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1. Controlling Cubase with Arduino based MIDI
A friend of mine wanted to control Cubase, his audio recording software, with a push button so that he could stop and
start recordings remotely without having to go over to the computer and type on the keyboard. You may be able to do
this…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
2. Plugduino – Arduino based 120 Volt outlet controller
give your Arduino a 120 volt kick in the pants! The Arduino is a great tool for anyone interested in learning
microcontroller programming, but after blinking some LEDs, what’s next? This project enables your Arduino to control
real-world 120 Volt electrical appliances you have in…… Listed under: LED Projects
3. Arduino Masterclass Part 2: Build an LED weather station using arduino
Project-speci c parts You’ll need the standard parts (Arduino board breadboard wires pliers and so on) along with
these extras: DHT11 temperature/humidity sensor 7 x 330-ohm/0.5W metal lm resistors 3 x 4.7k-ohm/0.5W metal
lm resistors 2 x BC337 NPN transistors 2 x LTS543R or FND500 common…… Listed under: LED Projects
4. Proximity Sensing Origami Flower using Arduino
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding.  In this project, with a little help from an Arduino, you can
bring your origami into the 21st century and make it an interactive art! The result shown here uses Bare Conductive
paint to give an…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
5. Worms in Space Board Game
Story: NASA has taken worms to the ISS on their own special capsule. There was an accident aboard the station and
the worm astronauts have to navigate to the escape capsule to return to Earth. The airlock to the escape capsule has
been damaged but…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
6. FireHero: Turn Guitar Hero into an extreme sport by adding flamethrowers! using Arduino microcontroller
So, long ago I  had read about propane re poofers. They’re pretty cool… I mean, who doesn’t love re?! But, no
matter how awesome, they could get pretty boring after a while of seeing the same large reball. I never built one
because I wanted…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
7. How to Display Text on an HD44780 LCD with an Arduino
In this article, we will go over how to connect an HD44780 LCD to an arduino in order to display any text that we want
to show on the LCD. To do this, rst, we must make the appropriate physical connections from the arduino board……
Listed under: LCD Projects
8. DIY Antique Phone Doorbell using Arduino
Bryan Zimmer emailed us this fantastic retro-themed DIY hack, a most timely submission as we just revisited the noir
art deco-science ction classic Dark City and we think this would have perfectly t in the world (or in Adama’s quarters
on BSG). Bryan gives step-by-step…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Phone
Projects
9. Arduino Touch Screen iTunes control (ATSIC) using arduino
What I’m going to show you is how to make an iTunes control device using an Arduino and a touch screen. The iTunes
Control works by reading area’s of the touch screen and send a letter to the computer via the serial port, which is……
Listed under: Phone Projects
10. Building an Arduino Robot, Part II: Programming the Arduino
Welcome to the second article in the tutorial series in which I’m building a remote controlled Arduino based vehicle
robot. Here is the list of articles I have published: Part I: Hardware Components Part II: Programming the Arduino (this
article) Part III: Assembling the Robot…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
11. Color changing display
Custom made Multiple color display. Have you ever wanted a display that is a little larger then one you can buy? Have
you ever wanted to make a display the way you wanted it? Me too! This is how I made a custom multiple color……
Listed under: LED Projects
12. DMX Ardweeny Node using Arduino
I’ve settled on the lighting industry standard of DMX as my overall control protocol as I explore the world of blinky
lights.  This universal control method is electrically robust, radio transmissible, and exible enough for my needs (not
to mention the needs of major concert,…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Interfacing(USB –
RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
13. Control a Relay with Arduino
In this quick Arduino tutorial I will explain how you can control a relay using the Arduino Board, one 1K and one 10K
resistors, 1 BC547 transistor, one 6V or 12V relay, one 1N4007 diode and a 12V fan. When the button is pressed
the…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
14. Easily control your iPod using Arduino
Easily control your iPod with Arduino using serial commands. This instructable includes the schematic, the code and
some extra info; everything you need to make this work. USB,battery or wall power supply powered. Step 1: What you
need Parts: 5x  1K ohm resistors 2x  1M…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Phone
Projects, Projects
15. Make an Arduino timer
Hi, so me and my pal are setting up so we can make PCB´s. We are currently making a UV exposure box (possibly
another instrucable) and for this box, we needed a timer, so this is what we have done so far, and what we…… Listed
under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
16. Easy 4×6 LED Matrix, Arduino!
In this inst’able, I will show you how to create your very own 4×6 LED matrix as well as show you how to write code for
it! There is an animation creator program in step 4! Here is one ANIMATION to get you excited about the project!
***Wave…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
17. Pulse Width Modulation : PWM using Arduino
Pulse Width Modulation or PWM is a method of Digital to Analog Conversion. It helps in delivering analog average
voltage using digital pulses of variable pulse width. By controlling the on time and o time, we can generate an analog
average voltage using the digital…… Listed under: PWM Projects
18. Robot arm from a desk lamp (IKEA Tertial hack)
This project answers to a need I had: a third hand that holds a camera while I perform a test and takes photos/videos
(useful when you’re stuck at the lab late at night, and suddenly need a photographer). The downside to a robotic arm
was…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
19. Breadboard Arduino
Received a couple of nice big bread boards for Christmas and decided that one of them needed an arduino to use
with it. After some thought I decided that the best option was to build the required parts of an Arduino circuit direct
on the…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
20. The MAX7219 and MAX7221 Led drivers
These two integrated circuits from Maxim are for driving either 64 individual Led’s, or up to 8 digits of 7-segment
displays. The drivers implement a SPI compatible slave interface that can be controlled from the Arduino using only 3
of the digital output pins. An…… Listed under: LED Projects
21. Arduino Time & Temp Display Shield
Another project I’m working on required a good timer, but the more I read about Arduino, I realized that I couldn’t
make an accurate timer using an Arduino that was already devoted to other tasks. The Arduino will always lose time if
you perform other…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
22. Measuring Battery Capacity With an Arduino
I needed a couple of AA batteries and found the display at the supermarket where they were all arrayed. Normally
when I’m shopping in the supermarket, I tend to look at the price/kg or price/l when comparing similar products. In
the case of the batteries,…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Projects
23. Sunflower Automaton using arduino
This was a 6 week project created for the Spring 2012 Things That Think course at the University of Colorado at
Boulder. Our project is an autonomous Sun ower. As in nature, the highest priority for our ower is sunlight,
necessary for photosynthesis. Our Arduino controlled…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
24. Charlieplexing LEDs with an Arduino
Charlieplexing is an ingenius method for controlling many LEDs without using many microcontroller pins. You can turn
on or o one LED at a time. To light more than one LED at a time, you can scan the LEDs by turning a sequence of
them…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
25. Minimal Arduino with ATmega8
Like me, you may have a few old Arduino boards or ATmega8 chips (in the boards) laying around from when you were
rst playing with Arduino. Those chips can still be really useful as the heart of a tiny “Minimal Arduino” setup. A normal
Arduino…… Listed under: Other Projects
26. Nocturnal Emissions: My Arduino Powered Internet Enabled Dream Generator
We all need to dream more so I’ve created this Arduino Powered “dream generator” to help plant the seeds for some
big thinking craziness.  When you approach the generator a Maxbotix ultrasonic sensor triggers lights and music that
draw you in so you can stare…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
27. Light Seeking R.C Car Hack (with Arduino) using arduino
Creating a robotics platform from scratch takes allot of work and a few dollars. Buying a ready built one is easy but
costs allot of money (at least for me). So instead I decided to piggy back o of the companies who make remote
control…… Listed under: Car Projects
28. Appliance Remote Control using Arduino
One of the basic tasks in many home automation systems is controlling power to appliances. They could be lights, or a heater, or an
exhaust fan, or just about anything else that runs on mains power. The problem of course is that it’s dangerous to…… Listed under:
Home Automation Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
29. Arduino Wireless Programming with XBee Series 1 or 2
Hi. This Instructable will guide you through the process of wirelessly  programming your Arduino using two XBees. I
just nished designing a wireless EEG system with the XBee modules, so I’ve become quite uent in their
programming and have just now been able to accomplish this. It still amazes…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer
Projects, Projects
30. My Arduino Binary Clock
Hi from Italy Although many watches are created binary, my project was inspired mainly to this: http://
http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Binary-Clock-1/, very smart and funny. I tried to improve the design and to add
something personal. I think it’s a good result at the end. The project is…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects,
Projects
31. Cheap Arduino Controled Yogurt Maker
These days I was reading an interesting post on how to make yogurt “by the gallon”
(http://www.instructables.com/id/Yogurt-By-The-Gallon/). One thing needed was to maintain a rather constant
temperature of 43ºC (110°F), so the bacteria can grow properly. Though you can buy commercial yogurt makers, they
aren’t…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects
32. Low Cost LED Grid
There are a number of great Instructables on LED grids out there.  This is a low cost version – not quite as polished,
but easy to make. This project uses a couple of sheets of foam core, a uorescent xture cover from the local
home…… Listed under: LED Projects
33. Make an Attiny13 based IR proximity sensor
This is an extremely cheap IR proximity sensor you can make with a few cheap parts and an AVR programmer. I use an
Arduino as my programmer in this Instructable. This sensor only has a range of about 3 inches. You can easily add
more…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
34. Google Weather on graphical display with Arduino
In this project, I am using an Arduino board to show forecast of the weather from Google Weather service on a VGA
screen. The display is obviously graphical one, with icons and some colorful text. It is one of those gadgets I wanted to
have…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, LCD Projects, Projects
35. Bluetooth plus Infrared Controlled Robotic Arm
Hi. I’m Darren a 17 year old hobbyist, and this is the rst Instructable I’m posting here, so I apologize if it kinda sucks! I hope it’s good
enough… So how did the idea of a robotic arm come to me? Well, the rst thing…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects,
Robotics – Automation Projects
36. Intro to Arduino
An Arduino is an open-source microcontroller development board. In plain English, you can use the Arduino to read
sensors and control things like motors and lights. This allows you to upload programs to this board which can then
interact with things in the real world.…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
37. Transforming Chandelier
In this tutorial I will go over how to make a transforming chandelier. This project will be heavily CAD oriented
(Solidworks and Illustrator), made by laser cutting/engraving acrylic sheets, and a little bit of Arduino coding and
soldering. Step 1: Choosing materials. All the pieces…… Listed under: Other Projects
38. Sentriduino! Its the all new Sentry turret
Hey guys, Today I would like to show you how to make a simple sentry turret out of household Items! You would only
need to get an Arduino UNO or Mega, a Ping))) Ultrasonic Range nder, two servos, and an electronic water squinter!
The rest of…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
39. RGB / RFID Lamp
We have taken this project down, due to vendor’s request. Please wait till we get approval again…… Listed under: Home Automation
Projects, RFID – NFC projects
40. How to make a Ghost Knocker
Step 1: Check the materials you need. Below is the list of stu you need to make it: 1. Arduino I used an Arduino Pro
Mini 3.3V. You also need USB-Serial tether to program it. 2. A battery box I used a AA x 4…… Listed under: Game –
Entertainment Projects
41. Temperature-Sensitive Infinity Mirro
As per an assignment in my digital multi-media class, I’ve combined two Arduino-related tutorials into a functional
object! The result is a pair of in nity mirrors that ash red and blue depending on minute uctuations in ambient
temperature. This is my rst experience with Arduino,…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
42. Wireless nunchuk controlled animatronic doll
This instructable will attempt to show you how to make an animatronic doll controlled by a wireless nunchuk. This doll can only move
its head though. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who can take this and expand on it and make…… Listed under: Game –
Entertainment Projects
43. The Word Clock Arduino version
************************************************************************** Major updates – A much
better enclosure for this clock has been designed – check out http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Wordclock-Grew-
Up/ ************************************************************************** Last month I wanted to
build a special gift for my beautiful wife, Megan.  She has a teaching background in English, so what better present
to…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
44. Arduino BlinkyBall Project
I frequent a blog called hackaday.com which featured a project by “Nikolai”, it was a 10cm LED ball that used shift
registers. It seems like a really fun project to attempt but the cost of having the boards made & not having any
experience sending…… Listed under: LED Projects
45. Educational colorimeter kit
This instructable is a step-by-step assembly guide for the educational colorimeter kit we launched in April 2012 on
Kickstarter. Assembly takes from 20-40 minutes. Once assembled the colorimeter can be used in a wide variety of
science experiments to measure the absorbance and concentration of…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument
Projects
46. Blinky Lights using Arduino and LumiGeek
I used the Arduino UNO combined with three LumiGeek shields to run lighting. LumiGeek has dedicated shields to
support 1 Watt RGB LEDs that require constant current, Addressable RGB LED Strip, and Non-Addressable RGB LED
Strip. Step 1: 1 Watt RGB LEDs (2x) I wired…… Listed under: LED Projects
47. Servo 360 rotation mod (Parallax)
In this instructurable I will expalin and show you how to make a Parallax servo rotate 360º. And againI have search the
internet to see tutorials clear enough to make this posible with no luck. Don’t get me wrong they are some how good
but not…… Listed under: Motor Projects
48. Wu-Tang Can: Interactive Tipping
Cash rules everything around me. C.R.E.A.M. Get the money. Arduinos are showing up everywhere. Even in space. But
what about the lowly tip jar? No. Are Arduino projects giving the Wu-Tang Clan the proper respect they deserve? Not
even close! Recti cation. That’s what this is…… Listed under: Other Projects
49. Hookup an LCD to an Arduino in 6 seconds with 3, not 6 pins
Adding an LCD display to Arduino projects can add real value but the cost of doing so can be signi cant. Not a
nancial cost – you can pick up 16 (characters) x 2 (rows) LCD for as little as £3.50. The cost is the pin…… Listed under:
LCD Projects, Projects
50. Arduino Based Four Legged Robot
The name of our robot is FIER and here is a video of it saying hello to the world. In this instructable, I will try to show
you the basic steps to making your own walking robot for the most bang for your buck. You…… Listed under: Robotics
– Automation Projects
51. Analog audio panel for PC using Arduino
Have you ever struggled with audio settings in control panel in middle of a VoIP call? Or, wondered if the other guy can
hear you properly? I have. My work requires great deal of remote conference calls using PC. The rst thing I wonder
always…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
52. 4X4X4 LED Cube w/ Arduino Un
As someone who is very new to digital electronics this LED cube was fun to make, challenging and a great lesson in
soldering. If you have some patience (64 LED’s to solder!) and steady hands, this project will be well worth it in the
end!…… Listed under: LED Projects
53. Vacation Pet Feeder from Recycled Materials
If you are a pet owner, going on vacation can be stressful. Usually, you need a friend or neighbor to come over every
day and feed your pets. However, by enslaving robots you can keep your pet happy and enjoy a stress-free holiday. To
save…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
54. HexiLogger, an Arduino based data logger
The purpose of this project was to create a simple, portable device that would periodically read sensors and then
store the sensor data so it could be retrieved later. The result is the HexiLogger, “hexi” because it can support up to six
di erent sensor inputs…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
55. Open Source Server Room Monitor using Arduino
This server room environmental monitoring system is a low cost high performance device with the same onboard
features as commercial devices costing hundreds of dollars more. In addition to a low cost platform we will provide
low cost sensors for many important devices to insure…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Metering – Instrument
Projects, Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
56. iTime clock in a Mac Mini box using Arduino
After the untimely death of my Mac Mini (the last thing Apple I never buy), I recycled her limping in a clock display
LEDs. Technically, there is not rocket science: an Arduino reads the time from an external clock and displays a matrix
of 8×6…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
57. The UCube: Design & Print 3D Objects by flipping switches
This instructable goes through how to design and print a variety of 3D models using a system called the ‘UCube’. Note:
 I would love to eventually publish detailed instructions on how to make your own UCube, but since the design is still
changing and improving,…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
58. Open Source Hearing Impaired Alarm Clock using Arduino
Activities of daily living (ADL) are self-care activities that are usually taken for granted, since as the name implies they
are performed on a daily basis. If you have ever ended up in a cast, or on crutches you can empathize how menial
daily activities can suddenly be very di cult to…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
59. DIY Mod an Omnibot 80’s Robot with Voice, Camera, Servos, Bluetooth
*Check back for more updates on this build So, have you heard of the Omnibot? Well! Any kid from the 80’s will
remember how amazing this robot was. For you young kids, this robot was released in the early 80’s by Tomy. The
robot…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Motor Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects, Video –
Camera – Imaging Projects
60. LED Calculator with Rotary Quadrature Encoder for Target System Voltage Selection using Arduino
I’m still working on the LED calculator (original idea and most recent work) — I’ve nally got ’round to adding a rotary
encoder to set the target system voltage. Now you can turn the potentiometer to set the LED brightness, turn the
rotary encoder to set what…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, LED Projects, Projects
61. Arduino Lens Controller – Synchronized Zoom/Focus with Wii Classic Controller
My Lumix GH2 Micro Four Thirds camera not only shoots fantastic high de nition videos, but with inexpensive
adapters I can use it with older manual lenses that are cheap and often very high quality. I shoot a lot of performance
videos for my daughter’s dance studio, and I…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
62. Sensing Squeeze using Arduino
I’m researching squeeze sensing as a mode of tactile interface. Here I will cover the process of developing a
squeezeable sensor and the rmware/software concerns associated with interpreting the data from the sensor. This
ful lls the “sensor project” for my class called Computational Principles in…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor –
Transducer – Detector Projects
63. S.A.M. Spring Aided Machining (CNC with adhesive remover)
S.A.M. Spring Aided Machining (CNC with solvent) is a school project designed by three architecture students at CCA,
San Francisco: Matt Boeddiker, Abelino Robles, and Tim Henshaw-Plath. (www.cca.edu) The machine is capable of
rapidly prototyping and creating subtractive formwork that can be used to cast…… Listed under: CNC Machines
Projects
64. A Beginner’s guide to making an Arduino Shield PCB
(This tutorial has gotten really popular recently, and I’m very pleased that so many people are interested. I learned all of this stu
while working on my rst PCB. If you’re interested, I’ve started to sell the most recent version of my Arduino ProtoShield. If……
Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
65. Arduino Color Sensor
Here we will be learning how to make a color sensor. my model consists of three cardboard compartments containing
an LED – one red, one blue, and one green – and an OP550B phototransistor. The LED’s shine simultaneously on a
solid colored card. The phototransistors…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
66. Cat Repelling PIR motion sensor (covert) speaker box alarm using Arduino
This is a PIR motion sensor device that works with the arduino uno. In order to make it covert enough to be placed in
multiple settings and portable enough to t most places, I decided to make the case for it appear as a speaker. The
inspiration for…… Listed under: Projects, Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects, Sound
– Audio Projects
67. Arduino MIDI Volume Pedal
I’m playing keyboards this fall in another rock concert to bene t the high school robotics team, and for some of the
tunes I need to be able to fade an organ in and out over a period of a measure or two. My keyboards are…… Listed
under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
68. Arduino Stepper Motor Control
Hardware Preparation Stepper Motor Driver Board Arduino Board (UNO) If you have purchased the Arduino Board
from ZTW, we have already uploaded the g-code library for you. If you are using your own Arduino Board, you can
doawnload grbl Arduino library online and load it…… Listed under: Motor Projects
69. Arduino Thermostat with TC74 sensor
Hello all! This is a quick guide on how to use an Arduino© to control whether a cooling fan and a heater is turned on
depending on the detected temperature from a TC74 Arduino sensor. This is for a nal project for an Electronics
class…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
70. Geiger Counter with Touch Interface!
There are quite a few geiger counter instructables. The di erence with this one is that I wanted to give it a modern
interface, similar to smart phone touch screens, that anyone would feel comfortable using. The reason for this is that I
want to use it as…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
71. Digital Clock with Arduino and DS1307
In this article you will learn how to make a digital clock using Arduino and the DS1307 RTC IC. What is DS1307 IC
actually? Well, it is a Real Time Clock (RTC) IC that is simple to use, low cost and easy available. The IC…… Listed under:
Clock – Timer Projects
72. Arduino Drawbot
In some of my previous Arduino instructurables I have show to the Arduino beginers on how to control servos in
di erent ways. And in my last instructurable I have show the modi cation of a Parallax servo for a 360º rotation. So in
this one I will show Arduino…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
73. Arduino Led Dice
This instructable will show you how to create a dice using Arduino and few components. It’s an easy and fun project,
suitable for beginners and those who want to start with Arduino; it also requires a minimal amount of components.
This explaines how to create…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
74. Arduino-Square with Color LCD
B-Squares is a modular electronics platform that enables users to build, customize, and continuously update their
own electronics applications. In this B-Squares App we will cover how to assemble a simple Color-LCD Application
using the Arduino-Square. Hardware: 1. Arduino-Square. 2. Battery-Square 3. Color LCD Shield.…… Listed under: LCD
Projects, Projects
75. Simon the Octopus
Everyone loves the Simon game ! So we decided to take it to another level. This project was done for our Things That
Think class where we had to make a PlushBot (a plush toy that thinks! “with computation”) thus, kids were our target.
We…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
76. The Traveling Geocache using Arduino
This project and future projects can be found at my website http://revoltlab.com/  where you can also nd my blog.
UPDATE LOG: NOW SUPER SIMPLE TO REPROGRAM! Easy FTDI USB interface hardware explained in step 10 Easy FTDI
USB interface programming explained in step 13 NEW…… Listed under: GPS Based Projects, LCD Projects, Projects
77. Arduino Button Activated Treat Dispenser
For my Digital Multimedia class nal, I created a treat dispenser that is activated by pulling a chain, which starts a
servo motor that spins a wheel to dispense treats to my to African Grey parrots. Step 1: Gather Materials [box
color=”#985D00″ bg=”#FFF8CB” font=”verdana” fontsize=”14…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Other Projects
78. DIY Arduino Stepper Motor Driver Board
This page will show you how to put together a simple stepper motor driver board that can be controlled with an
Arduino. I built mine to use with my heliostat projects, but it could be used for other things too. Update: I no longer
use…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Motor Projects
79. Giant LED bar graph
For a recent project I needed to build a large and obvious bar graph display. This was to show the power generated
from a bicycle generator. I came up with this design and was pretty pleased with the nal results as it is relatively
low…… Listed under: LED Projects
80. Drive with PID Control
This example shows how to simulate a simple closed-loop control algorithm in Simulink® and how to run it on an
Arduino® board. Supported Hardware: Arduino Leonardo Arduino Mega 2560 Arduino Mega ADK Arduino Pro
Arduino Uno Available versions of this example: Arduino Mega 2560 board:…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232
– I2c -ISP) Projects
81. BLINKING AN LED USING AN ARDUINO UNO (EXPLAINED)
So you’re here because you want to start learning some of the Arduino Basics… So let’s start with THE most basics… no
this “tutorial” is actually a little more basic than what you have in mind. It only requires that you: Have ANY Arduino
Board.…… Listed under: LED Projects
82. Easy Arduino Audio Annoyatron
This simple device simple plays a small tune at a random interval, between 5 and 30 seconds when the lights in a
room go o . It can be cleverly disguised inside a tissue box, or inside or under any number of household objects. This
is a vary simple project (my…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
83. Blinky the one-eyed clock using Arduino
In this tutorial you learn how to make a blinking clock with a di erence! Updated 18/03/2013 Followers of my
website would realise that I tend to make too many clocks in those tutorials. Well, I like making clocks… so here is
another one. However this time…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
84. How to make your own Arduino board
If your are like me which I am guessing you are, then ever since you got into doing stu with arduino you have wanted
to make your own arduino board. You may be surprised to nd out that making the prototyping board is actually
very…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
85. Arduino SOS signal with 8ohms speaker and LED blinking
SOS is the commonly used description for the international Morse code distress signal (· · · — — — · · ·).  [read more
on wiki] Requirements: 1) Arduino 2*) 8 Ω speaker 3*) 150 Ω or similar resistor 4) 5mm RED LED 5) Hook-up…… Listed
under: LED Projects, Projects, Radio Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
86. Radio link between two Arduino boards
I was looking for a way to handle wireless communications between two Arduino boards. Other options like Xbee or
Bluetooth were going to cost $50 to over $100. Then I found a cheap RF transmitter and receiver at Sparkfun. The total
cost is only $9!…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects, Radio Projects
87. DIY Amp / Watt Hour Volt Meter – Arduino
Major corrections and additions made 9/9/2014 For my o -grid Ham Radio and Solar projects, I needed a way to measure volts, amps,
watts, amp hours and watt hours. There’s a couple of commercial products that can do this, but not with the exibility I wanted.……
Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects
88. Pololu Motor Controller Testing and Troubleshooting
Finally, I nished reading the datasheet. It didn’t give much information about how to connect the motor controller to
a micro-controller. I used the simple circuit I found from a post in Pololu’s forum: Using Dual VNH3SP30 Motor Driver
with arduino @ http://forum.pololu.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1923. Dual VNH2SP30…… Listed under: Motor Projects
89. Webster: A Geometric Pattern Weaving Machine
We are three students from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in the Architecture program.  This studio is
called Creative Architecture Machines and is taught by Jason Johnson and Michael Shiloh.  Webster is a geometric
pattern weaving machine that takes inspiration from Islamic…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, PWM Projects
90. Colorful Countdown Clock for tight timeline management using Arduino
This is a funny looking clock that has that displays time on relatively large 32×16 Bi-Color LED Matrix. It includes also a
countdown counter that I nd very useful in many situations. Features: Date And time display Temperature display
Countdown timer Buzzer noti cation Randomly changing…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
91. Arduino Nano based Microbot
This instructable was created to be entered in the Robot Challenge. If I win, the parts will of course, go into robots like
this one. Notes on how to include some of the very components in the prize packages are given in the last step. I……
Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
92. Simple Arduino light meter
This Arduino project is a simple light meter using a photo-transistor. An LDR would be more appropriate but the
photo-transistor is what I has spare at the time. On the other hand the photo-transistor is sensitive to infrared, so its
handy for testing remote controls.…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
93. Arduino Based Automated Lighting Control
This is my second instructable. i want to share some of the basic things i made using the arduino i am so busy lately.
then i got the chance to have this spare time… inspired by my former student and a fellow co league to…… Listed
under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, LED Projects, Projects
94. Remote Control Door – Internet Your Thing
We can instantly open a door or control anything we can connect. It works from any iPhone, Android, or PC. After
connecting something we want to control, download the free app to a PC, open a port, and control it remotely from
anywhere. It’s open…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
95. Minimal Arduino with ATmega8
Like me, you may have a few old Arduino boards or ATmega8 chips (in the boards) laying around from when you were
rst playing with Arduino. Those chips can still be really useful as the heart of a tiny “Minimal Arduino” setup. A normal
Arduino…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
96. Control Arduino Wirelessly with MATLAB
Been seeing few DIYs on how to establish a communication between MATLAB application and Arduino that is
hardwired to PC. However, I haven’t encountered anything that control Arduino via MATLAB wirelessly using the
ENC28J60 compatible Ethernet shield. In this ible’, I’m going to show the…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects,
Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
97. Turn your Arduino into a 4 voice wavetable synth
Multiple synthesizer projects have been done for the Arduino, but few have been able to utilize the full power of the
Arduino processor. DZL from GeekPhysical wrote a 4 voice wavetable synthesizer that is one of the more advanced
software based synths for the Arduino.…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
98. Perfboard Hackduino (Arduino-compatible circuit)
Never again will you have to dismantle a nished project just to reuse an Arduino board! This tutorial will go through
the steps involved in fabricating your own Arduino-compatible circuit using just ~$8 of parts (this includes the ATMega
chip!).  This is perfect for installing…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
99. Arduino Backlit LCD shield
In this tutorial learn how to make your own backlit-LCD Arduino shield. Updated 18/03/2013 Let’s see how simple it is
to make your own Arduino LCD shield. Sure – you can just buy one, but where’s the fun in that? Getting Started Our
LCD is…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Projects
100. Knight Rider Rides Again using an Arduino
This a Knight Rider Style LED Chaser Done with a Arduino Duemilanove with an ATmega328 chip. Step 1: Things you’l
need: 6 LEDs (any color) 1 Breadboard 1 100 Ohm Resistor 12 Breadboard Jumpers 1 Arduino Duemilanove “or”
Decimila 1 USB cable with A-type connector…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
101. Simple Buck LED Driver with PWM Input
High-power LEDs over 1W are now quite inexpensive. I’m sure many of you are incorporating LEDs as light sources in
your projects. However I realize that the nding and con guring the power supply is still not as simple as it can be;
commercially available LED…… Listed under: LED Projects, PWM Projects
102. Breadboard and LEDs (lesson 3)
Introduction You’ve started modifying sketches, and played a bit with the onboard LED (or if you have an NG, an LED
you added). The next step is to start adding onto the hardware component of the Arduino. We will do this by adding
a solderless breadboard…… Listed under: LED Projects
103. The Talking Breathalyzer using an Arduino
*** Additional info at http://droidalyzer.com/talkingbreathalyzer/index.html *** A customizable Breathalyzer that
talks and tells you how much you’ve had to drink. It’s also open source and can easily be modi ed with your own text
on the LCD screen and audio MP3 les. When tethered to a PC with…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects,
Projects
104. FaceBooth – One button to facebook photobooth
I wanted to make a photbooth for a Christmas party. I wanted it to be simple to operate and only be one click easy so
that even a guest who was chemically uncoordinated could even operate it.I wanted a solution that would take a
photo…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
105. Arduino-controlled, Aluminum Archangel Costume Wings
I have always loved the Marvel character Archangel. When my brother, (Shameless plug alert) budding comic book
artist David Fernandez, showed me pics of a cosplay convention he went to I thought “wouldn’t it be awesome if
someone made life-size archangel wings?”. The idea sank into the…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects,
Projects
106. Arduino Breathalyzer
What is a breathalyzer you may ask? It is a device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.In
simple terms it is a device to test weather a person is drunk or not. As the title suggests it runs on the arduino.Our
breathalyzer…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects
107. Add a real-time clock to the Freetronics TwentyTen using Arduino
Let’s add a DS1307 real-time clock to our Freetronics Arduino-compatible board. Updated 18/03/2013 Now and again I
nd myself making another kind of clock or timing device using the Arduino system, and each one has been making
use of the Maxim DS1307 real-time clock IC. However…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
108. Arduino Masterclass Part 1: Make your own hardware
The world is going nuts over the Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) for being a whole system under $50. In
reality though the Pi isn’t actually the cheapest computing device available. If you want really cheap how does $13.50
sound for a mini computer that…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
109. Turn a pencil drawing into a capacitive sensor for Arduino
Did you know?  You can make pencil drawings reactive to touch for use with your projects!  It’s really easy, and gives
you a lot of exibility in making interfaces for whatever microcontroller project you’re making. I put this together as
part of my UnoJoy project,…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
110. The Arduino Synthesizer
The Arduino is able to output sound through a library that has been developed called the Tone Library. By creating an interface and a
program that can call certain values to be output to an audio out, the Arduino Synthesizer is a robust tool for…… Listed under: Sound –
Audio Projects
111. Arduino Breathalyzer: Calibrating the MQ-3 Alcohol Sensor
The MQ-3 is an alcohol gas sensor that is available for about $5 from Sparkfun, Seeed Studio, and others. It’s easy to
use and has sparked the imagination of anyone who has dreamed of building their own breathalyzer device for
measuring the amount of alcohol…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
112. SD Card Data Readable Anywhere
This project started as many of mine usually do, as a honey-do. We have compiled an extensive list of our book and
movie collections on our computer at home, but my wife wanted to be able to scan the list from the video store (yes,
…… Listed under: Memory – Storage Projects
113. Arduino Powered Binary Clock
This instructable will help you to build an Arduino Binary Clock.  The orignial idea for this instructable was designed by
Daniel Andrade.  My instructable uses surface mount components, but can easily be adapted to through-hole
components if you wish.  You can follow my other Instructable…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
114. PCB Quadrotor (Brushless)
Quadrotors are the new Segways: a mesmerizing, somewhat magical, self-stabilizing platform that every tech person
wants to have. You can’t ride a quadrotor (well, maybe you can), but they do y, and you can build one yourself from
scratch! I helped with a previous quadrotor…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
115. Build Your Own Arduino Board
Need more Arduino board? Do not spend more money for another one. Why not try to build your own DIY Arduino
board? It is easy and simple. DIY Arduino Step 1 Get an Atmega328–PU or Atmega328P-PU (with bootloader inside).
atmega328p A brief introduction on the…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
116. Electronic Instrument
This electronic instrument allows you to sequence and loop audio and MIDI data.  Most of the time I use it to
sequence drum samples so I can play around with di erent beats and rhythms.  The really great thing about this
instrument is that it is…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
117. ANDROID+ARDUINOADK+RGB led
this is a project which makes an android app, then con gure it to use it with android debug bridge or android
accessory development kit. for making the android app we use android mode of processing. For hardware, i always
choose arduino. here i have a…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
118. Arduino Uno – Programming With A Serial Port
I’m working on an Arduino clone.  The Arduino is essentially an ATMEGA328P development board with a bootloader pre-loaded. 
There are a lot of custom macros built into the programming interface that make it really easy to use, and even easy to build some
powerful applications. …… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
119. Arduino from Scratch Digital Thermometer
I have loved making projects with Arduinos, but at $30 a piece your projects can get expensive. So I want to show you
how you can make your own Arduino from scratch and save money doing it. Make your own Arduino for around $8.
For…… Listed under: Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects
120. BrainTap: the interactive arthritis and memory exercise game
I built this project at at uni as a 3rd year project (with a couple of classmates) at the University of Technology, Sydney.It
is aimed at Baby Boomers and targets a skill and level based memory and ne motor skills exercise game. The form
is…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
121. LeoStick Getting Started Guide
The Freetronics LeoStick is a handy break-out board for the ATmega32U4 microcontroller. The board has a convenient
USB stick format, and is based on the pinout and connections of the Arduino Leonardo reference design for
compatibility with the Arduino IDE. Before you plug in your LeoStick…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
122. Arduino Wall Lamp
So, I have always wanted a nice lamp by the side of my bed, Something simple with out any buttons. Of course this
would mean it had to be wireless.I also wanted to use it from my bed but not getting out of my bed to turn it o .……
Listed under: Home Automation Projects, LED Projects
123. Sensor Less 3d Printed Robot
Tyree (he wears a tie and he has tires) actually smiles after he bumps into something (see video). Using an Arduino
motor shield, he detects obstacles using the “more current into the motor means something is in the way” principle.
Tyree started out as a…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
124. Building an 8x8x8 LED Cube – The Driving Circuit
In this article we are going to take a detailed look at how to build the driving circuit for the 8x8x8 LED cube. In other words we are
going to design and analyze the circuit which translates the signals coming from the Arduino to appropriate…… Listed under: LED
Projects
125. ArduSensor Fun Pack
ArduSensors are open source plug-in-play sensors for Arduino.  These were originally made for beginners to get
started with Arduino, a very cool electronics prototyping platform, but anyone can use them.  I still play around with
them all of the time, and I bet a ton…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
126. TiDiGino, the Arduino-based GSM remote control
Using an ATmega 2560 and therefore the heart of Arduino, we have developed a universal remote control with GSM.
This allows  to control 2IN/2OUT, DTMF key, gate control and GSM thermostat activated remotely. We have already
presented several remote control with di erent functions. But now…… Listed under: Phone Projects, Radio Projects
127. UltraSonic Arduino Video instructions How To – Parking your car with an Arduino
How To – Parking your car with an Arduino Code: // Back up Helper, by Kevin Darrah v4 #include <SoftwareSerial.h>//
to read the data fron the range nder on any digital pin SoftwareSerial sonar(5, 6); // RX, TX //we’re only using the RX
pin (5),…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects
128. Hack Your Hasbro R2D2 With an IOIO Microcontroller
My wife bought me a Hasbro Interactive R2D2 Astromech Droid for my birthday a few years ago after I said how much
fun it would be to hack it and I’ve nally managed to get inside and start playing!Although the built-in voice control
functions are…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
129. Clock One – Digital plus Analog Clock An Arduino
For some strange reason I have a fascination with various types of electronic clocks (which explains this article).
