An Arduino-enabled observatory dome door opener
The South Florida Science Center recently commissioned a beautiful new 10” aperture refactor telescope. Its dome, however, was opened by…
Mechanical 7-segment display made with micro servos and an Arduino Mega
Flip displays are an interesting piece of technology, physically moving segments into place that stay put until other information is…
The ZT-2020 is a portable SunVox synth
SunVox synth software allows you to create electronic music on a wide variety of platforms. Now, with his ZT-2020 project…
This joystick-controlled machine draws light trails using a laser
Lasers are awesome. Glow-in-the-dark surfaces are, too. As seen here, Justin and Brett were able to combine the two into…
Carve 2.5D shapes out of foam with this Arduino-controlled hot wire cutter
You may have a 3D printer or other “digital” tools like a laser engraver or CNC router, but what if…
GPS Location Finder
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally NAVSTAR GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and…
194 Led Ball Is Free-Form Soldering On Another Level
We’ve all seen plenty of impressive free-form soldering in these pages, maybe some of us have even had a go…
Meet Aster, the 3D-printed humanoid robot
If you’d like to build your own vaguely humanoid robot, but don’t care about it getting around, then look no…
UNIVERSAL GSM SHIELD – The Sketches
In the previous episode, we have described the library and the functions made available by it. Now we will introduce…
UNIVERSAL GSM SHIELD – The GSM library for Arduino
Let’s discover a useful library to manage various low-cost GSM/GPRS modules, in order to provide cellular connectivity to our Arduino…