Recently I’ve been learning about Ultrasonic waves and how to harness their power. It’s simple enough to make some type of sonar device, but I wanted to take at a step cooler and see if I could use Ultrasonic waves to not only detect movement, but also the direction of that movement. So let’s take
Motion Controlled Ultrasonic Lamp using Arduino Continue Reading
While in Germany last year, I saw a world clock in a store similar to this one in a store that was priced at 900€. I read several instructables online on how to create a World Clock so I decided to give it a shot. I want to thank the following Instructables that I used
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Public Window (http://www.publicwindow.net) is an open source project which allows artists to display their creations in a window and have people from all around the world interact with it. This is a step-by-step guide on how to set up a Public Window of your own. A Public Window consists of an artwork connected via an Arduino
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Hello, and welcome to my instructable for a washing machine countdown timer. The timer is operated with the very popular Arduino micro controller. See here for more information. Arduino Home Page Aim The aim of this project is to be able to delay the start of the washing machine by a few hours. This is
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Hello, I am going to explain my project in just a minute, but first I wanted to explain how I became involved in this project. I like to save money were I can, so it is not hard to understand why I carpool to work. It is only two people at the moment, but it
Irrigation logic controller/project log using Arduino Continue Reading
This is a funny project that makes our plants “talk” to us. It’s very simple and you can create it in few hours. We use a sensor to read the soil moisture of our plant and a led matrix to dislay how the plant “feel”. You can use an ATtiny85 as a microcontroller. Step 1:
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How often do you ever forget to feed your fish? Well, for me I don’t forget that much. I just couldn’t go out town for a couple of days and also be ridiculous if I should bring my tank along. When I won a Sparkfun RedBoard from Sparkfun Analogy Contest, this was the first project
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The aim of this project is to make latte printer, I used 1 printers and 1 scanner , it prints one line a time, all what I have done is hacking the sensors of the printer and I used Arduino Uno to send different values to printer’s micro-controller created custom shield to control stepper motor
How to turn inkjet printer to print on Coffee using Arduino Continue Reading
Smart Homer, a Web-enabled TV remote puppet Smart Homer is a Web-enabled puppet that turns on your TV when Simpsons is on. As Homer is too lazy to browse the Web himself, a script in the cloud checks the online TV program for him. If Simpsons is on, the script triggers the Arduino Web service
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If you’re a student, like me, then you have heard of all the theft that occurs on campuses today. I can’t even leave my backpack alone for five minutes without worrying about it getting stolen. To ease my mind and to help fellow students, I’ve designed a backpack ant-theft alarm. When activated, this device senses
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