Therefore this project will be the start of an irregular series of clock projects whose goal will be easy to follow and
produce interesting results. Our “Clock…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
130. Ardu-Bot-Tom – RF Link Controlled Robot
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head="Major Components in Project" headbg="#FFEB70" headcolor="#985D00"] Ardu-Bot-Tom List of Materials
Controller Parts: 1x – Arduino Uno 1x – 9V Battery 1x – 433Mhz TX Module 1x – SparkFun Joystick Robot Parts: 1x –
Arduino Uno…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
131. Multiplexing with Arduino and the 74HC595
The 74HC595 is an easy and inexpensive (at about 60 cents apiece) way to increase the number of digital out pins on
your Arduino.  In this tutorial I’ll show you how to drive up to 16 LEDs with one 74HC595 using a technique called
multiplexing.…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
132. Arduino punk console
This is my rst build using an arduino microcontroller. I wanted to create a simple tone output device along the lines
of the 555-basedatari punk console, but using solely the mcu as the tone generator. Unfortunately, that was just too
simple a task with a microcontroller to…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
133. Perfduino: Build Your Own Arduino Microcontroller
This how-to takes you through all the steps of making your own arduino on a perfboard or perfduino! Arduino
microcontrollers are great for learning about physical computing and are very useful for rapid prototyping. Arduino’s
simple programming language makes it a favorite of hobbyists and…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits
Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
134. Arduino LED Flasher Circuit
In this project, we will go over how to build an arduino LED asher circuit. We will use a standard arduino board,
doesn’t matter which, and connect it so that it ashes an LED a certain amounts of times on and o repeatedly to
create…… Listed under: LED Projects
135. Touche for Arduino: Advanced touch sensing
Update: New interface – look at the last step. Credits: Arduino sensing done by DZL, Processing sketch and
Instructable done by Mads Hobye. Disney Research lab designed a novel way to detect touch. You can see a video of
their demo here: I had the honor to meet…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
136. Clock Three – A pillow clock using Arduino
Time for another instalment in my irregular series of irregular clock projects. In contrast with the
minimalism of Clock Two, in this article we describe how to build a di erent type of clock – using the “lilypad” style of
Arduino-compatible board and components designed for use in e-textiles…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects,
Home Automation Projects, Projects
137. Get Into the Kit Business: How to Build and Sell Your Own Arduino Shields
The DIY industry is booming, despite the desperate blackmailing of society by nance capitalists. Companies like
Adafruit and Makerbot are grossing well over a million dollars a year, and Evil Mad Science Laboratories just recently
dedicated themselves to running a full-time kit business. Making kits…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits
Projects
138. Arduino IR Transmitter & Receiver w/ LEDs Flickering Issue
I have an Arduino Uno connected to two IR transmitters and respective receivers. Basically, when one of the receivers
detects a beam break, I have a strand of LEDs display a pattern. This all works in principle, but the problem is that
when the IR…… Listed under: LED Projects, Radio Projects
139. Intro to Model Airplane Autopilot
I am twenty years old. I picked up my arduino for the rst time this Christmas, and I’ve been keeping busy on my
arduino applications so that I can bring you this instructable. I hope that it helps!!! The purpose of this project was
to…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects
140. Making the Good Night Lamp using Arduino
Last March, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino registered a new limited company in London, and booked a booth at CES,
the consumer electronics trade show, taking place 10 months later. She had no team, and only a dated prototype
product that she had designed back in 2005. “I…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, LED Projects, Projects
141. Salvaging an LCD from a fax machine using an Arduino
I acquired an old fax machine that looked like a ripe source of parts, like steppers, IR sensors, micro switches and
things.  As it turned out, it was.  It also had a nice looking 2 x 16 character LCD.  However, after taking everything
apart, I…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, LCD Projects,
Projects
142. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 3
In our previous two tutorials (see here and here), we created a Simon-type game using the Arduino, a hardware
platform for simple, and not so simple, electronics projects. We placed three buttons and three LEDs on to something
called a breadboard, and wrote a small…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
143. Arduino Solar Tracking Robot
This is a simple solar tracker which automatically orients itself towards the sun or any bright source of light like the
sun .If you place solar panels on this robot it can increase their productivity by 90 to 95 %. At rst creating a solar……
Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects, Solar energy projects
144. Arduino Esplora Accelerometer
This sketch shows you how to read the values from the accelerometer. To see it in action, open the Arduino serial
monitor on your computer and tilt the board. You’ll see the accelerometer values for each axis change as you tilt the
board. Circuit Only…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects
145. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 2
In part 1 of our Arduino tutorial seres we covered the basics of how the Arduino works, and we’re going to use that
knowledge in a hands-on project and see how this open-source hardware programming environment works when
we’re actually trying to get something done…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
146. The Revenge of the Yellow Drum Machine (Arduino)
I was inspired by Frits Lyneborg’s Yellow Drum Machine.  Watching the videos, it has such personality!  I have also
been thinking recently about sound and robotics.  I did some research looking for a version of the robot that used the
Arduino as a brain, but…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
147. Theremin with Zapper,laser,Arduino
I created this Theremin like device after seeing this article in Make magazine: http://m-
cdn.dashdigital.com/make/vol15/?pg=69#pg67 While this looked pretty straight forward it turned out to be a bit much
for me at the time.  But after much e ort, I got it to work pretty good. I…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects
148. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1
Arduino is cool. It’s cool because it’s a tiny device – about three inches by two inches – that comes with a USB port and
a programmable chip. It’s cool because you can program it using a very simple programming language known as
Wiring. But…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
149. Fluid In.Flux_3D Wax Printing In Water
Fluid In.Flux is a 3D printing experimental machine which prints wax in water. The Machine was a semester-wide
exploration as part of the Advanced Architecture Studio called “Creative Architecture Machines” by Professor Jason
Kelly Johnsonand Michael Shiloh at the California College of the Arts, in San Francisco.…… Listed under: CNC
Machines Projects
150. RC Rocket Launch System
This instructable will show you how to make an RC launch system for your Estes rocket, which can be operated with a
TV remote. What it does is it allows you to press the center button on your TV remote, and it’ll automatically launch
your…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
151. Controlling your trains with an Arduino
A quick introduction to the Arduino Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on exible,
easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating
interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a…… Listed under:
How To – DIY – Projects
152. Throwduino Basic – Light-Sensing Flashing Throwie
Throwies are great.  They have a minimal parts count – 2 or 3 depending on whether you use a magnet – and produce
a great e ect.  They are very cheap and easy but not highly e cient: 1)  They are on all the time, so on…… Listed
under: LED Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
153. Arduino Online Thermometer Project
I have been researching a project which will help me with my understanding of electronics, networking, and
programming.  I decided to build an online thermometer which could be used in applications that need temperature
monitoring.  I currently work in a lab environment where I test, troubleshoot,…… Listed under: Medical – Health based
Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects
154. Graphing values in Arduino
Sometimes when you’re testing a sensor or debugging a value in an Arduino project, you want to see something other
than numbers ying by in the Serial Monitor. However, you want to get the sensor working quickly, and you don’t want
to take the time…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
155. RGB Color Sensor on Arduino
The next board I want to show you is the ADJD-S371 Color Light Sensor Evaluation Board from sparkfun. It emits light
and analyses the re ected color spectrum. The board can be controlled via I2C. The sleep and xclk pins were not used
in this example.…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
156. Paperduino 2.0 with Circuit Scribe – Paper Arduino
What if making an Arduino, or wiring up an Arduino was as easy as printing one out? In this tutorial we printed our
own Arduino Pro Mini board using a pen plotter and the Electroninks Circuit Scribe (a rollerball pen with highly
conductive ink). Within…… Listed under: LED Projects
157. Daft Punk LED Matrix Breakout Board
I was always impressed by the Daft Punk Co ee Table.  Being able to light up a bunch of LEDs and ash them in
patterns has so many applications.  It was one of the reasons why I bought an Arduino seeing how it could control
a…… Listed under: LED Projects
158. LEARN! ARDUINO – A HANDS-ON APPROACH
INTRODUCTION This manual will show you how to use each of the components in the kit, and give you software
Sketch examples for each one. Then you can combine some components to make examples of Automatic Systems
such as a lighting controller.   You’re probably…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
159. Alarm Clock Overkill
I don’t get up at the same time every day, so I thought it’d be nice to have an alarm clock that would drag me out of
bed at di erent times on di erent days. That was the initial idea: things got out of hand, of…… Listed under: Clock –
Timer Projects
160. The Clamshell Stompbox
This is a DIY variable resistor I created as an interface for live performance– like astomp box. I designed it as a project
my audio students could build with materials we already have in the classroom. The result is a variable resistor that
can be…… Listed under: LED Projects
161. Arduino and CueCat barcode scanner
I’ve had a cuecat barcode scanner sitting around for over 10 years. Basically it connects to a PS2 port (apparently there
is a USB version) like a keyboard and spits out a barcode when scanned. Nice!. The annoying thing is that it is
“encrypted”. What…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
162. Domotic arduino
In this introduction I will show you a overview of this project whit Arduino Uno.  The purpose of this instructable is
move a electric roller shutter by Arduino Uno. The prototype that I made is my rst electronic project with Arduino
and I hope this…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects
163. Cylon Pumpkin
This has been done before. There are several good ways to do it: most use either a 555 timer chip and decimal
counter chip, or an Arduino. Stefan and I used an Arduino (Boarduino, technically) which limited our scanner to 14
LEDs. No problem —…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
164. Build Your Own Programmable LED Matrix
QR codes are addicting. Smartphones are smart enough to read them from virtually any angle or orientation. But
imagine taking it a step further. I had dreams of a digital LED array that I could program with QR codes, and I wanted it
really big!…… Listed under: LED Projects
165. Botanicalls Clone using an Arduino
During the past spring a good friend of mine bought me my rst house plant, a Lady Palm, and I’ve found myself
rather invested in keeping it alive. To that end I wanted to monitor the plant’s environment so I could ensure that its
needs…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
166. Arduino DDNS (Dynamic DNS) by Open-Electronics.org
This device captures the IP address of your network and it publish on site DynDNS.com. All without PC. It allow a
remote access to your LAN even if the IP address of the connections changes. For logistics reasons the provider can
not assign a IP…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
167. Visualize data from sensors using Arduino + coolterm
Once you’re getting some values from sensors, for example using Arduino, (see my previous instructable), sometimes
it’s nice to see the sensor data in a graph. Here’s how in only a few steps! I made this particular Instructables using a
sonar sensor (XL Max Sonar…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
168. USB Game Pad With Tilt-accelerometer Mouse using an Arduino
Make a game pad with an accelerometer inside! This project tutorial will show you how you can convert a console
game pad into a USB keyboard mouse for playing games on your PC. The USB game pad can be used with nearly any
software, such…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects,
Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects
169. Singing plant. Make your plant sing with Arduino, touche and a gameduino
This project is a part of experiments done while doing an artist in residence at Instructables. You can see the other
projects here. Making a plant sing has been a trick since the Theremin was invented. Here I am going to teach you
how to do…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio
Projects
170. BaW-Bot Part 2: Build the motor-controller & body
This is the second part of our BaW-Bot (Bells-and-Whistles Bot) build – 5 separate instructables that look into di erent
Arduino-related technologies, combining to create a Bot with all the bells-and-whistles. Part 1: Build an Arduino on a
Board Part 2: Build the motor-controller & body…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
171. Remote key-switch operation
One of my colleagues, Dr. Shane Mayor, has built a very nice LIDAR system for atmospheric research. It’s located at a
remote site, at the end of a dirt road, and everything about the system can be controlled remotely except the main
pump laser power…… Listed under: Radio Projects
172. Connecting a 12V relay to Arduino
To connect a 12V relay to the Arduino you need the following things: – 1 Arduino – 1 diode for example 1N4007 – 1 NPN transistor for
example 2N2222 (in the US) or BC548 (in Europe) – 1 relay for example one with coil voltage…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232
– I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
173. Arduino Flash Controller for Photography
Being a broke amateur photographer isn’t easy. Film, chemicals and paper aren’t cheap and a budget for some studio
lights is non existant. So, I decided to, with the help of my trusty arduino, create my own sync controller to use with
disposable camera ash circuits. By using a…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
174. Super Secret Lock Box w/ Capacitive Touch
Hey everyone, I wanted to share a project I just nished up. I built a super secret locking box for my girlfriends little
brother. He has a knack for creative lego building so I thought it would be a good idea to open him up…… Listed
under: Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
175. Driving multiple Sparkfun 7-segment displays with an Arduino
I’m currently helping a couple of engineering students nish a senior project that didn’t get nished last year. Long
story… Anyway, it’s a bicycle brake tester being built for Paul Components. The mechanical design is great, but they
had trouble with the electronics. Part of…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
176. Aquameterduino: Water meter plus Arduino
After a bad water damage (our cellar basically lled up whilst we were away for several days), I decided to monitor our
water usage for anomalies. Enters Arduino… The idea of this project is to use an arduino to count every drop of water
that…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
177. Wrap Beats – Capsense Arduino Instrument
Wrap Beats is an instrument that lets you string together notes in order to create di erent melodies and visual
patterns. I constructed it using the Capacitive sensing library for Arduino and combining that with the music abilities
of processing to create a dynamic instrument that…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
178. Arduino PCR (thermal cycler) for under $85
This tutorial will show you how to make a thermal cycler from scratch for about $85. In short, PCR (polymerase chain
reaction) ampli es bits of DNA, creating millions of copies of a target sequence. You can use it to test a DNA sample
for a…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
179. ISP Clip for ATtiny44/84 (or others!)
I got my start in microcontrollers with the Arduino, as many of us outside of electrical engineering did. (And still do!)
The ease of programming that little board makes it a great gateway… and like any gateway, sometimes you go
through. Most of my projects…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -
ISP) Projects
180. RFI-DJ: MP3 Playing RFID Thing
The RFI-DJ is a USB device for playing MP3 les from your computer. You have a set of RFID cards, each one with a
song name written on it. You choose a card and place it on the RFI-DJ, and your computer will play that…… Listed
under: RFID – NFC projects, Sound – Audio Projects
181. RGB LED Color Selector
One Challenge with working with RGB LEDs is getting the right Red, Green and Blue values to match a color you are
trying to display.  You can start with web colors, and then sometimes need to adjust them since the LEDs don’t look
quite the…… Listed under: LED Projects
182. Radioactive isotope decay simulation
My students need to learn LabVIEW —I know, it’s proprietary software, and expensive, but until a viable open-source
equivalent comes along we’re stuck with it— and one of the exercises I have them do is to make a program to analyze
radioactive decay. This gives…… Listed under: Radio Projects
183. Mood Lamp with Arduino
Hi! In this tutorial you will learn to make a mood lamp with arduino. I know that you may have seen a lot of mood
lamp projects with arduino, but I wasn’t very satis ed with them because they all change the color very abruptly. So,
…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
184. Self-Contained 7x7x7 LED Cube using Arduino
LED cubes are true 3D displays that work by lighting up points in a 3D lattice of LEDs. On the 3D display you can
produce some truly mesmerizing animations.  This Instructable will walk you through creating an LED cube for
yourself that is completely self-contained and powered…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
185. Using a quadrature encoder (rotary switch) with Arduino
I’ve found several sites and posts explaining how to use a quadrature encoder with an Arduino, but wasn’t completely
satis ed with any of the methods used. Perhaps part of the problem is with the encoder I’m using: it’s part #COM-
09117 at Sparkfun.com. This encoder has…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
186. Use xbees (series 2) to control a motor
Using two xbees, an arduino, an xbee explorer, and an h-bridge, wirelessly control a DC motor to spin in both
directions (last video). Note: I used the xbee I linked to, but for a one to one communication, rather than a network of
wireless devices,…… Listed under: Motor Projects
187. Simple Datalogger
Here’s a simple Arduino-based datalogger I’m currently developing: This test-of-concept model is based on the
Arduino Pro Mini (ATMega168). It runs on a 1.5-V battery, using a voltage up-converter from Sparkfun.com. For a
sensor, it’s using a 3-axis accelerometer on a breakout board, also from…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits
Projects
188. BaW-Bot Part 3: Adding Sight and Touch to the Bot
This is the third part of our BaW-Bot (Bells-and-Whistles Bot) build – 5 separate instructables that look into di erent
Arduino-related technologies, combining to create a Bot with all the bells-and-whistles. Part 1: Build an Arduino on a
Board Part 2: Build the motor-controller & body…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
189. Building an Breathalyzer with MQ-3 and Arduino
During the First Meeting of Electronic Arts in Florianópolis, we built a Breathalyzer using the Alcohol Gas Sensor MQ-3
and a Arduino Board to use in the last day of the meeting, in which we gave a party. You can see a quick video two……
Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
190. Simple Arduino data-collection
At this year’s “Arduinos in the Physics Lab” workshop at the AAPT meeting, one of the participants asked for a simple
way of using the Arduino as a tethered A/D converter for data collection direct to a computer. This is my quick & dirty
demonstration…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
191. Energino: an Arduino-based energy consumption monitoring shield
Energino is a plug-load meter that measures the amount of power consumed by whatever DC electrical appliance is
plugged into its. It was originally designed to monitor the energy consumption of simple networking devices such as
Ethernet switches and WiFi access points, but it can…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
192. More Humane Moisture sensor
Recently I got a project from Titan industries, who were in search of something as an interactive plant pot which could
bridge this gap of emotional communication, in mins this reminded me of brilliant projects done by people where the
plant could could tweet and…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
193. Arduino-based event counter
I teach Modern Physics here at CSUC, and we occasionally use isotopes with half-lives of a year or less (such as Zinc-65
and Cadmium-109) for energy-calibration sources for a gamma-spectroscopy lab. I thought it might be fun to try
measuring the activity of one of…… Listed under: Calculator Projects
194. Lithium Battery Solar USB – iPhone – Arduino Charger
One of the most fun and useful projects on instructables is to create your very own solar USB/ iPhone charger. They’re
not overly di cult to make, nor are the parts overly expensive or hard to nd. For the most part they do a rather
good…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Phone Projects
195. ATtiny85/45/25 LED dice
If you have looked at my 5 LED ATtiny85 POV display, we programmed the ATtiny with the Arduino. (If you haven’t
seen it, click here) We will be doing the same thing for this LED Dice project. The total parts cost for this project is……
Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, LED Projects
196. Morse-code trainer
My kids are learning Morse code this summer, so I threw together this little circuit to help them learn. And to make it
more fun… It uses an ATtiny85 ($2.26 at digikey.com) to drive a piezo beeper (≈ $3.50 at Radio Shack.) The ATtiny85
takes…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
197. Light Painters Palette aka Light Box
Today I’m going to show you how I made my “light painters palette” aka light box. If your into electronics and
photography than this is probably something you are going to like. Supplies: -Arduino (I’m using a arduino pro
mini which requires a ftdi basic to program,…… Listed under: LED Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
198. How To Make an Obstacle Avoiding Arduino Robot
Hello all! In this Instructable I’ll be showing you how to make a robot similar to the “Mobile Arduino Experimental
Platform” (MAEP) that I made. It is equipped with two motors that can steer the robot and the ability to see obstacles
in front of…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
199. “Ayrduino” Single-Sided Arduino Clone
I’m teaching “Electronics for Scientists” this semester, and I wanted to allow each student to have their own Arduino to
play with for microcontroller lab exercises and possibly use for their nal projects. The Arduino is not very expensive
at roughly $30 per, but they…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
200. Fijibot
Fijibot is an autonomous, self-charging photovore. I built him using a 1.5 liter Fiji Water bottle, an Arduino Uno, 6v
solar panel (plus various other parts) from Radio Shack, an Arduino Proto Shield (plus various other parts) from
Adafruit, and the wheels and steering arrangement…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
201. Network-status indicator
I run a NFS/NIS network under a combination of OS’s for the upper-division physics lab here at CSUC, and one source
of irritation is when one machine goes down and nobody lets me know until suddenly that machine is absolutely
necessary NOW! So I gured…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
202. 4x4x4 LED Cube Arduino
After seeing all the di erent instructables for Led cubes i was still left with a lot of unanswered questions.  So after
reading everything i could nd this is what i got. I decided to make the instructable after building it…so ill try to
recreate the process the best…… Listed under: LED Projects
203. Quantitative Two-Dimensional Temperature Measurements
Lab Experiments involving the Heat Equation are usually one-dimensional exercises involving a copper pipe and a
half-dozen thermocouples. But with DS18B20 “One-Wire” thermometer chips and an Arduino, it’s possible to measure
hundreds of temperature values simultaneously. Here’s what my students Daniel Lund and Lawrence Lechuga……
Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
204. Arduino ATtiny2313 Programming Shield
Today, I made a small 3x3x3 LED cube with an ATtiny2313 that I had from about 2 weeks ago. Whenever I had to
reprogram the LED cube when I thought of more awesome patterns, I had to get out my breadboard and then wire
up…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects
205. Full Binary Clock
I was wandering the internet looking for a good arduino tutorial on how to build a binary clock with seconds, but I
could not nd one. So now I am  writing this for you to have a binary clock with seconds, minutes, and hours. What……
Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
206. Universal clock suitable for visually impaired using Arduino
I was googling around looking for some sort of device I could make using arduino and stumbled upon eshop with
devices for visually impaired. What really shocked me was the price. I mean-I do realize that such sorts of devices are
not really mainstream, but…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
207. Arduino Robot Arm – LarryArm v0.1
I have constructed a basic Arduino robot arm using 3 servos that cost me £15 in total plus a couple of hours in time to build and
it’s very simple that I think anyone can replicate and build this. I already had the Arduino Duemilanove…… Listed under: Robotics –
Automation Projects
208. Cwik Clock v1.0 – An Arduino Binary Clock
Overview This is a guide to building an Arduino-powered clock that uses LEDs to display a 24-hour clock (hours and
minutes) as binary digits, an analog meter to display the seconds, a switch to toggle between time-display and time-
setting mode, and 2 knobs for setting…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
209. Arduino: Controlling the Robot Arm
So the arm is wired into Arduino as per the previous post, Arduino: Modifying a Robot Arm and hopefully this has
worked. In this next part I alter the Arduino sketch slightly and write the rst Processing sketch to test control of the
arm –…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
210. Clusterbot
What is Clusterbot?  He is a small, a ordable, autonomous Arduino-powered robot.  He can move, see, avoid
obstacles, and makes a melodic chirping sound sometimes. Clusterbot was my rst Arduino project, and I think he
makes a great project for a beginner.  While building Clusterbot you…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
211. 4 Servo drive CellBot which can be remotely controlled using Arduino
I started with an idea of what I wanted to do from the beginning but one attempt after another I nally got to where I am now. This
robot can be remotely controlled from anywhere in the world and driven around the house. I can…… Listed under: Motor Projects,
Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
212. Using Processing to Send Values using the Serial Port to Arduino
In this write-up, I’ll show how to create a value in Processing and then send this value over the serial port to the
Arduino. In the example I’m setting values of LEDs making them brighter or dimmed but this example can be
extended to control…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
213. Over the Counter Kitchen Radio using Arduino
This project used the Si470x FM radio receiver and an ardurino to make an over the counter kitchen radio. These parts
had been purchased for a di erent build that unfortunately met a premature end. The concept for this project is
simple. Play my favorite news…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Radio Projects
214. SPEAKR
Nature has a way of speaking to us in a way that soothes and revitalizes. Sounds of the wind in various places create
low volume tones that we barely hear. They have a certain beauty and randomness to them that are unique to nature.
 We’ve…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
215. Box Scurity Package using Arduino
If you touch the package, it will scream and run away–changing its course when it strikes an obstacle. When you lift
the gift tag, light strikes a photocell and operation commences.  Motors and a sound module are controlled by an
Arduino (and Arduino Motor Shield).…… Listed under: Projects, Security – Safety Projects
216. Arduino + Processing – 3D Sensor Data Visualisation
So following on from my previous posts about visualising sensor data in Processing, I’m now looking at drawing 3D
representations of the data recorded from the Sharp IR sensor – although can be any kind of range nder. I started by rigging 2
servos, one…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
217. LED Cylinder using Arduino
This is a little art project I made with 95 RGB LEDs arranged in a 3D cylinder shape, sitting atop a microcontroller-
based driver circuit. The LEDs are individually addressable, and when you power it on, the software cycles through a
series of animations, e.g. various…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, LED
Projects, Projects
218. Electrically Insulated Altoids Tin
Ah yes, it’s time for another Instructable involving an Altoids tin…  But this time it’s not about what’s inside the Altoids
tin, it’s about the Altoids tin itself.  In all its greatness, the Altoids tin we all know and love has one rather major
aw…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
219. How To Interface a CDV 700 Geiger Counter to a PC Using an Arduino Video instrucitons
How To Interface a CDV 700 Geiger Counter to a PC Using an Arduino (Part 1) The second part of our video series of
our project to interface to a CDV-700 radiation meter using an Arduino Uno! How To Interface a CDV 700 Geiger
Counter…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
220. Arduino + Processing – Make a Radar Screen – Part 3: Visualising the Data from Sharp Infrared Range Finder
So I had some luck with getting the Sharp Infrared range nder working and I’ve now plugged this on to my servo rig
to see if I get better results on my radar styled display. Check out how to use the Sharp IR range nder…… Listed
under: LCD Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects
221. Using the Sparkfun Motor Driver 1A Dual TB6612FNG using Arduino
As a beginner myself, I struggled to nd a one-stop set of instructions to get up and running with Sparkfun’s Motor
Driver 1A Dual TB6612FNG.  This motor driver breakout board is exceptional value, is beautifully small, but does need
a little more e ort to get…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects
222. Motion Controlled Robotic Arm
This instructable is not complete, I will post code soon The Arm: This instructable shows the process of building a
robotic arm using servos, Arduino microprocessor, a gyroscope and multiple bend sensors. The user wears a glove
containing the gyroscope and bend sensors which translate…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
223. Arduino traffic lights
I made this project on the same night that my Arduino Duemilanove arrived from Cool Components.  After being an
Instructables member for about a year I though it was time I should contribute. There is another Arduino tra c light
project similar to this, but it…… Listed under: Car Projects, LED Projects, Projects
224. Controlling a clock with an Arduino
Update: The Arduino system is ne; the only thing you have to take into consideration is the 9.54 hour rollover event,
which Rob Faludi has provided an excellent solution for here. I made up a nice little over-analysis of the issue,
available here. I have…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
225. RGB flashing iPod dock from an old speaker
Using an Apple Pro speaker, I made a ashing RGB LED iPod dock for about $35. I recommend reading the entire ‘ible
before starting. Also, note that the volume is control from the iPod. It consumes minimal power in shutdown mode,
and is controlled by…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
226. Arduino + Processing: Make a Radar Screen to Visualise Sensor Data from SRF-05 – Part 2: Visualising the Data
This is where all the work is done to read an interpret the values from the servo and the sensor. If the readings are to erratic then
you won’t have nice shapes. Also if you don’t allow enough time to the signals to be sent…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Sensor –
Transducer – Detector Projects
227. An 8-Bit Waterfall using Arduino
So far my Arduino projects have all needed only a small number of output pins. In a previous post I talked about
moving some of the logic o the Arduino and into other integrated circuits in order to free up pins on the Arduino.
While…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects
228. Vibration Foam Speaker
Concept: Very simple, using an arduino and the play melody basic program, create a music playing speaker out of a
vibration motor and a piece of exible foam. Instead of pulsing signal to a speaker, signal is pulsed to a motor varying
how fast it…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
229. Arduino + Processing – Make a Radar Screen to Visualise Sensor Data from SRF-05 – Part 1
First things rst, we need to build our circuit. This is the easy bit! We’ll be using the Arduino to control a servo that will rotate our
sensor around 180 degrees. The Arduino will then send the value from the distance sensor along with the…… Listed under: LCD
Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
230. Police Lights using an Arduino
**DISCLAIMER** I do not and will not take responsibility for anyone who gets in trouble for this, by either imitating
emergency personnel, or using without a permit/lisence. Updates! -I have shortened the code -Changed 16 LED’s to 8 -
Changed/added more ash patterns -Renamed variables As…… Listed under: Car Projects, LED Projects, Projects
231. Honey, I Shrunk The Arduino
As you might be able to tell from recent posts, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with an Arduino. I’ve now got at least
one project that I’d like to make a little more permanent, rather than it just being a bunch of…… Listed under: Other
Projects, Projects
232. Color Changing LED Tree
Ever wanted an LED tree? Well now you can have your LED tree and eat it too (no, wait, you probably shouldn’t).. Step
1: Gather the parts You will need: 1x ATtiny85 10x male header pins Solid core wire, 2 colors A bunch of LEDs……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP)
Projects, LED Projects
233. Brute force attack a BIOS with Arduino
The goal of this experiment is to convert the Arduino board into an USB keyboard plus a VGA sni er to crack the
password of a standard BIOS using the brute force attack method. There are no advantages in using this method, in
fact this can…… Listed under: Memory – Storage Projects, Projects
234. Send and Receive MIDI with Arduino
This instructable will show you how to use an Arduino to send and receive a variety of MIDI messages so you can start
building your own MIDI controllers and instruments.  First I’ll talk a little bit about MIDI protocol, if you’re just looking
for sample…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
235. Arduino – A Basic Theremin
Theremins are cool. Fact. You may also have heard of them as either aetherphone/ etherophone or termenvox/ thereminvox.
Essentially its an electronic music instrument that plays a certain note depending on the position of your hand and its distance
from an antenna. Building a very…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
236. Tweetosapien: Hack a Robosapien With Arduino to React to Tweets
A really fun project sent into us by Thomas Meghe. He’s translated it all from his native French, which is a technical
achievement itself. If you’d like to see the original, you can nd it here. Bored of your favorite Twitter client ? No
problem,…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
237. Walleye using Arduino
Walleye is an interactive light installation which engages users in temporal gestural and bodily play. It generates
temporal light propagation patterns, or a large scale very low resolution pixilated image (depending on how you look
at it) based on the realtime movement of visitors in…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects
238. How to build your own sugru robot – Fixbot
So you saw our video and you’ve fallen in love with Fixbot, have you? That’s okay, it’s understandable. We’ve fallen in
love with it too. We have some great news! You can build your own Fixbot too, provided that you’re okay with getting
your hands…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
239. Arduino – Basic Persistance of Vision
I think this’ll be the start of a few more projects for me. I’ve seen some cool LED PoV stu (Persistance of Vision) with mounting
displays on bikes, so hopefully I’ll get round to doing something like that. Anyway as a start I’ve got 5…… Listed under: LED
Projects
240. How to make a servo leg using Arduino
This instructable will show you how to create a simple servo leg that can be controlled by buttons on an arduino or via
serial. Here is a video of the leg in action    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8i1nrPIJvo Leg Materials: Popsicle
sticks-make sure that all of them are at…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects
241. A Study in Non-Standard Distributed Computer Architecture using Arduino
In the following tutorial, directions are given for creating a single node for the DoHas (Distributed Optical Harvard
Architecture System). After constructing two of these nodes, a small distributed computer can be implemented which
uses one node for sending instructions, mimicking input and the instruction…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB –
RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects, RTOS – OS Projects
242. BOXZ
BOXZ is is an open source robot platform for interactive entertainment! We connected Arduino,Plexiglass(or
cardboard) Origami and your idea together, so we can easily and quickly build a remote robot by ourself! You can
assembled it like LEGO! We can use it to playing football…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Robotics – Automation
Projects
243. Arduino – Getting my LCD Screen to work
I’ve gotten hold of what I assumed was a compatible 16×2 LCD screen with my Arduino board – it’s a Powertip PC1602F and uses a
compatible display driver for the Hitachi HD44780 display chip. This is essentially what the Arduino LCD libraries are built around,
…… Listed under: LCD Projects
244. Hacked roomba and arduino snowballs into a Eurobot 2013 entry
It all started as a weekend project with my kids and soon enough I got sucked into a 4 month project with their school
! The idea was to get a small group of kids aged 6 to 9 to participate to a robotics contest…… Listed under: Projects,
Robotics – Automation Projects
245. DIY Driving Simulator using an Arduino
If you haven’t noticed, as soon as you clicked into this instructable, you are now following me if you weren’t already,
you Favorited the instructable, and you voted for this instructable in all contests it is entered in. Then the buttons all
dissappeared. It’s okay…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, How To – DIY – Projects,
Projects
246. BIKEDUINO – Stopping Point Predictor for bike riders
The project consists in a Arduino that gets the speed of the bike from a dynamo and it controls a laser which points
always to the point where the bike is gonna stop if it continues going at the same speed. Used Hardware: Arduino
mini…… Listed under: Car Projects
247. Version 2.0 Arduino Controlled Car Tracking System based on SMS
This system is upgraded version of previous project… You will be able to track your car after you build this system, you
will call the device then it will send you an sms which includes LAT, LON and Google Map link for just one touch……
Listed under: Car Projects, Phone Projects, Projects
248. Building a Doodle Bot kit from DAGU
Doodle Bot is a very simple beginners robot that can write messages using white board markers, jumbo chalk or
crayons. The kit comes with all parts including an Arduino compatible controller and a screwdriver. You will need to
supply 4x AAA batteries and a suitable…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
249. Algorithmic noise machine
This project is a part of experiments done while doing an artist in residence at Instructables. You can see the other
projects here. You can use bit-shifting as an alternative way of creating “music”. This principle enables you to squeeze
as much processing power as…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
250. Arduino & Processing – Getting values from SRF05 ultrasound sensor & serial port
I’ve started to delve into Processing and passing values between Processing and Arduino. If you’re wondering what Processing is,
basically its an open source programming language for vizualising data that can interface with Arduino either by reading values/
pins or by setting them. Just remember…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
251. SMS controlled Wireless Irrigation System using an Arduino
UPDATE 02/13/11 : Voting has started for the Sparkfun Microcontroller Contest. Please VOTE for me! UPDATE 02/26/11
: I won a second prize!! Huzzah! Thanks for all the votes guys! UPDATE 03/17/11: I would love to win a Laser cutter in
the Epilog challenge as…… Listed under: Phone Projects, Projects
252. Tissue Box Guitar – Light Strings using Arduino
the idea of anything can be an instrumental music has been always in my mind so i made a wooden tissue box that i
installed inside it a guitar of light strings Step 1: Building Box i made this wooden tissue box Step 2: Wiring…… Listed
under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
253. 123D Scanner – Home made 3D Scanner
Hey – have a look at my new project HERE In this project I built a 3D Scanner, that enables generating 3D models of
physical objects. The les can later be viewed in 3D software (GLC Player, Sketchup, Rhino, or sites such as
http://3d le.io) and…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
254. Mint Tin Hero using Arduino
A friend at work proposed a friendly competition between a few co-workers: to make something cool out of a Trader
Joe’s green tea mint tin.  Anything – whatever our creative hearts desired.  The prize?  Nobody cared – we’d gure that
part out later. I thought…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
255. Track Honeybees With Temperature
Data analysis coming soon! My school is kind of strange. We don’t have a cafeteria, but we do have a four week course
on “The Simpsons.” We don’t have a jungle-gym on the elementary playground, but we do have a half-buried retruck.
