Arduino and Flex to Control a Creepy Skull
Cool & creepy Adobe Tutorial by Davic Benge using Arduino and Flex on how to animate a skull. We have previously covered a very nice video tutorial by Kevin Hoyt on Arduino to Flash communication....
View ArticleQuick tutorial: current sensing for DC motors
On her blog, Dustyn Roberts presents her own experience on current sensing for controlling DC electric motors with an Arduino board and an Arduino Motor Shield. This shield, based on a L298 H-bridge,...
View ArticleArduino based Milling Machine
This is a working model of an Arduino based Milling Machine created using FischerTechnik. For those of you who are unaware of FischerTechnik, it is similar to the LEGOTM Building Blocks. A group of...
View ArticleTwitter-powered Digilympics
Samuel Cox, a maker who defined himself as a mix of “design, ideas and technology“, has invented a brand-new competition for digital citizens: Digilympics. From his website: 2012 is not only the year...
View ArticleVertical Plotter Prototype
Nice Grasshopper-to-Arduino plotter hack from FablabTorino maker Pietro Leoni, a collabotator at Carlo Ratti Associati studio in Turin. We’d love to see code & sketches online soon, as much as a...
View ArticleArduino-controlled blinds: a tutorial
Have you ever wanted a smart home that can automatically adjusts the blinds for you? If so, this project is for you. In this instructable, the author describes his approach to “smart blinds”, by using...
View ArticleDrive a DC Motor With Arduino DUE
We are proud to show you a tutorial about using an Arduino Motor Shield with the Arduino Due. This example shows the simplest thing you can do: driving a DC motor forward and backwards. Read on the...
View ArticleControl Large DC Motors with Arduino
Arduino boards are able to control small motors very easily and it’s just as easy when you have to deal with controlling large motors. In the following video tutorial by NYC CNC you’ll see two...
View ArticleBuilding a quadcopter running on Arduino Yún
Comelicottero is a quadcopter based on Arduino Yún created during the Master in Computer Science at the Universita’ degli Studi of Milan (Italy) by Simone Castellani, Giovanni Intorre and Andrea...
View ArticleDavid Cuartielles judges robots at Hebocon Spain and Tokyo
Being a dumb and clumsy robot has never been as fun as in the stupid robots competition Hebocon. This competition series is described as “robot contests for the technically ungifted” by its creator...
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