The Internet has become a pretty good mask to portray yourself as anything you want. This includes hiding your true emotions when posting facebook statuses, IMing someone, or sending emails (like telling you’re boss they are awesome when they are really a jerk). But what about talking to someone in real life? How do you
Emoticon Helmet using Arduino Continue Reading
In this Instructable, I will show you how to make an Arduino powered lamp that detects the colour under it and then attempts to emulate that colour. All using easy to find parts (most can be found in the Dollar store with the exception of the Arduino of course). It turns out that a colour
Magical Colour Copying Chameleon Lamp using Arduino Continue Reading
This example shows you how to monitor the state of a switch by establishing serial communication between your Arduino and your computer over USB. Hardware Required Arduino Board A momentary switch, button, or toggle switch 10k ohm resistor breadboard hook-up wire Circuit image developed using Fritzing. For more circuit examples, see the Fritzing project page Connect three wires to
Digital Read Serial using Arduino Continue Reading
There comes a time in life to put childish things behind and give up nasty habits. Some, like smoking, can be damn hard without constant encouragement. It was time for me to combine my favorite hobby with my driving goal and make this: The Quit Success Meter! For my other Arduino contraptions, take a look
Mint-Sized Success Meter (quit smoking!) with Arduino Continue Reading
I am submitting this instructable to the Arduino challenge. Please remember to vote! My neighbor had a little problem with his cat. It want’s to go out and back inside too frequently. Usually he opens just his kitchen window and let’s the cat in/out. Usually the cat stays only short periods outside and want’s soon
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Morse code was the breakthrough that made possible long-distance communication in the era of the telegraph. The code represents alphanumeric characters by short and long intervals of signal — those familiar dots and dashes. For many years passing a Morse code test was a prerequisite of getting a Ham license, but nowadays most radio amateurs
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Hi. I’ve just got myself an Arduino Uno R3 and I’m really new in the world of Arduinos. There’s so much to learn and explore 🙂 One of the first shields that I’m tempted to buy is the Prototype Shield. I think building a prototype circuit right on top of the Arduino is pretty slick.
Home Made Arduino Prototype Shield Continue Reading
This example shows the simplest thing you can do with an Arduino to see physical output: it blinks an LED. Circuit To build the circuit, attach a 220-ohm resistor to pin 13. Then attach the long leg of an LED (the positive leg, called the anode) to the resistor. Attach the short leg (the negative
Blink LED using Arduino Continue Reading
Convert your Arduino into a sofisticated web control platform using Teleduino. Teleduino is both a product and a service. Once the Teleduino sketch has been loaded on your Arduino (the ‘product’), it then connects to the Teleduino server awaiting your instruction from anywhere in the world via the internet (the ‘service’). Typically there are no
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Timer interrupts allow you to perform a task at very specifically timed intervals regardless of what else is going on in your code. In this instructable I’ll explain how to setup and execute an interrupt in Clear Timer on Compare Match or CTC Mode. Jump straight to step 2 if you are looking for sample
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