We don’t have…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
256. Arduino – (Very) Basic motion tracking with 2 PIR sensors
Took me a little while to get started but I’ve managed to wire 2 PIR infrared sensors with an Arduino to sense motion either on the
left or on the right side. The result will trigger an LED to represent each PIR sensor then I…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer –
Detector Projects
257. Pachube Client using Strings with Arduino
This example shows you how to answer a HTTP request using an Ethernet shield. Speci cally, it connects to
pachube.com, a free datalogging site. The example requires that you set up a pachube.com account, as well as a
pachube feed (for more information on setting up…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
258. Making a Better Mouse Trap
There are a lot of things this world needs at the moment.  One of them is a better mouse trap.  Mice are getting
smarter every day and if we’re not careful we’ll end up with Planet of the Mice.  Luckily, with the help of a…… Listed
under: Home Automation Projects
259. Arduino – motion triggered camera
So having worked out that I can make a remote for my Nikon D80 to do some timelapse photography. I started thinking of things I
can do to trigger the remote, below video shows it working but you’ll need sound to hear the shutter going.…… Listed under:
Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
260. Accelerometer Table using Arduino Esplora
This example simpli es the task of collecting data from the Esplora’s accelerometer and graphing it with your
computer. The Esplora sends keypresses to a connected computer about the state of the accelerometer. If you open a
spreadsheet application, you can log the data from the…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Metering
– Instrument Projects, Projects
261. Arduino Esplora Kart
This example demonstrates how to turn your Esplora into a customized computer game pad. It uses the analog
joystick and the four switches as inputs to a video game. The Esplora will appear to the computer as a standard
keyboard, the computer will see joystick…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Game – Entertainment
Projects, Projects
262. Arduino text’in
Arduino text‘in. Key Features: 24 relays controlled by 4 I/O lines! Cell phone text using your Arduino. This project hacks
a cell phone to text using normally open relays. After investigating cellular modules on the internet I decided it looks
not only rather pricy, but…… Listed under: Phone Projects
263. Arduino – IR remote/ intervalometer for Nikon D80 DSLR
I’m cheap and skint, yet I want to do timelapse photography with my Nikon D80 DSLR. Unfortnately that requires spending some
cash on an intervalometer for time lapse photography which will set me back a sizeable chunk of cash. Or I could get a remote……
Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
264. My hat with full of stars
Top hats are cool; just like bow ties.  Not only are they stylish, but they give you a lot of room for incorporating techno
goodness.  I recently had cause to buy a tuxedo, which necessitated a kilt, and then a top hat.  You know how……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects
265. Arduino – Sonic range finder with SRF05
A guide to using the SRF05 Distance Sensor with Arduino in order to calculate distances from objects. In this case I’m also altering
the output of an LED with PWM according to how close an object is to the sensor. So the nearer you are…… Listed under: Metering
– Instrument Projects
266. Arduino Esplora Temperature Sensor
This sketch shows you how to read the Esplora’s temperature sensor. You can read the temperature sensor in
Farhenheit or Celsius. Circuit Only your Arduino Esplora is needed for this example. Connect the Esplora to your
computer with a USB cable and open the Arduino’s…… Listed under: Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects
267. Knock Block using an Arduino board
Knock Block: a modern knocking framework Man has long wrestled with Time. Also, with knocking on things and not
getting the time of day. We propose a knocking platform through which these fundamental needs are met. This is
illustrated with the Knock Block KUI and…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects
268. Arduino Analog Inputs
This week is all about analog inputs for the arduino. I’ll show you how you can use a voltage divider circuit (see
episode 3) and a variable resistor to make an analog sensor. [box type=”note” color=” #202020 ” bg=”# bb00 ”
font=”verdana” fontsize=”14″ radius=”20 ” border=”#000″…… Listed under: Projects, PWM Projects
269. Intervalometer for Sony NEX 5n
This intervalometer used infrared LED To built intervalometer you need: Arduino Nano (or Arduino-compability). I
used Nano V3 Serial LCD Joystick Module IR Led and resistor ~200 Ohm Switch Push Button Plastic enclosure Battery
9V Schematic is very simple Step 2: Connection Serial LCD has…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
270. Arduino – Control a DC motor with TIP120, potentiometer and multiple power supplies
A quick circuit showing how to control the speed of a DC motor with a potentiometer with your Arduino board. Also shows how to
use a TIP120 transistor to allow the Arduino control a larger power supply. Transistors are 3 pin devices, which via the…… Listed
under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Motor Projects
271. Combo Blocks using an Arduino
Project by CU Boulder Thinks That Think students: Michelle Bourgeois, Charles Dietrich, and Ben Link Imagine having a
safe in which the combo is any small object of your choosing.  Perhaps it’s your favorite co ee mug, or a bat man
gurine.  This project is based…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects
272. Fart Operated Random Channel TV Remote using an Arduino
OK, I know that sounds weird, but bear with me for a moment.  My Pops really enjoys two things; 1) channel sur ng
and 2) farting. So one day I was over at http://hackaday.com/ and read about a guy who used his Arduino to turn a……
Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects
273. Haptic Proximity Module (HPM) for Low Vision users
The Haptic Proximity Module (HPM) seeks to enable people with low vision, or other vision impairments, to engage
with their direct surroundings through vibration feedback from a range detector, and do so cheaply with readily
available components. The aim of this instructables is to share…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
274. Control a DC motor with Arduino and L293D chip
This is a quick guide with a bit of extra info (pin con gurations etc..) that I’ve learnt along the way on how to use the
L293D with the Arduino, showing that we can: A) Use a supplemental power source to power the DC motor B)……
Listed under: Motor Projects
275. Reaction Timer using an Arduino
I am new to Arduino and wanted a project which would teach me di erent things. This got me involved with sound
and the use of a LCD. This project is based on the Instructable posted by bertus52x11 which you can nd here
http://www.instructables.com/id/After-Dinner-Reaction-Time-Tester/ .  While…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects,
Projects
276. Buzz Wire Alarm Clock
Does it happen to you to slide your nger across your phone’s screen and turn the alarm o … just because you have
automated this task and don’t even need to open your eyes? Well, let me present to you the alarm clock that WILL……
Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
277. Making a 9v Battery DC power supply
Rather than use the USB to power my Arduino board with a handy trip to the electronics store with some more
knowledgeable people than I, I have constructed a 9Volt DC power supply. Taking a 9 volt battery, a 9v battery holder
and a 2.1mm…… Listed under: Battery Projects
278. Simple Ipod Controller using an Arduino
This instructable will help you understand the iPod serial protocol, and how to send commands to an iPod using an
Arduino.  This instructable is only meant to show the basics of the protocol and is by no means complete.  I only had
enough hardware space…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
279. 3 LED Crossfade with PWM and Arduino
This ones quite simple, just mix/ crossfade 3 separate LEDs using Phase Width Modulation (PWM) and Arduino. You
will need 3 LEDs, I’m using a 5mm Red, Green and Blue so I can make the full light colour spectrum (When all
combined they make white…… Listed under: LED Projects, PWM Projects
280. Making a Mayan Tzolkin Calendar
OK, I will admit that I am a little obsessed with things Mayan at the moment, which explains why I wanted to make a
Mayan Tzolkin calendar. I modeled the general layout and fabrication on the very nice Sleek Word Clock by scottbez1
which you…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
281. Small form factor DIY Arduino on stripboard
This board needs FTDI cable to program it. It is not Arduino compatible in the meaning of taking shields (just like every
small form factor board isn’t). But it has all the same pins (exept 3.3V power and Vin*) available as female headers.
The input…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
282. Robot Snake
Purpose This project was built for the Things that Think undergraduate/graduate class CSCI 4830-7 and CSCI 7000-7
for the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Our group consisted of one graduate and two undergraduate students.  We
worked on the project for 8 weeks, most of the time trying…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Robotics
– Automation Projects
283. Controlling a Servo with Arduino
Very simple basics of building a circuit to control a servo using Arduino and PWM For this you will need: Arduino
Board – I’m using a Duemilanova ATMEGA328 Arduino Sketch software – I’m using version 0015 Arduino Servo Library
found here save it to lib/targets/libraries…… Listed under: Motor Projects
284. Use your android phone sensors on the arduino
Hello, this is my very rst step-by-step instructable, and today, we’re going to learn how the sensors in your android
smartphone can communicate with your arduino. In modern smartphones, there are a lot of useful sensors for an
ingenious arduino project. I have a motorola…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects,
Projects
285. Two ways to reset arduino in software
If you want to RESET Arduino from the beginning without manually pressing the RESET button, there are a few ways.
Here are two ways, using minimal wiring / circuitry. Step 1: Using 1 wire connected to the RESET pin 1. electronically,
using only 1 wire…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
286. Siduri – An Arduino Control Smart Coaster
Siduri named after the Sumerian god of happiness and merriment, is a smart coaster for your drinks. It recognizes when a glass is
near empty and then glows yellow to alert waiters that you will be in need of a re ll soon. Designed speci cally for…… Listed
under: Home Automation Projects
287. How I’m building my bi-copter with Android and Arduino
Last year I was fascinated by the “How to build your own Quadrocopter” by Lenz Grimmer and decided that somehow
I should try to do a similar thing. This talk is about the way I’m building a bi-copter using lessons learned for last year’s
talk…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
288. Discreet Data Logger using Arduino
There is no better way to hide a covert device than to stick it inside a larger conspicuous device. That said… Essentially,
this is a guide for making a data logging system for use with the breathalyzer microphone. To accomplish this, an
Arduino and a…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Project Ideas, Projects
289. A DVD Player Hack
This is a description of an open source/open hardware project of a remotely controlled Arduino (Freeduino) based clock/thermometer
utilising power supply and VFD panel from a broken DVD player in a custom made acrylic enclosure. The aim of the project was to
demonstrate what could…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
290. Texting mat using arduino
Lusha and May created a “Text-Mat”. This surface can allow the user to write and send messages using one’s feet. This
text-mat is designed to send secret messages during meetings or classes. The design utilizes conductive fabric and
thread, as well as a ora-board. The…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
291. The KITT-duino, DIY Larson Scanner with an Arduino
IMPORTANT: CODE IS NOW UPDATED. FIXES INCLUDE ADDING AN INTEGER VALUE TO MANIPULATE TIMING AND
FIXING A DOUBLE-BLINKING LED. Thanks. It is my understanding that many Larson Scanners can only pulse from side
to side. I felt that that needed to be changed, seeing as…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, How To – DIY –
Projects
292. Low cost digital microscope with automated slide movement using arduino
This is an easy-to-implement product modi cation that will be extremely useful for clinicians, pathologists,
researchers or other microscopy enthusiasts interested in capturing whole slide images or creating virtual slides for
later use. The device allows one to take multiple images of the slide under high…… Listed under: Medical – Health
based Projects
293. Obstacle avoidance Arduino robot – build your own larryBot
So after 5 previous versions that had various aws, I now have an Arduino robot that actually works and although basic is very
cheap – although there a probably a few more aws so please point them out to me but this is a good…… Listed under: Robotics –
Automation Projects
294. Water Tank Depth Sensor using Arduino
Water is a precious resource in many parts of the world, and many people rely on water tanks to supplement their
water supply by storing collected rainwater or water pumped from a well or bore. But how do you measure how full a
tank is?…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
295. Arduino Dragon Wings
Hello World!! I am making this Instructables on how to make arduino controlled dragon wings. XD I planned on
wearing these dressed as Smaug to ‘The Hobbit Desolation of Smaug’ premier but I didn’t complete the entire out t in
time, but I will continue working…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
296. Augmenting Plant Behavior Through Robotics using Arduino
The PhytoBot is a semi-intelligent plant which responds to external stimulus (light intensity and light location) and responds to it as a
phototropic plant would. Essentially it is designed as a piece of interactive artwork for operation over a long period of time. The
motivation…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
297. Rabbit Ears on a Cap using Arduino
We are students from Singapore Polytechnic. After looking at the famous Necomimi Arduino Cat Ears, we decided to
give it a try to help us familiarise ourselves with the accelerometer and the arduino. Using the materials that we had
on hand, we managed to produce…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
298. Geoweaver: A Walking 3D Printer Hexapod using arduino
Geoweaver is a student designed (team members Jia Wu, Mary Sek, and Je Maeshiro) robot created in the Creative
Architecture Machines advanced options studio at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, California,
taught by Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects
299. Programmable auto filter interface for C64 using Arduino
Overview A software / hardware combo that allows for control of the analog lter inside a Commodore 64 that is
running Cynthcart from a host computer (eg, Macbok, PC). Software • 16-step lter sequencer • Set the speed of the
lter sequence (with intervals between…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 –
I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
300. Control Access of Arduino YÚN with MySQL, PHP5 and Python
Hello Friends! Well, as you know, in September the new premiere shield  of Arduino, Arduino YUN. This little friend has a Linux
embedded system with which we can run anything you can think of (at least so far). While there is very little information on……
Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
301. All in one Remote using Arduino
Introduction August, 2007  One of my other hobbies is photography, and, about a year ago, I purchased a new digicam
– a Panasonic FZ30. I joined the Panasonic forum on the dpreview site. One of the posters, a programmer and
electronic hobbyist, designed a nifty wireless…… Listed under: Projects, Radio Projects
302. Simple Arduino Wing Shield
I buy a lot of these stackable Arduino header sets because they are handy for a lot of things. I make some breakout
boards with them, I use them to add some clearance between a taller shield and the next shield that I am stacking……
Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
303. Polar Plotter on Arduino and MakerBeams
The project A polar plotter is a plotter with a rotating, extendable arm. Its characteristics di er greatly from those of a
traditional plotter, which in most areas have a superior design. You could say the polar plotter is more portable or
something, but mainly I…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, Projects
304. Build the Remote Control Bobble-head Bobbler! using arduino
Bobble-heads!!! Every sports fan loves em, but they’re kind of boring, just sitting frozen on your shelf I thought it
might be fun to create an Automatic Bobble-head Bobbler something that can wake that old bobble-head up and get
him nodding away. I nally found…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
305. Clock with Meggy Jr RGB using Arduino
There is a saying: “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. Well, when I see a display, I think of clocks
I will show you here how to easily make a simple digital clock by hacking Meggy Jr RGB.…… Listed under: Clock –
Timer Projects, Projects
306. Let’s cook: 3D scanner based on Arduino and Processing
Ever wonder of copypaste method, usable in real life, not only in virtual reality? Me too. It is  21th century, and those
are nearer than most of all can imagine! This is possible thank to 3d scanners and printers. So let’s try to scan
something!…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
307. Motion Sensing Eye using arduino
I have always wanted to make something with my LED dot matrix display, and so when I found a old alarm motion
sensor I knew just what to make, a Motion Sensing Eye! This instructable will hopefully nish with you having a
working dmd, that…… Listed under: LED Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
308. LED Clock
A 24-hour clock with hour, minute, and second indicators. Here’s the catch, despite being a digital media (LED’s) it is
still displaying using an analog method (circles!). I nished making this clock months ago but did not bring it with me
to school so I…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, LED Projects
309. Arduino Webserver Control Lights, Relays, Servos, etc…
In this project using only an Arduino with an Ethernet shield. I’ll be controlling one LED and a servo, but you can apply
this method to control a DC motors, buzzers, relays, stepper motors, etc.. Overview: When you upload the the code
provided in this…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
310. Vehicle Telemetry Platform using Arduino
Ever wondered what goes on under the hood of your car? Wish you could peek inside the engine management system
and read values from it? Annoyed that your dashboard displays a cryptic “Check Engine” light (yep, the engine is still
there) but gives absolutely no…… Listed under: Car Projects
311. Weather Station Receiver using Arduino
The incredible popularity of home weather stations shows that it’s not just farmers who are interested in the weather.
Many people want to be able to track and record weather events within their local environment rather than relying on
a state or national weather service…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
312. Arduino Beer Pong Arcade
We are going to be making a ashy beer pong table.   The table lights up as cups are eliminated and old style arcade
sounds are played. This games elevates the subtle art of BEER PONG to a new level.  A sporting level.  A competitive,
…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
313. Lunch Decider Wheel using arduino
The lunch decider wheel is basically a carnival-style wheel that spins every day at 11:45am and selects what is for
lunch. It came about on account of my perpetual indecision on this very important culinary matter. In fact, this device
does more than just decide…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
314. Arduino: Making a set of traffic lights
THIS PROJECT IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS FEEDBACK APPRECIATED!!!This tutorial will step you through the process
of creating a set of controlable and con gurable tra c lights whilst also teaching you the basics of Arduino. Some
knowledge is needed and I highly recommend reading and…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects
315. 3D Printed Webcam Controller
The camera controller box is an easy way to rotate a webcam from a PC or remotely through the internet. Step 1:
Materials and 3D les In this project I used a Teensy 2.0 micro-controller since it was available, but you can use any
other MCU like an ATtiny85…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
316. Woooshing leds – Rotated animation by arduino
This project allows you draw in the air letters, symbols or other shapes – as you like. Controlled by the Arduino, the 7
simple leds blinking on and o – creating the illusion of oating text in the air. This combination of simple components
with…… Listed under: LED Projects
317. UnDecima Audio Output from Arduino
I already have one project where arduino outputs audio signal to USB speakers via software 10-bits PWM.  In rst, I
was not satis ed with quality of sound generated via PWM. There are just not enough speed in arduino engine  to run
PWM well.  For example for…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
318. Security / Automation Sensors using Arduino
Security system sensors such as motion detectors, reed switches, pressure mats, glass-break detectors, infra-red
beams, and conductive lm can be very handy for all sorts of things including home automation systems, interactive
art installations – and sometimes even security systems! Almost all security system sensors…… Listed under: Security
– Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
319. Interval Long Exposure Camera
There’s a real beauty in long exposure photography.  Hours and days and weeks and months and even years can be
condensed onto a single frame, and that frame will catalog the constants in our fast paced and forever changing lives. 
However, the issue is that…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
320. Lego Technic Car with Arduino + XBee Wireless Control
I was perusing Instructables one ne winter Saturday, when my 8 yo son came in and peered over my shoulder and
saw this: http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-Lego-Car/ by sath02. My son is a huge fan of all things Lego, and loves
robots and cars, and this was right…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
321. Visual Navigator Making it MOBILE using Arduino
Obstacle avoiding vehicle, continue in “3D Laser Range Finder” series ( project 1, project 2). The basic idea is the same,
measuring distance using red laser pointers, CCD analog camera and Arduino UNO.  Modi cation was made in
geometry.  Two lasers were set for “far eld”…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Projects, Robotics
– Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
322. The Adventure of Electricity: An interactive light diorama
Where does electricity come from? Who invented the light bulb? How do cities use this technology today? These are
just a few questions that we hope to address in this interactive diorama, The Adventure of Electricity! This project was
designed for educational purposes so that…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
323. 8x8x8 LED Cube with Arduino Mega (+Sound +PS controller +Game)
This is a instructable which is based on the Cube by Chr, ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Led-Cube-8x8x8/ ) by
SuperTech-IT, ( http://www.instructables.com/id/CHRs-8X8X8-LED-Cu… ) and by das-labor.org, ( http://www.das-
labor.org/wiki/Borg3d_Bauanleitung… ) but i think its better and easier. I started this Project without any skills from
soldering toprogramming. First of…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
324. Tears of Rainbow using an Arduino
It’s time to release new updates for my rst (ever) project with Arduino, “Color Light Music”.  From artistic perspective,
VU BarGraph style (IMHO) is the best one for spectral dynamic representation, and not much could be improved on
this side. But this time, it cross my…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
325. Joystick controlled Camera using Arduino
Hi, First of all, my English is not perfect =) I’ve seen many projects with Arduino that describes how to control 2 servo’s
with a joystick or use a lcd screen. All of the projects that i have seen are all seperate things. So i…… Listed under:
Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
326. HandSight: A Glove for the Blind to Feel Shapes and Navigate Obstacles
HandSight is a prototype glove to aid the blind. It can sense the lightness or darkness of a surface with tactile feedback from a vibration
motor for each individual nger. It can also sense distance from physical objects or obstructions and indicate direction and distance……
Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects
327. Arduino IR Musical Stairs
This is a small scaled musical stairs! It was a project that had a deadline; had only two days to build it. So, it is a very
small scaled project, but still serves its purpose! IR Sensor (receiver) that I used is TSOP38238 from Adafruit,…… Listed
under: Home Automation Projects
328. Gyro Camera for Motorcycle using Arduino
As seen in MotoGP Race, the rider is seen riding through corners while laying aside his bike to the left and right. But
there is an interesting moment when the motor looks to collapse sideward, the front views remain horizontally. How
could that be? Such…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
329. Building a device that clips to your belt
Our goal in this step-by-step instructable is to build a device you can clip to your belt and wear throughout the day.
 This device will log data that, when downloaded to a back-end server system, will provide a report showing the
location history of your…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
330. Hidden Wall Outlet Safe (w/Arduino Lock) using arduino
Stash your valuables where no one will ever suspect. Wall outlets are perfect for stashing valuables since you have
tons of them at home. You must be crazy enough to search every household outlet for a secret stash. Probably, no
one would even think of…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
331. Power Arduino with a cellphone
Old cellphones are easy to acquire and they have built in lithium charging circuitry. What a wonderful base for a
power supply for small mobile things. I hooked up a cellphone to the arduino with the ability to charge the cellphone
when you plug the…… Listed under: Phone Projects
332. DIY Arduino Motor Shield [for only $8!] (L298N 2x4A)
Today, I’m going to show you how to make an Arduino motor shield (driver) at a low cost. It works splendidly, its
posses almost all the characteristics of the original Arduino motor shield. It’s almost considered as a clone. The
original Arduino motor shield has the…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Motor Projects
333. Intermediate Arduino: Inputs and Outputs using arduino
Continuing from my Intro to Arduino post, this Instructable will go over some slightly more advanced topics with
Arduino, speci cally relating to controlling and managing many inputs and outputs. The next class covers how to
connect the Arduino’s inputs and outputs to MIDI. Parts List:…… Listed under: LED Projects
334. EL Wire Hat: Sequenced and Sound Activated with Remote Control
Welcome to the Instructable guide of my EL Wire hat with some fun features. The concept is an EL Wired hat with 8
sequenced EL wires controlled by a wired remote. Multiple speed controllable sequence modes are pre-programmed
into an Arduino UNO, including a sound…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
335. Earth Globe Rotating With Arduino Or Raspberry Pi Controlled Stepper Motor using arduino
This instructable describes how to upgrade your globe to a motorized version. It looks amazingly better on the shelf
when it is slowly rotating, and any demonstration with your kids (to explain the day/night cycle or the seasons) will
gain in interest. No need to…… Listed under: Motor Projects
336. TV Remote Controlled Car
Nothing is worse than loosing the controller that came with your remote control car. Replace that sucker with an
arduino and the one remote that always seems to be around, the TV remote! Remove these ads by Signing Up Step 1:
Materials The materials for…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects
337. Arduino Solar Cell Tester
When I’m building Solar Shrubs and other solar-powered creations, I often scavenge cells from various o -the-shelf
devices such as solar garden or security lights. But these cells are rarely labeled as to their voltage, current, and
power output. So it’s o to my bread-boarding station. First, I put each cell under…… Listed under: Battery Projects,
Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects, Solar energy projects
338. Capteur temperature choix du type de degres par infrarouge using arduino
ENGLISH VERSION HERE Dans ce programme nous allons voir comment capter une température et a cher sa valeur
sur un lecteur LCD en choisissant si on veut l’a cher en°C ou °F grâce à une télécommande infrarouge. Dans ce tuto
j’utilise: -Une carte SainSmart (similaire à Arduino…… Listed under: LCD Projects
339. A World of Possibilities with Java ME + Bluetooth + Arduino
“This presentation shows how to easily go from user stories to automated integration tests that themselves read like
user stories. You can accomplish this by using custom domain-speci c languages. Too often our automated
integration tests rely on coding and intimate technical knowledge of our systems,…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet
– LAN Projects, Projects
340. Smart Snow Globe (gives snow day alerts) using arduino
What does a smart snow globe do? It tells you if tomorrow’s going to be a snow day! Is it snowing tonight? Will you
have the day o from school or work tomorrow? Put this snow globe next to your bed when you go to…… Listed
under: Radio Projects
341. 4x4x4 interactive LED-cube with Arduino
To explain my 4x4x4 interactive LED-cube published before, a bit more clear, I will try to make my rst step by step
instructable. This 4x4x4 cube is interactive by using the top four corner LEDs both as LEDs and as sensors that will
react on…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
342. IR Remote Controlled Color Changing Cloud (Arduino)
CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATED INSTRUCTABLE: http://www.instructables.com/id/IR-Rainbow-Cloud-ver-1/ This is a
project I created for a Digital Art and Installations class.   The class covered basics of several types of programming,
and our projects were meant to be an interactive cross between art and technology.  This was a fun…… Listed under:
Game – Entertainment Projects
343. A Voice Shield for Arduino Board
The objective of this project is to build an Arduino voice shield to empower thousands of voice related applications! All
this mostly thanks to an integrated ISD1790PY chip. This particular voice/TTS  feature can be useful to integrate voice
messages in alarm systems, to implement generic…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
344. Open Bitcoin ATM using arduino
The world’s rst completely open-source Bitcoin ATM for Education and Experimentation.
http://openbitcoinatm.org for more information. Step 1: Fabricate Box and Faceplate Out of a piece of 12″x12″
aluminum sheet metal, cut two rectangles and drill six rivet holes and four holes to attach the bill acceptor.…… Listed
under: Robotics – Automation Projects
345. Arduino Wii nunchuck and Wii motion plus with updated code for IDE 1.0.2 and LEDs
So, I was trying to hack my Wii nunchuck because I want to control motors and lights with the Wii nunchuck. The rst
problem that I found was how to connect the control without an adapter, I was planning to make one, but when I……
Listed under: LED Projects
346. LED Dawn / Sunrise Alarm Clock, Nightlight & Security Light – Arduino Compatible
As the nights gradually lengthened in autumn 2011, I discovered the joys of Arduino and thought that it would be a
great way to implement something that I have wanted for a long while – a gentle way to wake up on a winter’s
morning. …… Listed under: LED Projects, Security – Safety Projects
347. Programming the Arduino I/O pins
Overview The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital
input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator, a USB
connection, a power jack, an ICSP header,…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects
348. Arduino, Sensors, and MIDI
Now that you’re up to speed on using Arduino’s inputs and outputs, this Instructable will give you everything you need
to get started using sensors to trigger MIDI notes from Arduino. This post is the last installment in a series of
workshops I led at…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
349. Stripboard Arduino
In this, my rst Instructable I’m going to show you how to make a stripped down Arduino for a fraction of the price,
using Stripboard/Veroboard. Material List: 1x Atmel ATMega168 = �2.65 1x Stipboard = 72p 1x 7805 Voltage regulator
= 26p 2x LEDs =…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects
350. Control an Arduino With a Wristwatch (TI eZ430 Chronos)
The watch The Texas Instruments eZ430 Chronos is a cool gadget. It has bidirectional radio communication, and a
whole bunch of sensors: temperature, pressure, acceleration. In fact, it is a development kit for the MSP 430 (a low-
power microcontroller), that TI packaged as a watch…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
351. SuperScope: Circuit Simulation through Arduino-Processing Interface
nto the program where you can physically manipulate them. Arduino tests for the value of the component (a
capacitor, inductor, resistor, or waveform of speci c frequency) then sends the data to Processing. Imported
components can then be plugged into circuit schematics. SuperScope builds upon the…… Listed under:
Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
352. Improved Simple Wing Shield using arduino
Not too long ago, I made my own version of the popular Wing Shield out of some spare parts and scraps of perf board
I had laying around. Instead of the screw terminals that the regular wing shield uses, I used some female headers
that…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
353. A credit card sized Ethernet Arduino compatable controller board
I love the Arduino as a simple and accessible controller platform for many varied projects.  A few months ago, a
purchased an Ethernet shield for my Arduino controller to work on some projects with a mate of mine – it was a
massive hit -…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
354. Make Your Own GRBL CNC Pendant
So you just nished your DIY CNC machine, set up GRBL and even cut your rst part.  Now what?  Well, did you know
that as of GRBL v0.8 there are pinouts some really useful commands such as Cycle Start, Feed Hold and a Soft
Reset?…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects
355. How to access 5 buttons through 1 Arduino input
Using this method, I’ll show you how you can access 5 (or even more) inputs through 1 Arduino pin. These buttons will
only be read correctly if only one is pushed at any time though. As we go through it I’ll explain whatever background
info…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Project Ideas, LED Projects, Projects
356. LittleBitty Joe using arduino
Say Hello to littleBitty Joe! Joe is my school’s mascot! Speak to Joe and watch his eyebrows lift, whiskers vibrate, eyes illuminate, heart
spin and hear him ROAR! Not only does his roaring a ect work with our project, but it can de nitely work with your…… Listed under:
Game – Entertainment Projects
357. Digispark DIY: The smallest USB Arduino
Digispark is an ATtiny85 based microcontroller development board come with USB interface. Coding is similar to
Arduino, and it use the familiar Arduino IDE for development. Digispark is copyrighted by Digistump LLC
(digistump.com) and the full license is here: http://digistump.com/wiki/digispark/policy Speci cation: Support for the
Arduino IDE…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP)
Projects, Projects
358. 3D-Printed Biologically-Inspired Robotics
I have been spending the last few months doing research into biologically inspired robotic structures. While my
approach may seem formalistic in nature, these devices were simply a means for ultimately conducting social
research. This desire stems from my experience building Simple Bots, and their…… Listed under: Robotics –
Automation Projects
359. Light Clapper using arduino
This is a project that I quickly made one night because I wanted to ‘clap’ to turn o and on the light in my room! I have
a small room for myself, so I basically have no other noise around. So, I was able to…… Listed under: Home
Automation Projects
360. RC Car Anti-Crash System Using Arduino
Hi guys! So for my electronics class this year we were tasked with creating some kind of electronic gadget in order to
demonstrate what we learned over the semester. Being a car-loving type of guy, I decided to get a cheap RC car and
see…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects
361. Arduilay
Arduilay is an 8 channel AC relay box for use with Arduino, Max/MSP, Processing, etc.  I designed this system as an
alternative to the USB>DMX 4 channel relay option.  While DMX gives you dimming control, the setup is easily 5 times
as expensive as this…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
362. ARDUINO Laser 3D Tracking or Range Finder
The idea of using triangulation for distance measurements is well known since Pythagorean time, when his brilliant
formula become available for mathematicians. What is new in this design, is lasers power control via “blooming” e ect
of CMOS camera. Here this “negative” e ect was put to…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects,
Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
363. Cheap and effective Sous Vide cooker (Arduino powered)
Sous-vide cooking is a great new way of cooking food. I will not explain why and how it works here… for great recipes
and explanations, you can check out those guys : http://modernistcuisine.com/2013/01/why-cook-sous-…
Unfortunately, a good (and I mean precise to the half °C) sous-vide…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
364. 2 player Pong using Arduino
I started with the Instructable from Kyle Brinckerho ; http://www.instructables.com/id/Ardu-pong-the-Arduino-based-
pong-console/ Thanks Kyle! and the following at Make magazine http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/08/arduino-
pong.html and I see the original code is attributed to Pete Lamonica Thanks Pete!! I am using the paddles instead of
the joy stick and I have made…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
365. Arduino Step Sequencer
I was wondering about on making a sequencer, a big 16 step sequencer was what I wanted to make. To it’s full
extension with lots of features including single leds for each step, midi input and output, etc. Then I realised that I
should start from a…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
366. ASCII Table using Arduino
Demonstrates the advanced serial printing functions by generating a table of characters and their ASCII values in
decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary. For more on ASCII, see asciitable.com Circuit image developed using Fritzing.
For more circuit examples, see the Fritzing project page None, but the Arduino has to…… Listed under: How To – DIY
– Projects, Projects
367. A Simple and Very Easy Inverted Pendulum Balancing Robot
Let’s make a simple inverted balancing robot, and operate it. You need only half a day to do them, if you have an
arduino and some materials. [a video of a robot you would make] introduction: After a few work with arduino, I have
thought…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
368. Wii Nunchuck Arduino Spirit Level
Thanks to: http://jeonlab.wordpress.com/ Since I have read an article on todbot blog, I bought a couple of Wii
Nunchucks from ebay. I don’t remember how much I paid for them, but it was much cheaper than buying the
accelerometer breakout boards. With the nunchuck data reading…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits
Projects, Projects
369. Nama Instrument 1.0
A motion sensing soft-circuit interface. The following instructable will guide you through the construction of your own
personalized Nama Instrument. I’d love to hear some feedback. Hope you like it and it serves you somehow! : ) Access
http://www.viraseres.com/nama to download the project’s open source les…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment
Projects, Home Automation Projects
370. Wex, the One Eyed Watcher using an Arduino
Wex detects your location with ultrasonic sensors then follows you with his one ashing eye.  His red “heartbeat” can be seen through
his mouth. Step 1: Parts needed include: Arduino Two ping ultrasonic sensors Futaba s3103 servo Radio Shack 276-0016 7 color led
Radio Shack …… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
371. OpenSquare – Write big with a RC car
Hi there, You’re going to transform any RC toy car into a big message writer that can be used to transform your city
squares into witty messages, political statements or beautiful drawings, and for less than 20$. The idea is to drop a
trail of…… Listed under: Car Projects
372. Building a Sentry Gun with Laser Trip Wire System and Arduino
*NOTE* THIS PROJECT IS DONE BY A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC. Concept: Trigger gun
when laser is blocked by intruding object. Note: Tilting is included for expandability but not used in this project. Skill
Level: Basic soldering and basic metal works Things You…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects,
Security – Safety Projects
373. I just wanna hold your hand
Conducting energy through people to stimulate tangible public interactions http://ijustwannaholdyourhand.com/
http://vimeo.com/56350598 What did we do? We put together an Arduino, some wire, a Mac mini and a DLP Projector,
then created a pair of hands out of aluminum. We additionally 3D printed some wall plates…… Listed under: Game –
Entertainment Projects
374. How to Control a Ton of RGB LEDs with Arduino & TLC5940
This video explains how to use the 16 channel PWM controller TLC5940 The CODE: //Texas Instruments TLC 5940 with
Arduino //www.kevindarrah.com #include <SPI.h>//Serial Peripheral Interface Library byte ch=0, chbit=0, spibit=0,
spibyte=0;// variables used by tlc sub routine int SINData;//variable used to shift data to the…… Listed under: LED
Projects, Projects, PWM Projects
375. Forget Me Not- Remote Flower Watering
Hi everyone, Lucy Matchett, Nicole Yi Messier, and Joselyn McDonald (Snax_and_Macs) made a remote ower-watering
device so you can water your loved ones’ plants when you water your own. We used Arduinos, a photoresistor, a
servo, Arduino and Processing sketches, Spacebrew, and a little elbow…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
376. How to build an Arduino synth
This is a super simple and easily customizable little synthesizer. This is my rst time using the Arduino and also with
acrylic, both I found very fun to work with though.  This is also my rst Instructables so hopefully I have explained this
well enough.…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
377. Palm Arduino V3
I design and create this Palm Arduino V3 prototype PCB, as I was tired of recreating Arduino Compatible on perf board every time I
prototyping a new project, especially when I had to spend  a lot of time tracing the wiring to see that I…… Listed under: Development
Board – Kits Projects
378. Smart Distance Measuring Tape v2
After posting up the v1 of my project many people requested an more detailed instructable. So i decided to start with
a new one with a little upgrades to my previous instructable. What does this thing do? Well its quite simple it is just
an…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
379. 2 Ways to Papercraft Stopmotion
Good morning, please take a seat and watch that tofu wobble. This is not CGI, it is honest work of a papercraftsman.
These are, in fact, 16 di erent papercubes that switch places in each frame. That technique is commonly known as
replacement stopmotion. Problem: It only…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
380. Building an Open Archival Scanning Robot Using Python and Arduino
Project Gado is an initiative which aims to create an open-source archival scanning robot which small archives can
purchase for $500 and use to autonomously scan their photographic collections. This talk presents the Gado 2, a
prototype… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
381. Bird cage LED daylight simulation system
Sometimes you get a chance to combine helping out your family with a nice hobby project.. In this case my father in
law was looking for a lighting system for his bird breeding cages. A daylight simulation system to be exact. He asked
me to…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, LED Projects
382. Arduino Solar Shield – A DIY solar source for your projects without waiting for PCBs
This instructable is a basic version of Bley Joel’s (“It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shu es in”) Solar
Shield, and it should work for most arduinos.  I’ve tested it with SparkFun’s Arduino Pro, and the new Leonardo. Myself
and the other Solar…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects, Solar energy projects
383. Audio Input to Arduino
The easiest way to connect an audio signal to your arduino, is to build a simple 3 components (2 resistors plus cap)
circuitry shown on the rst drawings on right side. Disadvantage: there is no ampli er, and consequently sensitivity
would be low, hardly enough to…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
384. Burn Arduino Bootloader on Atmega-328 TQFP and DIP chips on Breadboard
Parts required (Hardware) Arduino Uno Board (1) TQFP 32 to DIP 28 Adapter (1) Link Atmega TQFP 32 pin chip (1)
Atmega DIP 28 pin chip (1) 10K resistor (1) 16MHz crystal (1) 18pf – 22pf capacitor (2) Tact Switch (1) Jumper wires (few)
LED…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
385. How to make a LED 7-segment display with or without Arduino
I’m going to show you how to make a 7 segment display with LEDS. Combine with Arduino to create countdown
timers, simple text, and more. I like to make original projects. I searched the whole of instructables and didn’t nd one
like this. In fact,…… Listed under: LED Projects
386. Ariadne – a 1st person maze on a 16×2 LCD using Arduino
This game is a homage to Ariadne, the maze-generator from Inception  If you haven’t seen the movie yet – watch this
video again after you do (you can also watch it now – it’s not a spoiler, it’s just funnier for inception-vets). The nice
thing about…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, LCD Projects, Projects
387. Arduino Control DC Motor via Bluetooth
Hi guys, In this project we will control a DC motor with a smartphone via bluetooth. This project is great to learn more
about: -DC motor -Interfacing Arduino with your smartphone -Bluetooth module -L293D you can visit my website for
more electronic projects, interesting news…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Motor Projects, Phone
Projects, Projects
388. Arduino Powered 3-zone thermostat
I was looking at all those swoopy-zoomy internet connected and controllable thermostats. “Self,” I told myself, “we
should make one of those.” He didn’t seem all that excited about that – I mean, what do we know about hardware,
rmware, electronics or HVAC? Well, now’s…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
389. DIY BioPrinter
Bioprinting is printing with biological materials. Think of it as 3D printing, but with squishier ingredients! There’s a lot
of work being done at research labs and big companies like Organovo on print human tissues and human organs,
with an eye towards drug testing, and…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
390. Simple RC car for beginners (Android control over Bluetooth)
This is a simple project of Android Bluetooth Car with Bluetooth control. Arduino controller is used To control the car
used Android-device with a built-in accelerometer. Tilt forward – car goes forward, tilt to the left – car turns to the left,
tilt back – car…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
391. Arduino Digital 7-Segment Thermometer
This a guide for an Arduino version, but I am working on a mini ATtiny84 version. Once I get that working, I will post
another Instructable on how to make it. I’m sure you could make this same thermometer with an LM35 also, if
that’s…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
392. Wi-Fi Body Scale with Arduino Board
In this post we present the design of a scale that connects to the Internet and automatically sends weight info on a Google Document.
