The Arduino Yún – designed in collaboration with Dog Hunter – is based on Atmel’s popular ATMega32u4 microcontroller (MCU) and also features the Atheros AR9331, an SoC running Linino, a customized version of OpenWRT. The Yún is somewhat unique in the Arduino lineup, as it boasts a lightweight Linux distribution to complement the traditional microcontroller […]
Writing for FastCoLabs, Natalia Rodriguez says the Atmel-powered Arduino is to Makers what Hobby Lobby is to arts and crafts – the primary supplier for the components and little hardware boards used for inventive DIYs. Indeed, over the span of three months, 42 million visits to the official Arduino website originated from recurring users. According […]
Nantes, France. An engineering school, in the early evening. A few students are talking amongst themselves, but everyone is looking at the screen, waiting. Arduino Presentation. This meeting is organized by the Nantes GDG, the Google Developer Group. While this isn’t a Google product, it does catch people’s interest. Don’t worry, you’ll be able to […]
Nominet Trust, one of the UK’s leading funders of social technology ventures, recently kicked off an initiative to find and recognize the most inspiring applications of digital technology for social good. Unsurprisingly, the Atmel-powered Arduino made the 100 item list, with Charles Leadbeater, a Nominet Trust board member and NT100 project lead, describing Arduino as “LEGO […]
A team participating in a recent hackathon hosted by Hub Singapore managed to develop an Arduino-powered indoor localization platform in just 24 (CodeXtreme) hours. Ted, who submitted the project to the official Arduino blog, explained that the Batman-inspired platform converts existing speakers located inside shopping malls into an indoor localization beacon. “This allows malls to […]
Last week, Bits & Pieces took a closer look at an Arduino-powered Gmail (alert) lamp programmed to ping its creator in real-time about incoming emails labelled “important.” And today we’re going to get up close and personal with another Arduino-based project that involves a Google app known as Authenticator. Essentially, Google’s Authenticator is a program […]
This 3D-printed, Arduino-powered lamp changes colors to match the mood of Denver. Many people consider New York to be a busy metropolis filled with irritable and angry people. On the other hard, others find Los Angeles to be more laid-back. New Orleans, well several folks would say it’s rather festive and jovial. However, the mood of a place like Denver, Colorado is a […]
Tenaya Hurst offers some words of wisdom for Makers around overcoming failures. Even in the Maker world, successes are celebrated sometimes more often than the failures. The wins are documented more than the short-comings. It is because of this that I would like to discuss publically my epic continual failures with my favorite project Arduweenie. And […]
The aim of the project is to combine digital fabrication tools and open-source electronics to create a connected apartment. During his MakerCon keynote speech last fall, our dear friend Massimo Banzi announced that Arduino was planning to unveil the first-ever open-source apartment. Shortly thereafter, the company’s co-founder officially revealed the launch of the rental property at Maker Faire Rome, aptly named Casa Jasmina. Now, the team has […]
This Maker built a simple, Wi-Fi-enabled alarm system with Arduino. For those of you tired of your roommate using your things, colleagues taking snacks from your cubicle or classmates stealing stuff from your locker, Stefano Guglielmetti has come up with the perfect solution. That’s because the Maker has developed an Arduino-based alarm system, aptly dubbed You Can’t Touch This! With an Arduino Yún (ATmega32U4) at […]
