[Noteolvides] creates the CubeTouch, a cube made of six PCBs soldered together that creates a functional and interactive piece of art through its inlaid LEDs and capacitive touch sensors. The device itself is connected through a USB-C connector that powers the device and allows it to send custom keyboard shortcuts, depending on which face is touched. […]
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS AT THE TOUCH OF A PLANETARY CUBE Continue Reading
Arduinos have been the microcontroller platform of choice for nearly two decades now, essentially abstracting away a lot of the setup and lower-level functions of small microcontrollers in favor of sensible IDEs and ease-of-use. This has opened up affordable microcontrollers to people who might not be willing to spend hours or days buried in datasheets,
THE INNER MACHINATIONS OF THE ARDUINO ARE AN ENIGMA Continue Reading
A common trope in bank heist B-movies is someone effortlessly bypassing a safe’s combination lock. Typically, the hero or villain will turn the dial while listening to the internal machinery, then deduce the combination based on sounds made by the lock. In real life, high-quality combination locks are not vulnerable to such simple attacks, but
ROBOT OPENS MASTER COMBINATION LOCKS IN LESS THAN A MINUTE Continue Reading
The official Arduino development team has this week announced that the latest Arduino IDE 2.0 has now been made available as a stable release and is now available to download. The second generation Arduino IDE has been in its beta development stage since spring 2021 and has been developed thanks to the help of the Arduino community. As you
Arduino IDE 2.0 leaves beta and is now a stable release Continue Reading
The official Arduino development team has this week announced improvements they have made to the compilation terms for the free plan in the online Arduino IDE. The Arduino cloud editor is the online Arduino alternative to the popular Arduino IDE, requiring no installation and including all the most popular libraries to help you build your projects. To
Online Arduino IDE free plan compilations improved Continue Reading
There’s something about Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) and the calculators that use it. It calls to mind a time when a calculator was a serious tool, and not just a throwaway toy. Created in the legacy of such calculators by HP and Texas Instruments, [Simon Boak] shows off his SB116, sporting an Arduino Nano under the
ARDUINO NANO POWERS REVERSE POLISH NOTATION CALCULATOR Continue Reading
Good news out of Mars from the little lunchbox that could — in the seven times that MOXIE has run since it arrived in February 2021, it has reached its target production of six grams of oxygen per hour, which is in line with the output of a modest tree here on Earth. The research team
[ArduinoNmore] took an interesting approach to designing a counter intended to accurately display how many meters of filament a 3D printer has used. The Filamentmeter looks a little bit like a 3D printed handheld tally counter (or lap counter) but instead of a button to advance each digit, the readout represents how many meters of filament
THE FILAMENTMETER: FOR WHEN YOU ABSOLUTELY WANT TO COUNT EVERY METER USED Continue Reading
The official Arduino development team has unveiled a new Arduino Cloud CLI tool this week to make most tasks possible when programming and developing on the Arduino platform possible using a web interface. Devices and things can be created, deleted and listed. Things can be bound to devices. In a very similar way it is
[Neumi] over on Hackaday.IO wanted a simple-to-use way to drive stepper motors, which could be quickly deployed in a wide variety of applications yet to be determined. The solution is named Ethersweep, and is a small PCB stack that sits on the rear of the common NEMA17-format stepper motor. The only physical connectivity, beside the motor,
ETHERSWEEP: AN EASY-TO-DEPLOY ETHERNET CONNECTED STEPPER CONTROLLER Continue Reading