The project is composed of Arduino Uno board Wi-Fi shield additional shield that we used to manage data collection and I/O with……
Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Medical – Health based Projects, Projects
393. Playing Wave file using arduino
This is a simple circuit to play wav les using arduino Nano V3.0 ,it consist from 4 buttons ,each one play speci c wav
le loaded to SD card. Step 1: Parts 1- Arduino Nano V3.0 (I used the chines version called Funduino Nano). 2- SD……
Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
394. Paint Pulse: Digital Water Marbling
Paint Pulse is a project which seeks to build upon the water marbling crafts of Ebru and Suminagashi with
digital behavioral additions. The idea is to design intricate, owing patterns of paint directly on the surface of water
which you can capture on the surface of paper. Expert…… Listed under: Other Projects
395. Bubblesteen Bubble Machine using an Arduino
Is it a 3D Spherical Atmosphere Encapsulated Phosphorous Printer?   YES! Is it a CNC Anti Gravity transparent Orb
Machine!   YES! Its The Bubblesteen Bubble Machine! The spherical miracle that kids and cats have been waiting for. It
comes complete with robotic edge detection( when a bubble hits an…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects,
Projects
396. Cheap and Easy MP3 Shield for Arduino
This is a follow up to an earlier Instructable for attaching the guts of a cheap clip MP3 player to an Arduino.
http://www.instructables.com/id/MP3-Interface-for-Arduino-Cheap-and-Easy/ The previous Instuctable showed how to
use the Arduino to control all of the functions of the MP3 player: volume increase and decrease,…… Listed under:
Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
397. Charlieplexed Arduino 8×8 LED Grid Display Shield made and simulated in 123D Circuits
edit: Wow, this won an awesome prize! Very many thanks guys! Charlieplexing
(http://wealoneonearth.blogspot.nl/2013/03/design-note-charlieplexing-led-matrices.html) is a powerful method for
driving a large number of LEDs from a relatively small amount of IO pin and without using any extra components. The
technique makes use of the fact…… Listed under: LED Projects
398. How to make a multi-layered acrylic and LED sculpture with variable lighting levels using Arduino
Here you can nd out how to make you very own n as made for the exhibition www.laplandscape.co.uk curated by
art/design group Lapland. More images can be seen at ickr This exhibition runs from Wednesday 26 November –
Friday 12 December 2008 inclusive, and had…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
399. Remote control via GPRS/GSM SMS(Arduino)
Remote control, especially when this no ethernet or Wi in the outdoor, has been a very profound things in the past.
When I was a child, I always image that I have an equipment which can control all home appliances. Now, this
becomes a reality,with…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Phone Projects
400. Fairly Simple Simon – the evolution of an Arduino game
Important notice: Final (i.e. relevant) version is at the last step of this instructable. If you want to build a Simon, that is
the recommended version. The rest of the steps show how this evolved from a bare-bones game for LED 13 and Serial
(i.e.…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
401. LilyPad Arduino Totoro Plush with Umbrella
Materials: For Totoro: Felt:  1 black, 3 grey, 1 white, 1 beige Needle Black Thread Poly- l stu ng Cardstock Scissors
Pins Pen or chalk DIY Totoro Plush Tutorial HERE Totoro Pattern HERE For Umbrella: 3 or 4 di erent types of fabric
Felt: 1 grey, 1 black…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects
402. Arduino GSM shield
This is a very low cost and simple Arduino GSM and GPRS shield. We use the module SIMCom SIM900 . It’s the cheaper
module now avalaible in the market. The module is not simple to mount by an hobbyst, so we use the Breakboard
TDGGSM_900…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Phone Projects
403. Compact 3-in-1 Stripboard DIYduino with Integrated Sensor and L298N Motor Shield
I am presenting a compact design of a stripboard Arduino board (DIYduino) that includes a 2A motor driver and has
additionally the functionality of a sensor shield. The 2-channel version cost approximately $29.43 and is more
a ordable compared to $39.00 for a commercially available system…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Sensor –
Transducer – Detector Projects
404. Dogduino:The Automatic Dog Feeder using Arduino
Tired of having to nd the dog food to feed the dog? Tired of having to get up early so your dog doesn’t attack you for
his food? Are just plain lazy? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this instructable is for…… Listed under:
Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Project Ideas
405. Easy Programmable EL-Wire Wall Art Project with Cool-Neon using arduino
Blank space, what to do?, what to do? Our hackerspace has a blank brick wall above the replace. It’s been a cold
winter so we’ve had a fair number of res, but there is just something wrong about a blank brick wall. Well in this……
Listed under: Home Automation Projects
406. The Arduino OctoSynth
What is the OctoSynth you may ask? The octosynth is a polyphonic synthesizer that is able to produce eight Pulse
Width Modulated tones that form together a musical scale. In English terms, it is a 8 key electronic organ that can play
more than one…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
407. Microcontrolled AC switch using arduino
Always wanted to take total control of your electric appliances even without being at home? Well, thanks to this
instructable you will be able to do that and much more. Some friendly suggestions before starting: Electricity is very
dangerous, read and follow the “DANGER:” advices…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
408. Representing audio through vibration with Arduino
This project functions to display sound using vibration.  You plug your iPod, computer, or TV into it and get tactile
feedback representing the loudness of the audio.  It can help deaf people to experience sound. Stu you need:
Arduino USB Cable Computer running Arduino software…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
409. How to Build a Robot – The BeetleBot
Welcome! I have been in robotics since I was a kid and I am very passionate by robotics. I learn BEAM robotics around
1997-98 and started building robots for a science faire project call “Insectroides” in 2001.
http://robomaniac.solarbotics.net ( they change server and the website…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation
Projects
410. Psycho Scooter Scramble using an Arduino
Psycho Scooter Scramble is a blind-driving electric wheelchair game. It consists of two riders, strapped into electric
wheelchairs, and two blindfolded pilots, who remotely control the wheelchairs from the sidelines based on
information given over headset by their driver. The basic mechanic is simple: players…… Listed under: Game –
Entertainment Projects, Projects
411. Mug Music: Turn Water Into an Instrument with Arduino and ChucK
What if you could turn any conductive surface into an instrument? Like, say…a mug of water? Best of all, it’s cheap;
you’ll only need $1 worth of extra electrical components (not including the Arduino).   For this project, my friend
Harvest and I combined Disney’s Touché…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
412. Making Robots Using Android and Arduino
udar Muthu gives a talk on Making Robots Using Android and Arduino at Droidcon India 2011 by HasGeek.  … Listed
under: Arduino Android, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
413. PORTABLE FORCED-AIR COOLING UNIT
here is growing interest in the commercial production of high-value specialty fruit such as strawberries, blackberries,
raspberries, and blueberries. Much of the small fruit grown in North Carolina is currently marketed through pick-your-
own establishments or roadside stands. A strong demand for these small fruit items…… Listed under: Home
Automation Projects
414. Perfboard Hackduino Arduino-compatible circuit
Never again will you have to dismantle a nished project just to reuse an Arduino board! This tutorial will go through the steps involved
in fabricating your own Arduino-compatible circuit using just ~$8 of parts (this includes the ATMega chip!).  This is perfect for installing
and embedding…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects
415. A solar tracking automatic motorized window blind retrofit using Arduino
Buildings account for 20-40% of total energy use in developed countries. Window shades (or blinds) can help to
reduce building energy use and improve visual comfort (i.e., reducing glare and increasing daylighting). A recent study
showed that occupants are fairly inactive when operating manual roller…… Listed under: Motor Projects
416. Flashlight tag using an Arduino board
You probably know the game of ashlight-tag. You just run around in the dark on a campsite. You hold your ashlight
and try to shine it on one of the other kids, without the other kids shining their lights on you. I wanted to make……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
417. Fish Sensing
Overview Once again, my project was motivated by my curiosity to explore interesting and unfamiliar territory.  I
decided to see if I could make my own capacitive sensor and then use it in a project of some sort.  After
numerous  ascoes with Arduino and computers, I was…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
418. StopIt! LED Game (powered by arduino)
This project was inspired by this video from YouTube and the Pendulum Challenge Kit from Makershed.com. Its a
simple game consisting of ve LED lights and one pushbutton switch. The LEDs ash in a sequence and the player
must press the button when the middle…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED Projects
419. Arduino 3-axis Mini Lazer Paper-Cutter
Updated : 16/3 Add step 4, about using the stage. Updated : 18/3 Add photos (cutting vinyl adhesive sheet) Updated :
19/3 Add step 5, acting as pen plotter Updated : 20/3 Add laser engraving video (Wood) and photo Updated : 22/3 Add
2 drawings…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
420. Arduino: an easier way to work with seven segment displays
Ever have trouble programming code for seven segment displays? Well they made the 4511 to make things a whole lot
easier. What the 4511 does is takes a 4 digit binary input value (ones and zeros), and converts it to a decimal value on
a…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Projects
421. Buddy the on-screen seal Robot
I’ve made a video documentation of my midterm project for my 544 class. To keep it shorter, I didn’t detail in the video
that this is only a completed phase of a larger project: an autonomous robot seal. I was originally going to incorporate
a…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
422. Arduino Joystick Breadboard with LCD Output
Want to be able to control a couple of servos with a thumb-joystick? But don’t know where to start? I don’t have
servos, but I can put you on the right track on how to do stu when you move the thumbstick around. This
instructable…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LCD Projects, Projects
423. LilyPad Arduino Stuffed Fox Toy
For a class on technology in libraries, I had to create a project that used the LilyPad Arduino, and I chose to create a
stu ed animal that sings “Jesus Loves Me” while lights ash with the notes. I made a fox, but the pattern to…… Listed
under: Home Automation Projects
424. PCB on a Box using Arduino Board
Sorry, but I hate cleaning windows, is one of my un nished business as usual, but I had to do (at least) every time I
wanted to etch a circuit board printed by traditional (and perhaps unorthodox) of stick it in cellophane and let natural
light…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Project Ideas, Projects
425. Arduino Candygrabber
I’ve seen a lot of ways to communicate to arduino over the net, but none of them could handle pushing back the
messages from arduino to the client(you) in real time and vice versa. In this instructable you will learn how to connect
to your…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
426. Arduino Hardware PWM for stepper motor drives
With our new project, JustAddSharks, we are very keen to support the development of open source control software
for laser cutters. We are more than happy for people to modify our laser cutters, replace the control system with
something suitably open source and then let…… Listed under: Motor Projects
427. How to build your very own Time Fountain using Arduino
We have all seen the sweet videos on the tube! You know the magical water fountains that seems to “freeze” the water
droplets in mid air, or even make them go backwards! I’ve been fascinated by these “magical” thingamabobs  for quite
some while now, and a…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, How To – DIY – Projects
428. MMAE Graduate Robotics
This page provides general information to students enrolled in the EML 6808 course, Analysis and Control of Robot
Manipulators. Prerequisites for the course are: EML 4312C, EML 5271, or C.I. Kinematics and dynamics of multibody
systems. The topics to be covered include: basic components of…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
429. Control your motors with L293D and Arduino
After long research and trial and error, I have came up to a new walkthrough regarding this nice chip, the L293D. Each
project is one project and each one has its own unique power con gurations, so you must be aware of the best
battery choice…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects
430. Barista championship brewing stopwatch • Introduction using arduino
Upon the needs of the (2014) World Barista Championship Rules and Regulations, an adequate and precise time measuring is
needed during the competition. These measurements are usually done by regular stopwatches with all the bene ts (ease of use,
common availability) and drawbacks (two stopwatches needed…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
431. Arduino browser based remote control (linux)
We have kids.  I love them to bits but they keep hiding the remote control for the satellite and TV when they put the
children’s channels on. After this happening on a daily basis for several years, and after my darling wife allowing me
to…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects
432. Tiich System – Prototype Final Report
Introduction: Our main goal with the Tiich system is to design a teaching aid/tool which would replace the conventional
whiteboard in a classroom environment. We want our system to be used as an electronic based white board, having all the written
information easily be saved…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
433. Lilypad Arduino Rocket Ship Cape
I am taking a Children and Technology course for my MLS this semester, and one of our assignments is to create a toy
using the LilyPad Arduino development board. The LilyPad Arduino is used to create e-textiles that you can program
to do various things.…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
434. Web-controlled Twittering Roomba using an Arduino
I wanted to see if I could operate my Roomba remotely and get it to report its status via Twitter while I was away from
home. I also wanted to make the device independent of a computer. This is the solution I came up with…… Listed
under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Project Ideas, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
435. DIY Arduino Nebulophone Synth
I originally wanted to purchase a Nebulophone but, my El-Cheapo price range didn’t like the tag. I realized that I could
program my own AtMega 328 by using ArduinoISP Then I found out that if the code was Arduino compatible, why not
just use the…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Phone Projects, Projects
436. Social Alarm Clock
What it is: Sometimes we want to send special messages to the ones we love but they are sleeping. Soci Alarm Clock
allows you to record a message from your browser and send to your beloved’s alarm clock. They just have to put it
near…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects
437. Cookies adminitrator box [Electronics only] using arduino
At home the cookies disappear relatively fast. ¿Why? Well, principally because of me and my father. That’s why my
mother and my sister have to hide some to eat them later. It’s embarrassing, I know, but it’s because we are like “Oh, I
want to…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
438. Arduino Fart-O-Meter
OH NO! He didn’t! Yes I did! My project is simple: Farting in a chair and sending the signal wirelessly to a panel that
shows the intensity of the fart! Words of caution: Please do not force yourself to fart, you might shit in your…… Listed
under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects
439. One Touch Wardrobe using an Arduino
I use Arduino Duemilanove With Motor Driver Shield Microcontroller ATmega168 Operating Voltage 5V Input Voltage
(recommended) 7-12V Input Voltage (limits) 6-20V Digital I/O Pins 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output) Analog Input
Pins 6 DC Current per I/O Pin 40 mA DC Current for…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Sensor –
Transducer – Detector Projects
440. Controlling an LED using a switch
Concepts So you know what a switch is, but what can you do with it? One of the uses of a switch is to tell the controller
to activate/deactivate di erent components. In this case we are going to use the switch to turn on and…… Listed
under: LED Projects
441. Nursery Rhyme Hat using arduino
I created the Nursery Rhyme Hat for a class on youth and technology.  I’m new to instructables and e-textiles, so
please bear with me! This is the rst time I have used the Lilypad Arduino or any kind of soft circuit technology, so my
coding…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
442. Rainbow Mega Pong Clock using Arduino
This is my take on the clasic Pong clock with an RGB back light that changes every time the date is displayed. A big
thanks to mrnick1234567 and his http://www.instructables.com/id/Pong-Word-Clock/ I did want the light to
change randomly through the day but it made a mess of…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
443. Artist’s Machine
Tutorial 1 Part One Materials needed for tutorial Working BBB, RBBB, Arduino, or other Arduino compatible (BBB
shown in photos) Solderless breadboard 22 gauge solid wire for use with breadboard 3 6mm momentary switches 8
LED’s, any color 8 1k resistors, (470 ohm or 220…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
444. LilyPad Arduino e-Reader Case
For a youth and technology class, we were assigned the creation of an Arduino LilyPad project.  I liked the idea of connecting the
LilyPad project to literacy, so I chose to make a Kindle case that would play music [Hedwig’s Theme from the Harry Potter…… Listed
under: How To – DIY – Projects
445. NESBot: Arduino Powered Robot beating Super Mario Bros for the NES
This guide will take you through the steps to build an NES playing robot You will need: An Arduino Duemilanove (other
boards will probably work, but you will have to adjust the steps for your device) Working NES Console Super Mario
Bros. (Note: this must…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
446. Arduino V-Twin Flux Capacitor
I SHALL CALL HIM ” PEE-WEE ” Personal Electronics Entertainment With Embedded Education. Basically a project that is
fun and I learn a hole lot of stu from it. . This project started out as just a small robot so I could learn more about……
Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
447. Tweeting Cat Door using an Arduino
Note: to see everything on one page, please go to: www.tweetingcatdoor.com After receiving many emails requesting
Instructions and Kits for building the “Tweeting Cat Door “, I decided to make a version that is stand-alone and doesn’t
need a computer to be run and that…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects,
Projects
448. The Photometric Camera and the CCDs
The Photometric System The photometric camera for the SDSS consists of two TDI scanning CCD arrays, one, using 30
Tektronix/SITe 2048 x 2048 CCDs in a 5 by 6 array for ve-color photometry, and the other using 24 2048 x 400 chips
for astrometry and…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
449. Mechanical Led Matrix Display
First of all we would like to thank everybody that helped organizing the 2nd edition of Arduino Jam, and especially the
Jo3ri, who supplied us with some quite cool goodies and kept us safe during the weekend. (Video will come soon!) This
project is a…… Listed under: LCD Projects
450. Simple and Impressive Business Card Printer
At some point most tinkerers and makers have to take the plunge into the real world – the world of suits and
dividends and business cards. Without going completely “American Psycho” on your asses: business cards are
important. In many ways they are our keys…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
451. Interactive Logo using an Arduino
rst of all we would like to thank the organisation and especially the main sponsor, Capgemini, which made all of this possible. This
project is a contribution to the rst belgian Arduino Jam (2012). During the Arduino Jam 2012, me and two other colleagues put our
heads together…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
452. Vacuum form an Arduino
If you have access to a vacuum former, or have constructed a DIY one to use, simply vacuum form a compact case to
house your standalone electronics or arduino project. I made this at techshop! www.techshop.ws Step 1: Bill of
materials Material to vacuum form…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
453. Scratch 4 Arduino and Cybot Control (Rover basics)
I’ve had a couple of Cybots as well as the Tom robots for a number of years – every so often they get dragged out and
tinkered with. Now is this years turn. I have decided to try my hand at Arduino control of the…… Listed under:
Robotics – Automation Projects
454. [Arduino] Linefollower with photoresistors
I built a linefollower robot that could be used in many di erent ways, and I summed up my project in some steps. To
begin with, all you need is the following parts: Step 1: Robot frame Parts List: -Robot frame -Two wheels -Two DC
motors…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
455. Gas Cap using an Arduino board
Since you’ve gotten into electronics, haven’t you wondered if there is a fart sensor out there?  I sure did.  I discovered
that if you use a methane sensor, especially the MQ-4, even at very low concentrations, it reads farts.  What if you
combined that into…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects
456. CrEST
Let’s Set Up Your Arduino and Breadboard! Yep, for real: Let’s Set Up Your Arduino and Breadboard! (use the
instructions here, or ip to page 12 in your book) Step one: Dig through your kit and pull out your: Arduino Wooden
Base Breadboard and Jumper…… Listed under: Other Projects
457. New animatronic Eyes: Rock On!
Someone had seen Peter Penguin or my Instructables on Animatronic Penguin Torso or Animatronic Eyes, and was
working on a sculpture. He wanted to animate the sculpture when someone walked into the room and asked if I could
do it. I thought about it for…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
458. Multifunction Digital Thermometer using an Arduino
This instructable will show you how to create a multifunction platform with a thermometer, chronograph (count up
timer), count down timer, and light display. It is also intended to be a platform for other analog sensors or any other
functions you can think of. Multifunction_Digital_Thermometer.zip71…… Listed under: Projects, Temperature
Measurement Projects
459. Twitter Controlled Pet Feeder using an Arduino
A great project for busy pet owners.  This Twitter-Controlled pet feeder automatically dispenses food in response to
activity on your Twitter account.  The project is controlled by an Arduino and uses the Arduino Ethernet shield to
receive data from Twitter.  I hacked this automatic Pet…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet –
Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
460. Singing Olaf Bag (Frozen)
For my children and technology class, we were challenged to make a product using a Lilypad Arduino. I am currently
obsessed with the movie Frozen, so I decided to create something using one of the most iconic characters of the
movie, Olaf. I used a…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
461. Arduino MicroControllers, Card Readers, 3D Printing, GS4, Flip Camera!
Episode 3 of AndroidTec, Formed by members thamind (Jon) chaostic (Lewis) & Computer Whiz (Jim) and introducing
GuyCothal, who discusses about the amazing abilities of Arduino micro controller boards and how they can be used
with Androids! Jason also made a guest appearance!… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, Development Board –
Kits Projects, Memory – Storage Projects, Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
462. Randomized Arduino Drum Machine
I like drum machines. However they are not always the easiest to build. I wanted one that is: A. Simple, Yet Powerful-If
it uses lots of components then it is too complicated B. Sound-It’s not a a drum machine if it “beeps” C. Easily
Modi able-If…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
463. Arduino Automatic Temperature& Humidity Controller for Pets
Jack and Jose, a pair of beautiful hamster, has accompanied me over 100 days and nights. Their soft white fur makes
me quiet and warm, especially when I coding in the winner. But the very tragic things happened in the last week. As
the cold…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
464. 9 Volt battery adapter for Arduino
This is super simple but very useful if you are in a hurry or just like to do things yourself and on the o chance you
didn’t know, this is about the easiest way to add mobile power to your Arduino. After looking at a…… Listed under:
Battery Projects
465. Touch Sensitive Audio Desk Trays- Arduino
After having completed my rst Arduino project (which can be found here) I wanted to try and create something that
had more of a practical use. My idea behind this project was a way of aiding the visually impaired. By the end of this
project…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
466. RGB lamp with Custom Moodlamp Library using Arduino
I wanted to have an easily programmable RGB light to toss into a Jack ‘O Lantern for Halloween. Who really wants a
dull pumpkin in these days of pumpkin pimping madness. So I set to work building a pocket tin sized RGB lamp that
could…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED Projects, Projects
467. Homemade Magic Lamp Card Box using an Arduino
A robot is a virtual or mechanical arti cial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is
guided by computer or electronic programming, and is thus able to do tasks on its own
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot). Well, today you will learn exactly how to build…… Listed under: Home Automation
Project Ideas, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
468. High Five Camera
Can I tell you a secret? I don’t like handshakes. I really don’t. Handshakes just make me feel dirty. It’s too impersonal.
It’s a gesture with no soul and reeks of a corporate entity. Why must we limit ourselves to this one boring interaction?
Of…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
469. Twitter Mention Mood Light using Arduino
Twitter Mention Mood Light — a mood light that alerts you when @username is mentioned on Twitter. This is a simple
intro in how to control your Arduino from Twitter. If you are new to Arduino Twitter / Arduino Processing Twitter /
Arduino Python Twitter…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
470. Arduino makes 2D Level
This is a project for Arduino to make a 2D Level, aimed at beginners. Arduino draws a circle on an LED Matrix that
moves around according to readings from a 2D Accelerometer. Objectives: * Learn how to draw a circle using simple
Maths * Learn…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, LED Projects, Projects
471. CSCE 236 Embedded Systems
1  Instructions This is a group assignment for you to work on during class. You only need to hand in one copy of this,
but make sure that the names of all of your group members are on this sheet to receive credit. Complete all of……
Listed under: Other Projects
472. Arduino Etch-A-Sketch Clock
I’ve seen various Arduino driven Etch-A-Sketch clocks on the web , but none with instructions (is it some kind of secret?
Is someone planning on making it rich in the Etch-A-Sketch Clock global market?). I’ve used Arduino, but never used
stepper motors, real time clocks,…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
473. Blinky Fish using an Arduino
Assembly instructions for an add-on board for the Arduino. **** FOR INSTRUCTIONS FOR MARCH 2013, KICKSTARTER
PROJECT GO HERE http://www.instructables.com/id/Blinky-Fish-Kickstarter-Project/  ************ It has some LED’s
and a button. It connects to digital pins 9-13 and ground.  My hope is that this will be useful to people that want to……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED Projects, Projects
474. Second degree equation solver with Arduino
This instuctable is about making sort of a calculator that enables the user by using an analog 12-digit keyboard and 4
buttons to input the a,b,c variables into a equation and get the solution for it if there is any.(well if u don’t know
what…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, LCD Projects, Projects
475. Home Alert: Arduino + Cloud Messaging On A Large Display
In the age of mobile phones, you would expect that people would be responsive to your call 24/7. Or… not. Once my
wife gets home, the phone stays buried in her hand bag, or its battery is at. We don’t have a land line. Calling……
Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
476. Simple Arduino Book clock
This book clock was inspired by orinc and the impresive selection of clocks like the wise clock3 etc
http://www.instructables.com/member/ orinc/ My girlfriend likes reading books and there is always a pile of them
around the house, however to be able to build this for her birthday…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
477. DNA Melting Part 2: Lock-in Amplifier and Temperature Control
In Part 2 of the DNA Melting Lab you will make revisions to allow greater control of your instrument and to reduce the
e ects of noise. You will add a pulse-width modulation (PWM) heater controller to enable careful control of the
heating and cooling rates…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
478. Control Any Circuit With a TV Remote (and an Arduino)
Most of the buttons on a remote control are never used. So why not use them to control appliances and other
electronics around your house. In this project, I am going to show you how to use an Arduino to decode the signal
from your…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, How To – DIY – Projects
479. ElectroFried electronic shock game using Arduino
The ElectroFried is a game with a shocking fun level. ElectroFried is developed for the Global Game Jam 2011 in
Antwerp in design center the winkelhaak. The Team Jekkos/ Cinezaster decided to make a simple game based on
colliding electrons. With a nasty side e ect, a…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
480. Reginald: a UDP surveillance bot; control via the Internet using Arduino
Reginald started from the simple, yet bold idea to control a bot from anywhere in the world with a live video feed.
What I wasn’t expecting was for Reginald to develop into an involved, feature rich project. With my work and money, I
was able…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
481. Hacking a Powerglove using Arduino
First of all lets get this out of the way… It’s so bad This is going to be showing how to hack the Nintendo Powerglove.
By hack I mean tap into the ex sensors and use the buttons and d pad and add anything you want. In…… Listed
under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
482. Chur-Robot
Electrical Components The electrical components are the ve motors and their associated circuits, the buttons, and
the thermocouple. The Circuit We are controlling two stepper motors, three servos, a thermocouple, and a set of
buttons using an Arduino. Our nal circuit diagram looks like this:…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
483. Build a Complete AVR System and Play Mastermind using Arduino
The game Mastermind has been around a long time, and I remember getting a board version with colored pegs when
I was a kid. I love this game, as it is solvable simply by pure logic. One player (or a computer/microcontroller) chooses
a sequence of…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
484. Sensor Arduino Lab 2013
This lab most recently revamped by Edgar Berdahl and Wendy Ju. Chris Carlson, possibly Bill Verplank, and others
have likely contributed. For this lab you need your Satellite CCRMA kit, a laptop computer with Ethernet adaptor to
program it, and some headphones with a mini…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
485. Universal Remote Laser Tag
Blast away your friends for hours on end with this custom laser tag system. Who needs to pay to play in an arena
when you can make your very own game? Best of all, no special equipment is required, because the “guns” are regular
universal…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
486. Arduino from Evil Mad Scientist ATmegaxx8 Target Board
I have been making my own Arduino’s on strip-board but recently bought some of the Evil Mad Scientist ATmegaxx8
Target Boards. While they weren’t designed as an Arduino board they are perfect to use as they have: – places for the
crystal and capacitors (XTL…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects
487. Computer Controlled Aiming Method
Design: The rotational motion produced by the motor is transformed into linear motion through the use of a standard
1/2″-13 threaded rod as a lead screw. To account for angular misalignments in the rod the motor is not attached to it
directly, but rather through…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects
488. Arduino based Etch A Sketch Laser Cutter
In this project I take an Arduino Mini Pro connect it to a custom made Etch A Sketch panel and use it to control a
Blacknose laser cutter. The result is hours of crazy laser cutting fun, which we will be taking round most of…… Listed
under: CNC Machines Projects
489. Roll-A-Way Rover using an Arduino
Age Group: 13 – 18 My experimental rover that I built from a Roll-A-Way alarm clock that was on clearance for $5. It
can be controlled via the numeric section of a keyboard when the serial port is connected to a computer or a Wii……
Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
490. The Pick and Place Machine for Surface Mount Devices
¿What questions need to be resolved? ¿How to recognize the origin of the table? — The table is the piece of the
machine where you place your board, and is critical for the pick and place operation. I’ve thinking in a limit switch
system. Will…… Listed under: Other Projects
491. Beginner Arduino
The Arduino is a pocket-sized computer (also called a “microcontroller”) that you can program and use to control
circuits. It interacts with the outside word through sensors, leds, motors, speakers… even the internet; this makes it a
exible platform for lots of creative projects. Some…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
492. Design of small scale smart home system
DESIGN OF A SMALL SCALE SMART HOME SYSTEM Gabriel Johnson and Chance Kelsoe INTRODUCTION Design of a
smart home system with a LabView/Arduino interface In this project we made use of an Arduino Duemilanove and
LabView to design an easy to use graphical interface to represent…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
493. Arduino WiFi Garage Door Opener
Ever come home in the rain to nd the door locked and your keys elsewhere? No? Lucky you then! For those who have
had such an experience or never wish to, this project will let you open your garage door with nay but a
smartphone/tablet/laptop/WiFi-thing…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
494. Auduino Lo-fi Synth for Arduino
Hello again. Today I’d like to show you the Auduino. That’s right, the Auduino is a Lo- Granular Synth that works on
arduino. It uses some analog pins and a digital pin. I had loads of fun making and playing with it so I’d love…… Listed
under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
495. Ambient Etch-a-Sketch
We built a pseudo Etch-A-Sketch emulator that modi es its appearance based on the user’s environment – the
temperature and light conditions. Instead of only drawing horizontal and vertical lines, we can draw curved lines by
changing the slope of the current line to be drawn.…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
496. The iDial – Critical Making Personal Identity Augmentation Device
In this critical making project, we will be making a personal iDial, which will give you, the wearer, the ability to re ect
on your personal identity in a private space, and then spatially and temporally dislocate your ‘private self’ into public
conversation! You might be…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
497. Using a laser pointer and a matrix LED as a two-dimensional input device
Laser Command is a game which I build using a 8×8 matrix LED and an Arduino Mini. This game was developed as a
“sample” class project in S10-05833 Gadgets, Sensors and Activity Recognition in HCI. The class is taught by Scott
Hudson at Carnegie Mellon…… Listed under: LED Projects
498. Arduino Model Rocket Launcher for 3D Printed Rockets
When I was a kid, I loved playing with Estes Rockets, so I decided to get back into the hobby but using all of my maker
skizzls. So here’s a really cool Arduino Rocket Launcher launching 3D Printed rockets from my MakerBot Rep2! Enjoy!
Fully…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
499. LED Super Mario Piranha Plant using an Arduino
We are going to make an Arduino control LED Piranha Plant :] Step 1: What you’ll need Arduino Uno 9 Resisters 9 LEDs
– Red, Yellow, Orange is best since they need less amperage PIR sensor 9v battery arduino wall plug (you’ll be cutting
the connection…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
500. THE CUBE: A 3D Vibration Jigsaw Puzzle
“THE CUBE” is a 3D jigsaw puzzle, with the added feature that a puzzle piece vibrates for approximately a second when
it is placed in the correct place in the puzzle. We accomplished this by building an electrical design such that a circuit
delivering power…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
501. DIY handmade Hexapod with arduino (Hexdrake)
Hello, I’m David and in this instructable I’ll show how I made this hexapod whose name is Hexdrake. Since I was 16 I
became interested in electronic and later in robotics. After getting some level and programming skills using arduino I
decided to build a…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
502. Relay Motor Control Circuit
Connect the Arduino outputs with 5 volt power to the relay coils. Use a separate 9 or 12 volt battery for powering the
motor.  Connect the 9 or 12 volt power to the relay contacts and the motor.  Be sure to avoid connecting the 9……
Listed under: Motor Projects
503. NFC Computer Unlocker
Quit pulling your hair out over incorrect passwords. Using an Arduino Leonardo and Adafruit’s NFC shield, you can
unlock your computer with an NFC card. The Arduino reads the NFC card’s unique identi er and once it receives the
correct one, it uses the Arduino Leonardo’s…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, RFID – NFC projects
504. Arduino Mini-Shields
This is a set of simple, small form-factor, mini-shields that I created almost by accident. As I made more and more of
them, I realized that they could be really useful. What started out as a way to use some spare parts, turned into a……
Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
505. Making a program start using a switch
Connecting the Switch To connect the switch to the Arduino, you will need the switch, two jumper wires, and a 10kΩ
(brown-black-orange) resistor. Once you have all the required parts, you will need to wire the switch to the Arduino
using the breadboard. NOTE: The…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
506. ArduinoISP Bootloader/Programmer Combination Shield
I started recently to get interested in building Arduino based robots. Since it is a traumatizing process to take any
creation apart, I am opting to keep mine alive and kicking. To lower the cost of this strategy it seems obvious to switch
from the…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects
507. Arduino Light Following Robot
Overview This instructable will use three photoresistors (light dependent resistors) and an Arduino to control the
motion of a robot. Any common robot chassis can be used for the robot. The light sensors will be mounted on the left
side, right side and front of…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
508. A wireless voice-controllable household system
Motivation    top We design a smart home control system which allow people control their home devices by voice
command at home. This is a wireless, voice control system. People could control almost all the facilities at home
including lights, fans or even back ground music.…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
509. Arduino desktop application on java in LAN
Description: here we have created an java desktop application using neatbeans. this application turn on led on
arduino. this application also work in your LAN. Step 1: Assigning MAc and IP to Arduino board UPLOAD THIS
PROGRAM TO  ARDUINO. ALSO CHANGE YOUR MAC AND IP…… Listed under: RTOS – OS Projects
510. Magpi: The Micro Arduino Gaming Platform Interface
Here’s a retro hand-held gaming console I built with my son. It uses an Arduino micro-controller, a small LCD screen,
push-buttons, a 3D printed case and home-grown “PC” board. It’s really pretty easy to solder and put together. My son
& I wrote two games…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
511. Arduino Double Dice Jewelry Box w/ Secret Switch
This was a fun project. Push the red button, watch the dice ” ROLL ” then stop on a random roll most every time. The
hart of this game is the ATMEL ATmega328P on a stand alone board. Powered by 4 AA NiMD batteries. Can you……
Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects
512. D.I.Y Pneumatic Linear Actuators
The D.I.Y. movement has many implications for the future of creativity and commerce. The impact of inventing what
one needs rather than purchasing it promises to be empowering, fun, and inspirational. In a long term e ort to
develop dynamic computer controlled surfaces, I began exploring…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
513. Flashing LED Top Tube Pad for your bike using Arduino
Well it’s that time of year again. That’s right, the sun is going down early, and it’s getting hard to avoid logging some
miles on your bike after dark. You likely have great lights front and rear already, but what about on the sides of……
Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, LED Projects, Projects
514. Sugarcube MIDI Controller
This project is a portable, Arduino-powered, grid-based MIDI controller that boots up into a variety of apps to do lots
of things with sound. It has 16 backlit buttons, used as both inputs and outputs to give the controller some visual
feedback. 2 potentiometers give…… Listed under: LED Projects
515. Fun Shway Display using an Arduino
Build a nice looking LCD display with buttons for mounting on the wall. Key Features: 2 line by 24 character LCD
display controlled with 4 I/O’s (74HC164). Back light control of LCD. 6 Buttons connected to 1 analog pin. LM335 and
LM334Z temp sensors. Adjustable…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Projects
516. Build Your Own Sourcemeter
This is an explanation and set of building plans for a USB-powered sourcemeter with a personal computer interface.
The sourcemeter uses an open-source Arduino microprocessor and the user interface uses the open-
source Processing environment. The sourcemeter was designed as a homemade current-voltage (IV) tester to
measure the IV…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
517. Build a Controllable Coffee Roaster from an Air Popcorn Popper
I have a passion for co ee.  I also have a passion for electrical engineering.  Why not combine them? This Instructable
describes how I transformed a hot air popcorn popper into a completely controllable co ee roaster!  Follow these
instructions to re-purpose and hack your West Bend…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
518. Xtreme Buzzwire-4-2 Arduino Jam project
This project is part of the Arduino Jam 2012. First of all we would like to thank the organization and especially the main
sponsor, Capgemini, which made all of this possible. At the Arduino Jam, during the brainstormsession, we came with
the idea to make a classic…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
519. ESM – ExternalSerialMonitor
Sometimes I needed an external serial monitor like the Serial Monitor in the Arduino Editor, to see what is going on.
