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YABBAS – Yet Another Bare Bones Arduino (on Stripboard)

Development Board – Kits Project Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

This Instructable will demonstrate the building of a bare bones (and really inexpensive… less than $5) Arduino compatible module that can be put together on a small piece of stripboard and can be used either on a breadboard or independently. The following links / similar projects were used as inspiration: * http://www.instructables.com/id/Small-form-factor-DIY-Arduino-on-stripboard/ * http://tinkerprojects.blogspot.com/2012/06/minimal-arduino-on-small-stripboard.html * http://shop.moderndevice.com/products/rbbb-kit * http://txapuzas.blogspot.com/2010/07/paperduino-stripboard.html The […]

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The tweiger counter

Calculator Project Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

The following steps will enable you to build your own tweiger-counter! It searches in current twitter messages sent around the globe for the words like nuclear, calculates a sliding window average and pushes it to the arduino that will click for every incoming tweet like an original Geiger counter and will steer a servo as

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Electronic Arrow Spine Tester

Other Project Ideas / Tismail

This Instructable describes the construction of an electronic archery arrow spine tester. An arrow spine tester measures the stiffness of arrows. This helps an archer to construct arrows of uniform specifications which will shoot consistently. Traditional arrow spine testers measure arrow stiffness, or spine, by hanging weights on the arrows and measuring the resultant sag

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Arduino Safe With Multivibrator Changeable 4-digit Combination

Security – Safety Project Ideas / Tismail

This instructable will explain how to wire, code, and build a functioning DIY arduino safe with multivibrator changeable 4-digit combination. Well what does that mean? A arduino safe with multivibrator changeable 4-digit combination is a functioning safe with a changeable password/combination, it features a series of multivibrator circuits to create the 4-digit combination, a input

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Whiteboard Erasing Robot using Arduino

Robotics – Automation Project Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

My entry for the Microcontroller contest is a whiteboard cleaning robot. The goal of this project was to create a robot which could erase written text on a whiteboard completely autonomously, i.e. no human interface. The processes involved in this project included devising a method for the robot to search a whiteboard for text, designing

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Emoticon Helmet using Arduino

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

The Internet has become a pretty good mask to portray yourself as anything you want. This includes hiding your true emotions when posting facebook statuses, IMing someone, or sending emails (like telling you’re boss they are awesome when they are really a jerk). But what about talking to someone in real life? How do you

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Personal Space Defender

Sensor – Transducer – Detector Project Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

A simple and elegant way to help keep your personal space bubble from being invaded by close talkers and overly huggie people. This is a stolen or borrowed idea from Phillip Torrone of Adafruit, who mused about something like this on an episode of Adafruit’s “Ask an Engineer.” I decided to incorporate this idea

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Arduino HVAC Servo Thermostat or Controller

Arduino Motor Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

Welcome to my ‘green’ instructable! I am going to show you how to use an Arduino, two servo motors a temperature sensor and some metal (or wood) to make a digital thermostat for a through-wall HVAC unit. According to CB Richard Ellis (a major real estate firm), New York City is a renters market, with

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Led Slot Machine Costume using Arduino

Arduino LED Project Ideas, Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

This Instructable will walk you through my process of making a Slot Machine costume with addressable leds controlled with an arduino! Step 2: Lets Get started Picture set up: I found my slot picture online that the best graphic that when enlarged would stay nice and clear. Be sure to follow the directions on

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Necomimi Arduino Cat Ears

Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Ideas / Ibrar Ayyub

They are so dang cute. If you have ever seen the cool promo for the Necomimi Neurowear wearable set of cat ears that respond to brainwaves, you would want a set too. But it seems they may be vaporware since it hasn’t materialized on the market yet, not that I would be able to afford

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