October 27th, 2008
These little Arduino boards are a real boon to amateur electronics tinkerers: cheap, versatile, and very small. This guy had the idea to make a high-speed photography setup using one, instead of the more direct circuits usually involved. His reasoning was that the Arduino allows for a lot of easy customization, like for instance hooking [...]
October 7th, 2008
Arduinoboy mGB from trash80 on Vimeo.
This haxor installed an Arduino Mini into a Game Boy case and then used a MIDI keyboard to play through the internal speaker. It basically turns the Game Boy into a synthesizer. The code is open so you can mod it all yourself. The Arduino is an open hardware platform [...]
August 21st, 2008
This odd fellow is an Arduino-based system for reading - and reacting to - incoming Twitter messages. While his eyes look like they’re made of CORN it’s nice to see someone as sad as me about getting incoming Tweets.
via Giz
August 4th, 2008
Ardu Game by BricoGeek is a portable videogame made out of old parts. Using rescued buttons from a PSP the handheld sports some stylish vintage looks. An accelerometer is incorporated, which add a fun dimension to a simple ball game that was programmed for the machine. The source code is available on their site.
All the [...]
August 1st, 2008
Anita Lillie at the MIT Media Lab created an Arduino-based sleep tracker to process where she keeps her arms while thrashing in the great deep sea of sleep.
The best part is that she created a graphing system that shows her movements and positions while she slept.
My main problem with waking up in the [...]
July 18th, 2008
Savvy NYU Computer Science major Shirley Palma wanted to be able to update her friends about her mood on twitter without having log on to her computer or mess around with text messaging, so she rigged a handkerchief to do it for her.
May 18th, 2008
Arduino boards are very cool little system boards that let you do all sorts of cool electronics tricks by adding a few sensors and writing some code on your PC or Mac. Now theere is the Adruino Nano, a board that packs in the power of the Arduino Diecimila into something the size of a [...]
April 7th, 2008
Arduino is little open source circuit board that lets you create some fairly compelling projects with a few lines of code and some circuit boards. The latest addition to the project is LiquidWare’s TouchShield, an sensitive OLED that sits on top of the main board. Here it interacts with its human subject.
(via Make)
February 25th, 2008
Want to talk to your plants in a way that doesn’t make you look like a New Age dope? Build the Botanicalls plant-to-Twitter connection kit and your plant can ping you every time its thirsty. You basically need a few breadboards, an Arduino, and a Twitter account. The system tests for plant water levels and [...]
