Whenever I go to Citi Field with my kids to see the Mets, they go crazy for the Home Run Apple.To me, the Apple is part of what makes baseball exciting for kids. Even though my kids may not watch most of the games, I still enjoy bringing them along. The Home Run Apple started […]
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A few members of the Alpha One Labs Hackerspace do not like the harsh light given out by fluorescent fixtures. They wanted a way to be able to easily control the individual fixtures, perhaps with a laser pointer? I got right on it. I dug out a pile of solid state relays and brought them to the
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If your are like me which I am guessing you are, then ever since you got into doing stuff with arduino you have wanted to make your own arduino board. You may be surprised to find out that making the prototyping board is actually very easy, and can have several advantages over using the commercially
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Polydexter was the introductory project in the Creative Architecture Machines (CAM) advanced options architecture studio at the California College of the Arts (CCA), taught by Jason Kelly Johnson (co-founder of Future Cities Lab) and Michael Shiloh. Parts developed for this robot would go on to become integral in the second project of the studio, our
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The Boot Bot Shield lets you burn the arduino boootloader onto a blank Atmega 328 chip. The bootloader is that magic piece of software that turns a mundane chip into the open source programmable miracle known as the arduino. Blank chips cost a few dollars less per chip than bootloaded ones. With the Boot Bot
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I found my self often trying to plug stuff at home with Arduino. So I thought it would be good to have a system that you can just plug your sensor, plug the appliance and code something to see how it goes. I never liked breaking apart an appliance to find the right spot on
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An Arduino based Ambient Orb designed explicitly for monitoring Source Code Autobuild systems. This orb can easy be repurposed for monitoring really anything that can have alerts from time to time. Step 1: Purpose Some time ago a co-worker passed me an article about “Extreme Feedback” devices that could be attached to your autobuild system
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Construct a Tardis that spins and blinks! Total Build Time: 30 mins · Coding: 5 mins · Construction of the Tardis: 20 mins · littleBits LED and motor assembly: 5 mins Tardis.wmv(320×240) 10 KB Step 1: Gather all needed parts. LittleBits: · (2) Wires · (2) Power supplies · (2) 9v Batteries and Connectors ·
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A while ago, when I first started using Arduino, my first project was a 4x4x4 LED cube, I built it from a Guide I found here in Instructables, I didn’t know anything about programming, and little about electronics, yet I was able to build it and make it work, I didn’t know how it worked
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This sketch connects a voice call from your GSM shield and Arduino to a remote phone number entered through the serial monitor. You’ll need to attach a speaker and microphone to hear the connected phone and send your voice. First, import the GSM library #include <GSM.h> SIM cards may have a PIN number that
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