So I made one. The rst picture shows an example how could be it designed. For the ESM I used an Atmel Atmega328
(based…… Listed under: LCD Projects
520. Arduino USB
LOG: Made a correction/modi cation Step 3 and added a picture step 5. So many Arduino users have RBBBs(Really
Bare Bones Board (Arduino))  or Anarduinos or Boarduinos that could use a USB interface to program and power
them but don’t want to spend $15-20 for a…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
521. Control TV functions using Analog input and Arduino
Have you ever wanted to use a good old knob to control your TV volume instead of repeated button pushing? Or
make it controlled by light? Do you want your remote to be replaced by an awesome arduino and let it do the hard
work…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Radio Projects
522. DC Motor Control Using an H-Bridge using arduino
Overview In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to control a DC motor’s direction using an H-bridge. To reverse a DC motor,
you need to be able to reverse the direction of the current in the motor. The easiest way to do this is using an……
Listed under: Motor Projects
523. Digital Clock
Introduction This design project utilizes an Arduino MEGA2560 with an ATMEGA1280-16AU microcontroller to create a
digital clock.  The clock will be able to save time when disconnected from power, and it can be powered from a USB
connection or from the wall outlet.  The clock…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
524. AVR Programming Tutorial
This tutorial introduces programming for AVR microcontrollers. It uses the ATmega328p found on Arduino boards, but
works with straight AVR C and a bare microcontroller. It covers the basic information you need to get started, whether
or not you’ve used Arduino or other microcontrollers previously.…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
525. Sound Reactive LED Strip
THERE MAY BE 9 STEPS BUT I PROMISE THIS ONE IS QUICK AND EASY!  In this Instructable I will be showing you how to
create a light reactive LED system. In this clip, I used a single color LED strip, but you you can use…… Listed under: LED
Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
526. Power your Arduino with a Hand-Cranked Battery
If you’ve ever wanted to power your Arduino or AVR from a battery for development testing (batteries have di erent
power delivery qualities than, say, transformed AC or even a regulated wall wart in DC) testing but were tired of going
through batteries (Hey, I admit…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Projects
527. Heat-Seeking Desk Fan (using Arduino)
Summary: The following is a step by step guide on how to make a Heat-Seeking Desk Fan from an Arduino
microcontroller, a computer fan, a servo, and an infrared temperature sensor. The device scans the room periodically,
automatically pointing itself in the hottest direction (ideally towards…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
528. Proximity sensing mouse wheel scroller using Arduino
List of tools: 1. Exacto 2. Arduino Nano / USB chord (Mini-B) 3. Dremel / Drill 4. Paper & Pencil 5. Sharp IR Sensor
(2Y0A21 F) 6. Hot glue gun 7. Solder gun / Solder 8. A small mirror Ok so you might ask, why…… Listed under: Projects,
Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
529. Make a Desktop Tamagotchi
One day I was sitting behind my desk at work and I got that weird need to build something, after looking around for a bit I got my eye
on an LED matrix and that sparked an idea in my head : “I WANNA MAKE…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED
Projects
530. Twitter Enabled Text to Speech using an Arduino
Let the world know what you’re eating for breakfast with an 80’s style vocal synthesizer!  This project uses an Arduino
to send your Twitter stream to a voice generator chip called the SpeakJet.  The setup that I use here can also be
extended to other…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
531. Microcontrollers: The Basics
Di erent kinds of computers are designed for di erent purposes. The computer at the heart of your laptop is
optimized for di erent puprposes than the one in your phone or the one in your mouse. The simplest computers are
those that are designed to take inout…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
532. Arduino Lilypad Slipper Automatic Foot Massager
I made a little automatic slipper foot massager with the Lilypad Arduino and some of the Lilypad Vibe Boards for the
actual massager. The sensor it uses is a Lilypad Accelerometer that I’m only using as a basic tilt sensor. Essentially it
detects when the…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Medical – Health based Projects
533. Holiday Dreidel Light Display for Roof using Arduino
This Instructable details how to build a holiday dreidel display for your roof. It uses coat hanger wire, rope light, and
an Arduino controller to control a fading demo mode and a “spin” mode. In the demo mode, the symbols fade in and
out, going…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects
534. John Doherty’s Lab Notebook
January 9, 2013 (1 hour): Met as a team after class to discuss preliminary project proposal. January 10, 2013 (2 hours):
Met as a team after class to nish writing preliminary project proposal. WEEK 01 SUMMARY Accomplishments:
Submitted preliminary project proposal. Weekly Work Total: 3…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
535. Arduino Robot V2 (Fast) Also Voice Controlled
This is my second version of my arduino robot after “Build your rst robot”. My Second version is slightly complicated
as compared to my rst one but o ers better features. In this instructable I’m going to show you how to build a fast
robot which…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
536. Breathalyzer Microphone using an Arduino
The breathalyzer microphone is a system for the inconscpicuous collection of blood-alcohol content level data sets. In
other words, you can measure a person’s sobriety with a device, that for all intents and purposes, looks no di erent
than a standard microphone. This tool adds new…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Projects, Sound –
Audio Projects
537. PowerBox: The Safe AC Power Meter
Introduction We designed a device that measures and graphs various aspects of AC power and acts as a computer-
controlled remote switch. With the recent push for green energy and environmental friendliness, more and more
people are concerned about their personal daily power usage. We developed…… Listed under: Motor Projects
538. Make an Oscilloscope Using the SainSmart Mega2560 with the TFT LCD shield and the 3.5 “color touch screen
This instructable will show you how to build a portable Touch Screen Oscilloscope for less than 40 U$! The
oscilloscope is one of the most powerful electronic instruments that is available to electronics hobbyist,
experimenters, and engineers. It is mainly used to measue time-varying signals.…… Listed under: LCD Projects,
Medical – Health based Projects
539. Robot shield for Arduino Board
The idea behind this post is to bring together some robot designs and trasform them in a new device with new
hardware and standard software (arduino of course) and so easier to use.  These robots have three things in
common: a mechanical structure, the hardware…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
540. Small DC Motor Pwm Speed Controller
The photo depicts a speed controller, wired on a breadboard which allows you to vary the resistance in the
potentiometer in order to, in e ect, control the speed of the small DC motor. The big picture problem is creating an
e cient PWM motor controller that…… Listed under: Motor Projects
541. Capacitive Sensing + Open Frameworks + SPACEBREW
This is a step-by-step on how to connect Arduino to OpenFrameworks using Spacebrew. More speci cally our project
focuses on the awesomeness of Capacitive Sensing to alter OF projections to create an awesome tactile experience!
What the process will involve: Arduino -> Processing -> SpaceBrew ->…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer –
Detector Projects
542. Arduino Personal Soundtrack Hoodie
This was inspired by Raj’s personal soundtrack shirt in Big Bang Theory S3, E16, “The Excelsior Acquisition”. You can
now buy them online but it’s much more fun to make your own and it’s possible now that buttons designed for use in
electronic clothing are…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
543. Programming an ATtiny w/ Arduino 1.0
This tutorial shows you how to program an ATtiny45, ATtiny85, ATtiny44 or ATtiny84 microcontroller using the Arduino
software. These are small, cheap ($2-3) microcontrollers that are convenient for running simple programs. The
ATtiny45 and ATtiny85 have eight legs and are almost identical, except that the…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer
Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
544. Charliexplexed LED Clock – Arduino
One of my clocks stopped working – and it happened to be a clock my wife likes a lot. Went to the repair shop and the
guy said that he didn’t have the spare parts and could not repair this. So – I thought –…… Listed under: Clock – Timer
Projects, LED Projects
545. Star Jar Geiger counter triggered LED decoration using Arduino
This instructable builds on top of the Geiger counter triggered LED decorations I made last year. This version powers
the Geiger counter from the Arduino (itself now powered from a mains adaptor, so I no longer need to keep feeding
them batteries) and the LEDs…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation
Projects, LED Projects, Projects
546. Arduino Cat Detector SD Card Logger
I used: an Arduino Uno a Parallax PIR Motion Sensor and a Seeed Studio SD Card Shield Arduino, shield, sd card,
logging shield, storage, logger Check out This instructable on PIRs in case you didn’t know what it is:
http://www.instructables.com/id/PIR-Motion-Sensor-Tutorial/ Step 1: Connect your PIR…… Listed under: Memory –
Storage Projects, Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
547. Physical Computing with Arduino
Digital pins 1-7 are generally used as input pins and Digital pins 8-13 are used as output pins. Digital pins 9-11 can be
used as analog output pins. That is, they can send they can send signal of variable voltage. 5/15/2012 Getting started
with Arduino.…… Listed under: Calculator Projects
548. Pi…In A Single Digit using an Arduino
Ah yes. It has been a long time since I posted an Instructable…well here goes: It has been a while since I have been
otivated to write an ‘ible. During this idle time I have been writing, rewriting and editing code as well as designing……
Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
549. Printer to vinyl cutter hack
Vinyl cutters are used in the sign writing industry, and are great for making stickers, signs and graphics. I would like to
thank Instructable  members silverjimmy  and Groover for their fantastic laser cutter instructables, without which I
would not of been able to complete this…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects
550. Auto reset stuff with Arduino
Have a problem with my wireless bridge. It works for a some time then, despite it saying everything it ne, refuses to
connect wirelessly. All it needs is to be turned o and on again and it works again (for a while!). I decided that……
Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
551. Automatically water your small indoor plant using Arduino + pump
Have you ever wanted a little plant to brighten up your desk or home, but you’re afraid that you’ll forget to water it?
Fear no longer! Using an Arduino, a scavenged wall-wart, and a peristaltic pump, you can set up your plant to be
watered…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Motor Projects
552. Solar Module
This page maintains the necessary documentation (hardware & software) for recreating the Solar Hardware Module
(“Solar Module”) using either Arduino UNO or TI Launchpad. Prior to creating the solar module, we performed several
experiments using a custom built solar panel xture. For more information on…… Listed under: Solar energy projects
553. Arduino Vocal Effects Box
This Arduino-powered vocal e ects box pitch shifts and distorts incoming audio signals to produce a wide variety of
vocal e ects.  This project is my rst experiment with real-time digital signal processing using Arduino.  It samples an
incoming microphone signal at a rate of about 40kHz, manipulates…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
554. Momentary Switch as Digital Sensor
In many cases switches are just switches. They directly control the ow of electricity to an appliance, ashlight or
mains-voltage lamp. An example of this is the switch on the wall in your living room. In many cases nowadays
however, switches are digital sensors, meaning…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
555. Simple and reasonably accurate pedometer system
Our nal project for ECE 4760 provides a simple but e ective exercise monitoring system of the user’s walk or run.
With an increase of the number of health conscious individuals hoping to remain t, we designed a system that allows
the user to keep track…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
556. Smart Thermal + Arduino
Many times we are  faced with a heat containing co ee and don’t  know if the uid is at  the proper temperature and it
is impossible to know just by looking at  the bottle ended up losing time with a co ee that is cold and we…… Listed
under: Temperature Measurement Projects
557. Bacon Alarm Clock – Arduino
This is a project I came up with that was inspired by my love for bacon! This is an alarm clock that is designed to wake
you up with the smell of bacon. With the help of an arduino the alarm clock will already have…… Listed under: Clock –
Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects
558. Arduino controlled webcam panner
This is an instructable to show how to mount a webcam on a servo in a meccano frame and controlling it via an
Arduino board. For a while now I was looking to do something more than blinking LEDs with my Arduino. This idea
came…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
559. Robotic Arm Trifecta (Science Olympiad)
In the fall of 2012, we set out to construct a robotic arm for the Science Olympiad competition that would be capable of performing the
required set of tasks e ciently and to perfection. This instructable will attempt to guide you through the thought processes used……
Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
560. Arduino FIO Tutorial
Overview The Arduino Fio is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P (datasheet) runs at 3.3V and 8 MHz. It
has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 8 analog inputs, an on-board resonator, a
reset button, and holes…… Listed under: Battery Projects
561. The Motivational Moody Workout T-Shirt using an Arduino
I call this project “The Motivational Moody Workout T-Shirt” . Basically what I wanted to do was a t-shirt that makes you
want to get out in the open and work out. To make that work, I sewed a LilyPad arduino onto a t-shirt and…… Listed
under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects
562. Self-Balancing Robot
First of all I want to apologize for my English, if you don’t understand something, please, ask. I know that a self-
balancing robot is not new, but when i started this project i found a lot of information, but never in the same site, i……
Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
563. Interface and Application Programming
My sensors have not been functioning too well with my computer, as every time I try to connect the hello.light or
hello.mic boards and run python through my terminal, I either get the error “resource busy”, or my computer
completely freezes! Therefore, I decided to…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
564. Arduino+Stepper Motor Camera Slider
This is a trial and error / design and development process which I followed in developing a camera slider for creating
time-lapse video clips on my DSLR camera. The idea came from using standard Aluminium extrusions I have available
at hardware stores, and create a…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
565. Urban Sensing Networks using Arduino
Often government data sets available to us online are taken from major nearby metropolitan areas or infrastructural
centers. With an easy to follow introduction to new softwares and technologies the “urban sensor kit” allows anyone
to obtain location speci c information and share that information with…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer –
Detector Projects
566. FINAL Touch sensor with arduino
The tutorials we used. http://www.instructables.com/id/Touche-for-Arduino-Advanced-touch-sensing/?ALLSTEPS
http://www.instructables.com/id/Calm-Relaxed-Interaction-Plant-Plus-1/?ALLSTEPS Download arduino software and
the processing software. From their respective websites. Processing.org arduino.cc   All of the supplies we used: (we
didn’t include the water bottle as a sensing object, and used an inductor instead of a coil) Arduino…… Listed under: Sensor –
Transducer – Detector Projects
567. RFID touch screen Automated Bar – Barduino v2.0 with Facebook Integration!
Got an Arduino? Like parties / alcohol? Can’t be bothered to make your own bar quality cocktails? Make a Barduino! Its
back, with new features in v2.0: Facebook integration – Facebook registration Page to track and graph drink
consumption Touchscreen with gesture support RFID user…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, RFID
– NFC projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
568. Stripboard Arduino shield for programming ATtiny45 and ATtiny85
This instructable (entered in the Arduino Challenge contest – you can vote for it above) shows how to make a
stripboard Arduino shield for programming either ATtiny45 or ATtiny85 microcontrollers with an Arduino, as per these
tutorials from the High-Low Tech group at MIT: Arduino…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects,
Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
569. Schematic Entry and PCB layout
In this lab you will be using a program to enter a schematic and lay out a printed circuit board (PCB) that will then be
manufactured.  At this point of the semester you don’t know enough to design your own circuit, so I am giving……
Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
570. Binguino: An Arduino-based Bingo Number Generator
Bingo! My granddaughter enjoys playing Bingo, so I went out and bought her a cheap set at a local discount store. The
cards and the markers are ne, but the spinner disk for selecting the numbers is a piece of garbage. It ew apart
about…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
571. Intuitive Vibrotactile Feedback Educational Feedback Devices
The goal of the project is to come up with an a ordable yet generic vibrotactile feedback device to be used for
educational purposes. A chemistry learning environment is developed to demonstrate a speci c application of our
device, in which users can manipulate ions and feel…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
572. Bird Proof Squirrel Feeder & Solar Powered Camera using Arduino
The Solar Powered-Bird Proof Squirrel Feeder w Camera will allow squirrels to retrieve seeds, nuts, and corn kernels
without worrying about those pesky birds stealing all their food. While your squirrel enjoys the spoils of your feeder,
you’ll enjoy lovely digital photos to entertain and…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Video – Camera –
Imaging Projects
573. Arduino mood lighting
This instructable will show you who to build a rgb lighting system with an arduino. You can also control it with an
ipod/iphone/ipad using touchOSC. In my previous instructable I showed how to control one rgb led in this you can
control heaps with a single chip…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
574. Combination Circuit for Digital and Analog
Goals Understand the Analog Signals and use your knowledge to program your Arduino and let it play music Get
known of the Seven-segment display and use your Arduino Board together with the Shift Register to control the
number. In the Second Week you will be…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects
575. LilyPad Arduino Sensor Demo Mat
This tutorial shows you how to create a sensor demo mat for the LilyPad Arduino. I wanted a place where I could
experiment with the di erent sensors, but also something that I could use to show examples of what can be done
without constantly uploading…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
576. Build Your Own BARBOT using Arduino
Ever wanted a robotic liquor server? I purchased a Lynxmotion robotic arm last year and an Arduino (deci) to play
around with. I had it serial controlled with a joystick and it was a great way to start in robotics. More recently I wanted
to…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
577. Highly maneuverable search and rescue robot
Finalized Prototype Shown below is the nalized prototype. The purpose of the prototype was to demonstrate the
feasibility of a small, highly maneuverable search and rescue robot. As such, the completed prototype was successful.
Capabilities include a ground speed of 10 inches per second, battery…… Listed under: Medical – Health based
Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
578. How to make and use the arduino as an Isp for an ATtiny85
In this instructable I will show you how you can make your own Atting programming shield for the arduino and then
use the arduino as a programmer. Usually If you don’t have a shield you can do a breadboard version to program the
ATtiny. (Step1)…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects
579. DIY Super Bright LED Skate Lights
You might remember my rst set of lights that I put on my dad’s skates. Well those weren’t bright enough and they
were a lot of work because I didn’t know how to make PCBs. In this i’ble I’ll cover how to make your own…… Listed
under: LED Projects
580. Interactive LED box
Project Goal The goal of this project is to create a low resolution display of graphical art that interacts with people who
are handling it. My basic idea is to create such a “magic box” with a LED matrix on one side. It should be…… Listed
under: LED Projects
581. Brushless Gimbal with Arduino
This is a Spring 2014 Electronics project at Pomona College created by Andreas Biekert and Jonah Grubb. Thanks to
Professor Dwight Whitaker, Tony Grigsby and the Pomona Physics Department. Our goal with this project was to
create a 2 axis brushless gimbal controlled solely by…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
582. Biometric Sensing Computer Mouse
In the past ve weeks, we have considered and built three projects, ranging from: optical sensing, electromyography
(EMG), and galvanic skin response detection. Initially, our project was using an optical sensor and EMG to detect nger
movement for applications, such as: playing piano and Morse…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector
Projects
583. BabyTrackr
I found a pressure sensor matrix that we could adapt to a pressure sensor patch on the stomach of the women in
labor on this webpage (see below). It gives instructions how to build a pressure sensor by using two pieces of cloth
and conductive…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects
584. Custom Arduino Shield and Sensors
Overview: This instructable will construct a series of custom sensor modules and an Arduino shield. Such modules are
available from many di erent sources, but fans of the Instructables website would probably nd satisfaction in
making their own. Each module will be a set size of…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
585. How To Make The Easiest Breadboard Arduino-Compatible Sanguino-Equivalent
Okay so the Title is indeed a bit of a mouthful lol ! Ive been needing to mess around with a desire for MORE
Input/Output pins than the Arduino UNO and nowadays the UNO uses an Atmega328 microcontroller, & its limited to
only about 20…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
586. Head Mouse – Game controller or disability aid using Arduino
My kids wanted to have a head controlled mouse for playing Minecraft – they wanted to move their heads and have
the eld of view move. I decided that was a challenge I couldn’t resist, so I decided to build a movement controlled
mouse using…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Medical – Health based Projects
587. Build Your Own Arduino Web server
The Arduino Ethernet Shield is a sweet toy!!!  Everybody, from the beginner who got their Arduino yesterday and
hasn’t slept since, to the hard core pro who learned c as a second language, can learn how to use the Ethernet Shield
and have lots of…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
588. Connect 4 Binary Clock using an Arduino
Welcome ladies and gents! As an entrepreneur, I’m always looking for great projects to share.  Myself and two other classmates
recently put together a project for our Master’s of Engineering program in Technical Entrepreneurship, and we’re thrilled to share our
vision with you.  Remember that…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects
589. Speech-controlled Game Boy Advance using arduino
This is a project I worked on for my electronics class at Pomona College. Thanks to Professor Dwight Whitaker and
Tony Grigsby for their help and guidance throughout this project, and credit to Jonathan Wong for the idea for this
project! Also, here’s a list…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
590. Sign Language Translator using Arduino
First of all, this project is not nished. We’re still trying to improve and x some problems. Right now, we’re only able
to translate letters from “A” to “E”. The program still have problems while identi cating those letters, the values for
each of them match…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects
591. AC Dimmer Circuit: 46
Green wire is zero_cross signal, goes to Arduino digital pin 2 in. Yellow wire is light dimming signal, comes from Arduino digital pin
11. The LED on board should dim or fade along with the AC light source. Fading will not work until AC power…… Listed under:
Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
592. Extra inputs for Arduino with a keyboard
The Arduino is perhaps the coolest thing on earth. There are many types, the Uno, the Mega, the Pro, the Pro Mini,
etc. etc. But one thing that often can be a problem is that you only have a limited number of inputs and outputs.……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
593. Motion Sensing Digital Camera & Alarm using Arduino
Welcome to my instructable on how to make an Arduino-controlled motion sensing camera and alarm! The motivation
behind this project, which I worked on in my electronics class at Pomona College, was the need to keep away varmints
(particularly raccoons) that were digging up my…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects, Video –
Camera – Imaging Projects
594. Easy Electronics Organization using Arduino
Like many other electronic enthusiasts I need to have a constant supply of materials in order for us to keep building,
hacking, or just playing around with electronics. However as probably any of us have come to realize we need a lot of
space and…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
595. A Planar 2-DOF Haptic Device for Exploring Gravitational Fields
For our project, we built a planar, 2 degree-of-freedom haptic device for educational use. The design is based on a 5-
bar mechanism. We wanted to build a device that would have the versatility to teach various concepts, but would still
be relatively a ordable (as the…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
596. Make a Musical Bench using Arduino
The Musical Bench is an exhibit which makes music when people touch, kiss, or hold hands. It uses a micro-controller
to detect changes in resistance, via the copper armrests, and plays high or low notes depending on how much current
ows through you and a…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
597. Portable Haptics System Hardware
Mobile Phone There is a wide selection of mobile phones on the market. For our development, we chose Nokia 6210
Navigator due to its ability to run Java, accompanied by Bluetooth communication, and its small form factor. The
phone mainly acts as a remote control…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
598. Robo-Mobile – A Homemade Bluetooth Robot using arduino
Background This robot is one I built to learn. Before this project I did get my feet wet with a few small scale Arduino
projects like an ultrasonic robot, (that would move backwards until it was a certain distance away from the wall,) and
I…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
599. Knockdown Warning Indicator (Redux)
This week I continued developing a device that warns of the potential of a knockdown – the process by which an over-
canvassed sailing ship is lain over on her beam-ends during a squall.  The potential for sinking at this point is high,
especially if there…… Listed under: Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
600. Smartphone controlled Arduino tank using Annikken Andee
Hi guys, I am Robin, one of the developers of Annikken Andee. Just a few weeks back we were invited to be a part of
Arduino Day Singapore 2014. On the day of the event, we showcased a missile- ring lego-crushing smartphone
controlled Tank built using…… Listed under: Phone Projects
601. Bitcoin Price Ticker (almost) from scratch using Arduino as ISP
Hello everyone! I decided to create this tutorial on how to make a Bitcoin Price Ticker. Well, this is only a prototype
and I will make a smaller edition with a more pleasant design and some other features at a later time. However, this
serves…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
602. Machine Design
The assignmente for this week is to automate the machine assembled two weeks ago. For this Roxanna milled the
Arduino’s shield for controlling the steppers, but Alejandro found that we haven’t all the components for stu ng,
specially the A3982 – stepper motor driver, so as…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
603. Tracking Cat Eyes via Kinect using Arduino
This instructable was made as part of the CS graduate course “Tangible Interactive Computing” at the University of Maryland, College
Park taught by Professor Jon Froehlich. The course focused on exploring the materiality of interactive computing and, in the words of
MIT Professor Hiroshii Ishii,…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
604. Simon Game
High Level Description: For part 3 of the lab, our group decided to build a “Simon” game. Our game setup uses 3
buttons and 4 LEDs. Each button corresponds to one LED and the 4th LED is used to indicate an error. The game
starts…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
605. Musical Exercise: Workout Shirt MP3 Player Powered by Exercise using Arduino
People love listening to music while exercising. Music provides the motivation needed for individuals to keep exerting
energy and get in shape. So, because people enjoy listening to music while exercising, what if an MP3 player only
played an individual’s music while they are active?…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Sound – Audio
Projects
606. ANDROID BASED ROBOTICS
While the eld of robotics is continuously expanding at a remarkable rate and better performing robots are created
every year, robotics still remains out of reach for many students and researchers. The main reasons for this di culty
are the high complexity of the hardware and…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
607. Bird Feeder Monitor using Arduino
This is a project to monitor the number of birds that visit my bird feeder, as well as record the amount of time spent
feeding. I used an Arduino Yún and a capacitive touch sensor, Adafruit CAP1188, to detect and record the birds
feeding. On…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
608. 5x5x5 LED Cube – Orientation Independent 3D Display
Introduction   Our project, in one sentence, is an orientation independent 3D LED display. We were inspired by various
videos on youtube of similar cubes but also by the idea of creating an interactive 3-dimensional display. We built a
5x5x5 LED cube display and controller…… Listed under: LED Projects
609. Talking Arduino Heart Rate Monitor
My partner and I wanted to make heart rate monitor that does more than simply measure a user’s heart rate. Our
heart rate monitor talks! Each button gives a verbal description of its functionality and makes the measurements
visible on the screen. This monitor will…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects
610. SoundBox
Group #1 Avneesh Sarwate (asarwate@) John Subosits (subosits@) Joe Turchiano (jturchia@) Kuni Nagakura
(nagakura@) Yaared Al-Mehairi (kyal@) Ideas and Sketches   Squat Coach – Detects the depth of your squats and
assesses your form. Flex sensor is positioned to run up the back of knee…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
611. Digital I/O with Arduino Boards
Readings in Physical Computing Ch 6. pgs 87-136 (this week and next week) Ch 7: Serial Communication [137-143; 149-
150; 153-161] Before the lab You should have already successfully installed the Arduino environment on your laptop,
built the LED circuit, and successfully load/run the “blink” program to…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits
Projects
612. The Creepy Doll using Arduino
Here at Mikamai, we often organise events and hackathons. After the last hackathon, someone left an old doll, and it
was kinda creepy… so why not make it even creepier? I decided to put two red LEDs instead of the eyes, and a
vibration sensor…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
613. Capture the image of a falling object
The aim of this project is to create a setup to capture the image of a falling object or any object in motion at a precise
time using a DSLR and Arduino microcontroller. It can be done in many di erent ways, but the method I…… Listed
under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
614. Catchin’ time using Arduino
This tutorial will show you how to build an interactive toy for children. This toy wants to give a boost to children to
move and play with friends at home or in a park, instead of watching TV and playing videogames. Catchin’ time is a……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
615. Sleep n’ Tweet
Step 1: The Sleep n’ Tweet Now I am lucky enough to work at the greatest company in the world as a University of
Waterloo, co-op student. It might not even be a company you’ve heard of yet. They’re named Upverter and we are
trying…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
616. Password access with arduino
~~ The complete kit for this tutorial is now for sale at www.razvantech.com   Get one! ~~ This instructable will show
you how to make a pass-code lock system using the Arduino Mega board. Whenyou type the right code, an LED lights
up an the servo…… Listed under: Security – Safety Projects
617. Make your pet dishes tweet
You give your pets everything: Food, water, a home, toys, and love. Why not give them a twitter account? This project
allows you to monitor your pets’ eating habits and receive alerts when their supplies are low. It’s also a cute, fun way
to learn…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
618. Animatronic Green-Winged Macaw Papercraft
Hello everybody! This macaw was part of a work of biology at the college of my daughter, who was attempting to educate people not to
buy wild animals. This beautiful animal, natural tropical forests of South America, is highly coveted by smugglers. In captivity,
unlikely…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
619. AlarmingTweet
This project will add tweeting capabilities to the GE 45142 Choice-Alert Wireless Control Center Alarm system. The
alarm system allows you to connect up to 16 di erent sensors across 4 zones and with the addition of the Arduino
powered AlarmingTweet you can enable it to…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
620. Maze Solving Robot
In this instructable I will be showing you how to build a maze solving robot. This is actually my 3rd attempt at making
one. The rst was a complete failure. The second was alright at nding the end of the maze, but it could not…… Listed
under: Robotics – Automation Projects
621. USB Mouse Made Out Of A Wii Nunchuck
This instructable will describe how to convert a Nintendo Wii Nunchuck controller into a USB 2-button mouse using a
Teensy USB.  The Teensy USB is a very user-friendly development board that can be programmed in an Arduino
environment. The Teensy USB development board and necessary…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -
ISP) Projects
622. Reddit Controller, USB Upvote/Downvote button
Not too long ago I saw the “Awesome Button” video on the Make Magazine podcast. In the video Matt Richardson
shows how you can take a Teensy development board and turn it into a simple USB keyboard. In his example
everytime a button is pressed…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
623. Electric Turtle Robot
Be sure to check out my new instructable , the ‘little Tank’! Really nice tracked design complete with cut les! update:
I’ve had so much response on this instructable, thanks to all. If you end up making one, please let me know! I’d love
to…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
624. LED Microcontroller Debug Module
When it comes to debugging a microcontroller circuit, there aren’t a lot of simple options.  Since a microcontroller
circuit might have multiple things going on at the same time, measuring voltages with a DMM isn’t an option.  Using an
computerized In-Circuit-Debugger solution is expensive and…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, LED
Projects
625. Wise Clock 3 – Arduino-based geeky alarm clock
Wise Clock 3 is an open-source, highly hackable geeky clock that shows a lot more than the time. Its main function is
to display user-editable quotations retrieved from an SD card (like those used in photo cameras). In addition, Wise
Clock 3 can show the…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
626. Giant Leaf Planetarium
Have you ever wanted a mini-planetarium for your room? Well now you can! This instructable will help you create a
fairly portable planetarium leaf that you can put over a bed, a couch, or anywhere else in your house. All you need is
an IKEA…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
627. Universal Gripper – Syringe Powered
The “universal gripper” developed by researchers from Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and iRobot
inspired me to create my own version. The YouTube video is quite impressive. The gripper can form around very
asymmetrical and smooth shapes and still pick up the object. I…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
628. Arduino Project Board
The Arduino Project Board is basically a board to transer your ATMEGA168/328 to when you have completed your
project and no longer need to use the Arduino as a development board. Simply transfer the programmed chip from
the Arduino board to the Arduino project board…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
629. Turn your Arduino Uno into an USB-HID-Mididevice
While building an Arduino Uno based Midi-Controller for Ableton Live, I came across the HIDUINO project (
http://code.google.com/p/hiduino/ ). It allows you to turn your Arduino Uno (or any other device using an AVR-USB
chipset like the 8u2) into a driverless HID/Midi device. It’s much…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP)
Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
630. Rave Rover – Mobile Dance Stage
Rave Rover was designed and built to be a portable dance platform for parties, raves, and any other trouble we can
get into! I will go into as much detail as I can explaining the entire build process, and where to nd parts and other……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
631. How to hack EEG toys with arduino
i had heard a few years back about the ability of hooking up toy EEGs so you can interface them with your computer. I
was reminded of this for a project i wanted to do for a class (instructable coming soon ;-)), and i also…… Listed under:
Game – Entertainment Projects
632. Building a Portal Turret with motion controlled audio and lighting
In this Instructable I’m going to show you how I went about building my very own life size talking Portal Turret from
start to nish. This is a fairly in depth project that will cover every stage of construction and all the techniques I
used…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
633. Pan/Tilt Motion System for Control Education
Pan/Tilt Motion System for Control Education Ricardo G. Sanfelice, University of Arizona Project supported by
Mathworks Website developed by Colin Lasharr, University of Arizona   Contents Introduction Instructions for Building
the System Installation Instructions The Arduino Board Simulink Initial Parameter Identi cation System Identi cation
for Zenith…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects
634. Hack the Nabaztag using Arduino
This is a Nabaztag – Armenian, apparently, for “hare”. It’s an adorable bunny rabbit packed with sensors and
communication devices…. and it’s completely unusable. There’s people who wrote some interesting software to hack
it, and I applaud them: however, I could never actually get my…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects,
Robotics – Automation Projects
635. DIY Parking Sonsor using Arduino
The last time I was home visiting my parents I noticed bumper imprints caused by my mother suburban on the stairs
leading up from the garage. Their garage it turns out is just barely long enough to t their gigantic vehicles. So I
decided it…… Listed under: Car Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
636. Using Mozzi Library with 5 potentiometers using arduino
Getting Started The goal of this project was to create lters and controls to that can manipulate sound that is being
generated through an Arduino. Normally Arduino can only generate simple tones that are not useful if you are trying
to achieve complex sounds and…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
637. Arduino Quilting Machine
The Arduino Quilting Machine combines the mechanics of a sewing machine, CNC technology and Arduino as an
operating system. The project is designed to translate a vector le from a computer into G-code and subsequently
into Arduino language which then moves the machine. The project…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects
638. Diy Xbox wireless controller adapter for Pc
This instructable will go over the steps to connect a RF module from an RROD xbox to your computer so you can use a
wireless controller with your computer. ******DISCLAIMER******* DONT TRY THIS IF YOU DONT HAVE ANY
EXPERIENCE WITH ELECTRONICS/SOLDERING OR COMPUTERS IM NOT…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects,
Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
639. Make a digital “meow” from analog clock using arduino
Is your analog clock just not doing enough stu ? Want to do digital things with an analog clock? This tutorial will show
you how to make a Kit Cat Clock play a “meow” sound clip, at precise time intervals, using the Atmega 328P-PU via
the…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects
640. DIY Telepresence Documentation
This is the documentation page for the Spring 2012 DIY Telepresence project. Here you will nd schematics, software, and guides for
the robot. The goal of the project was to design a low-cost, easy to build telepresence robot. Some of the features include: Segway
based…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
641. Total Recall- Arduino Simon Says on steroids
Total Recall is a Simon based game for the Arduino. Your basic Arduino Simon Game consists of 4 buttons, 4 LEDs, an
Arduino, some code and maybe a speaker and sound e ects. Total Recall takes things a step further by adding an LCD
display and…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
642. Voice Activated LED Lighting with Arduino
This project is an extension to the Speech Recognition with Arduino by leandro4b
(http://www.instructables.com/id/Speech-Recognition…). However, instead of using 3 separate colored LEDs, I used a
multicolor 4-channel RGBW LED Emitter. I had the opportunity of working at LED Engin last summer, which is why I……
Listed under: LED Projects
643. The Wondrous Weather Cube
We created an Internet-enabled companion cube for your computer, which displays di erent kinds of information by
glowing red or green. Depending on its orientation, and which labeled face is oriented upwards, our companion cube
displays either stock readings of the NASDAQ or the outside temperature…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
644. Laser Pointer Switch using arduino
This instructable will detail how to make a switch that uses an arduino to sample light. When the light sample reaches
a threshold it will trigger a relay that can be used to turn on/o a small appliance (light, radio, fan, etc…) The parts
for…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
645. FabECG: a simple electrocardiogram board
Technologies for rudimentary physiological sensing are getting cheaper and easier to implement. Consider, for
instance, these non-contact sensors from UCSD which can be used to take an EEG through hair or an ECG through a T-
shirt! One can even make a simple oscilloscope to digitize,…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects
646. Arduino controlled Rotary Stewart Platform
This instructable is about building a Rotary Stewart Platform. It allows to position its moving platform in six degrees of
freedom. This speci c platform is designed to be able to position a DSLR or any other digital camera. This version of
Stewart Platform uses instead…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
647. DC motors Relays
Let’s get the math over right o the bat. There are a LOT of attempts to describe how Ohm’s Law works, each one nerdier than the
last. Here’ one I like. Warning: SFWBN (safe for work but nerdy). V = voltage measured in volts -…… Listed under: Motor Projects
648. ATtiny85 POV Display using arduino
The rst time I saw a POV (Persistence Of Vision) display was on a show called FAQ on TV. The POV display consisted of
an oscillating shaft with 6 LED’s mounted on the end of the shaft. Since then I have always wanted to make…… Listed
under: LED Projects
649. making art interactive
Unfortunately, due to my need to reclaim my arduino and breadboards, we don’t have photographic documentation
of our circuit. However, the structure of it was rather self-evident. Although we arranged the circuit in a such a way
that we could program other functions, but we…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Phone
Projects
650. Control Keyboard & Mouse Android app via Arduino
This instructable will show you how to control your computer’s keyboard and mouse with an Android app via
bluetooth to an Arduino BACKGROUND Ever wanted to control your computer’s mouse/keyboard functionality
without having to actually sit in front of it? I do all the time.…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet –
LAN Projects, Projects
651. Augmented Water using arduino
The Augmented Water device helps you save water by turning red after one Liter. The device, built by @tamberg
during a water hackathon, is made from an Arduino, a ow sensor and coloured LED pixels. Video
https://www. ickr.com/photos/tamberg/14346321456/ (thanks kiilo) In case you want to build…… Listed under: Home
Automation Projects
652. Blind Maze Navigation using 2-DOF Haptic Joystick
The domain of haptics has immense potential as a technology to assist visually-impaired individuals with their
navigation of the physical world. In this project, we sought to develop a 2-DOF haptic joystick to provide force-
feedback to a user as she attempts to navigate a maze…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
653. Temperature Displayed on 4 Digit 7 segment using Arduino
In this project I’ll display the temperature in a 4 digit 7 segment display (common anode). The sensor is the cheapest
you can nd so actually the temperature changes pretty easily which makes the display to show always di erent
temperatures. But the idea is to…… Listed under: Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects
654. A compact, Arduino altimeter for RC Planes
Please vote for this Instructable if you think it deserves it! Thanks! The Ultimate Altimeter is a super-compact, Arduino
controlled altimeter capable of measuring the altitude with an accuracy of 0.3 meters, and saving the highest and
lowest values it has measured. It is powered…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
655. Wiring Harness for the LCD Panel
Assembly of the Female Connector Block The wiring harness has a male and female end. The gender of electrical and
mechanical parts is described on this Wikipedia page. The header pins that are soldered into the circuit board for the
LCD panel are plugged into…… Listed under: LCD Projects
656. Android Accessories Made Easy With Arduino
The Android Open Accessory Protocol makes it possible for you to create custom Arduino-based accessories for your
Android phone or tablet. Attend this session to learn how to get started, the hardware &amp; software required and
how Handbag makes development easier. Content will be useful…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet –
Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
657. Huge Arduino Animatronic LED Eyeball using arduino
I’m currently in the process of making a Halloween contraption that has a few components that are worth
documenting. The Huge Arduino Animatronic LED Eyeball is one of them. Background Most animatronic eyeball
projects that I found were more or less life-size. They were usually…… Listed under: LED Projects
658. Brain-Computer Interface
Introduction Our goal was to build a brain-computer interface using an AVR microcontroller. We decided that the least
invasive way of measuring brain waves would be using electroencephalography (EEG) to record microvolt-range
potential di erences across locations on the user’s scalp. In order to accomplish this,…… Listed under: Medical –
Health based Projects
659. Happy Androids with Arduino Video instructions
Arduino + Android Normally smartphone events are tightly coupled to your phone device itself. When your cell phone
is ringing, your phone speaker plays a ringtone. When you get a new text message, your phone displays it on its
screen. Wouldn’t it be thrilling to…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects
660. Hack an old iPod using an Android and an Arduino
This tutorial shows you how to use an Arduino to turn that old dusty music player into a Bluetooth controlled docking
station. Even if it has a cracked screen or a dead battery it can still be used. The following instructions will show you
how…… Listed under: Arduino Android
661. Finalized Prototype
Shown below is the nalized prototype. The purpose of the prototype was to demonstrate the feasibility of a small,
highly maneuverable search and rescue robot. As such, the completed prototype was successful. Capabilities include a
ground speed of 10 inches per second, battery life of…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
662. Line Following Robot using arduino
This is a Line Following Robot. It follows a black line that is drawn. It is able to detect the black line through one photocell and one
analog light sensor. There is an LED in between the two sensors that gives o red light when…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation
Projects
663. AC Dimmer Circuit
Overview Simple AC Dimmer circuit for incandescent bulbs. 128 levels of brightness. Parts are relatively cheap! How it
Works This is an AC Chopping Circuit. The dim level sets where the AC waveform gets chopped on. More of the cycle
makes the bulb brighter, less…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
664. Traffic Signal Wiring with Arduino Controller
I always wanted an old tra c signal and nally got one recently.  However, it was very simply wired so that all the
lights were xed on.  What fun is that?  I also wanted to try out an Arduino controller and thought this would be a……
Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Other Projects, Projects
665. Make a High-Altitude Balloon Tracker (Arduino)
One of the coolest projects I have done so-far with my kids is a “near-space” balloon. That’s not quite into space itself
(100Km+) but so high that the sky looks black and you can start to see the curvature of the earth below you. The……
Listed under: Other Projects
666. Zigbee Wireless Relay Control and Power Monitoring System
Introduction We designed a system for wirelessly controlling relays and monitoring current.  This is used for a home
load simulation.  By wirelessly turning relays on and o by sending commands from a PC to a microcontroller we can
change the total load (current) to our…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
667. Balancing Instructable Robot using arduino
In this Instructable I wanted to show to you how to make a self balancing robot. What makes it unique is that its
exterior is made to look like the Instructables Robot. Internally it works in the principle of PID, it is a very popular……
Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
668. Bidirectional motor control
One of the simplest ways to get a motor to turn in both directions is by using a double-pole, double-throw (DPDT)
relay. Along with the relay, this hookup requires two transistors and two Stamp pins, one for on/o control and the
other for direction control.…… Listed under: Motor Projects
669. Fab Lab Barcelona SuperNode
[assigment] Add an output device to a microcontroller board and program it to do something. Class syllabus::
http://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/output_devices/index.html [what i learned /am learning] _ Relearned Arduino
installation. _ Work with DC motors and H-Bridge IC with Arduino; and its general concepts. _ About the various……
Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
670. LED Matrix Bike Safety Backpack using arduino
Biking around cars can be a frightening thing, and staying visible at night is crucial for your safety. This tutorial will
teach you how to make a custom LED Matrix Backpack that is much larger and brighter than traditional rear bike
lights. Parts You’ll Need:…… Listed under: LED Projects
671. An FTIR Touchscreen Device
The DJ Touch is a portable turntable touchscreen and interactive LED display. Our end goal was to produce a low cost
touchscreen device, and demonstrate its application in a common consumer application. Out of an interest in
electronic music, and with the knowledge of deejaying’s…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
672. Arduino Scouting Robot
Summer Project: Arduino Scouting Robot [video id="P6PVLhjQ5FY" type="youtube"] Arduino Scouting Robot Part 1 *
12,9,5 volt power supply recharge it with a 12-volt charger keep power switch on to charge * 2 DC motors operate at
7.2V with a maximum current draw of 3 amps…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
673. Rubik’s Cube Solver using arduino
This robot that can solve a Rubik’s cube using Arduino. I learned how to solve a Rubiks cube last year, and I was also
into Arduino, so eventually I ended up with an idea to make my own Rubik’s cube solver. Like many people
searching…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
674. Connecting an IR Sensor
Schematic Since the IR Sensor uses a light sensor, the schematic is very similar to that of the light sensor. The only
di erence is the addition of an IR LED and that the IR detector requires connection to 5V and ground. Breadboard
Setup To setup…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
675. Learn how to use 7-Segment LED Display using Arduino
7-Segment LED Display is a very useful component, but also a very confusing and di cult piece to use for beginners. It
won’t be di cult once you get it working for the rst time. This is what you will get at the end of the tutorial (part……
Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
676. Bass Master 3000 Carnival Game using arduino
The Bass Master 3000 is a game that I built for a work carnival along with a small and very talented team of co-
workers. I’ve seen this type of game on the net, but I wanted to kick it up a notch with some Arduino…… Listed under:
Game – Entertainment Projects
677. L293 Motor Driver and H-Bridges
The most common method to drive DC motors in two directions under control of a computer is with an H-bridge motor driver. H-
bridges can be built from scratch with bi-polar junction transistors (BJT) or with eld e ect transistors (FET), or can be purchased as
an…… Listed under: Motor Projects
678. How to connect a servo to the Arduino
Servo Cable The continuous rotation servos that come with the BOE Shield-Bot have a 3-wire cable for connecting it to
the power and controller. The black wire is the ground, the red wire is the power (positive) and the white wire
(sometimes yellow, depending on…… Listed under: Motor Projects
679. Conversational Gloves using arduino
This is what came out of my attempt at combining some of my favorite tools and themes…Grasshopper, 3D printing,
kinetic motion, and linguistics. I put these gloves on my friends, asked them to tell me a story, and used Grasshopper
to record the data from…… Listed under: Radio Projects
680. Pneumatic Inverted Pendulum
Construction Mechanical structure Compressed air comes from air compressor and goes in the proportional valve.
