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Cryoscope forecasts the weather in the easiest way possible

Shane McGlaun, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [1]

Each morning when my seven-year-old daughter wakes up, the first thing she asks me is how cold it's going to be. If I tell her a specific number like 50°, she looks at me as if I asked her to solve an algebra equation. The next thing out of her mouth is, "do I need a jacket or not?" That's all she really wants to know; weather from a child's perspective can be distilled three basic things – shorts or pants or jacket. I think a lot of us are like that when it comes to the weather. Read The Full Story

Arduino 1.0 release now available

Paul Fang, Nov 30th 2011 Discuss [1]

Arduino 1.0 is finally out, after many years of revisions and changes to "clean up the Arduino environment and language, as well as adding lots of additional features." For those of you that need a refresher, the Arduino open-source software development platform lets you program microcontrollers that're essentially the backbone behind insanely cool DIY projects that have been released in the last few years. This is great news for the open-source DIY electronics hacker community, marking the offical release of the Arduino software. Read The Full Story

LAN-connected washing machine sends network notification when clothes are done

Shane McGlaun, Aug 8th 2011 Discuss [2]

One of the things that I dislike most about washing clothes is that I always forget to check the machine and my stuff sits there until it is nearly dry and wrinkled up. One geek had a washing machine with a notoriously inaccurate timer and he got tired of having to trek down to the basement to check clothes so he hacked up something to tell him when the clothes were done. The result is a cool notification system that can be checked from a computer. Read The Full Story

.NET Gadgeteer looks to draw tinkering geeks away from Arduino

Shane McGlaun, Aug 4th 2011 Discuss [3]

I have talked a bunch about some of the cool DIY stuff that I have seen around the web that geeks use Arduino to build. My favorite DIY stuff that people build using Arduino are robots like the Android mascot I mentioned a few weeks back. Microsoft Research has unveiled a new project that was created by the Sensors and Devices team called .NET Gadgeteer. The project was started after some of the folks inside the research area started looking for a faster way to come up with new products. Read The Full Story

Dude builds Air Drums that actually play

Shane McGlaun, Aug 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

I really like to see the cool hacks and projects that people come up with using Arduino. We have seen everything from robots to this set of air drums using the Arduino system for control. The DIY guy behind this cool project is Maayan Migdal and he used Arduino and a MIDI device. The drumstick you see in the guys hands are section of wood cut from a garden rake. Read The Full Story

Redpark Breakout Pack for Arduino and iOS is perfect for geeky tinkerers

Shane McGlaun, Jul 19th 2011 Discuss [0]

Lately there have been a lot of interesting DIY robots that have surfaced. One of the cooler ones was the Android mascot robot that I mentioned last week. One thing that all these little robots have in common is that they all use Arduino for programming. If you are the sort that likes to make little projects that you can control and add various functionality to the Arduino platform is a good one to go with. Read The Full Story

Spazzi dancebot busts a move

Shane McGlaun, Jul 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

Generally, the robots we see around these parts are larger things that are quite bulky. They do typically move in one way or another with remote controls and such generally. A little dance bot called Spazzi has landed on Make with the directions for you to build your own if you are so inclined. The little bot is tiny and has no arms or legs. Spazzi's entire point of being is to dance to the beat of your music. Read The Full Story

Google Unveils Arduino-Based Android Open Accessories

Rue Liu, May 10th 2011 Discuss [0]

During today's opening keynote for Google I/O, they touched on all the major topics that folks were anticipating including Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Google Music, and Google TV, but they also added some unexpected developments. One of them being their new Android Open Accessory initiative, that will allow developers to create their own hardware accessories that can be controlled by Android. Read The Full Story

DIY Android SNES gamepad ideal for retro ROMs [Video]

Chris Davies, Apr 22nd 2011 Discuss [1]

It's not quite a Nintendo Wii 2 with a touchscreen controller, but Bruno Soares hack to control retro Super Nintendo games on his Android smartphone with a classic SNES controller is pretty impressive all the same. The hack uses everybody's favorite microcontroller, the Arduino, to hook up to an HTC Desire HD. Read The Full Story

Arduino-Based Geiger Counter

Kevin Fubar, Apr 15th 2011 Discuss [1]

Geiger counter, it's a word that most people have heard about. I'm sure everyone has seen at least one piece of media featuring the clicking box with a little dial that only tells you when you're going to die a slow painful death from radiation poisoning. It's not a very fun device. Actually, they're pretty awesome. Who doesn't want to be able to play with a gadget that can sense things that only manifest in humans as genetic decay? Read The Full Story

Robot claw delta-robot controlled by Kinect and Arduino

Shane McGlaun, Mar 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

One time my daughter and I were in the local grocery store and she wanted to play that game where you use the claw to pick up stuffed animals. Somehow, the stars aligned and I ended up winning two stuffed animals for her and now she thinks I can win at will, which isn't accurate at all. Some geeks have developed an interesting new robot for a project in college that reminds me of that game machine at the store. Read The Full Story

DIY Exploding High-Five Glove makes hand-slapping geeky [Video]

Chris Davies, Dec 22nd 2010 Discuss [2]

As we all know, high-fiving went out of fashion because it wasn't loud enough; kids experimented with gunpowder and methane gas, but it all proved far too unstable. Happily Eli Skipp has stepped in with her DIY "exploding high-five glove": it doesn't actually explode, just use an Arduino, a force-sensor and a loudspeaker to make explosion noises whenever you high-five someone. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story