Many of us will have sat and idly watched the flaps and other moving parts of an airliner wing as we travel, and it’s likely that most of you will know the basics of how an aircraft wing works. But there’s more to an aircraft wing than meets the eye, which is why the Aerospace […]
MAKING AN AIRCRAFT WING WORK FOR AN AUDIENCE Continue Reading
Anyone who has ever processed real analog film in a darkroom probably remembers two things: the awkward fumbling in absolute darkness while trying to get the film loaded into the developing reel, and the tedium of getting the timing for each solution just right. This automatic film-developing machine can’t help much with the former, but it more
DARKROOM ROBOT AUTOMATES AWAY THE TEDIUM OF FILM DEVELOPING Continue Reading
For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one point a separate machine needed to be attached to the phone to record messages if no one was
A HAM RADIO ANSWERING MACHINE Continue Reading
What’s the worst part about packaging up a whole lot of the same basic thing? It might just be applying the various warning stickers to the outside of the shipping box. Luckily, [Mr Innovative] has built an open-source automatic sticker dispenser that does the peeling for you, while advancing the roll one at a time quite satisfyingly.
ARDUINO STICKER DISPENSER SAVES TIME Continue Reading
For all that modern washers and dryers do, they don’t let you know when they’re finished. Or they do, but it’s only a short victory song that plays once and can be easy to miss. What most of us need is a gentle reminder that there’s damp laundry festering in the washer, or fresh laundry
SPINNING UP A NEW LAUNDRY MONITOR Continue Reading
Self-driving is currently the Holy Grail in the automotive world, with a number of companies racing to build general-purpose autonomous vehicles that can get from point A to point B with no user input. While no one has brought one to market yet, at least one has promised this feature and had customers pay for
FULL SELF-DRIVING, ON A BUDGET Continue Reading
There are a few “Will it run” tropes when it comes to microcontrollers, one for example is “Will it run Doom?“, while another is “Will it run Linux?”. In one of the lowest spec examples of the last one, [gvl610] has got an up-to-date Linux kernel to boot on a vanilla Arduino Uno. And your eyes didn’t
BECAUSE YOU CAN: LINUX ON AN ARDUINO UNO Continue Reading
The world of escape rooms has seen a significant evolution in recent years, with creators constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. One such creator, known by the username Wired_Workshop on Reddit, has taken this concept to a whole new level by creating an ‘Alien’-themed escape room puzzle for an event at the Maker Alliance
Amazing Alien inspired escape room Continue Reading
A common hacker upgrade to an espresso machine is to improve stability and performance with a better temperature controller, but [Schematix]’s Smart Coffee project doesn’t stop there. It entirely replaces the machine’s controller and provides an optional array of improvements for a variety of single-boiler machines (which is most of them). Smart Coffee isn’t free, it
SMART COFFEE REPLACES ESPRESSO MACHINE CONTROLLER WITH ARDUINO, SENSORS Continue Reading
If you are interested in learning more about training robots using machine learning techniques and technologies you might be interested in a new Arduino project to ascertain whether a basic robot could navigate using only LiDAR, as opposed to more resource-intensive computer vision techniques. LiDAR, or Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing method
Training an Arduino UNO R4 powered robot using machine learning Continue Reading
