Watch-a making? While most kids would just go and ask for a watch, this eight-year-old decided to build one himself. We had the pleasure of meeting eight-year-old Omkar back at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014. Since then, the young and talented Maker has been hard at work devising a DIY smartwatch, or what he describes as a “precise timekeeper.” The aptly-named O […]
Picking an Arduino is as easy as Uno, Due, Tre! Thinking about starting a project? See which Arduino board is right for the job. Arduino Uno This popular board — based on the ATmega328 MCU — features 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator, USB […]
With Arduino Day celebrations just about to kick off, let’s take a look at some cool ‘duino projects! Atmel powers Arduino. Arduino enables Maker. Maker inspires the world. While there are countless creations all over the web, we’ve compiled just a few of the most dynamic and different ‘duino projects from the past couple of months to help celebrate March 28th. […]
Maker creates a wearable sensor suit that reads SEMG and uses those muscle signals to control things. When you flex a muscle, it gives off a surface electromyography signal, which is commonly referred to as SEMG. After years of working with circuity designed to read muscle signals, Maker David Nghiem decided to create an SEMG pod that was capable of measuring the level of muscle activation […]
One Maker used the combination of an Arduino Yún, Twilio and a big red button to train his puppy to send selfies. Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen Makers use the combination of Twilio and Arduino to create a bunch of unexpected yet innovative things. Most recently, Greg Baugues paired the powers of this tandem with man’s best friend by training […]
Have you ever wanted to unlock your front door with just your bus pass, a tag or an old hotel room key? Now you can. In today’s world, convenience is a huge factor. From mass transit to hotels, more and more devices are becoming enabled with contactless technology to expedite our days. Wouldn’t it be […]
ThingsOnInternet shows off the VIPER suite by turning an everyday IKEA lamp into an Internet of Things object. Currently in the process of wrapping up a successful Kickstarter campaign, VIPER is a cross-platform design suite for the Internet of Things (IoT) that enables Makers and embedded designers to easily program their Arduino, UDOO and Spark Core in real-time by creating a virtual machine […]
It’s time to create a watch that suits your style. Back in 2013, Motorola launched an innovative web portal, Moto Maker, that enabled users to personalize their own Moto X smartphone. Nearly two years later, that made-to-order feature has now expanded to the company’s Moto 360 smartwatch, which led sales among all Android Wear devices over the last 12 months. Moto 360 customization options include […]
Atmel is a proud sponsor of this year’s contest that looks to ‘make’ a difference in our world. Want to go to space or grab $196,883? How does $100,000 and a 6-month residency sound? These and hundreds of other prizes await those who ideate and build something that matters, or as we like to put it, literally […]
This installation represents the basic components of computer graphics: the vertex and the edge. Created by Oslo-based design studio Void, Irregular Polyhedron Study #1 is a physical representation of the very basic components of computer graphic, the vertex and the edge. The mesmerizing installation by Bjørn Gunnar Staal and Joakim Hoen explores the perceptual gap between the flat and the […]
