Recycle your old cellphone to build one and connect it by a browser to your new phone, PC or tablet! Things used in this project Hardware components Arduino MKR1000 × 1 ICStation UNO × 1 2.8 TFT Shield for Arduino Uno × 1 Breadboard (generic) × 1 Relay (generic) × 2 Software apps and online […]
Did You Ever Want to Have a Video Doorphone? Continue Reading
As part of the Content Creation course for my MLIS degree (Our class blog: http://scumakers.wordpress.com/ ), I needed to come up with a final project and wanted to learn to use an Arduino. In the end I came up with this device to automatically sense when the soil in my garden is dry and turn
Automatic Garden Watering Device – Arduino Continue Reading
Top hats are cool; just like bow ties. Not only are they stylish, but they give you a lot of room for incorporating techno goodness. I recently had cause to buy a tuxedo, which necessitated a kilt, and then a top hat. You know how it goes. To the tux I added silver buttons, the
Make Your Hat With Full Of Stars Using Arduino Continue Reading
Now that you’re up to speed on using Arduino’s inputs and outputs, this Instructable will give you everything you need to get started using sensors to trigger MIDI notes from Arduino. This post is the last installment in a series of workshops I led at Women’s Audio Mission. The first two classes are Intro to
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I have a passion for coffee. I also have a passion for electrical engineering. Why not combine them? This Instructable describes how I transformed a hot air popcorn popper into a completely controllable coffee roaster! Follow these instructions to re-purpose and hack your West Bend Poppery Popcorn Popper into this coffee roaster! ———————————————————————————————– The extraction
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In this project you can cover your eyes and let your smartphone navigate you to avoid obstacles, the application is mainly a DIY navigation device for blind people. I knew that 1Sheeld is about to launch a new text to speech shield, and so I contacted them to let me use it in this project
DIY navigation device for blind people using Arduino and Android smart phone 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
Word Clock in German 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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Hate having to manually open and close your drapes? Hate getting back from work/school and your room is dark and dreary? Do you want curtains that open and close themselves? Then you need Dr. Drape! Dr. Drape is an easy DIY project using an Arduino and servo to open and close your drapes at the
Home Automation: Drapes using Arduino Continue Reading
The idea of this dress comes from a series of tweets with online friends @shineslike and @arduinogirl. @shineslike and I had taken a half day Arduino workshop given by @arduinogirl at the MCN 2011 conference. I was immediately inspired creatively by the sensory and interactive opportunities. Over the next few months I struggled with the electronics
Making the TFF: a dress that gets excited when tweeted Continue Reading
