About: Ibrar Ayyub

Ever tried to get out of bed quietly at night only to trip over something and wake up the whole house? Motion sensing night lights installed discreetly under your bed provide low-level light bright enough to guide you around those stray LEGO bricks but dim enough so you’re not woken up fully. As well as […]

After being accidentally locked out of my house on more than one occasion, I decided that there had to be better way to entering my home that did not involve breaking and entering (and without hiding a key outside somewhere). On taking a look at my garage door set-up I noticed that the motor to […]

While most analog televisions come with composite video inputs on a yellow RCA jack, the feature is not universal. This problem was even more prevalent in the 1980s, and most home consoles got around the problem by instead feeding video to the television’s tuner with an RF modulator. [Manzel Seet] had just such a television […]

Hello! My name is David, I am a 14-year-old boy living in Spain and this is my first Instructable. I have been building robots and fixing old computers for some time now and my robotics teacher told me that it was good time to start sharing with other people what I have learnt. So here […]

All the versions of ultrasonic radars I have found for arduino devices (Arduino – Radar/Ultrasonic Detector, Arduino Ultrasonic Radar Project) are very nice radars but all of them are “blind”. I mean, the radar detects something but what is it detecting? So I propose myself to develope a system able to detects objets and identyfy them. […]

A pyranometer measures the sun’s irradiance (power/area, basically “brightness”) on a surface. Despite the similar names, it is completely different from a pyrometer, so stop right here if that is what you are looking for. This Instructable describes how to build and test a modified version of the pyranometer kit offered by Dr. David Brooks of the […]

Feature creep is typically something to be avoided, since watching a relatively simple project balloon into a rat’s nest of complexity often leads to ineffective, or even abandoned, projects. On the other hand, if you can maintain a tight focus, it’s not always a bad thing. [cbm80Amiga] shows us how to drill down and add […]

Microwaves used to be simple to use. Set the dial for the desired time, and hit start. Then, everything went digital and the average microwave now takes between four and six button presses in precise order just to start heating. Music players have gone down a similar path, and those that grew up in the […]

The Ultrasonic Theremin is an Arduino project that uses a cheap theremin to teach sound waves. By changing the distance of my hand to the device, I am changing the frequency of the sound waves. Also, moving a potentiometer changes the amplitude of the wave. This can be used as a science lesson about sound […]

Two other tutorials I have written step you through the basics (Arduino 101) and how to create a really basic data logger (Arduino Datalogger – simple). This tutorial will step through how to attach servo motors, and use temperature sensor to move it! The premise is that often, you want to respond to some input […]