduino Continue Reading
One of the teams participating to the MIT Media Labs Design Innovation workshop at PESIT Bangalore last January built something called Beat Feet using Arduino Uno: We designed a system which will allow musicians, guitarists and keyboardists to set the beats according to the music they play, without getting up from their place or even
Beat Feet: set your beats and effects with gestures using Arduino Continue Reading
Photographer and Instructables user Alexander Morris created a giant Instagram inspired photo-booth and published all the steps to make one yourself. It’s the perfect solution to pimp-up your parties! What’s inside of the box? An Arduino DUE coded to start the photo-booth sequence once the big red button is pressed and some other stuff: You can start exploring
Instagram fan makes a DIY wooden photo-booth Continue Reading
This tutorial will show you how to build an interactive toy for children. This toy wants to give a boost to children to move and play with friends at home or in a park, instead of watching TV and playing videogames. Catchin’ time is a project developed during our thesis in Ecodesign at the Polytechnic
Catchin’ time using Arduino Continue Reading
Step 1: The Sleep n’ Tweet Now I am lucky enough to work at the greatest company in the world as a University of Waterloo, co-op student. It might not even be a company you’ve heard of yet. They’re named Upverter and we are trying to change the way people design, build, share and collaborate
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~~ The complete kit for this tutorial is now for sale at www.razvantech.com Get one! ~~ This instructable will show you how to make a pass-code lock system using the Arduino Mega board. Whenyou type the right code, an LED lights up an the servo moves to open a lock. What you will need: —>one
Password access with arduino Continue Reading