Coming out from the proportional valve, there are two branches of air ow (one is compressor air, the other one is
exhausted air) which connect to the air cylinder (pneumatic…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP)
Projects
681. Make your own TV ambilight using Arduino
This is a very easy project. Here is the result I won’t go into too much detail how each part works, because I have
written some information on my blog. But you should be able to make it work with the information given on this……
Listed under: LED Projects
682. Step Sequencer Drum Machine
Overview [top] As avid audiophiles, we wanted to apply our newly acquired knowledge of microcontrollers to build a
fun consumer electronic device. Our project is a step sequencer drum machine. The user is able to program a 16-step
percussion pattern using one of a wide…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
683. Build your own 4x4x4 RGB LED Cube using arduino
LED Cubes are awesome. The rst one I created was a 8x8x8 blue led cube. It still works like a charm. But being able to
display every colour in the spectrum is much more spectacular. Let’s start with a small and simple 4x4x4 RGB LED……
Listed under: LED Projects
684. Programming an ATTiny13A using Arduino & servo interpreter
So there I was, browsing eBay, looking for some cheap deals on Atmel chips when i came across a pair of ATTiny13
chips for £2.50. I just had to have them! After all, how hard can it be? I needed a small chip to read…… Listed under:
Arduino Programmer Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Motor Projects, Projects
685. Retablillo de las Maravillas v1.0
4./ Interactivity & electronics 4.1/ Switches / characters 4.2/ Screen / interface 4.3/ Motor controller 4.4/ I/O controller
& interface [4./ electronics] [4.1/ switches / characters] The characters on top of the moving platform function, as
interfaces, actually as on-o switches. While standing in its…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
686. How to control a Servo using Arduino
In this one, servo is programmed to be controlled by two buttons, one turns servo to the left and the other one turns
it to the right. When the servo is turning, corresponding LED will be switched on to indicate the operation. Result:
Because Arduino…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects
687. Desktop Fist Bumper using arudino
This simple device sits on your desk at work, ready to give you st bumps throughout the day as you need them. A 3D
printed “ st” is moved by a servo attached to a rack and pinion mechanism. An ultrasonic range nder detects when
you…… Listed under: Battery Projects
688. Arduino Basic Wifi Project using ESP8266 wifi module
Overview ESP8266 is a highly integrated chip designed for the needs of a new connected world. It o ers a complete
and self-contained Wi-Fi networking solution, allowing it to either host the application or to o oad all Wi-Fi
networking functions from another application processor. ESP8266 has…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN
Projects
689. $1.50 Arduino TV Annoyer
Hey Arduino fans! Here is an ‘ible for making a device that turns TVs on when you want them o , and o then you
want them on! If you hide it in something inconspicuous, it would make a great April Fools joke or gag gift.…… Listed
under: Home Automation Projects, Projects
690. Katrina And Maya
bOunce is a haptics-based learning game system that teaches the concepts behind wave dynamics, and in particular,
resonance. The bOunce device (an adaptation of the Haptic Paddle) allows a user to “bounce” a ball in a virtual
environment. By feeling the haptic force feedback from…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
691. Stereo Audio with an Arduino
Recently I’ve been posting a lot of projects that use an 8 bit resistor ladder digital to analog converter(DAC) and an
Arduino to make sound.  (see the Arduino vocal e ects box, the Arduino drum sampler, and my audio output
tutorial).  The technique I’ve been using to make these DACs is…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
692. Arduino All-In-One Remote
Now you can have all the remotes of your house in a device that ts in your hand with Arduino, never ght for who
has the TV remote again! To make it you will need: Arduino (I used a cheap copy of the arduino UNO).…… Listed under:
Robotics – Automation Projects
693. Just Veggin with an Arduino Beetbox
Bring Touch Control to the Arduino. Use interesting touch sensors like Carrots or Beets to make a “Beetbox”. In this
instructable you will learn: * How to use the Cap Sense library to make Arduino responsive to touch * How adding a
Wave Shield (and…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
694. MOTOR SWITCH LED
Here is how to connect a motor, a swtich and an LED to your Arduino and how to do some checking to make sure that
everything works The strategy is to get the circuit going in stages, testing each part as you go. Once everything……
Listed under: LED Projects, Motor Projects
695. Arduino Controlled Lighthouse
Overview: I’ve often thought that a lighthouse would make a great project for an Arduino, and so I decided to give it a
try using one of the local lighthouses here in Erie, Pennsylvania as inspiration. I chose the North Pierhead Lighthouse
that guards the…… Listed under: LED Projects
696. LittleGoal: World Cup Match Notifier using Arduino
[ This Instructable was made at the Taipei Hackerspace littleBits Instructables Build Night. ] Can’t watch the World Cup
football games, but want to know when important game events (ie. goals) happen? Then littleGoal is for you! The
littleGoal setup will monitor the game’s progress,…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
697. Pololu Dual MC33926 Motor Driver Shield for Arduino
This shield makes it easy to control two brushed DC motors with your Arduino or Arduino-compatible board. Its dual
MC33926 motor drivers operate from 5 to 28 V and can deliver a continuous 3 A per motor. These great drivers also
o er current-sense feedback and accept ultrasonic…… Listed under: Motor Projects
698. Stepper Motors
Stepper motors are not smooth – they move in “steps”. Di erent motors have a di erent number of steps to make
one complete rotation. You use software to step the motor forward or backward at di erent speeds. There are two
kinds of stepper motor bipolar and…… Listed under: Motor Projects
699. DIY FPV RC Tank V2 [2km RANGE upgrade!] using Arduino
Lets build An FPV tank that could be controlled within 2 kilometers! With the help of my best friend ASCAS I was able
to borrow his old parts for this updated version. Ok So Roverbot version 2 is a highly educational Arduino based ATV-
drone. It’s…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
700. Sweep
Sweeps the shaft of a RC servo motor back and forth across 180 degrees. This example makes use of the Arduino
servo library. Hardware Required Arduino Board (1) Servo Motor hook-up wire Circuit Servo motors have three wires:
power, ground, and signal. The power wire…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Motor Projects
701. DIY GPS Tracked Bike Lock using Arduino
Having just purchased a half decent bicycle, and living in a city with a bike theft rate almost as high as New York, I
wanted to have some peace of mind that if a thief with an angle grinder were to cut through my U-lock…… Listed
under: Car Projects, GPS Based Projects, Security – Safety Projects
702. Critter Twitter Trap using Arduino
Havahart traps are really nice if you have pests to rid your home of but you don’t feel the need to do this through
means of killing the animal. The problem we are faced with is constant monitoring of the trap. If you forget to……
Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
703. Capture the image of a falling object using Arduino
The aim of this project is to create a setup to capture the image of a falling object or any object in motion at a precise
time using a DSLR and Arduino microcontroller. It can be done in many di erent ways, but the method I…… Listed
under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
704. LED Binary Clock using an Arduino
A Binary Clock! I was recently looking at some binary clocks and I felt like Why not? I have everything to make one and
I don’t have a clock in my room. So I decided to build one and here it is. Hope you Like…… Listed under: Clock – Timer
Projects, Projects
705. Wiring of the Solenoid Valves
Overview of Wiring for the Salinity Sensor Other pages describing sh tank wiring: Connect electrical power to the
pump and the breadboard Connect the salinity sensor to the breadboard and Arduino Connect the solenoids to the
cascade control circuit (this page) Return to the main…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
706. Cheap wireless transmission between two Arduinos with Infrared
Hi all, For a project, I was looking for a cheap solution to send data from an Arduino to an other one. The serial port
was already taken, and my transmission (unidirectional) needed to be wireless. My researches has brought me to
discover these kinds…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
707. Bug-Catching Spider in Web using Arduino Part 2
This project is a collaboration between  idesigner4 and bhasudha(me), students in the Fall 2012 course Things That
Think (CSCI 7000) at The University of Colorado – Boulder. The story of our bug-catching spider automaton goes like
this: A giant evil spider resides in a big…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Security –
Safety Projects
708. Hack a TowerPro Micro Servo to Spin 360 / Continuous Rotation
Hey guys! Since I’ve got my servos, I’ve had two that I set aside for hacking. So, coming to my favorite website for help,
I was sorely disappointed when I couldn’t seem to nd any instructables on how to mod a micro servo. After
viewing…… Listed under: Motor Projects
709. Arduino R/C Lawnmower
What this is: This instructable will show you how to make your Arduino into an R/C interface that you can use for just
about anything requiring remote control. I will also show you how I built an R/C lawnmower using my Arduino, a
cheap R/C transmitter and…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects
710. RGB LED Tutorial (using an Arduino) (RGBL) using arduino
LEDs are great. But with any project there comes a point where ashing is simply not enough. For these cases an RGB
(Red, Green, BLue) LED is the answer. With an RGB LED you’ll be able to produce any colour glow your heart desires.
At…… Listed under: LED Projects
711. Darkness Map Data Collection Device
The Darkness Map encompasses both data collection and visualization of nighttime light levels. You can add to the
map by downloading the app for iPhone or Android, but you can also contribute data by creating your own data
collection device. This tutorial will cover how…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
712. Arduino-based line follower robot using Pololu QTR-8RC line sensor
UPDATE FEB 2012: This guide is featured on Adafruit’s blog http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/02/14/arduino-based-
line-follower-robot/ This is Faz3a II, my rst line-following robot, which I also hope to use for maze-solving. I used the
Arduino Uno, Adafruit motor shield, Pololu’s QTR-8RC line sensors and motors. You can build a…… Listed under:
Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
713. RGB LED Rainbow Fader using an Arduino
Introducing the RainBoard: A simple RGB LED Rainbow fader using an Arduino Uno and a few simple components.
Believe it or not, we will control 45-channels of RGB LEDs at 32 brightness levels using only 3 digital pins from the
Arduino! How is this possible…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects
714. Window Painting Robot (arduino, processing, accelerometer)
The idea for this project came from one of my favorite ‘ibles: the polargraph. I loved the drawing style and thought
how cool would it be to do this on the side of a building? Unfortunately the challenges to setting up such a large
polargraph…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
715. Kaleiduino: A Battery Powered Arduino LED Kaleidoscope
Hello everyone, and welcome to my Instructable! This instructable will show you how I made the rst ever DIY Arduino
controlled “LED Kaleidoscope”! What is an LED kaleidoscope? Well, our traditional kaleidoscopes used 3 mirrors joined
as a triangle with stu like sequins and stolen…… Listed under: Battery Projects, LED Projects
716. Using The PCF8575 i2c i/o Expander To Read Inputs With Arduino
This Instructable will show you just how easy it is to add extra inputs to your Arduino. You can use this technique to
add hundreds of extra inputs to your Arduino with only two wires by using a fancy communication protocol called i2c
(eye-squared-see). Step…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
717. Robotic Spider V8
I needed a project that would use all my servos, so I decided to make the do-nothing, worthless spider. If you have
schertechnik and servos to waste, this is the project for you! Really, this opping spider makes for a great learning
project. The main…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
718. Laser Cut Sphere-O-Bot using Arduino
The Sphere-O-Bot is a simple 2 axis CNC machine that can draw on most spherical surfaces. You can use it to decorate
ping pong balls or eggs.This design is based on the 3D printable Sphere-O-Bot. By building your Sphere-O-Bot using a
laser cutter, you can…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
719. Arduino controls cheap RC car transmitter
OBJECTIVE Cheap Chinese RC toy cars can be had for about 5 Euros in the local market. The wireless brains behind the
majority of these cheap RC toys is a pair of very cheap ICs the TX2 and the RX2. Yup, that’s what they are called. So
this…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects, Radio Projects
720. Arduino Ping Ultrasonic Range Finder Code
The Ping))) is an ultrasonic range nder from Parallax. It detects the distance of the closest object in front of the
sensor (from 2 cm up to 3m). It works by sending out a burst of ultrasound and listening for the echo when it
bounces…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
721. Internet Devices for Home Automation
This instructable shows the principles involved in making devices to control home automation over the internet. We’re
going to construct a device (or several of them), that talk to each other over the internet to control lights, motors for
curtains/blinds, power sockets etc. In contrast…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232
– I2c -ISP) Projects
722. Arduino based Bi-color LED Matrix Audio Spectrum Visualizer
After we came up with the Bi-color LED Matrix Driver Module kit, we have been looking around for interesting projects
to work with it. You may be interested in some of the projects we have put up at instructables using this LED Matrix
kit. Instructable…… Listed under: LED Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
723. Breathalyzer using an Arduino
What is a breathalyzer you may ask? It is a device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.In
simple terms it is a device to test weather a person is drunk or not. As the title suggests it runs on the arduino.Our
breathalyzer…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Projects
724. Magic Light Capacitance Sensor using an Arduino
This was my very rst arduino project.  Its great for beginners. Fade the color or the lights my moving your hands near it.  It fades from
a pretty purple blue to a rey red-orange. Its was SUPER easy to build, not to hard to write…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects,
Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
725. LED Flipbookit: full color and brightness control with an Arduino
Step 1: Gather the materials Materials: – addressable RGB LED strip : I used a new variety of three conductor WS2811
strips. – an Arduino : I used a Arduino Leonardo. Any 5vdc Arduino should be adequate. – 4 AA batteries and a battery
holder…… Listed under: LED Projects
726. Infinity Mirror Clock using Arduino
Ever since my addressable RGB LED strips (WS2812B) came from Aliexpress, I’ve been fascinated with LED projects.
Following up on my success with my Charlieplexed LED clock, I wanted to create something with more Jazz.. While
browsing google images, I came across an instructable for…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
727. How to Make a PIP-Boy using an Arduino
So what exactly is a PIP-Boy, you ask? For those unfamiliar, a PIP-Boy is a device used by the protagonist in the
popular Fallout series of video games for navigation, radiation detection, data storage/playback, and inventory
management. Being a major fan of the franchise, I…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
728. Experimenters Guide for Arduino as Performed at OIT
Resources Adafruit ARDX – v1.3 Experimentation Kit for Arduino Experimenters Guide for Arduino (PDF) Bread Board
Layouts (PDF) Arduino Tutorial Bundle (Instructable) This Arduino Tutorial is going to be very similar to the Arduino
Tutorial Bundle Instructable but because we are working on this in…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects
729. ZAPpelin, or how to train your blimp with an Arduino and IR remote
Is it ying seal? A apping alien? No it’s a ZAPpelin, an Arduino controlled indoor blimp, setup to learn in the signals
from an IR remote to command it. This project came to life at the third Arduino Jam Februari 15th to17th 2013, at
Timelab,…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Radio Projects
730. Digital Zoetrope using Arduino
A zoetrope is a mechanical device that animates a series of pictures by spinning them fast enough that the images
appear to merge together and move, My digital zoetrope works on a similar principal, by ashing the LEDs while they
are spinning it is possible…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects
731. The machine of answers
Should you ask your boss for a raise? Call that cute guy you met at a party? Sell your stock?  Wouldn’t it be nice to have a handy method
of handling some of life’s more pressing dilemmas? This machine give you the answer to all…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
732. ABC 123 Toddler Trainer using Arduino
Here is a kid tested and teacher approved trainer for the kids in your family and / or extended family that are learning
their ABCs and their 123s. It was kid tested on my granddaughter, who really loves it, and was approved by my wife,
…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
733. Aergia: Android controlled TV Remote(with Speech Recognition) using Arduino
Have you ever faced this situation while sitting on your favorite spot on the couch or recliner, comfortably watching
your favorite TV program? You’re snugly tucked under the blanket, the air conditioning is pleasantly cool, the sun
outside is shining it’s delicate warm golden rays…… Listed under: Arduino Android
734. The Arduino AA Undershield
I recently bought an Arduino Diecimila board. It’s awesome and the applications, you can use it for or with is almost
unlimited. However there’s a problem when you want to use it in portable applications. You can use the Liquidware
lithium backpack, which is a…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects
735. Bluetooth RGB Shelf Lighting using Arduino
Being the giant fan of LED’s that I am i’m always trying to come up with new ways I can put them throughout my
house. Today i’m going to show you how to create a simple, yet extremely eye catching, RGB Bluetooth controlled
Shelf lighting…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, LED Projects
736. L.O.G. $10 Arduino
There are probably thousands of articles on making an Arduino. So who needs another Arduino? Well, this Lazy Old
Geek(L.O.G.) needs one. Here’s the features I would like: Features: Low cost More permanent than a breadboard Not a
custom PCB More prototyping area than a…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects
737. Love Gauge
I’m working together with my wife. But sometimes one of us has an external appointment. So, if one of us is thinking
about the other, we want to show it together. For this, I have made an Love Gauge for us. It stands on our…… Listed
under: Other Projects
738. Arduino Powered Autonomous Vehicle
A few months back I started playing around with Arduino micro controllers as a learning exercise (and for fun); this project is the
culmination of that. The goal of the project was to create a vehicle that can autonomously navigate through a series of waypoints……
Listed under: Car Projects
739. Emotidora: Hats with Emotions using Arduino
This project, Emotidora, will help a user express his/her emotions about events in day-to-day life. Weve all been in
situations where something very exciting or unfortunate has happened to us and we want to share it with other
people. This usually involves the expression of…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation
Projects, Projects
740. Traffic Signal / Stop Light Wiring with Arduino Controller
I always wanted an old tra c signal and nally got one recently.  However, it was very simply wired so that all the
lights were xed on.  What fun is that?  I also wanted to try out an Arduino controller and thought this would be a……
Listed under: Other Projects
741. WAVEbuoy using Arduino
The WAVEbuoy is a arduino lamp connected to the internet that displays the current wave height of any of the
National Data Buoy Centre’s wave buoys. This lamp is currently connected to the Sevenstones Lightship buoy that
gives an indication of swell approaching Cornwall in…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
742. Arduino Keyboard and Mouse Control Code
This example illustrates the use of the Mouse and keyboard libraries together. Five momentary switches act as
directional buttons for your cursor. When a button is pressed, the cursor on your screen will move, and a keypress will
be sent to the computer. Once you…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
743. Arduino ADK LED Lighting
Have you ever wanted to control electronics with your smartphone?  The Arduino ADK (Android Development Kit) is
the Arduino Mega with a built in USB host device, ready for your smartphone to be plugged in!  We’ll make a simple
introductory project with a few LED…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
744. Pixel Drop Ceiling using Arduino
In our living room we have a small patch of drop ceiling right in the middle of the room, basically a giant piece of duct
tape to cover up bad carpentry. It was constantly getting water damage from what looks like a giant hole in…… Listed
under: Home Automation Projects
745. Arduino Leonardo Pinout Diagram
Arduino Leonardo Introduction: The Arduino Leonardo is a microcontroller board based on
the ATmega32u4 (datasheet). It has 20 digital input/output pins (of which 7 can be used as PWM outputs and 12 as
analog inputs), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a micro USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP…… Listed under: Pinouts
746. Push-button using an Arduino
Pushbuttons or switches connect two points in a circuit when you press them. This example turns on the built-in LED
on pin 13 when you press the button. image developed using Fritzing. For more circuit examples, see the Fritzing
project page Connect three wires to the Arduino…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
747. Create an internet controlled robot using Livebots
Here you will learn how to create an internet controlled robot or other installation using Livebots. Livebots is a project
I’m working on which consists of an easy to use website for all the robots that people can interact with through the
internet. As an example I…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
748. Model Airplane Autopilot using Arduino
Hi All! I am twenty years old. I picked up my arduino for the rst time this Christmas, and I’ve been keeping busy on
my arduino applications so that I can bring you this instructable. I hope that it helps!!! The purpose of this project……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
749. Using the Arduino Uno to program ATTINY84-20PU
Using the Arduino Uno to program ATTINY84-20PU (Newark item # 68T3783). This Instructable shows how to use the
Arduino platform to work with physically smaller processors, such as the ATtiny84 (84/44/24), ATtiny85 (85/45/25), and
ATtiny2313. This example is speci cally for the ATtiny84-20PU processor (Newark item…… Listed under: Arduino
Programmer Projects, Projects
750. Home Made Bezel / Window for LCD, LED, TFT Displays.
I’ve been working on a project that used a 16×2 LCD display and wanted a nice nish that also allowed me to seal
against water and other liquids. I also needed impact resistance, low cost and the ability to be changed easily if worn
or…… Listed under: LCD Projects, LED Projects
751. MaKey MaKey Monome using Arduino
Objective: build a monome – a complex electronic music instrument – using easy-to-learn, inexpensive components
and a process that’s so easy a kid could do it. Gist: This touchscreen music instrument is essentially 4 parts: MaKey
MaKey (or Arduino) Neopixels copper tape cardboard Sound is…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP)
Projects, Sound – Audio Project Ideas
752. Arduino and Xbee wireless setup
The Arduino Wireless shield allows your Arduino board to communicate wirelessly using Zigbee. This documentation
describes the use of the shield with the XBee 802.15.4 module (sometimes called “Series 1” to distinguish them from
the Series 2 modules, although “Series 1” doesn’t appear in the o cial name…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB –
RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
753. Arduino or Twitter Mets Apple
Whenever I go to Citi Field with my kids to see the Mets, they go crazy for the Home Run Apple.To me, the Apple is
part of what makes baseball exciting for kids. Even though my kids may not watch most of the games, I…… Listed
under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
754. Control Fluorescent Lights with a Laser Pointer and an Arduino
A few members of the Alpha One Labs Hackerspace do not like the harsh light given out by uorescent xtures.  They
wanted a way to be able to easily control the individual xtures, perhaps with a laser pointer? I got right on it.  I dug
out a…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
755. How to make your own Arduino board
If your are like me which I am guessing you are, then ever since you got into doing stu with arduino you have wanted
to make your own arduino board. You may be surprised to nd out that making the prototyping board is actually
very…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
756. Polydexter: Arduino Robotic Translation Arm
Polydexter was the introductory project in the Creative Architecture Machines (CAM) advanced options architecture
studio at the California College of the Arts (CCA), taught by Jason Kelly Johnson (co-founder of Future Cities Lab) and
Michael Shiloh. Parts developed for this robot would go on to…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
757. Boot Bot Arduino Bootload Shield
The Boot Bot Shield lets you burn the arduino boootloader onto a blank Atmega 328 chip. The bootloader is that
magic piece of software that turns a mundane chip into the open source programmable miracle known as the
arduino. Blank chips cost a few dollars…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
758. Arduino Power outlet with exposed pins
I found my self often trying to plug stu at home with Arduino. So I thought it would be good to have a system that
you can just plug your sensor, plug the appliance and code something to see how it goes. I never liked…… Listed
under: Home Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
759. Arduino Orb Build Warden
An Arduino based Ambient Orb designed explicitly for monitoring Source Code Autobuild systems. This orb can easy
be repurposed for monitoring really anything that can have alerts from time to time. Step 1: Purpose Some time ago a
co-worker passed me an article about “Extreme…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects
760. Spinning Tardis with blinking LED (Powered by littleBits) using Arduino
Construct a Tardis that spins and blinks! Total Build Time: 30 mins · Coding: 5 mins · Construction of the Tardis: 20
mins · littleBits LED and motor assembly: 5 mins Tardis.wmv(320×240) 10 KB Step 1: Gather all needed parts. LittleBits:
· (2) Wires ·…… Listed under: LED Projects
761. 4x4x4 RGB LED Cube using Arduino
A while ago, when I rst started using Arduino, my rst project was a 4x4x4 LED cube, I built it from a Guide I found
here in Instructables, I didn’t know anything about programming, and little about electronics, yet I was able to build
it…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
762. Simple Basement Security System using Arduino
In this project I will show you how to build a very simple security system for all kinds of rooms. It might be simple but
still e ective. It is based around an Attiny85 and uses a reed switch and a key switch as inputs to…… Listed under:
Security – Safety Projects
763. Monitor – Thinking Skins using Arduino
This project was part of Multimodal Media Madness 2014, hosted by the chair for Computer Aided Architectural
Design (CAAD) and the Media Computing Group of RWTH Aachen University. For more Thinking Skins, please check
this page: http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/m3_ss14 Given were small shared space containers for 6/8…… Listed under: LED
Projects
764. Make Voice Call using Arduino
This sketch connects a voice call from your GSM shield and Arduino to a remote phone number entered through the
serial monitor. You’ll need to attach a speaker and microphone to hear the connected phone and send your voice.  
First, import the GSM library…… Listed under: Phone Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
765. Arduino Peak Power Tracker Solar Charger
This project is an update of my original Peak Power Tracker Battery Charger Project. It is designed to control a 12V
solar panel charging a 12V lead acid battery. The updated version of this project uses the Arduino Duemilanove
development board (from www.sparkfun.com) as the…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Projects
766. Ping Organ using an Arduino
I was trying to think of a quick toy I could build for my kids.  I came up with this idea of an ultrasonic range nder, an
Arduino, and a speaker.  Basically the Arduino plays a tone out of the speaker based on the distance…… Listed under:
Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
767. Papercraft Automata Race Game littleBits Circuit using Arduino
This instructable will show you how to create a game using littleBits. The game will start with a sound trigger. Each
player will have to press a button repeatedly. The rst person to press their button 25 times wins. A buzzer will sound
to end…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
768. Arduino decision box (Attiny85)
So I was a bit bored this weekend (actually I wrote this some months ago) and since I had ordered a bunch of Attiny85
chips the week after I decided to make a quite random project with them. This is a decision box, it takes…… Listed
under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
769. RGB LED with Arduino 101
To Learn about the basic LED usage practice, read here. What is a RGB LED? With an RGB (Red Green Blue) LED you’ll
be able to produce any colour that is ashing everyone’s eyes. At rst glance, RGB LEDs look just like regular LEDs,
however, inside the usual…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects
770. SmartMesh – Arduino and Android Controlled Pneumatic Facade
This project was part of Multimodal Media Madness 2014, hosted by the chair for Computer Aided Architectural
Design (CAAD) and the Media Computing Group of RWTH Aachen University. For more Smart Skins, please check this
page: http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/m3_ss14 During this project, the students were asked to…… Listed under: Arduino
Android
771. LED Pattern Hat using an Arduino
This is a (moderately) simple Arduino project that is a spectacular display from LEDs – that you can wear on your head!
It also uses a program that is not intricate at all, so you can modify it for di erent patterns and cycles. It’s also……
Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects
772. DIY Android Home Automation Box
Here’s a little show and tell of my Android controlled home automation box. It’s a small extension box that’s controlled
by an Android smartphone. You can turn the individual outlets on by tapping a button from the app or use the speech
recognition app, found…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Home Automation Projects
773. Use foot switch to open Linux terminal using an Arduino
So here is how i made my foot pedal used to start Linux terminal using an Arduino. It’s made because I am board of
pressing the terminal icon with my mouse. P.S. Sorry for my English. I am from Croatia. Tools needed: -Soldering iron
and…… Listed under: Projects, RTOS – OS Projects
774. Musical Table using Arduino
  The Musical Table is a toy table that allows kids to play musical phrases by moving toys around the surface. Each of
seven switches can play di erent musical phrases in four bases, making 27 di erent musical phrases in total.  Some of
the phrases are…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects
775. ARDUINO WIRELESS HOME SECURITY SYSTEM
In this project I will discuss how you can make a cheap wireless home security system.Though during starting of this
project the main objective was only for security alarm but later I found this device can be used to solve several
problems.These are the few…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Security – Safety Projects
776. Assembling the ZIFduino USB 1.2
The ZIFduino, for all intents and purposes, is an Arduino with a ZIF socket. It’s geared toward those that want to do
prototyping on the platform, but then move the ATMega chip to a stand-alone environment. The pin layouts are
exactly the same, so it…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects
777. Using Servo Motors with Arduino
In this instructable, I am going to show you what a servo motor is, how to use it, and ideas for starting projects using
it. I used arduino to control my servo, I added how to use a 555 in some of the later steps.…… Listed under:
Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Motor Projects, Projects
778. How to build a whole home energy monitor using Arduino
This page and linked pages detailed below document how to build whole house energy monitor that has a display for
easy, quick access to current energy use information, usb datalogging for detailed long term data storage and Internet
connectivity for online graphing. First a quick…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, How To – DIY – Projects,
Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects
779. Internet-Controlled RC Car using Arduino
The Internet Controlled RC Car allows you to remotely drive around a small rc car from wherever you may be and see
where it is going. This is fun because you can remote explore whatever space you leave it in, or hand over the keys……
Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
780. Arudino- No Blinky
So you just bought this Arduino kit or Arduino-clone kit. You spent hours inserting parts and soldering components.
