You probably know the game of flashlight-tag. You just run around in the dark on a campsite. You hold your flashlight and try to shine it on one of the other kids, without the other kids shining their lights on you. I wanted to make this game electronic. The Arduino is my first choice, but […]
This project was inspired by this video from YouTube and the Pendulum Challenge Kit from Makershed.com. Its a simple game consisting of five LED lights and one pushbutton switch. The LEDs flash in a sequence and the player must press the button when the middle LED light is lit. The speed at which the lights
Want to be able to control a couple of servos with a thumb-joystick? But don’t know where to start? I don’t have servos, but I can put you on the right track on how to do stuff when you move the thumbstick around. This instructable will teach you how to output the direction of the
I’ve seen a lot of ways to communicate to Arduino over the net, but none of them could handle pushing back the messages from Arduino to the client(you) in real time and vice versa. In this instructable you will learn how to connect to your Arduino and control it over the net, set up a
This guide will take you through the steps to build an NES playing robot You will need: An Arduino Duemilanove (other boards will probably work, but you will have to adjust the steps for your device) Working NES Console Super Mario Bros. (Note: this must be only the single game, not the two- or three-in-one
NESBot: Arduino Powered Robot beating Super Mario Bros for the NES Read More »
Since you’ve gotten into electronics, haven’t you wondered if there is a fart sensor out there? I sure did. I discovered that if you use a methane sensor, especially the MQ-4, even at very low concentrations, it reads farts. What if you combined that into a hat with an LED Bar Graph and a XBee?
Someone had seen Peter Penguin or my Instructables on Animatronic Penguin Torso or Animatronic Eyes, and was working on a sculpture. He wanted to animate the sculpture when someone walked into the room and asked if I could do it. I thought about it for a while. There were several differences from my penguin, (no
For my children and technology class, we were challenged to make a product using a Lilypad Arduino. I am currently obsessed with the movie Frozen, so I decided to create something using one of the most iconic characters of the movie, Olaf. I used a blank, reusable grocery bag and created a picture of Olaf
I wanted to have an easily programmable RGB light to toss into a Jack ‘O Lantern for Halloween. Who really wants a dull pumpkin in these days of pumpkin pimping madness. So I set to work building a pocket tin sized RGB lamp that could be reused after Halloween for some other RGBing need. The
RGB lamp with Custom Moodlamp Library using Arduino Read More »
Can I tell you a secret? I don’t like handshakes. I really don’t. Handshakes just make me feel dirty. It’s too impersonal. It’s a gesture with no soul and reeks of a corporate entity. Why must we limit ourselves to this one boring interaction? Of all the split second human gestures we could do, it’s
