A few months ago, we presented a powerful shield that can enable devices from the Arduino family (Uno and Mega) to interface with the SIMCOM modules SIM900 and SIM908. Such modules provide integration with the world of GSM, GPRS and GPS and all is achieved through very simple Arduino commands thanks to the open-source dedicated…
Some months ago we came across the RGB Shield from Open Electronics and our first thought was to use it building some cool stuff with our framework, Souliss. The future of lights goes through LEDs because compared to standard lights they’re tiny, easy to control and consume low power. But what we were missing until…
Whether it’s a personal, store or product page, popularity at today is measured in Likes: the number of users who liked your page, photo or any other content you posted on Facebook is a key metric of customer engagement and potential success for your venture. That’s why we decided to put together some clever…
[youtube id=”85cb6y2vNjE” width=”620″ height=”360″] The invention of the wheel, literally revolutionized the history of man. Thanks to it, it was possible to create forms of transportation, invent new industrial and architectural machinery. The wheel is so perfect that no one would think to improve it but recently some special, revolutionary wheels have been invented. These…
Often, during your first experiences with Arduino, you use the Serial Monitor, a feature available in the IDE, which allows you to display values on the screen. However, if we you want to display values or strings locally on the board, it would be very convenient to have a small display and a few…
Check out these inspiring Arduino pin-out diagrams from “pighixxx” member of our community in the Adafruit Forums, the MEGA (above) and Leonardo (below) An incredible Pinout diagram from the Adafruit community. There’s also the Leonardo, check out the link! via Arduino MEGA and Leonardo Pinout Diagrams « adafruit industries blog.
Cheaper electronics and network connectivity are driving the Internet of Things, that’s our idea to let your object interact with you. If you are a new user in the world of Arduino (and similar) microcontroller boards, maybe you came across the idea to control objects around you, interconnect them and have remote interactions. This is…
IKEA’s Figgjo, is designed to be a mirror, but with a little ‘electronic can becomes fascinating light equipped wall clock. It’s a round mirror, from which twelve evenly spaced rays and this makes it perfect for a clock base. The twelve rays with small round mirrors will be our hours, while the circumference of…
There are many shields available almost for every application. Today we want to show you how to use your Arduino as a wheater station which can be improved, unlike commercial products that cannot be expanded or easily modified. Our shield uses three analog sensors in order to measure enviromental temperature, relative humidity and atmosferic…
With this post we wanted to compare the latest arrived boards in the world of hobbyists electronics with devices that were already on the market. We highlighted the pros and cons of the most prominent alternatives with the aim of helping our readers to choose the one better fitting with their requirements. Here’s the list…
Today we introduce you a robot fish that is able to swim and recognize tank edges and obstacles. We’ll find out how we can easily create it with common insulating material and a few servo motor controlled by Arduino. [iframe_loader src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/HUIy6XApZos?hl=it&fs=1″ height=”349″ width=”425″ ] The mechanical part For the fish body we used common polystyrene…
Code Bender, a cloud IDE for Arduino has been released to the public: Time to revolutionize the way you develop and hack on your projects. codebender is a platform that helps your next idea come to life. Whether you are a maker, a hardware hacker or an artist, codebender allows you to code on the…
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