The recent moves by Sonos can only be explained as targets towards expanding its connected ecosystem of smart devices and beyond. The wireless speaker company from Santa Barbara California, sometime last year acquired a French company that provides embedded assistants and interfaces for devices that run locally and offline. Of recent, the company set out to add to …
SONOS ACQUIRES THE DATA-OVER-SOUND PIONEER, CHIRP Read More »
Jeopardy style quiz games are favorites for creating excitement and educational instruction at the same time. Teachers, summer camp counselors, and even industry educators find this type of game to help generate interest and involvement from the participants. The idea behind the game is simple, but sometimes finding a device that will perform the “first …
Quiz Game Controller using “Lights and Sounds Buzzers” and Arduino Read More »
This project is for the class ATLS 3300 at CU Boulder. Push buttons can make buzzers sound. Five buttons represented the tone C, D, E, F, G. There are two modes. The switch determines the mode and LEDs can indicate which mode we are in. In mode-1, the game handle can determine which buzzer sound. …
It has been a while since we’ve seen a 86Duino, but [TheRasteri] reminded us about it, with his video showing how to use one to run classic MS-DOS games. To be fair, the computer isn’t really an Arduino, it’s essentially a tiny 486 PC on an Arduino-style PCB. If it were just running DOS games on …
One quick fore note: this is my first Instructable and my first large Arduino project, so if you see any stupid errors or have an idea of how things could be done better, then please let me know. Now that that’s out of the way I’ll begin, I started designing this around September last year as my A2 …
Most of us have probably by now seen the SawStop brand of self-stopping table saw, which detects when something meatier than wood has the bad taste to touch the spinning blade, more or less instantly stopping it and preventing sudden traumatic amputations. It’s an outstanding idea, and we’d love to see the technology built into …
HOMEMADE SAWSTOP ATTACHMENT IS JUST ABOUT AS SKETCHY AS IT SOUNDS Read More »
There have been plenty of Z80 computer builds here on Hackaday, but what sets them apart is what you do with them. [Andrew] writes in with his Z80 single-board computer made from scratch, using the Arduino standard headers for its I/O. In turn, since he needed an easy way to program the flash memory which holds …
Description Clap switch/Sound-activated switch designed around op-amp, flip-flop and popular 555 IC. Switch avoids false triggering by using 2-clap sound. Clapping sound is received by a microphone, the microphone changes the sound wave to electrical wave which is further amplified by op-amp. 555 timer IC acts as mono-stable multi-vibrator then flip-flop changes the state of …
This project is a part of experiments done while doing an artist in residence at Instructables. You can see the other projects here. Creating emergent patterns that can be converted into sounds fascinates me. So this is my first experiment in building an arduino platform for creating such patterns. This version uses a Gameduino as its …
Matrix sound machine: Generative music with a particle system using Arduino Read More »
Mobile photography is fast growing beyond a hobby or a way for people to capture important moments. Thanks to the week-on-week breakthroughs and improvements being made on the camera by the phone manufacturers, it is now becoming a mainstream method of documenting visual information, with both professionals (from Journalists to Magazine Photographers) and Semi-professionals (like …
TURN YOUR SMARTPHONE TO A DSLR WITH THE PICTAR PRO Read More »
I have a major problem when it comes to talking on the phone or playing video games with my friends – I often get loud (that’s quite an understatement). Since I live with my parents, this often triggers my mother and she usually ends up barging into my room to tell me to quiet down. …
We’re used to seeing the Raspberry Pi crop up in a wide range of the projects we show you here, but it’s fair to say that they usually feature some sort of operating system. There’s another way to use a Pi, more akin to using a microcontroller such as the Arduino: by programming it directly, …
