The Pixel combines a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0+ microcontroller with a color OLED display and microSD. The brainchild of Boston-based startup Rabid Prototypes, the Pixel is an open source smart display that combines an Arduino-compatible MCU, a color OLED screen and microSD. The Pixel — which recently made its debut on Kickstarter — is built around the mighty Atmel | SMART SAM D21 operating at […]
Watch this Maker suspend a neodymium magnet in midair with the help of an Arduino Mega. If you went to enginering school, you probably remember a class called “Control of Dynamic Systems” or something similar. One of the most common concepts that you likely forgot the math behind was the “PID,” or proportional-integral-deriviatave, loop. This […]
This Maker has discovered a way to repurpose soot into ink for printers. Black printing ink, commonly found in printers and copy machines, is one of the most consumed products throughout the world. And although it may be quite the cash cow for some companies, one Maker believes that we can make it easily enough using soot found in the air […]
Instead of having a synth that was controlled by potentiometers, sliders, antennas or ribbons, one Maker has developed a pair of gloves that lets him make sounds by just moving his hands. If you think about projects Adafruit’s MIDI glove and DrumPants, it’s looking an awful lot like wearable tech and music may be the next big-time duet. Take Sebastian Thinggard Rostved, […]
This bug-like bot enables Makers to easily migrate from graphical style programming to written code. Pet rocks were all the rage in the mid-’70s, and then came the Tamagotchi in the ’90s. So what could be the next craze in the current millennium? Pet robots? It’s not a far reach. Robotics has been a disruptive innovation […]
This group of Makers built a 3D-printed, Arduino-compatible robot that can draw and write. Dating back to the late 1940s, turtle robots have been employed for computer science and mechanical engineering training. These low to the ground gadgets were later perfected by Seymour Papert, co-inventor of the Logo educational programming language in the 1980s. Papert’s models had carried out assigned drawing functions using a small retractable pen […]
Happy Halloween Hallowuino! Two years ago, mechanical engineer and cartoonist Angela Melick (who goes by the nickname Jam) developed a pretty neat Halloween costume based on her favorite prototype development board: the Arduino. And that’s not all. Not only does it look like an Uno, it’s actually powered by one as well. “It’s hard to tell in the first photo but the […]
This touch-responsive clock tells time with the shadows of your finger. If you have trouble reading an analog clock, this neat little piece of wall decor may not be for you. That’s because Austrian design studio Breaded Escalope has developed a clock that uses shadows to reveal the time when a finger is placed within its face. The aptly named Shadowplay […]
This board is like an Arduino, but with audio superpowers! In an effort to bring analog capabilities to the Arduino environment, Phillip Stevens has developed a board he calls the Goldilocks Analogue. The Goldilocks Analogue, which was also named a quarterfinalist in this year’s Hackaday Prize, provides Makers with all of the analog audio input and output they could possibly need, together with sufficient data […]
This board is too flippin’ cool! We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again: modularity is king when it comes to the Maker Movement. Dating back to the earliest days of Tinkertoys and LEGO, DIYers have always loved piecing things together to construct new projects. Fast forward several decades and this passion, when combined with modern-day smart technology, […]
