The dryer in our house is in an out-of-the-way corner where it’s hard to hear the buzzer. When we miss it, the clothes sit in the dryer getting wrinkly, so we start the dryer again, don’t hear the buzzer again … it’s an endless cycle. After what seemed like the thousandth time, my wife quipped, […]
The skee ball machine is a wonderful thing. The simple experience of rolling a ball into a target is so freakishly satisfying that I used to play as much as I could as a kid at the local amusement park/mini-golf course. The sound of the rolling ball on the ramp, the pop as it launched […]
First of all we would like to thank everybody that helped organizing the 2nd edition of Arduino Jam, and especially the Jo3ri, who supplied us with some quite cool goodies and kept us safe during the weekend. (Video will come soon!) This project is a contribution to the second belgian Arduino Jam (2012) at Timelab, […]
Step 2: Putting up the wires Strip both ends of wires -insert one end of each wire into sockets numbered -Gnd(black wire in my case)-this will be the common ground connection – 13 (green wire in my case) – 12 (yellow wire in my case) – ~11 (orange wire in my case) – ~10 (red wire […]
I had been looking for a cheap alternative to some of the Arduino Bluetooth devices I’d seen, which in my opinion are overpriced. Redbear’s Mini: $39.95 (Note: This is a uC and BLE combo). Redbear’s Uno Shield: $29.95 BLEDuino: $19.95 (if part of Kickstarter) Bluegiga Shield: $69.95 After seeing these, I thought I’d try to […]
UPDATES Feb 20, 2013: In response to a question by student Hala Abuhasna if you wish to use the .NET Serial class, use the naming convention “\\\\.\\COMn” and replace n with a number > 9 to define your com port for COM ports above 9 such as COM10, COM11, etc. Mar 23, 2012: Featured on […]
This project idea came to me when I was sitting on a bed on a hotel room on vacation. I thought: “It’d be really neat to have a robotic hand that I can control with my own hand!” Upon returning home, I embarked upon a journey to design and create the project. I hope you […]
I was looking for a project that combined my three favorite things – working in my shop, building cool stuff for my bar and of course, drinking beer. After a couple of weeks in the old country drinking “the Guinness”, I decided my I’d put a keg of “Moothers’ milk” in my kegerator and prolong my vacation […]
The P.I.L. Box – A Better Medication Reminder System Studies show the consequences of patients not taking medications according to doctor’s orders can be serious, especially in older patients.With today’s low cost micro-controllers and sensors (and the incentive of the Radio Shack / Instructables Micro Controller Contest) I thought there must be a better way […]
This example example uses the Arduino board to receive data from the computer. The Arduino boards turns on an LED when it receives the character ‘H’, and turns off the LED when it receives the character ‘L’. The data can be sent from the Arduino serial monitor, or another program like Processing (see code below), […]
