Last March, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino registered a new limited company in London, and booked a booth at CES, the consumer electronics trade show, taking place 10 months later. She had no team, and only a dated prototype product that she had designed back in 2005. “I thought what’s the biggest kick in the ass that I […]
Making the Good Night Lamp using Arduino Continue Reading
I acquired an old fax machine that looked like a ripe source of parts, like steppers, IR sensors, micro switches and things. As it turned out, it was. It also had a nice looking 2 x 16 character LCD. However, after taking everything apart, I found the LCD only had 13 pins instead of the
Salvaging an LCD from a fax machine using an Arduino Continue Reading
In our previous two tutorials (see here and here), we created a Simon-type game using the Arduino, a hardware platform for simple, and not so simple, electronics projects. We placed three buttons and three LEDs on to something called a breadboard, and wrote a small program that would send a random sequence to the LEDs,
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This is a simple solar tracker which automatically orients itself towards the sun or any bright source of light like the sun .If you place solar panels on this robot it can increase their productivity by 90 to 95 %. At first creating a solar tracking robot may sound complicated but it quite quickly becomes
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This sketch shows you how to read the values from the accelerometer. To see it in action, open the Arduino serial monitor on your computer and tilt the board. You’ll see the accelerometer values for each axis change as you tilt the board. Circuit Only your Arduino Esplora is needed for this example. Connect the
Arduino Esplora Accelerometer Continue Reading
In part 1 of our Arduino tutorial seres we covered the basics of how the Arduino works, and we’re going to use that knowledge in a hands-on project and see how this open-source hardware programming environment works when we’re actually trying to get something done with it. After this, you’ll have more than enough information
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I was inspired by Frits Lyneborg’s Yellow Drum Machine. Watching the videos, it has such personality! I have also been thinking recently about sound and robotics. I did some research looking for a version of the robot that used the Arduino as a brain, but couldn’t find one that seemed so responsive and alive as
The Revenge of the Yellow Drum Machine (Arduino) Continue Reading
I created this Theremin like device after seeing this article in Make magazine: http://m-cdn.dashdigital.com/make/vol15/?pg=69#pg67 While this looked pretty straight forward it turned out to be a bit much for me at the time. But after much effort, I got it to work pretty good. I had trouble getting the laser to aim correctly so I
Theremin with Zapper,laser,Arduino Continue Reading
Arduino is cool. It’s cool because it’s a tiny device – about three inches by two inches – that comes with a USB port and a programmable chip. It’s cool because you can program it using a very simple programming language known as Wiring. But most of all, it’s cool because the entire reference design
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Fluid In.Flux is a 3D printing experimental machine which prints wax in water. The Machine was a semester-wide exploration as part of the Advanced Architecture Studio called “Creative Architecture Machines” by Professor Jason Kelly Johnsonand Michael Shiloh at the California College of the Arts, in San Francisco. Fluid In.Flux is about exploring material behavior in different conditions
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