Posted October 12, 2012 by Chris

“I have been wanting to make a variable-speed clock for a while, so this weekend I picked up a cheapish clock unit (thrift stores are a great source!), and played around with using the Arduino to control it.”

Posted October 5, 2012 by Chris

“I decided to do this project for several reasons: first I like music, second I have a huge collection of MP3, and third I wanted to be able to play them anytime in my living room. I began the project with one major restriction, the printed circuit board of MP3 player MUST be single side in order to do it myself.”

Posted October 4, 2012 by Chris

“In this article, we’ll continue looking into how to control servo motors by controlling two at the same time. We’ll take a look at some of theory behind the actual servo signal and control, then how to wire up the two servos to an Arduino UNO board and finally write up some software to control them both synchronously and asynchronously.”

Posted October 3, 2012 by Chris

“In this tutorial, we will use the Arduino to read a flex sensor. The flex sensor is a device that changes its resistance proportional to its form, stretched or relaxed.”

Posted September 26, 2012 by Chris

“This project is a simple Arduino clone and that is why the distribution of the pins does not match the standard Arduino. However, most of the Arduino features are included in this board. The circuit is protected by an automatic reset fuse of 500 mA to prevent any over current form the USB port.”

(Article is in spanish with translation options)

Posted September 22, 2012 by Chris

“"0’baka Project" means a stupid project. This project is to make things which is not art and which is not usable. Now, I am making Arduino skeleton by using steel wires.”

Posted September 21, 2012 by Chris

“I had seen Roo Reynolds talking about hacking his doorbell to get it onto Twitter and as our doorbell is a bit rubbish I thought this seemed like a good project…I decided to start off with the physical/audible side of things and then later move on to pushing notifications out to laptops on the local network or beyond.”

Posted September 20, 2012 by Chris

“In this article we’ll explore how to output VGA signals from an Arduino UNO by using the timer interrupt to keep output in sync with the exact timing required by the VGA protocol. The end result will be a very empty ‘main’ loop in our software and a lot of interrupt code that handles everything else. The Arduino is only running at 16 MHz so doing VGA with interrupts on it is really pushing the limits!”

Posted September 19, 2012 by Chris

“With the relative complexity of today’s electronics, it’s not feasible to start from scratch; you need good building blocks to implement your vision. You’ll want to use commercial off- the-shelf components as much as possible and you most likely don’t want to be bound to a bulky PC…So how do we get started prototyping our ideas with the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet? For electronics concepts: enter Arduino.”

Posted September 16, 2012 by Chris

“"0’baka Project" means a stupid project. This project is to make things which is not art and which is not usable.
Now, I am making One-chip Arduino ver. 2.0. It is equipped with USB interface, and to be able to upload sketches from Arduino IDE directly.”