Posted March 15, 2013 by Chris

“Here at Nomi Design we have a fair amount of experience writing Arduino Libraries. So we thought we would share with the world our techniques for writing code into simple , clean, and easy to use Arduino Libraries.”

Posted March 8, 2013 by Chris

“Deadly, yet adorable, this plush turret from the game Portal talks and responds when you play with it. It senses when you pick it up, knock it over, or walk in front of it. The stuffing and soft fleece skin make it super cuddly, too!”

Posted March 6, 2013 by Chris

“Our project was, to put it simply, a personal informatics black box that you clip onto your belt. As you go about your day your activity, surrounding environment and locations are tracked to produce a report telling you how much time you spent inside and outside. The device leverages off of a system-of-systems providing context-aware analysis for such ubiquitous computing devices.”

Posted March 4, 2013 by Chris

“Over the weekend, me and a friend of mine, cannibalized a 9 Lira RC car into line a follower. Code in this post covers everything up to [this] commit cf731aedc156f067aa221, refer to this particular commit for this project cause we plan on improving hence code will change. Stuff you will need: 3x QTR-1RC Reflectance Sensor, Ardumoto – Motor Driver Shield and A cheap RC car.”

Posted February 25, 2013 by Chris

“A gadget that I demonstrate today is a portable autonomous barcode scanner built using an Arduino board, USB Host shield, handheld USB barcode scanner and LCD display. The operation is simple – when handheld scanner button is pressed, it scans the barcode and sends it to the Arduino symbol by symbol. The Arduino then outputs these symbols on LCD display.”

Posted February 10, 2013 by Chris

“The 48h project con­sisted of build­ing a hel­met device with humid­ity, tem­per­a­ture and fluid intake sen­sors, used to record and mea­sure the reac­tion of nuclear taco vic­tims of Codeb­its 2011 Nuclear Taco Chal­lenge. The sen­sors and ser­vos are con­nected by Arduino. 6 time­lapse videos were recorded doc­u­ment­ing the user expe­ri­ence. The host dis­played using face sub­sti­tu­ion tech­nol­ogy in realtime.”

Posted February 5, 2013 by Chris

“Charliecube is a 4x4x4 tri-color LED Cube designed and created by Asher Glick and Kevin Baker. But what makes it special? Other cubes use shift registers, decade counters, or other components to control all the LEDs. The charliecube can be run using only 16 digital pins with no extra components.”

Posted February 2, 2013 by Chris

“Every time I talk about the All Spark Cube people ask ‘so what does it do?’ The features of the All Spark are the reason it was built and sponsored by Adaptive Computing. The Cube was built to catch peoples’ attention and to demonstrate how Adaptive can take a chaotic mess and inject order, structure and efficiency. We wrote several examples of how the All Spark Cube can demonstrate the effectiveness of a complex data center.”

Posted January 19, 2013 by Chris

“You may have seen my recent blog post about building a Phone-controlled Robot using Twilio. Since then, I’ve had ideas for new Twilio + Arduino mashups pouring in from the community. Today is the second post in our new series of Twilio Hardware mashups – build your own home automation solution using Twilio SMS, PowerSwitch, Arduino, and PusherApp.”

Posted January 14, 2013 by Chris

“Doing some initial research on automatic door knockers, I came across an excellent post describing a secret knock-detecting door. This looked like a perfect starting point, so I decided to recreate it with my own hardware. To simplify input and output, I started with a simple button for input and an LED for output. I took the code provided and modified it so that it replayed rather than validating the recorded knock pattern.”