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Take Crazy Cart racing to the next level with an Arduino lap timer
Richard Garsthagen is the owner of a Razor Crazy Cart, a toy vehicle that lets you drive, spin, and drift like a pro right at home. The only downfall of having just one is that he was unable to race...
View ArticleTogglit is a home automation kit for Makers
From the creators of 1Sheeld, Togglit is a new open source, Arduino-based automation kit that turns your ordinary door locks and light switches into smartphone-controlled devices. Unveiled back at...
View ArticleSave time in the morning with Simone Giertz’s hair-washing robot
Looking to expedite your morning routine? Well, the super innovative, super hilarious Simone Giertz has created a hair-washing robot that’ll leave your hands free for other things, like brushing your...
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BreadBro is an all-in-one Arduino and breadboard package
For those interested in getting involved in the Maker Movement, this dev board could be a great place to start. BreadBro is a hybrid of an Arduino Uno (ATmega328) and a solderless breadboard,...
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Awesome Shield teaches hands-on coding with the help of Arduino
Learning styles differ among people, and if you learn by doing, then this hardware kit maybe the thing for you, especially if you want to learn how to code. Awesome Shield is a combination of online...
View ArticleSend stuff to your coworkers with a remote-controlled delivery vehicle
As the Live Hard, Ship Hard! project writeup puts it, “We are engineers: we do not trust human beings; we trust the techniques. We believe that all regular work [in this case shipping of tiny objects]...
View ArticleListen to a robotic orchestra play Adele
Arduino boards are great for simple tasks, like turning on a light of manipulating a servo, but the Adele song played by electronic devices in the video below really shows off what a single Arduino Uno...
View ArticleA low-cost, Arduino-powered Cartesian plotter robot
If you need a normal paper printer, there are many available for less than $100. However, if you want the freedom to print on any available surface, then something like the Cartesio might be a good...
View ArticleMusi lets you hear the sound of your environment
Musi, as it labels itself, is a hexagonal instrument that allows one to “hear the melody of space.” In this case, “space” refers to the distance between the hexagon and an object placed in front of one...
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This Arduino live plotter is controlled by an HTML5 canvas
If you have a significant amount of web programming skills, and a set of MakerBeam components, this plotter from 2012 might be for you. As seen in the video below, the plotter is able to take input...
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Making a wooden audio sequencer with Arduino
If you want to play a beat over and over, depending on what is selected in a grid, a sequencer should be your instrument of choice. In this case, one line of wooden cylinders represents what sounds to...
View ArticleAn Arduino-controlled time-lapse camera rig
As creator Peter Monaco puts it, “We’ve all seen beautiful time-lapse videos showing clouds moving quickly or crowds scurrying across an intersection,” and if you’re into photography, hopefully you’ve...
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Hate clapping? Simone Giertz’s latest machine is for you
Guess who’s back with another robotic solution to yet another problem. Simone Giertz, of course! Any of us who’ve ever had to sit through a graduation ceremony, an hour-long presentation, a tennis...
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Hear the sound of 300 stars with Arduino
Unlike some science fiction movies would have you believe, there is no sound in space. With this fact in mind Francesco Fabris created Stellar. This interactive art installation was designed to be “a...
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Hacking a rotary phone into a recorder and playback machine
For you youngsters out there, touch tone phones were an interesting piece of technology that used a rotary dial to create a certain number of on-off pulses. This told the phone company what phone...
View ArticleThis coat is heated by an Arduino
A blast of bitter cold arctic air has brought the coldest temperatures in decades to some cities throughout the Northeast. As wind chills dip well below 0°F and bundling up in layers won’t do the...
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Maker creates his own barebones Arduino for $5
When it comes to the Maker community, Arduino has become the go-to board for anyone looking to bring a project to life. Despite its popularity and ease of use, Instructables user Gursimran Singh asks,...
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Watch this 3D-printed sculpture create an optical illusion
A group of German Makers have developed an animated, kinetic sculpture that produces a controlled 3D zoetrope optical illusion. Flux was designed to play with the eye’s perception of space and depth...
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Maker creates his own life-size BB-8
Until Episode VII came out, if you were a true Star Wars fan, building a working R2-D2 replica would seem like the thing to do. With the emergence of BB-8, R2 now has competition for the coolest robot...
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A $200, Arduino-based laser engraver
Many people have a nice assortment of tools in their garage or Makerspace, but once you get into computer-controlled implements, both your capabilities and, normally, the price of them goes up a notch....
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