Big financial problems for Maker Media that blocked all operations and fired all the staff. For the uninitiated Maker Media means MAKE magazine and above all Maker Faire. Some rumors were born with the last Maker Faire Bay Area: the loss of sponsors like Autodesk, Intel and Microsoft had led Dale Dougherty to…
We equip the robotic arm published in the previous issue of a pneumatic system for gripping and releasing objects, controlled through an Arduino shield created for the purpose. You will have had the opportunity to appreciate the qualities and potential of the robotic arm with manipulation terminal clamp presented in the previous article,…
The Drink Maker: Open Sourcing your Cocktail participate to The 2019 Hackaday Prize Vote for the DrinkMaker If one has the possibility to relax and maybe doesn’t have to get behind the wheel for a while, the evenings outside call for cocktails that will combine the pleasure of the alcohol with the…
We create our first robotic arm with four degrees of freedom, with bench-top, gripper for grasping objects and five servo controls that can be managed by Arduino or other electronics. Automation and robotics represent the most promising sectors in Italy in the industrial field and companies that create solutions such as automatic assembly machines…
The countdown that will take us to the Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition has begun! One of the most important European appointments among those dedicated to technological innovation is scheduled from 18 to 20 October at the Fiera Di Roma. Maker Faire Rome – The European Edition, at its seventh edition, is…
Sponsored post by ILCoin In the past 10 years, many blockchain companies were working on the projects, arming their systems with decentralized, secure and anonymizing functionalities. And with a desire to resolve current problems, many of them didn’t think about upcoming future needs. That created a set of unsolved issues and bottlenecks that…
A small wind generator which can be installed on a balcony or on the roof, capable of providing electricity to store in accumulators in order to power, for instance, domestic utilizers such as the video surveillance system when we are away from home and we cut off the main power. Second only to…
Fishmograph allows to precisely monitor earthquakes involving our house using the D7S sensor, sending us an email notification for every event detected, allowing us to take people and things to safety. Italy is one of the Mediterranean countries with the highest seismic risk and this very unfavourable record is due to its geographic…
In the previous episode, we have described the library and the functions made available by it. Now we will introduce a series of sketches through which you will see in practice how the library works and it’s potential. The sketches will implement functions such as receiving or sending SMS, voice calls, managing certain generic…
It detects stationary and moving people just like a PIR, but it can do that also behind doors and thin walls, by taking advantage of the Doppler effect. The detection of people, animals and hot bodies in general has been done for years using passive infrared radars, also known as PIR, which…
Let’s discover a useful library to manage various low-cost GSM/GPRS modules, in order to provide cellular connectivity to our Arduino projects. Second part. In the previous episode, we introduced the shield hardware and exposed the technical features and possible applications, as well as mentioned the library for Arduino, here we complete the previous speech…
It supports various low-cost GSM/GPRS modules in order to provide cellular connectivity to our Arduino projects. First part. Given the growing demand for electronic equipment with connection to the GSM/GPRS network, we decided to develop a new GSM shield for the Arduino and Raspberry Pi 3 platforms, capable of supporting various modules on…
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