This instructable was created in fulfillment of the project requirement of the Makecourse at the University of South Florida (www.makecourse.com) Tchaibotsky is an Arduino powered piano playing robot. The motivation was to build something that could accompany pianists, whether they’re missing an arm and can’t play the melody to a song, or they want to […]
Tchaibotsky (a Piano Playing Robot) Continue Reading
Printers are all well and good, but they’re generally limited to smaller paper sizes and use expensive ink. If you instead want to produce art on a larger scale, a plotter can be a great way to go. [tuenhidiy] built a tidy example using an old blackboard as a base. These days, such a build is
BLACKBOARD BECOMES TIDY PEN PLOTTER Continue Reading
Back in the time when I was building my Arduino based Ludwik Drone I faced a problem of choosing proper motors and propellers. I didn’t know anything about drones at that time so I had to trust motor manufacturer and the datasheet of a motor those are most likely to be a good source of
Brushless Motor Thrust Stand Continue Reading
Knocking dominoes down is a fun pastime for a rainy afternoon, but setting them all up can be a drag. Thankfully, [Lewis] of [DIY Machines] has built a helpful machine to do the job for you, letting you focus on the fun part instead! The machine is run by an Arduino Uno, that can be pre-programmed
DOMINO LAYER LETS YOU FOCUS ON TOPPLING Continue Reading
Control over Wifi and enable IoT interface for any stepper motor all the way up to 85V and 10A rms. Wi-Fi Stepper is a feature-packed, easy-to-use, stepper motor controller accessible over Wi-Fi. It can handle small to big stepper motors under high current. You can send crypto-secured commands over Wi-Fi from a computer, phone, or
WI-FI STEPPER MOTOR CONTROLLER Continue Reading
In the age of cheap sensors and microcontrollers, it’s easy to forget that there might be very simple mechanical solutions to a problem. [gzumwalt]’s 3D printed mechanical edge avoiding robot is a beautifully elegant example of this. The only electric components on this robot is a small geared DC motor and a LiPo battery. The motor drives
A MECHANICAL EDGE-AVOIDING ROBOT Continue Reading
Trash bins and managing the waste in them can be messy. And overstuffing them with waste? Even messier. But trash bins that can sense your presence when you approach them to put trash and track how much of it do they hold? Possible, smart, or both? The answer is both! It’s time to go tech-savvy
Automatic Trash Can Using Arduino Based Embedded Platform Continue Reading
For something that’s basically a coil of wire around some magnetic pole pieces, an electric guitar pickup is a complicated bit of tech. So much about the tone of the instrument is dictated by how the pickup is wound that controlling the winding process is something best accomplished with a machine. This automatic pickup winder isn’t exactly
A PAIR OF STEPPERS ARE PUT TO WORK IN THIS AUTOMATIC INSTRUMENT PICKUP WINDER Continue Reading
We are first Master students Electro-mechanical engineering on the The Brussels Faculty of Engineering (in short “Bruface”). This is an initiative of two universities located in the centre of Brussels: the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). As part of the program we had to make a real working mechatronic
The Automatic Pill Dispenser Continue Reading
Applause is greatly revered as a symbol of warmth and adoration from a crowd. TV shows that film in front of a live audience often cue their audiences to clap in order to generate the desired auditory atmosphere. Of course, you don’t have to rely on squishy humans to do all the work. [Dillon] built
A CLAP-ACTIVATED MACHINE FOR ALL YOUR APPLAUSE NEEDS Continue Reading