You connect everything up and turn it on and stare at the little LED. You wait a second and nothing happens. You wait
a minute and still…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects
781. Arduino Seismic Activity Monitor – Ethernet Shield
Have you ever wanted to impress your friends by saying something crazy like, “I think there’s going to be an
earthquake soon” moments before an earthquake hits? Or do you just want some warning, a few seconds that could
save your life. This project will…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects,
Projects
782. Arduino Traffic Light Controller with Remote Control
I had a tra c light that I was re nishing.  The only thing left to do was to build the controller for the light’s signal
patterns.  To give it a twist I incorporated a remote control.  This was also the perfect opportunity for me to try……
Listed under: Car Projects, Projects, Radio Projects
783. Light-Up Disco Table using Arduino
Every apartment needs awesome furniture, so why not make your own? This co ee table contains LED strips that light
up into various customizable patterns and colors. The lights are controlled by an Arduino and a hidden button, and
the entire thing is battery powered so…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
784. DIY Arduino FM Radio (Part 2)
If you have read my rst blog on the topic, than you already know what I’m experimenting with. Low price FM Radio,
build with TDA7088 / YD 9088. It was obvious, that technology from the early 90-x is outdated. I mean, simple “search
and hold” function of…… Listed under: Projects, Radio Projects
785. Theremin Toy using Arduino
I wanted to make a little toy for my granddaughter to play with when she visits. I know like most kids, she enjoys
things that make sounds and have di erent colored lights on them and if she does something, the toy does
something. I thought…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
786. Using Servos with Arduino made easy !
Servomotors or simply servos are essential components of a robot which convert electrical energy into mechanical
energy.They are widely used in the eld of RC hobby and robotics. But unlike simple geared motors , these servos are
made by integrating a geared motor with a…… Listed under: Motor Projects
787. Face detection and tracking with Arduino and OpenCV
UPDATES Feb 20, 2013: In response to a question by student Hala Abuhasna if you wish to use the .NET Serial class,
use the naming convention “.COMn” and replace n with a number > 9 to de ne your com port for COM ports
above 9…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
788. Teensy MIDI USB foot controller for controlling Mobius Looper using Arduino
Motivation: Playing in a 2 piece band, with the drums and lots of other samples being played back as backing tracks,
there was a need to use a looper to add in more elements to the tracks. A hardware based looper fails in this respect,
…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
789. Under $8 Arduino Serial Data Logger – Record to SD Card
Disclosure: This project operates the ATmega328-P-PU outside the published ATmel speci cations: According to
ATmel, the 328P requires slightly over 3.3V to reliably start the oscillator at 16MHz and to otherwise perform
acceptably.  Lab testing here at SofKinetics has shown that the ‘board-duino’ 328P-PU can withstand…… Listed under:
Memory – Storage Projects, Projects
790. DIY Solar Tracker using Arduino
Introduction We aim to introduce young students to engineering and teach them about solar energy; by having them
build a Helios as part of their curriculum. There is an e ort in engineering to push energy generation away from the
use of fossil fuels and towards…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects,
Solar energy projects
791. iAndroidRemote – Control Android mobile using an Apple Remote
I love to integrate devices which are not supposed to be integrated and this guide shows you how you can control an
Android mobile using Apple’s Remote. (Who said Apple devices work only with Apple products 😉 ) Also this is my entry
to the…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects
792. Arduino Digital Switch Code
This is basic for your arduino projects, input switch read from digital input. When ever switch pressed, LED will turn on.   [caption
id="attachment_4235" align="aligncenter" width="600"] PushButton_arduino_code[/caption]   Instruction; 1) Connect cathode lead of
LED (shorter lead) to ground pin and anode lead of LED…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
793. Hacking my RC Car using Arduino and Android Smart Phone
Have an old toy car? I hacked mine using Arduino and an H bridge circuit to control the motors, used my Sony Z1
Android phone to control it with the recent 1Sheeld I got from Kickstarter. I thought to use the Gyroscope sensor in
to…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Car Projects, Phone Projects
794. Analog reading box using an Arduino
I made this box for my music project to our school. This is only tutorial for the box, no for playing melody. It´s based
on serial connected switches. You will need: Some wire 6x switch 1x LED 1x 330 ohm resistor 5x 2000 ohm resistor……
Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects
795. Washing machine countdown timer using Arduino
Hello, and welcome to my instructable for a washing machine countdown timer. The timer is operated with the very
popular Arduino micro controller. See here for more information. Arduino Home Page Aim The aim of this project is to
be able to delay the start…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects
796. Nintendo Keyless Entry System using an Arduino
Use a Classic Nintendo controller to lock and unlock your door! The output from the Controller is read by an arduino
and it looks for a particular combination of buttons, once the combination is entered it sends a signal to eject a Cd-
Rom Drive which…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects
797. DIY Infrared Sensor Module using Arduino
Have you ever wanted to make a line following robot but the infrared sensors were too expensive for you? Do you
want to upgrade the robot in my other instructable? Well this instructable comes in two stages, Stage 1 is the
prototyping stage, where you…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
798. Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard using Arduino
Introduction: Okay, I cheated. Any similarities between previous Instructables uploaded by me and the graphics,
pictures, text and / or programming code is purely intentional. It certainly made putting this one together a whole lot
easier. This Instructable is my Arduino version of the Rock…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
799. ADXL3xx Accelerometer using an Arduino
This tutorial shows you how to read an Analog Devices ADXL3xx series (e.g. ADXL320, ADXL321, ADXL322, ADXL330)
accelerometer and communicate the acceleration to the a personal computer. This tutorial was built using the
breakout boards from Sparkfun. The adafruit accelerometer breakout board also works, though…… Listed under:
Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects
800. Make your plant smile using Arduino
This is a funny project that makes our plants “talk” to us. It’s very simple and you can create it in few hours. We use a
sensor to read the soil moisture of our plant and a led matrix to dislay how the plant “feel”.…… Listed under: Game –
Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects
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  • 1. Search here ... Arduino Project List Arduino Projects Arduino Glossary Privacy Policy Arduino Board Selector Arduino Tutorials Sitemap Arduino Projects RSS Feeds HOME ARDUINO PROJECTS PDF ARDUINO PROJECTS ARDUINO ONLINE COURSES TUTORIALS BLOG NEWS & UPDATES CONTACT US Advanced View Arduino Projects List List of Projects using arduino with advance view: 1. Controlling Cubase with Arduino based MIDI A friend of mine wanted to control Cubase, his audio recording software, with a push button so that he could stop and start recordings remotely without having to go over to the computer and type on the keyboard. You may be able to do this…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 2. Plugduino – Arduino based 120 Volt outlet controller give your Arduino a 120 volt kick in the pants! The Arduino is a great tool for anyone interested in learning microcontroller programming, but after blinking some LEDs, what’s next? This project enables your Arduino to control real-world 120 Volt electrical appliances you have in…… Listed under: LED Projects 3. Arduino Masterclass Part 2: Build an LED weather station using arduino Project-speci c parts You’ll need the standard parts (Arduino board breadboard wires pliers and so on) along with these extras: DHT11 temperature/humidity sensor 7 x 330-ohm/0.5W metal lm resistors 3 x 4.7k-ohm/0.5W metal lm resistors 2 x BC337 NPN transistors 2 x LTS543R or FND500 common…… Listed under: LED Projects 4. Proximity Sensing Origami Flower using Arduino Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding.  In this project, with a little help from an Arduino, you can bring your origami into the 21st century and make it an interactive art! The result shown here uses Bare Conductive paint to give an…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 5. Worms in Space Board Game Story: NASA has taken worms to the ISS on their own special capsule. There was an accident aboard the station and the worm astronauts have to navigate to the escape capsule to return to Earth. The airlock to the escape capsule has been damaged but…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 6. FireHero: Turn Guitar Hero into an extreme sport by adding flamethrowers! using Arduino microcontroller
  • 2. So, long ago I  had read about propane re poofers. They’re pretty cool… I mean, who doesn’t love re?! But, no matter how awesome, they could get pretty boring after a while of seeing the same large reball. I never built one because I wanted…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 7. How to Display Text on an HD44780 LCD with an Arduino In this article, we will go over how to connect an HD44780 LCD to an arduino in order to display any text that we want to show on the LCD. To do this, rst, we must make the appropriate physical connections from the arduino board…… Listed under: LCD Projects 8. DIY Antique Phone Doorbell using Arduino Bryan Zimmer emailed us this fantastic retro-themed DIY hack, a most timely submission as we just revisited the noir art deco-science ction classic Dark City and we think this would have perfectly t in the world (or in Adama’s quarters on BSG). Bryan gives step-by-step…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Phone Projects 9. Arduino Touch Screen iTunes control (ATSIC) using arduino What I’m going to show you is how to make an iTunes control device using an Arduino and a touch screen. The iTunes Control works by reading area’s of the touch screen and send a letter to the computer via the serial port, which is…… Listed under: Phone Projects 10. Building an Arduino Robot, Part II: Programming the Arduino Welcome to the second article in the tutorial series in which I’m building a remote controlled Arduino based vehicle robot. Here is the list of articles I have published: Part I: Hardware Components Part II: Programming the Arduino (this article) Part III: Assembling the Robot…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 11. Color changing display Custom made Multiple color display. Have you ever wanted a display that is a little larger then one you can buy? Have you ever wanted to make a display the way you wanted it? Me too! This is how I made a custom multiple color…… Listed under: LED Projects 12. DMX Ardweeny Node using Arduino I’ve settled on the lighting industry standard of DMX as my overall control protocol as I explore the world of blinky lights.  This universal control method is electrically robust, radio transmissible, and exible enough for my needs (not to mention the needs of major concert,…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 13. Control a Relay with Arduino In this quick Arduino tutorial I will explain how you can control a relay using the Arduino Board, one 1K and one 10K resistors, 1 BC547 transistor, one 6V or 12V relay, one 1N4007 diode and a 12V fan. When the button is pressed the…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
  • 3. 14. Easily control your iPod using Arduino Easily control your iPod with Arduino using serial commands. This instructable includes the schematic, the code and some extra info; everything you need to make this work. USB,battery or wall power supply powered. Step 1: What you need Parts: 5x  1K ohm resistors 2x  1M…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Phone Projects, Projects 15. Make an Arduino timer Hi, so me and my pal are setting up so we can make PCB´s. We are currently making a UV exposure box (possibly another instrucable) and for this box, we needed a timer, so this is what we have done so far, and what we…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 16. Easy 4×6 LED Matrix, Arduino! In this inst’able, I will show you how to create your very own 4×6 LED matrix as well as show you how to write code for it! There is an animation creator program in step 4! Here is one ANIMATION to get you excited about the project! ***Wave…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 17. Pulse Width Modulation : PWM using Arduino Pulse Width Modulation or PWM is a method of Digital to Analog Conversion. It helps in delivering analog average voltage using digital pulses of variable pulse width. By controlling the on time and o time, we can generate an analog average voltage using the digital…… Listed under: PWM Projects 18. Robot arm from a desk lamp (IKEA Tertial hack) This project answers to a need I had: a third hand that holds a camera while I perform a test and takes photos/videos (useful when you’re stuck at the lab late at night, and suddenly need a photographer). The downside to a robotic arm was…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 19. Breadboard Arduino Received a couple of nice big bread boards for Christmas and decided that one of them needed an arduino to use with it. After some thought I decided that the best option was to build the required parts of an Arduino circuit direct on the…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 20. The MAX7219 and MAX7221 Led drivers These two integrated circuits from Maxim are for driving either 64 individual Led’s, or up to 8 digits of 7-segment displays. The drivers implement a SPI compatible slave interface that can be controlled from the Arduino using only 3 of the digital output pins. An…… Listed under: LED Projects 21. Arduino Time & Temp Display Shield
  • 4. Another project I’m working on required a good timer, but the more I read about Arduino, I realized that I couldn’t make an accurate timer using an Arduino that was already devoted to other tasks. The Arduino will always lose time if you perform other…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects 22. Measuring Battery Capacity With an Arduino I needed a couple of AA batteries and found the display at the supermarket where they were all arrayed. Normally when I’m shopping in the supermarket, I tend to look at the price/kg or price/l when comparing similar products. In the case of the batteries,…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Projects 23. Sunflower Automaton using arduino This was a 6 week project created for the Spring 2012 Things That Think course at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Our project is an autonomous Sun ower. As in nature, the highest priority for our ower is sunlight, necessary for photosynthesis. Our Arduino controlled…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 24. Charlieplexing LEDs with an Arduino Charlieplexing is an ingenius method for controlling many LEDs without using many microcontroller pins. You can turn on or o one LED at a time. To light more than one LED at a time, you can scan the LEDs by turning a sequence of them…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 25. Minimal Arduino with ATmega8 Like me, you may have a few old Arduino boards or ATmega8 chips (in the boards) laying around from when you were rst playing with Arduino. Those chips can still be really useful as the heart of a tiny “Minimal Arduino” setup. A normal Arduino…… Listed under: Other Projects 26. Nocturnal Emissions: My Arduino Powered Internet Enabled Dream Generator We all need to dream more so I’ve created this Arduino Powered “dream generator” to help plant the seeds for some big thinking craziness.  When you approach the generator a Maxbotix ultrasonic sensor triggers lights and music that draw you in so you can stare…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 27. Light Seeking R.C Car Hack (with Arduino) using arduino Creating a robotics platform from scratch takes allot of work and a few dollars. Buying a ready built one is easy but costs allot of money (at least for me). So instead I decided to piggy back o of the companies who make remote control…… Listed under: Car Projects 28. Appliance Remote Control using Arduino One of the basic tasks in many home automation systems is controlling power to appliances. They could be lights, or a heater, or an exhaust fan, or just about anything else that runs on mains power. The problem of course is that it’s dangerous to…… Listed under:
  • 5. Home Automation Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 29. Arduino Wireless Programming with XBee Series 1 or 2 Hi. This Instructable will guide you through the process of wirelessly  programming your Arduino using two XBees. I just nished designing a wireless EEG system with the XBee modules, so I’ve become quite uent in their programming and have just now been able to accomplish this. It still amazes…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects 30. My Arduino Binary Clock Hi from Italy Although many watches are created binary, my project was inspired mainly to this: http:// http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Binary-Clock-1/, very smart and funny. I tried to improve the design and to add something personal. I think it’s a good result at the end. The project is…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 31. Cheap Arduino Controled Yogurt Maker These days I was reading an interesting post on how to make yogurt “by the gallon” (http://www.instructables.com/id/Yogurt-By-The-Gallon/). One thing needed was to maintain a rather constant temperature of 43ºC (110°F), so the bacteria can grow properly. Though you can buy commercial yogurt makers, they aren’t…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects 32. Low Cost LED Grid There are a number of great Instructables on LED grids out there.  This is a low cost version – not quite as polished, but easy to make. This project uses a couple of sheets of foam core, a uorescent xture cover from the local home…… Listed under: LED Projects 33. Make an Attiny13 based IR proximity sensor This is an extremely cheap IR proximity sensor you can make with a few cheap parts and an AVR programmer. I use an Arduino as my programmer in this Instructable. This sensor only has a range of about 3 inches. You can easily add more…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 34. Google Weather on graphical display with Arduino In this project, I am using an Arduino board to show forecast of the weather from Google Weather service on a VGA screen. The display is obviously graphical one, with icons and some colorful text. It is one of those gadgets I wanted to have…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, LCD Projects, Projects 35. Bluetooth plus Infrared Controlled Robotic Arm Hi. I’m Darren a 17 year old hobbyist, and this is the rst Instructable I’m posting here, so I apologize if it kinda sucks! I hope it’s good enough… So how did the idea of a robotic arm come to me? Well, the rst thing…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
  • 6. 36. Intro to Arduino An Arduino is an open-source microcontroller development board. In plain English, you can use the Arduino to read sensors and control things like motors and lights. This allows you to upload programs to this board which can then interact with things in the real world.…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 37. Transforming Chandelier In this tutorial I will go over how to make a transforming chandelier. This project will be heavily CAD oriented (Solidworks and Illustrator), made by laser cutting/engraving acrylic sheets, and a little bit of Arduino coding and soldering. Step 1: Choosing materials. All the pieces…… Listed under: Other Projects 38. Sentriduino! Its the all new Sentry turret Hey guys, Today I would like to show you how to make a simple sentry turret out of household Items! You would only need to get an Arduino UNO or Mega, a Ping))) Ultrasonic Range nder, two servos, and an electronic water squinter! The rest of…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 39. RGB / RFID Lamp We have taken this project down, due to vendor’s request. Please wait till we get approval again…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, RFID – NFC projects 40. How to make a Ghost Knocker Step 1: Check the materials you need. Below is the list of stu you need to make it: 1. Arduino I used an Arduino Pro Mini 3.3V. You also need USB-Serial tether to program it. 2. A battery box I used a AA x 4…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 41. Temperature-Sensitive Infinity Mirro As per an assignment in my digital multi-media class, I’ve combined two Arduino-related tutorials into a functional object! The result is a pair of in nity mirrors that ash red and blue depending on minute uctuations in ambient temperature. This is my rst experience with Arduino,…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects 42. Wireless nunchuk controlled animatronic doll This instructable will attempt to show you how to make an animatronic doll controlled by a wireless nunchuk. This doll can only move its head though. I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who can take this and expand on it and make…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
  • 7. 43. The Word Clock Arduino version ************************************************************************** Major updates – A much better enclosure for this clock has been designed – check out http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Wordclock-Grew- Up/ ************************************************************************** Last month I wanted to build a special gift for my beautiful wife, Megan.  She has a teaching background in English, so what better present to…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 44. Arduino BlinkyBall Project I frequent a blog called hackaday.com which featured a project by “Nikolai”, it was a 10cm LED ball that used shift registers. It seems like a really fun project to attempt but the cost of having the boards made & not having any experience sending…… Listed under: LED Projects 45. Educational colorimeter kit This instructable is a step-by-step assembly guide for the educational colorimeter kit we launched in April 2012 on Kickstarter. Assembly takes from 20-40 minutes. Once assembled the colorimeter can be used in a wide variety of science experiments to measure the absorbance and concentration of…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 46. Blinky Lights using Arduino and LumiGeek I used the Arduino UNO combined with three LumiGeek shields to run lighting. LumiGeek has dedicated shields to support 1 Watt RGB LEDs that require constant current, Addressable RGB LED Strip, and Non-Addressable RGB LED Strip. Step 1: 1 Watt RGB LEDs (2x) I wired…… Listed under: LED Projects 47. Servo 360 rotation mod (Parallax) In this instructurable I will expalin and show you how to make a Parallax servo rotate 360º. And againI have search the internet to see tutorials clear enough to make this posible with no luck. Don’t get me wrong they are some how good but not…… Listed under: Motor Projects 48. Wu-Tang Can: Interactive Tipping Cash rules everything around me. C.R.E.A.M. Get the money. Arduinos are showing up everywhere. Even in space. But what about the lowly tip jar? No. Are Arduino projects giving the Wu-Tang Clan the proper respect they deserve? Not even close! Recti cation. That’s what this is…… Listed under: Other Projects 49. Hookup an LCD to an Arduino in 6 seconds with 3, not 6 pins Adding an LCD display to Arduino projects can add real value but the cost of doing so can be signi cant. Not a nancial cost – you can pick up 16 (characters) x 2 (rows) LCD for as little as £3.50. The cost is the pin…… Listed under:
  • 8. LCD Projects, Projects 50. Arduino Based Four Legged Robot The name of our robot is FIER and here is a video of it saying hello to the world. In this instructable, I will try to show you the basic steps to making your own walking robot for the most bang for your buck. You…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 51. Analog audio panel for PC using Arduino Have you ever struggled with audio settings in control panel in middle of a VoIP call? Or, wondered if the other guy can hear you properly? I have. My work requires great deal of remote conference calls using PC. The rst thing I wonder always…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 52. 4X4X4 LED Cube w/ Arduino Un As someone who is very new to digital electronics this LED cube was fun to make, challenging and a great lesson in soldering. If you have some patience (64 LED’s to solder!) and steady hands, this project will be well worth it in the end!…… Listed under: LED Projects 53. Vacation Pet Feeder from Recycled Materials If you are a pet owner, going on vacation can be stressful. Usually, you need a friend or neighbor to come over every day and feed your pets. However, by enslaving robots you can keep your pet happy and enjoy a stress-free holiday. To save…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 54. HexiLogger, an Arduino based data logger The purpose of this project was to create a simple, portable device that would periodically read sensors and then store the sensor data so it could be retrieved later. The result is the HexiLogger, “hexi” because it can support up to six di erent sensor inputs…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 55. Open Source Server Room Monitor using Arduino This server room environmental monitoring system is a low cost high performance device with the same onboard features as commercial devices costing hundreds of dollars more. In addition to a low cost platform we will provide low cost sensors for many important devices to insure…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 56. iTime clock in a Mac Mini box using Arduino After the untimely death of my Mac Mini (the last thing Apple I never buy), I recycled her limping in a clock display LEDs. Technically, there is not rocket science: an Arduino reads the time from an external clock and displays a matrix of 8×6…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 57. The UCube: Design & Print 3D Objects by flipping switches
  • 9. This instructable goes through how to design and print a variety of 3D models using a system called the ‘UCube’. Note:  I would love to eventually publish detailed instructions on how to make your own UCube, but since the design is still changing and improving,…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 58. Open Source Hearing Impaired Alarm Clock using Arduino Activities of daily living (ADL) are self-care activities that are usually taken for granted, since as the name implies they are performed on a daily basis. If you have ever ended up in a cast, or on crutches you can empathize how menial daily activities can suddenly be very di cult to…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 59. DIY Mod an Omnibot 80’s Robot with Voice, Camera, Servos, Bluetooth *Check back for more updates on this build So, have you heard of the Omnibot? Well! Any kid from the 80’s will remember how amazing this robot was. For you young kids, this robot was released in the early 80’s by Tomy. The robot…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Motor Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 60. LED Calculator with Rotary Quadrature Encoder for Target System Voltage Selection using Arduino I’m still working on the LED calculator (original idea and most recent work) — I’ve nally got ’round to adding a rotary encoder to set the target system voltage. Now you can turn the potentiometer to set the LED brightness, turn the rotary encoder to set what…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, LED Projects, Projects 61. Arduino Lens Controller – Synchronized Zoom/Focus with Wii Classic Controller My Lumix GH2 Micro Four Thirds camera not only shoots fantastic high de nition videos, but with inexpensive adapters I can use it with older manual lenses that are cheap and often very high quality. I shoot a lot of performance videos for my daughter’s dance studio, and I…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 62. Sensing Squeeze using Arduino I’m researching squeeze sensing as a mode of tactile interface. Here I will cover the process of developing a squeezeable sensor and the rmware/software concerns associated with interpreting the data from the sensor. This ful lls the “sensor project” for my class called Computational Principles in…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 63. S.A.M. Spring Aided Machining (CNC with adhesive remover) S.A.M. Spring Aided Machining (CNC with solvent) is a school project designed by three architecture students at CCA, San Francisco: Matt Boeddiker, Abelino Robles, and Tim Henshaw-Plath. (www.cca.edu) The machine is capable of rapidly prototyping and creating subtractive formwork that can be used to cast…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 64. A Beginner’s guide to making an Arduino Shield PCB (This tutorial has gotten really popular recently, and I’m very pleased that so many people are interested. I learned all of this stu while working on my rst PCB. If you’re interested, I’ve started to sell the most recent version of my Arduino ProtoShield. If……
  • 10. Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 65. Arduino Color Sensor Here we will be learning how to make a color sensor. my model consists of three cardboard compartments containing an LED – one red, one blue, and one green – and an OP550B phototransistor. The LED’s shine simultaneously on a solid colored card. The phototransistors…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 66. Cat Repelling PIR motion sensor (covert) speaker box alarm using Arduino This is a PIR motion sensor device that works with the arduino uno. In order to make it covert enough to be placed in multiple settings and portable enough to t most places, I decided to make the case for it appear as a speaker. The inspiration for…… Listed under: Projects, Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 67. Arduino MIDI Volume Pedal I’m playing keyboards this fall in another rock concert to bene t the high school robotics team, and for some of the tunes I need to be able to fade an organ in and out over a period of a measure or two. My keyboards are…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 68. Arduino Stepper Motor Control Hardware Preparation Stepper Motor Driver Board Arduino Board (UNO) If you have purchased the Arduino Board from ZTW, we have already uploaded the g-code library for you. If you are using your own Arduino Board, you can doawnload grbl Arduino library online and load it…… Listed under: Motor Projects 69. Arduino Thermostat with TC74 sensor Hello all! This is a quick guide on how to use an Arduino© to control whether a cooling fan and a heater is turned on depending on the detected temperature from a TC74 Arduino sensor. This is for a nal project for an Electronics class…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 70. Geiger Counter with Touch Interface! There are quite a few geiger counter instructables. The di erence with this one is that I wanted to give it a modern interface, similar to smart phone touch screens, that anyone would feel comfortable using. The reason for this is that I want to use it as…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 71. Digital Clock with Arduino and DS1307 In this article you will learn how to make a digital clock using Arduino and the DS1307 RTC IC. What is DS1307 IC actually? Well, it is a Real Time Clock (RTC) IC that is simple to use, low cost and easy available. The IC…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 72. Arduino Drawbot
  • 11. In some of my previous Arduino instructurables I have show to the Arduino beginers on how to control servos in di erent ways. And in my last instructurable I have show the modi cation of a Parallax servo for a 360º rotation. So in this one I will show Arduino…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 73. Arduino Led Dice This instructable will show you how to create a dice using Arduino and few components. It’s an easy and fun project, suitable for beginners and those who want to start with Arduino; it also requires a minimal amount of components. This explaines how to create…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 74. Arduino-Square with Color LCD B-Squares is a modular electronics platform that enables users to build, customize, and continuously update their own electronics applications. In this B-Squares App we will cover how to assemble a simple Color-LCD Application using the Arduino-Square. Hardware: 1. Arduino-Square. 2. Battery-Square 3. Color LCD Shield.…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Projects 75. Simon the Octopus Everyone loves the Simon game ! So we decided to take it to another level. This project was done for our Things That Think class where we had to make a PlushBot (a plush toy that thinks! “with computation”) thus, kids were our target. We…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 76. The Traveling Geocache using Arduino This project and future projects can be found at my website http://revoltlab.com/  where you can also nd my blog. UPDATE LOG: NOW SUPER SIMPLE TO REPROGRAM! Easy FTDI USB interface hardware explained in step 10 Easy FTDI USB interface programming explained in step 13 NEW…… Listed under: GPS Based Projects, LCD Projects, Projects 77. Arduino Button Activated Treat Dispenser For my Digital Multimedia class nal, I created a treat dispenser that is activated by pulling a chain, which starts a servo motor that spins a wheel to dispense treats to my to African Grey parrots. Step 1: Gather Materials [box color=”#985D00″ bg=”#FFF8CB” font=”verdana” fontsize=”14…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Other Projects 78. DIY Arduino Stepper Motor Driver Board This page will show you how to put together a simple stepper motor driver board that can be controlled with an Arduino. I built mine to use with my heliostat projects, but it could be used for other things too. Update: I no longer use…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Motor Projects 79. Giant LED bar graph For a recent project I needed to build a large and obvious bar graph display. This was to show the power generated from a bicycle generator. I came up with this design and was pretty pleased with the nal results as it is relatively low…… Listed under: LED Projects
  • 12. 80. Drive with PID Control This example shows how to simulate a simple closed-loop control algorithm in Simulink® and how to run it on an Arduino® board. Supported Hardware: Arduino Leonardo Arduino Mega 2560 Arduino Mega ADK Arduino Pro Arduino Uno Available versions of this example: Arduino Mega 2560 board:…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 81. BLINKING AN LED USING AN ARDUINO UNO (EXPLAINED) So you’re here because you want to start learning some of the Arduino Basics… So let’s start with THE most basics… no this “tutorial” is actually a little more basic than what you have in mind. It only requires that you: Have ANY Arduino Board.…… Listed under: LED Projects 82. Easy Arduino Audio Annoyatron This simple device simple plays a small tune at a random interval, between 5 and 30 seconds when the lights in a room go o . It can be cleverly disguised inside a tissue box, or inside or under any number of household objects. This is a vary simple project (my…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 83. Blinky the one-eyed clock using Arduino In this tutorial you learn how to make a blinking clock with a di erence! Updated 18/03/2013 Followers of my website would realise that I tend to make too many clocks in those tutorials. Well, I like making clocks… so here is another one. However this time…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 84. How to make your own Arduino board If your are like me which I am guessing you are, then ever since you got into doing stu with arduino you have wanted to make your own arduino board. You may be surprised to nd out that making the prototyping board is actually very…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 85. Arduino SOS signal with 8ohms speaker and LED blinking SOS is the commonly used description for the international Morse code distress signal (· · · — — — · · ·).  [read more on wiki] Requirements: 1) Arduino 2*) 8 Ω speaker 3*) 150 Ω or similar resistor 4) 5mm RED LED 5) Hook-up…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects, Radio Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 86. Radio link between two Arduino boards I was looking for a way to handle wireless communications between two Arduino boards. Other options like Xbee or Bluetooth were going to cost $50 to over $100. Then I found a cheap RF transmitter and receiver at Sparkfun. The total cost is only $9!…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects, Radio Projects 87. DIY Amp / Watt Hour Volt Meter – Arduino Major corrections and additions made 9/9/2014 For my o -grid Ham Radio and Solar projects, I needed a way to measure volts, amps, watts, amp hours and watt hours. There’s a couple of commercial products that can do this, but not with the exibility I wanted.…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects
  • 13. 88. Pololu Motor Controller Testing and Troubleshooting Finally, I nished reading the datasheet. It didn’t give much information about how to connect the motor controller to a micro-controller. I used the simple circuit I found from a post in Pololu’s forum: Using Dual VNH3SP30 Motor Driver with arduino @ http://forum.pololu.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1923. Dual VNH2SP30…… Listed under: Motor Projects 89. Webster: A Geometric Pattern Weaving Machine We are three students from California College of the Arts in San Francisco in the Architecture program.  This studio is called Creative Architecture Machines and is taught by Jason Johnson and Michael Shiloh.  Webster is a geometric pattern weaving machine that takes inspiration from Islamic…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, PWM Projects 90. Colorful Countdown Clock for tight timeline management using Arduino This is a funny looking clock that has that displays time on relatively large 32×16 Bi-Color LED Matrix. It includes also a countdown counter that I nd very useful in many situations. Features: Date And time display Temperature display Countdown timer Buzzer noti cation Randomly changing…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 91. Arduino Nano based Microbot This instructable was created to be entered in the Robot Challenge. If I win, the parts will of course, go into robots like this one. Notes on how to include some of the very components in the prize packages are given in the last step. I…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 92. Simple Arduino light meter This Arduino project is a simple light meter using a photo-transistor. An LDR would be more appropriate but the photo-transistor is what I has spare at the time. On the other hand the photo-transistor is sensitive to infrared, so its handy for testing remote controls.…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 93. Arduino Based Automated Lighting Control This is my second instructable. i want to share some of the basic things i made using the arduino i am so busy lately. then i got the chance to have this spare time… inspired by my former student and a fellow co league to…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, LED Projects, Projects 94. Remote Control Door – Internet Your Thing We can instantly open a door or control anything we can connect. It works from any iPhone, Android, or PC. After connecting something we want to control, download the free app to a PC, open a port, and control it remotely from anywhere. It’s open…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 95. Minimal Arduino with ATmega8
  • 14. Like me, you may have a few old Arduino boards or ATmega8 chips (in the boards) laying around from when you were rst playing with Arduino. Those chips can still be really useful as the heart of a tiny “Minimal Arduino” setup. A normal Arduino…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 96. Control Arduino Wirelessly with MATLAB Been seeing few DIYs on how to establish a communication between MATLAB application and Arduino that is hardwired to PC. However, I haven’t encountered anything that control Arduino via MATLAB wirelessly using the ENC28J60 compatible Ethernet shield. In this ible’, I’m going to show the…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 97. Turn your Arduino into a 4 voice wavetable synth Multiple synthesizer projects have been done for the Arduino, but few have been able to utilize the full power of the Arduino processor. DZL from GeekPhysical wrote a 4 voice wavetable synthesizer that is one of the more advanced software based synths for the Arduino.…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 98. Perfboard Hackduino (Arduino-compatible circuit) Never again will you have to dismantle a nished project just to reuse an Arduino board! This tutorial will go through the steps involved in fabricating your own Arduino-compatible circuit using just ~$8 of parts (this includes the ATMega chip!).  This is perfect for installing…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 99. Arduino Backlit LCD shield In this tutorial learn how to make your own backlit-LCD Arduino shield. Updated 18/03/2013 Let’s see how simple it is to make your own Arduino LCD shield. Sure – you can just buy one, but where’s the fun in that? Getting Started Our LCD is…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Projects 100. Knight Rider Rides Again using an Arduino This a Knight Rider Style LED Chaser Done with a Arduino Duemilanove with an ATmega328 chip. Step 1: Things you’l need: 6 LEDs (any color) 1 Breadboard 1 100 Ohm Resistor 12 Breadboard Jumpers 1 Arduino Duemilanove “or” Decimila 1 USB cable with A-type connector…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 101. Simple Buck LED Driver with PWM Input High-power LEDs over 1W are now quite inexpensive. I’m sure many of you are incorporating LEDs as light sources in your projects. However I realize that the nding and con guring the power supply is still not as simple as it can be; commercially available LED…… Listed under: LED Projects, PWM Projects 102. Breadboard and LEDs (lesson 3) Introduction You’ve started modifying sketches, and played a bit with the onboard LED (or if you have an NG, an LED you added). The next step is to start adding onto the hardware component of the Arduino. We will do this by adding a solderless breadboard…… Listed under: LED Projects 103. The Talking Breathalyzer using an Arduino
  • 15. *** Additional info at http://droidalyzer.com/talkingbreathalyzer/index.html *** A customizable Breathalyzer that talks and tells you how much you’ve had to drink. It’s also open source and can easily be modi ed with your own text on the LCD screen and audio MP3 les. When tethered to a PC with…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Projects 104. FaceBooth – One button to facebook photobooth I wanted to make a photbooth for a Christmas party. I wanted it to be simple to operate and only be one click easy so that even a guest who was chemically uncoordinated could even operate it.I wanted a solution that would take a photo…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 105. Arduino-controlled, Aluminum Archangel Costume Wings I have always loved the Marvel character Archangel. When my brother, (Shameless plug alert) budding comic book artist David Fernandez, showed me pics of a cosplay convention he went to I thought “wouldn’t it be awesome if someone made life-size archangel wings?”. The idea sank into the…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 106. Arduino Breathalyzer What is a breathalyzer you may ask? It is a device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.In simple terms it is a device to test weather a person is drunk or not. As the title suggests it runs on the arduino.Our breathalyzer…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects 107. Add a real-time clock to the Freetronics TwentyTen using Arduino Let’s add a DS1307 real-time clock to our Freetronics Arduino-compatible board. Updated 18/03/2013 Now and again I nd myself making another kind of clock or timing device using the Arduino system, and each one has been making use of the Maxim DS1307 real-time clock IC. However…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 108. Arduino Masterclass Part 1: Make your own hardware The world is going nuts over the Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) for being a whole system under $50. In reality though the Pi isn’t actually the cheapest computing device available. If you want really cheap how does $13.50 sound for a mini computer that…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 109. Turn a pencil drawing into a capacitive sensor for Arduino Did you know?  You can make pencil drawings reactive to touch for use with your projects!  It’s really easy, and gives you a lot of exibility in making interfaces for whatever microcontroller project you’re making. I put this together as part of my UnoJoy project,…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 110. The Arduino Synthesizer The Arduino is able to output sound through a library that has been developed called the Tone Library. By creating an interface and a program that can call certain values to be output to an audio out, the Arduino Synthesizer is a robust tool for…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
  • 16. 111. Arduino Breathalyzer: Calibrating the MQ-3 Alcohol Sensor The MQ-3 is an alcohol gas sensor that is available for about $5 from Sparkfun, Seeed Studio, and others. It’s easy to use and has sparked the imagination of anyone who has dreamed of building their own breathalyzer device for measuring the amount of alcohol…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 112. SD Card Data Readable Anywhere This project started as many of mine usually do, as a honey-do. We have compiled an extensive list of our book and movie collections on our computer at home, but my wife wanted to be able to scan the list from the video store (yes, …… Listed under: Memory – Storage Projects 113. Arduino Powered Binary Clock This instructable will help you to build an Arduino Binary Clock.  The orignial idea for this instructable was designed by Daniel Andrade.  My instructable uses surface mount components, but can easily be adapted to through-hole components if you wish.  You can follow my other Instructable…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 114. PCB Quadrotor (Brushless) Quadrotors are the new Segways: a mesmerizing, somewhat magical, self-stabilizing platform that every tech person wants to have. You can’t ride a quadrotor (well, maybe you can), but they do y, and you can build one yourself from scratch! I helped with a previous quadrotor…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 115. Build Your Own Arduino Board Need more Arduino board? Do not spend more money for another one. Why not try to build your own DIY Arduino board? It is easy and simple. DIY Arduino Step 1 Get an Atmega328–PU or Atmega328P-PU (with bootloader inside). atmega328p A brief introduction on the…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 116. Electronic Instrument This electronic instrument allows you to sequence and loop audio and MIDI data.  Most of the time I use it to sequence drum samples so I can play around with di erent beats and rhythms.  The really great thing about this instrument is that it is…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 117. ANDROID+ARDUINOADK+RGB led this is a project which makes an android app, then con gure it to use it with android debug bridge or android accessory development kit. for making the android app we use android mode of processing. For hardware, i always choose arduino. here i have a…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 118. Arduino Uno – Programming With A Serial Port
