There are a ton of sensors available for the Arduino. These days indoor air quality is on the mind of many people wanting to improve the quality of life and health.
Published: June 18th, 2013
This DIY Vacuum Fluorescent Display Driver uses a 555 Timer to drive it. Most of us have used a 7 segment display before and they are very simply to power since they are just LEDs and it is very simply to power LEDs.
Published: June 18th, 2013
Want to make a tiny scope? This Arduino LCD Oscilloscope project would be a fun weekend project. I used an Arduino Fio board that I picked up from SparkFun.
Published: June 18th, 2013
Congrats to Jeremy Blum for graduating from Cornell University! He made a cool Remote Controlled Graduation Cap that he controls using a custom built wrist control box.
Published: June 10th, 2013
If you want to be notified whenever the Space Station is flying overhead this Space Station Lamp project by Nathan from Mechanical Integrator is sure to help out.
Published: June 10th, 2013
This project demonstrates how to use a voltage divider to read in analog voltages with an Arduino. Since we are using a voltage divider the voltage that the chip sees is within its range even though in this case the voltage measured can be up to 50 volts.
Published: June 10th, 2013
As opposed to other industries, like software engineering or IT, the aviation industry has fairly complex parameters. Consider the manufacturing of an aircraft: up to 3 million parts have to work in unison to ensure the efficiency of the plane and the safety of the passengers overboard.
Published: June 7th, 2013
Our friend Bob Davis has hacked another LED sign, you can see it above connected to an Arduino. Check out his article to have a look at the code to see how it works.
Published: June 2nd, 2013
Oyvind from Build Electronic Circuits sent in his latest project. Its a 1937 Philips AM Radio Hacked into an iPhone Dock, the project is basically using the nice old housing since all of the internals were discarded.
Published: June 2nd, 2013
This Hand Controlled Tetris Like Game uses an Altera FPGA to captures a video signal and looks for a players hand skin color. The system tracks their hand movements and looks for the user moving their hands forward and back by determining how tall the skin colored object is over time.
Published: June 2nd, 2013