If you’ve ever watched the Harry Potter series, then you would have seen Neville receive a gift from his Gran which was a Remembrall. For those Muggles who haven’t watched it yet or don’t remember the scene, a Remembrall is a large marble sized glass ball that contains smoke which turns red when its owner […]
Projects
Mini CNC Laser Wood Engraver and Laser Paper Cutter.
This is an Instructables on how I made an Arduino based Laser CNC wood engraver and Thin paper cutter using old DVD drives, 250mW laser. Playing area is 40mm x 40mm max. Isn’t it fun making a own machine out of old things? Step 1: Parts and Materials Required Arduino Nano (with usb cable) 2x […]
Anti-Social Glasses
You look up, they tilt down! A tilt switch controls 2 servos which open/ close shutters on a pair of custom glasses. project by Rob Faulkner and You-Wen Ji Step 1: Parts (1) 30 x 60 cm plastic sheet (We used polystyrene but its up to you!) (1) 100cm x 1mm steel rod or equivalent […]
IoT Desktop Console. Part : 11 IoT, Home Automation
Preamble This article, the 11th in a series on home automation documents how to create and integrate an IoT Desktop Device into an existing home automation system including all the necessary software functionality to enable the successful deployment within a domestic environment. Picture 1 shows the completed IoT desktop device and Picture 2 shows all the component […]
Robotic Arm Controlled by Glove
Purpose: Gain experience, and problem-solving skills by creating a project to complete Outline- Use a glove to connect through an arduino to control a 3-D robotic printed “arm”. Each of the joints on the 3-D printed arm has a servo which connects to the flex sensor on the glove and moves in proportion to how […]
Aerobic Arduino – a $15 Fitness Tracker Power by an Arduino
Please vote for this in the fitness challenge instead of a Fitbit or a smartwatch, you can build an Arduino powered fitness tracker for only $15! It tracks the pumping motion of your arms while running and uses an accelerometer to detect this. It is powered by an Arduino Nano and displays the unit that […]
Arduino Ultra Mega Timers
Hi! “Arduino Timer with on/off setpoint” is my most viewed instructable by far, so i got a lot of questions in the comments, inbox and youtube, about how to add minutes,seconds, days and save settings on the eeprom…. so i decided to bring an old code, made with PIC, to arduino, easier to share and […]
Arduino Energy Meter – V2.0
Hello friend, welcome back after a long break. Earlier I have posted an Instructables on Arduino Energy Meter which was mainly designed to monitor the power from the solar panel (DC Power) in my village. It became very popular on the internet, lots of people all over the world have built their own. So many students have […]
DIY Telematics Box
Telematics boxes (aka Black Boxes) are used to record and log various attributes of a moving vehicle. They have been primarily used in airplanes to log various attributes of an aircraft, for example, air speed, heading, fuel levels, radio chatter etc. It is the first reference point for any aircraft incident, as it holds all […]
ArduMeter: an Arduino Based Multimeter (Sort Of)
The ArduMeter is an Arduino Based Multimeter, which many people have made to perform different operations, and searching on google you could find all the variety of things it can do. I wanted to make one that is portable, quite easy to use, give decent readings to a certain extent, and of course can help […]