  • 17. I’m working on an Arduino clone.  The Arduino is essentially an ATMEGA328P development board with a bootloader pre-loaded.  There are a lot of custom macros built into the programming interface that make it really easy to use, and even easy to build some powerful applications. …… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 119. Arduino from Scratch Digital Thermometer I have loved making projects with Arduinos, but at $30 a piece your projects can get expensive. So I want to show you how you can make your own Arduino from scratch and save money doing it. Make your own Arduino for around $8. For…… Listed under: Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects 120. BrainTap: the interactive arthritis and memory exercise game I built this project at at uni as a 3rd year project (with a couple of classmates) at the University of Technology, Sydney.It is aimed at Baby Boomers and targets a skill and level based memory and ne motor skills exercise game. The form is…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 121. LeoStick Getting Started Guide The Freetronics LeoStick is a handy break-out board for the ATmega32U4 microcontroller. The board has a convenient USB stick format, and is based on the pinout and connections of the Arduino Leonardo reference design for compatibility with the Arduino IDE. Before you plug in your LeoStick…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 122. Arduino Wall Lamp So, I have always wanted a nice lamp by the side of my bed, Something simple with out any buttons. Of course this would mean it had to be wireless.I also wanted to use it from my bed but not getting out of my bed to turn it o .…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, LED Projects 123. Sensor Less 3d Printed Robot Tyree (he wears a tie and he has tires) actually smiles after he bumps into something (see video). Using an Arduino motor shield, he detects obstacles using the “more current into the motor means something is in the way” principle. Tyree started out as a…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 124. Building an 8x8x8 LED Cube – The Driving Circuit In this article we are going to take a detailed look at how to build the driving circuit for the 8x8x8 LED cube. In other words we are going to design and analyze the circuit which translates the signals coming from the Arduino to appropriate…… Listed under: LED Projects 125. ArduSensor Fun Pack ArduSensors are open source plug-in-play sensors for Arduino.  These were originally made for beginners to get started with Arduino, a very cool electronics prototyping platform, but anyone can use them.  I still play around with them all of the time, and I bet a ton…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 126. TiDiGino, the Arduino-based GSM remote control
  • 18. Using an ATmega 2560 and therefore the heart of Arduino, we have developed a universal remote control with GSM. This allows  to control 2IN/2OUT, DTMF key, gate control and GSM thermostat activated remotely. We have already presented several remote control with di erent functions. But now…… Listed under: Phone Projects, Radio Projects 127. UltraSonic Arduino Video instructions How To – Parking your car with an Arduino How To – Parking your car with an Arduino Code: // Back up Helper, by Kevin Darrah v4 #include <SoftwareSerial.h>// to read the data fron the range nder on any digital pin SoftwareSerial sonar(5, 6); // RX, TX //we’re only using the RX pin (5),…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects 128. Hack Your Hasbro R2D2 With an IOIO Microcontroller My wife bought me a Hasbro Interactive R2D2 Astromech Droid for my birthday a few years ago after I said how much fun it would be to hack it and I’ve nally managed to get inside and start playing!Although the built-in voice control functions are…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 129. Clock One – Digital plus Analog Clock An Arduino For some strange reason I have a fascination with various types of electronic clocks (which explains this article). Therefore this project will be the start of an irregular series of clock projects whose goal will be easy to follow and produce interesting results. Our “Clock…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 130. Ardu-Bot-Tom – RF Link Controlled Robot [box color="#985D00" bg="#FFF8CB" font="verdana" fontsize="14 " radius="20 " border="#985D12" oat="right" head="Major Components in Project" headbg="#FFEB70" headcolor="#985D00"] Ardu-Bot-Tom List of Materials Controller Parts: 1x – Arduino Uno 1x – 9V Battery 1x – 433Mhz TX Module 1x – SparkFun Joystick Robot Parts: 1x – Arduino Uno…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 131. Multiplexing with Arduino and the 74HC595 The 74HC595 is an easy and inexpensive (at about 60 cents apiece) way to increase the number of digital out pins on your Arduino.  In this tutorial I’ll show you how to drive up to 16 LEDs with one 74HC595 using a technique called multiplexing.…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 132. Arduino punk console This is my rst build using an arduino microcontroller. I wanted to create a simple tone output device along the lines of the 555-basedatari punk console, but using solely the mcu as the tone generator. Unfortunately, that was just too simple a task with a microcontroller to…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 133. Perfduino: Build Your Own Arduino Microcontroller This how-to takes you through all the steps of making your own arduino on a perfboard or perfduino! Arduino microcontrollers are great for learning about physical computing and are very useful for rapid prototyping. Arduino’s simple programming language makes it a favorite of hobbyists and…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
  • 19. 134. Arduino LED Flasher Circuit In this project, we will go over how to build an arduino LED asher circuit. We will use a standard arduino board, doesn’t matter which, and connect it so that it ashes an LED a certain amounts of times on and o repeatedly to create…… Listed under: LED Projects 135. Touche for Arduino: Advanced touch sensing Update: New interface – look at the last step. Credits: Arduino sensing done by DZL, Processing sketch and Instructable done by Mads Hobye. Disney Research lab designed a novel way to detect touch. You can see a video of their demo here: I had the honor to meet…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 136. Clock Three – A pillow clock using Arduino Time for another instalment in my irregular series of irregular clock projects. In contrast with the minimalism of Clock Two, in this article we describe how to build a di erent type of clock – using the “lilypad” style of Arduino-compatible board and components designed for use in e-textiles…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects 137. Get Into the Kit Business: How to Build and Sell Your Own Arduino Shields The DIY industry is booming, despite the desperate blackmailing of society by nance capitalists. Companies like Adafruit and Makerbot are grossing well over a million dollars a year, and Evil Mad Science Laboratories just recently dedicated themselves to running a full-time kit business. Making kits…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 138. Arduino IR Transmitter & Receiver w/ LEDs Flickering Issue I have an Arduino Uno connected to two IR transmitters and respective receivers. Basically, when one of the receivers detects a beam break, I have a strand of LEDs display a pattern. This all works in principle, but the problem is that when the IR…… Listed under: LED Projects, Radio Projects 139. Intro to Model Airplane Autopilot I am twenty years old. I picked up my arduino for the rst time this Christmas, and I’ve been keeping busy on my arduino applications so that I can bring you this instructable. I hope that it helps!!! The purpose of this project was to…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects 140. Making the Good Night Lamp using Arduino Last March, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino registered a new limited company in London, and booked a booth at CES, the consumer electronics trade show, taking place 10 months later. She had no team, and only a dated prototype product that she had designed back in 2005. “I…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, LED Projects, Projects 141. Salvaging an LCD from a fax machine using an Arduino
  • 20. I acquired an old fax machine that looked like a ripe source of parts, like steppers, IR sensors, micro switches and things.  As it turned out, it was.  It also had a nice looking 2 x 16 character LCD.  However, after taking everything apart, I…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, LCD Projects, Projects 142. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 3 In our previous two tutorials (see here and here), we created a Simon-type game using the Arduino, a hardware platform for simple, and not so simple, electronics projects. We placed three buttons and three LEDs on to something called a breadboard, and wrote a small…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 143. Arduino Solar Tracking Robot This is a simple solar tracker which automatically orients itself towards the sun or any bright source of light like the sun .If you place solar panels on this robot it can increase their productivity by 90 to 95 %. At rst creating a solar…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects, Solar energy projects 144. Arduino Esplora Accelerometer This sketch shows you how to read the values from the accelerometer. To see it in action, open the Arduino serial monitor on your computer and tilt the board. You’ll see the accelerometer values for each axis change as you tilt the board. Circuit Only…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects 145. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 2 In part 1 of our Arduino tutorial seres we covered the basics of how the Arduino works, and we’re going to use that knowledge in a hands-on project and see how this open-source hardware programming environment works when we’re actually trying to get something done…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 146. The Revenge of the Yellow Drum Machine (Arduino) I was inspired by Frits Lyneborg’s Yellow Drum Machine.  Watching the videos, it has such personality!  I have also been thinking recently about sound and robotics.  I did some research looking for a version of the robot that used the Arduino as a brain, but…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 147. Theremin with Zapper,laser,Arduino I created this Theremin like device after seeing this article in Make magazine: http://m- cdn.dashdigital.com/make/vol15/?pg=69#pg67 While this looked pretty straight forward it turned out to be a bit much for me at the time.  But after much e ort, I got it to work pretty good. I…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects 148. Arduino hardware hacking: Part 1 Arduino is cool. It’s cool because it’s a tiny device – about three inches by two inches – that comes with a USB port and a programmable chip. It’s cool because you can program it using a very simple programming language known as Wiring. But…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 149. Fluid In.Flux_3D Wax Printing In Water
  • 21. Fluid In.Flux is a 3D printing experimental machine which prints wax in water. The Machine was a semester-wide exploration as part of the Advanced Architecture Studio called “Creative Architecture Machines” by Professor Jason Kelly Johnsonand Michael Shiloh at the California College of the Arts, in San Francisco.…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 150. RC Rocket Launch System This instructable will show you how to make an RC launch system for your Estes rocket, which can be operated with a TV remote. What it does is it allows you to press the center button on your TV remote, and it’ll automatically launch your…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 151. Controlling your trains with an Arduino A quick introduction to the Arduino Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on exible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 152. Throwduino Basic – Light-Sensing Flashing Throwie Throwies are great.  They have a minimal parts count – 2 or 3 depending on whether you use a magnet – and produce a great e ect.  They are very cheap and easy but not highly e cient: 1)  They are on all the time, so on…… Listed under: LED Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 153. Arduino Online Thermometer Project I have been researching a project which will help me with my understanding of electronics, networking, and programming.  I decided to build an online thermometer which could be used in applications that need temperature monitoring.  I currently work in a lab environment where I test, troubleshoot,…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects 154. Graphing values in Arduino Sometimes when you’re testing a sensor or debugging a value in an Arduino project, you want to see something other than numbers ying by in the Serial Monitor. However, you want to get the sensor working quickly, and you don’t want to take the time…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 155. RGB Color Sensor on Arduino The next board I want to show you is the ADJD-S371 Color Light Sensor Evaluation Board from sparkfun. It emits light and analyses the re ected color spectrum. The board can be controlled via I2C. The sleep and xclk pins were not used in this example.…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 156. Paperduino 2.0 with Circuit Scribe – Paper Arduino What if making an Arduino, or wiring up an Arduino was as easy as printing one out? In this tutorial we printed our own Arduino Pro Mini board using a pen plotter and the Electroninks Circuit Scribe (a rollerball pen with highly conductive ink). Within…… Listed under: LED Projects
  • 22. 157. Daft Punk LED Matrix Breakout Board I was always impressed by the Daft Punk Co ee Table.  Being able to light up a bunch of LEDs and ash them in patterns has so many applications.  It was one of the reasons why I bought an Arduino seeing how it could control a…… Listed under: LED Projects 158. LEARN! ARDUINO – A HANDS-ON APPROACH INTRODUCTION This manual will show you how to use each of the components in the kit, and give you software Sketch examples for each one. Then you can combine some components to make examples of Automatic Systems such as a lighting controller.   You’re probably…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 159. Alarm Clock Overkill I don’t get up at the same time every day, so I thought it’d be nice to have an alarm clock that would drag me out of bed at di erent times on di erent days. That was the initial idea: things got out of hand, of…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 160. The Clamshell Stompbox This is a DIY variable resistor I created as an interface for live performance– like astomp box. I designed it as a project my audio students could build with materials we already have in the classroom. The result is a variable resistor that can be…… Listed under: LED Projects 161. Arduino and CueCat barcode scanner I’ve had a cuecat barcode scanner sitting around for over 10 years. Basically it connects to a PS2 port (apparently there is a USB version) like a keyboard and spits out a barcode when scanned. Nice!. The annoying thing is that it is “encrypted”. What…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 162. Domotic arduino In this introduction I will show you a overview of this project whit Arduino Uno.  The purpose of this instructable is move a electric roller shutter by Arduino Uno. The prototype that I made is my rst electronic project with Arduino and I hope this…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects 163. Cylon Pumpkin This has been done before. There are several good ways to do it: most use either a 555 timer chip and decimal counter chip, or an Arduino. Stefan and I used an Arduino (Boarduino, technically) which limited our scanner to 14 LEDs. No problem —…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 164. Build Your Own Programmable LED Matrix QR codes are addicting. Smartphones are smart enough to read them from virtually any angle or orientation. But imagine taking it a step further. I had dreams of a digital LED array that I could program with QR codes, and I wanted it really big!…… Listed under: LED Projects
  • 23. 165. Botanicalls Clone using an Arduino During the past spring a good friend of mine bought me my rst house plant, a Lady Palm, and I’ve found myself rather invested in keeping it alive. To that end I wanted to monitor the plant’s environment so I could ensure that its needs…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 166. Arduino DDNS (Dynamic DNS) by Open-Electronics.org This device captures the IP address of your network and it publish on site DynDNS.com. All without PC. It allow a remote access to your LAN even if the IP address of the connections changes. For logistics reasons the provider can not assign a IP…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 167. Visualize data from sensors using Arduino + coolterm Once you’re getting some values from sensors, for example using Arduino, (see my previous instructable), sometimes it’s nice to see the sensor data in a graph. Here’s how in only a few steps! I made this particular Instructables using a sonar sensor (XL Max Sonar…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 168. USB Game Pad With Tilt-accelerometer Mouse using an Arduino Make a game pad with an accelerometer inside! This project tutorial will show you how you can convert a console game pad into a USB keyboard mouse for playing games on your PC. The USB game pad can be used with nearly any software, such…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects 169. Singing plant. Make your plant sing with Arduino, touche and a gameduino This project is a part of experiments done while doing an artist in residence at Instructables. You can see the other projects here. Making a plant sing has been a trick since the Theremin was invented. Here I am going to teach you how to do…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 170. BaW-Bot Part 2: Build the motor-controller & body This is the second part of our BaW-Bot (Bells-and-Whistles Bot) build – 5 separate instructables that look into di erent Arduino-related technologies, combining to create a Bot with all the bells-and-whistles. Part 1: Build an Arduino on a Board Part 2: Build the motor-controller & body…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 171. Remote key-switch operation One of my colleagues, Dr. Shane Mayor, has built a very nice LIDAR system for atmospheric research. It’s located at a remote site, at the end of a dirt road, and everything about the system can be controlled remotely except the main pump laser power…… Listed under: Radio Projects 172. Connecting a 12V relay to Arduino To connect a 12V relay to the Arduino you need the following things: – 1 Arduino – 1 diode for example 1N4007 – 1 NPN transistor for example 2N2222 (in the US) or BC548 (in Europe) – 1 relay for example one with coil voltage…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232
  • 24. – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 173. Arduino Flash Controller for Photography Being a broke amateur photographer isn’t easy. Film, chemicals and paper aren’t cheap and a budget for some studio lights is non existant. So, I decided to, with the help of my trusty arduino, create my own sync controller to use with disposable camera ash circuits. By using a…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 174. Super Secret Lock Box w/ Capacitive Touch Hey everyone, I wanted to share a project I just nished up. I built a super secret locking box for my girlfriends little brother. He has a knack for creative lego building so I thought it would be a good idea to open him up…… Listed under: Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 175. Driving multiple Sparkfun 7-segment displays with an Arduino I’m currently helping a couple of engineering students nish a senior project that didn’t get nished last year. Long story… Anyway, it’s a bicycle brake tester being built for Paul Components. The mechanical design is great, but they had trouble with the electronics. Part of…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 176. Aquameterduino: Water meter plus Arduino After a bad water damage (our cellar basically lled up whilst we were away for several days), I decided to monitor our water usage for anomalies. Enters Arduino… The idea of this project is to use an arduino to count every drop of water that…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 177. Wrap Beats – Capsense Arduino Instrument Wrap Beats is an instrument that lets you string together notes in order to create di erent melodies and visual patterns. I constructed it using the Capacitive sensing library for Arduino and combining that with the music abilities of processing to create a dynamic instrument that…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 178. Arduino PCR (thermal cycler) for under $85 This tutorial will show you how to make a thermal cycler from scratch for about $85. In short, PCR (polymerase chain reaction) ampli es bits of DNA, creating millions of copies of a target sequence. You can use it to test a DNA sample for a…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 179. ISP Clip for ATtiny44/84 (or others!) I got my start in microcontrollers with the Arduino, as many of us outside of electrical engineering did. (And still do!) The ease of programming that little board makes it a great gateway… and like any gateway, sometimes you go through. Most of my projects…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c - ISP) Projects 180. RFI-DJ: MP3 Playing RFID Thing
  • 25. The RFI-DJ is a USB device for playing MP3 les from your computer. You have a set of RFID cards, each one with a song name written on it. You choose a card and place it on the RFI-DJ, and your computer will play that…… Listed under: RFID – NFC projects, Sound – Audio Projects 181. RGB LED Color Selector One Challenge with working with RGB LEDs is getting the right Red, Green and Blue values to match a color you are trying to display.  You can start with web colors, and then sometimes need to adjust them since the LEDs don’t look quite the…… Listed under: LED Projects 182. Radioactive isotope decay simulation My students need to learn LabVIEW —I know, it’s proprietary software, and expensive, but until a viable open-source equivalent comes along we’re stuck with it— and one of the exercises I have them do is to make a program to analyze radioactive decay. This gives…… Listed under: Radio Projects 183. Mood Lamp with Arduino Hi! In this tutorial you will learn to make a mood lamp with arduino. I know that you may have seen a lot of mood lamp projects with arduino, but I wasn’t very satis ed with them because they all change the color very abruptly. So, …… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 184. Self-Contained 7x7x7 LED Cube using Arduino LED cubes are true 3D displays that work by lighting up points in a 3D lattice of LEDs. On the 3D display you can produce some truly mesmerizing animations.  This Instructable will walk you through creating an LED cube for yourself that is completely self-contained and powered…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 185. Using a quadrature encoder (rotary switch) with Arduino I’ve found several sites and posts explaining how to use a quadrature encoder with an Arduino, but wasn’t completely satis ed with any of the methods used. Perhaps part of the problem is with the encoder I’m using: it’s part #COM- 09117 at Sparkfun.com. This encoder has…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 186. Use xbees (series 2) to control a motor Using two xbees, an arduino, an xbee explorer, and an h-bridge, wirelessly control a DC motor to spin in both directions (last video). Note: I used the xbee I linked to, but for a one to one communication, rather than a network of wireless devices,…… Listed under: Motor Projects 187. Simple Datalogger Here’s a simple Arduino-based datalogger I’m currently developing: This test-of-concept model is based on the Arduino Pro Mini (ATMega168). It runs on a 1.5-V battery, using a voltage up-converter from Sparkfun.com. For a sensor, it’s using a 3-axis accelerometer on a breakout board, also from…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
  • 26. 188. BaW-Bot Part 3: Adding Sight and Touch to the Bot This is the third part of our BaW-Bot (Bells-and-Whistles Bot) build – 5 separate instructables that look into di erent Arduino-related technologies, combining to create a Bot with all the bells-and-whistles. Part 1: Build an Arduino on a Board Part 2: Build the motor-controller & body…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 189. Building an Breathalyzer with MQ-3 and Arduino During the First Meeting of Electronic Arts in Florianópolis, we built a Breathalyzer using the Alcohol Gas Sensor MQ-3 and a Arduino Board to use in the last day of the meeting, in which we gave a party. You can see a quick video two…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 190. Simple Arduino data-collection At this year’s “Arduinos in the Physics Lab” workshop at the AAPT meeting, one of the participants asked for a simple way of using the Arduino as a tethered A/D converter for data collection direct to a computer. This is my quick & dirty demonstration…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 191. Energino: an Arduino-based energy consumption monitoring shield Energino is a plug-load meter that measures the amount of power consumed by whatever DC electrical appliance is plugged into its. It was originally designed to monitor the energy consumption of simple networking devices such as Ethernet switches and WiFi access points, but it can…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 192. More Humane Moisture sensor Recently I got a project from Titan industries, who were in search of something as an interactive plant pot which could bridge this gap of emotional communication, in mins this reminded me of brilliant projects done by people where the plant could could tweet and…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 193. Arduino-based event counter I teach Modern Physics here at CSUC, and we occasionally use isotopes with half-lives of a year or less (such as Zinc-65 and Cadmium-109) for energy-calibration sources for a gamma-spectroscopy lab. I thought it might be fun to try measuring the activity of one of…… Listed under: Calculator Projects 194. Lithium Battery Solar USB – iPhone – Arduino Charger One of the most fun and useful projects on instructables is to create your very own solar USB/ iPhone charger. They’re not overly di cult to make, nor are the parts overly expensive or hard to nd. For the most part they do a rather good…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Phone Projects 195. ATtiny85/45/25 LED dice If you have looked at my 5 LED ATtiny85 POV display, we programmed the ATtiny with the Arduino. (If you haven’t seen it, click here) We will be doing the same thing for this LED Dice project. The total parts cost for this project is…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, LED Projects
  • 27. 196. Morse-code trainer My kids are learning Morse code this summer, so I threw together this little circuit to help them learn. And to make it more fun… It uses an ATtiny85 ($2.26 at digikey.com) to drive a piezo beeper (≈ $3.50 at Radio Shack.) The ATtiny85 takes…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 197. Light Painters Palette aka Light Box Today I’m going to show you how I made my “light painters palette” aka light box. If your into electronics and photography than this is probably something you are going to like. Supplies: -Arduino (I’m using a arduino pro mini which requires a ftdi basic to program,…… Listed under: LED Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 198. How To Make an Obstacle Avoiding Arduino Robot Hello all! In this Instructable I’ll be showing you how to make a robot similar to the “Mobile Arduino Experimental Platform” (MAEP) that I made. It is equipped with two motors that can steer the robot and the ability to see obstacles in front of…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 199. “Ayrduino” Single-Sided Arduino Clone I’m teaching “Electronics for Scientists” this semester, and I wanted to allow each student to have their own Arduino to play with for microcontroller lab exercises and possibly use for their nal projects. The Arduino is not very expensive at roughly $30 per, but they…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 200. Fijibot Fijibot is an autonomous, self-charging photovore. I built him using a 1.5 liter Fiji Water bottle, an Arduino Uno, 6v solar panel (plus various other parts) from Radio Shack, an Arduino Proto Shield (plus various other parts) from Adafruit, and the wheels and steering arrangement…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 201. Network-status indicator I run a NFS/NIS network under a combination of OS’s for the upper-division physics lab here at CSUC, and one source of irritation is when one machine goes down and nobody lets me know until suddenly that machine is absolutely necessary NOW! So I gured…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 202. 4x4x4 LED Cube Arduino After seeing all the di erent instructables for Led cubes i was still left with a lot of unanswered questions.  So after reading everything i could nd this is what i got. I decided to make the instructable after building it…so ill try to recreate the process the best…… Listed under: LED Projects 203. Quantitative Two-Dimensional Temperature Measurements Lab Experiments involving the Heat Equation are usually one-dimensional exercises involving a copper pipe and a half-dozen thermocouples. But with DS18B20 “One-Wire” thermometer chips and an Arduino, it’s possible to measure hundreds of temperature values simultaneously. Here’s what my students Daniel Lund and Lawrence Lechuga…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects
  • 28. 204. Arduino ATtiny2313 Programming Shield Today, I made a small 3x3x3 LED cube with an ATtiny2313 that I had from about 2 weeks ago. Whenever I had to reprogram the LED cube when I thought of more awesome patterns, I had to get out my breadboard and then wire up…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects 205. Full Binary Clock I was wandering the internet looking for a good arduino tutorial on how to build a binary clock with seconds, but I could not nd one. So now I am  writing this for you to have a binary clock with seconds, minutes, and hours. What…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 206. Universal clock suitable for visually impaired using Arduino I was googling around looking for some sort of device I could make using arduino and stumbled upon eshop with devices for visually impaired. What really shocked me was the price. I mean-I do realize that such sorts of devices are not really mainstream, but…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 207. Arduino Robot Arm – LarryArm v0.1 I have constructed a basic Arduino robot arm using 3 servos that cost me £15 in total plus a couple of hours in time to build and it’s very simple that I think anyone can replicate and build this. I already had the Arduino Duemilanove…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 208. Cwik Clock v1.0 – An Arduino Binary Clock Overview This is a guide to building an Arduino-powered clock that uses LEDs to display a 24-hour clock (hours and minutes) as binary digits, an analog meter to display the seconds, a switch to toggle between time-display and time- setting mode, and 2 knobs for setting…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 209. Arduino: Controlling the Robot Arm So the arm is wired into Arduino as per the previous post, Arduino: Modifying a Robot Arm and hopefully this has worked. In this next part I alter the Arduino sketch slightly and write the rst Processing sketch to test control of the arm –…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 210. Clusterbot What is Clusterbot?  He is a small, a ordable, autonomous Arduino-powered robot.  He can move, see, avoid obstacles, and makes a melodic chirping sound sometimes. Clusterbot was my rst Arduino project, and I think he makes a great project for a beginner.  While building Clusterbot you…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 211. 4 Servo drive CellBot which can be remotely controlled using Arduino I started with an idea of what I wanted to do from the beginning but one attempt after another I nally got to where I am now. This robot can be remotely controlled from anywhere in the world and driven around the house. I can…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
  • 29. 212. Using Processing to Send Values using the Serial Port to Arduino In this write-up, I’ll show how to create a value in Processing and then send this value over the serial port to the Arduino. In the example I’m setting values of LEDs making them brighter or dimmed but this example can be extended to control…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 213. Over the Counter Kitchen Radio using Arduino This project used the Si470x FM radio receiver and an ardurino to make an over the counter kitchen radio. These parts had been purchased for a di erent build that unfortunately met a premature end. The concept for this project is simple. Play my favorite news…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Radio Projects 214. SPEAKR Nature has a way of speaking to us in a way that soothes and revitalizes. Sounds of the wind in various places create low volume tones that we barely hear. They have a certain beauty and randomness to them that are unique to nature.  We’ve…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 215. Box Scurity Package using Arduino If you touch the package, it will scream and run away–changing its course when it strikes an obstacle. When you lift the gift tag, light strikes a photocell and operation commences.  Motors and a sound module are controlled by an Arduino (and Arduino Motor Shield).…… Listed under: Projects, Security – Safety Projects 216. Arduino + Processing – 3D Sensor Data Visualisation So following on from my previous posts about visualising sensor data in Processing, I’m now looking at drawing 3D representations of the data recorded from the Sharp IR sensor – although can be any kind of range nder. I started by rigging 2 servos, one…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 217. LED Cylinder using Arduino This is a little art project I made with 95 RGB LEDs arranged in a 3D cylinder shape, sitting atop a microcontroller- based driver circuit. The LEDs are individually addressable, and when you power it on, the software cycles through a series of animations, e.g. various…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, LED Projects, Projects 218. Electrically Insulated Altoids Tin Ah yes, it’s time for another Instructable involving an Altoids tin…  But this time it’s not about what’s inside the Altoids tin, it’s about the Altoids tin itself.  In all its greatness, the Altoids tin we all know and love has one rather major aw…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
  • 30. 219. How To Interface a CDV 700 Geiger Counter to a PC Using an Arduino Video instrucitons How To Interface a CDV 700 Geiger Counter to a PC Using an Arduino (Part 1) The second part of our video series of our project to interface to a CDV-700 radiation meter using an Arduino Uno! How To Interface a CDV 700 Geiger Counter…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 220. Arduino + Processing – Make a Radar Screen – Part 3: Visualising the Data from Sharp Infrared Range Finder So I had some luck with getting the Sharp Infrared range nder working and I’ve now plugged this on to my servo rig to see if I get better results on my radar styled display. Check out how to use the Sharp IR range nder…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects 221. Using the Sparkfun Motor Driver 1A Dual TB6612FNG using Arduino As a beginner myself, I struggled to nd a one-stop set of instructions to get up and running with Sparkfun’s Motor Driver 1A Dual TB6612FNG.  This motor driver breakout board is exceptional value, is beautifully small, but does need a little more e ort to get…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects 222. Motion Controlled Robotic Arm This instructable is not complete, I will post code soon The Arm: This instructable shows the process of building a robotic arm using servos, Arduino microprocessor, a gyroscope and multiple bend sensors. The user wears a glove containing the gyroscope and bend sensors which translate…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 223. Arduino traffic lights I made this project on the same night that my Arduino Duemilanove arrived from Cool Components.  After being an Instructables member for about a year I though it was time I should contribute. There is another Arduino tra c light project similar to this, but it…… Listed under: Car Projects, LED Projects, Projects 224. Controlling a clock with an Arduino Update: The Arduino system is ne; the only thing you have to take into consideration is the 9.54 hour rollover event, which Rob Faludi has provided an excellent solution for here. I made up a nice little over-analysis of the issue, available here. I have…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 225. RGB flashing iPod dock from an old speaker Using an Apple Pro speaker, I made a ashing RGB LED iPod dock for about $35. I recommend reading the entire ‘ible before starting. Also, note that the volume is control from the iPod. It consumes minimal power in shutdown mode, and is controlled by…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 226. Arduino + Processing: Make a Radar Screen to Visualise Sensor Data from SRF-05 – Part 2: Visualising the Data This is where all the work is done to read an interpret the values from the servo and the sensor. If the readings are to erratic then you won’t have nice shapes. Also if you don’t allow enough time to the signals to be sent…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
  • 31. 227. An 8-Bit Waterfall using Arduino So far my Arduino projects have all needed only a small number of output pins. In a previous post I talked about moving some of the logic o the Arduino and into other integrated circuits in order to free up pins on the Arduino. While…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects 228. Vibration Foam Speaker Concept: Very simple, using an arduino and the play melody basic program, create a music playing speaker out of a vibration motor and a piece of exible foam. Instead of pulsing signal to a speaker, signal is pulsed to a motor varying how fast it…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 229. Arduino + Processing – Make a Radar Screen to Visualise Sensor Data from SRF-05 – Part 1 First things rst, we need to build our circuit. This is the easy bit! We’ll be using the Arduino to control a servo that will rotate our sensor around 180 degrees. The Arduino will then send the value from the distance sensor along with the…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 230. Police Lights using an Arduino **DISCLAIMER** I do not and will not take responsibility for anyone who gets in trouble for this, by either imitating emergency personnel, or using without a permit/lisence. Updates! -I have shortened the code -Changed 16 LED’s to 8 - Changed/added more ash patterns -Renamed variables As…… Listed under: Car Projects, LED Projects, Projects 231. Honey, I Shrunk The Arduino As you might be able to tell from recent posts, I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with an Arduino. I’ve now got at least one project that I’d like to make a little more permanent, rather than it just being a bunch of…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects 232. Color Changing LED Tree Ever wanted an LED tree? Well now you can have your LED tree and eat it too (no, wait, you probably shouldn’t).. Step 1: Gather the parts You will need: 1x ATtiny85 10x male header pins Solid core wire, 2 colors A bunch of LEDs…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, LED Projects 233. Brute force attack a BIOS with Arduino The goal of this experiment is to convert the Arduino board into an USB keyboard plus a VGA sni er to crack the password of a standard BIOS using the brute force attack method. There are no advantages in using this method, in fact this can…… Listed under: Memory – Storage Projects, Projects 234. Send and Receive MIDI with Arduino This instructable will show you how to use an Arduino to send and receive a variety of MIDI messages so you can start building your own MIDI controllers and instruments.  First I’ll talk a little bit about MIDI protocol, if you’re just looking for sample…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects
  • 32. 235. Arduino – A Basic Theremin Theremins are cool. Fact. You may also have heard of them as either aetherphone/ etherophone or termenvox/ thereminvox. Essentially its an electronic music instrument that plays a certain note depending on the position of your hand and its distance from an antenna. Building a very…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 236. Tweetosapien: Hack a Robosapien With Arduino to React to Tweets A really fun project sent into us by Thomas Meghe. He’s translated it all from his native French, which is a technical achievement itself. If you’d like to see the original, you can nd it here. Bored of your favorite Twitter client ? No problem,…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 237. Walleye using Arduino Walleye is an interactive light installation which engages users in temporal gestural and bodily play. It generates temporal light propagation patterns, or a large scale very low resolution pixilated image (depending on how you look at it) based on the realtime movement of visitors in…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects 238. How to build your own sugru robot – Fixbot So you saw our video and you’ve fallen in love with Fixbot, have you? That’s okay, it’s understandable. We’ve fallen in love with it too. We have some great news! You can build your own Fixbot too, provided that you’re okay with getting your hands…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 239. Arduino – Basic Persistance of Vision I think this’ll be the start of a few more projects for me. I’ve seen some cool LED PoV stu (Persistance of Vision) with mounting displays on bikes, so hopefully I’ll get round to doing something like that. Anyway as a start I’ve got 5…… Listed under: LED Projects 240. How to make a servo leg using Arduino This instructable will show you how to create a simple servo leg that can be controlled by buttons on an arduino or via serial. Here is a video of the leg in action    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8i1nrPIJvo Leg Materials: Popsicle sticks-make sure that all of them are at…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects 241. A Study in Non-Standard Distributed Computer Architecture using Arduino In the following tutorial, directions are given for creating a single node for the DoHas (Distributed Optical Harvard Architecture System). After constructing two of these nodes, a small distributed computer can be implemented which uses one node for sending instructions, mimicking input and the instruction…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects, RTOS – OS Projects 242. BOXZ BOXZ is is an open source robot platform for interactive entertainment! We connected Arduino,Plexiglass(or cardboard) Origami and your idea together, so we can easily and quickly build a remote robot by ourself! You can
  • 33. assembled it like LEGO! We can use it to playing football…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 243. Arduino – Getting my LCD Screen to work I’ve gotten hold of what I assumed was a compatible 16×2 LCD screen with my Arduino board – it’s a Powertip PC1602F and uses a compatible display driver for the Hitachi HD44780 display chip. This is essentially what the Arduino LCD libraries are built around, …… Listed under: LCD Projects 244. Hacked roomba and arduino snowballs into a Eurobot 2013 entry It all started as a weekend project with my kids and soon enough I got sucked into a 4 month project with their school ! The idea was to get a small group of kids aged 6 to 9 to participate to a robotics contest…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 245. DIY Driving Simulator using an Arduino If you haven’t noticed, as soon as you clicked into this instructable, you are now following me if you weren’t already, you Favorited the instructable, and you voted for this instructable in all contests it is entered in. Then the buttons all dissappeared. It’s okay…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 246. BIKEDUINO – Stopping Point Predictor for bike riders The project consists in a Arduino that gets the speed of the bike from a dynamo and it controls a laser which points always to the point where the bike is gonna stop if it continues going at the same speed. Used Hardware: Arduino mini…… Listed under: Car Projects 247. Version 2.0 Arduino Controlled Car Tracking System based on SMS This system is upgraded version of previous project… You will be able to track your car after you build this system, you will call the device then it will send you an sms which includes LAT, LON and Google Map link for just one touch…… Listed under: Car Projects, Phone Projects, Projects 248. Building a Doodle Bot kit from DAGU Doodle Bot is a very simple beginners robot that can write messages using white board markers, jumbo chalk or crayons. The kit comes with all parts including an Arduino compatible controller and a screwdriver. You will need to supply 4x AAA batteries and a suitable…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 249. Algorithmic noise machine This project is a part of experiments done while doing an artist in residence at Instructables. You can see the other projects here. You can use bit-shifting as an alternative way of creating “music”. This principle enables you to squeeze as much processing power as…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 250. Arduino & Processing – Getting values from SRF05 ultrasound sensor & serial port
  • 34. I’ve started to delve into Processing and passing values between Processing and Arduino. If you’re wondering what Processing is, basically its an open source programming language for vizualising data that can interface with Arduino either by reading values/ pins or by setting them. Just remember…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 251. SMS controlled Wireless Irrigation System using an Arduino UPDATE 02/13/11 : Voting has started for the Sparkfun Microcontroller Contest. Please VOTE for me! UPDATE 02/26/11 : I won a second prize!! Huzzah! Thanks for all the votes guys! UPDATE 03/17/11: I would love to win a Laser cutter in the Epilog challenge as…… Listed under: Phone Projects, Projects 252. Tissue Box Guitar – Light Strings using Arduino the idea of anything can be an instrumental music has been always in my mind so i made a wooden tissue box that i installed inside it a guitar of light strings Step 1: Building Box i made this wooden tissue box Step 2: Wiring…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 253. 123D Scanner – Home made 3D Scanner Hey – have a look at my new project HERE In this project I built a 3D Scanner, that enables generating 3D models of physical objects. The les can later be viewed in 3D software (GLC Player, Sketchup, Rhino, or sites such as http://3d le.io) and…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 254. Mint Tin Hero using Arduino A friend at work proposed a friendly competition between a few co-workers: to make something cool out of a Trader Joe’s green tea mint tin.  Anything – whatever our creative hearts desired.  The prize?  Nobody cared – we’d gure that part out later. I thought…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 255. Track Honeybees With Temperature Data analysis coming soon! My school is kind of strange. We don’t have a cafeteria, but we do have a four week course on “The Simpsons.” We don’t have a jungle-gym on the elementary playground, but we do have a half-buried retruck. We don’t have…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects 256. Arduino – (Very) Basic motion tracking with 2 PIR sensors Took me a little while to get started but I’ve managed to wire 2 PIR infrared sensors with an Arduino to sense motion either on the left or on the right side. The result will trigger an LED to represent each PIR sensor then I…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 257. Pachube Client using Strings with Arduino This example shows you how to answer a HTTP request using an Ethernet shield. Speci cally, it connects to pachube.com, a free datalogging site. The example requires that you set up a pachube.com account, as well as a pachube feed (for more information on setting up…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 258. Making a Better Mouse Trap
  • 35. There are a lot of things this world needs at the moment.  One of them is a better mouse trap.  Mice are getting smarter every day and if we’re not careful we’ll end up with Planet of the Mice.  Luckily, with the help of a…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 259. Arduino – motion triggered camera So having worked out that I can make a remote for my Nikon D80 to do some timelapse photography. I started thinking of things I can do to trigger the remote, below video shows it working but you’ll need sound to hear the shutter going.…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 260. Accelerometer Table using Arduino Esplora This example simpli es the task of collecting data from the Esplora’s accelerometer and graphing it with your computer. The Esplora sends keypresses to a connected computer about the state of the accelerometer. If you open a spreadsheet application, you can log the data from the…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects 261. Arduino Esplora Kart This example demonstrates how to turn your Esplora into a customized computer game pad. It uses the analog joystick and the four switches as inputs to a video game. The Esplora will appear to the computer as a standard keyboard, the computer will see joystick…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 262. Arduino text’in Arduino text‘in. Key Features: 24 relays controlled by 4 I/O lines! Cell phone text using your Arduino. This project hacks a cell phone to text using normally open relays. After investigating cellular modules on the internet I decided it looks not only rather pricy, but…… Listed under: Phone Projects 263. Arduino – IR remote/ intervalometer for Nikon D80 DSLR I’m cheap and skint, yet I want to do timelapse photography with my Nikon D80 DSLR. Unfortnately that requires spending some cash on an intervalometer for time lapse photography which will set me back a sizeable chunk of cash. Or I could get a remote…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 264. My hat with full of stars Top hats are cool; just like bow ties.  Not only are they stylish, but they give you a lot of room for incorporating techno goodness.  I recently had cause to buy a tuxedo, which necessitated a kilt, and then a top hat.  You know how…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects 265. Arduino – Sonic range finder with SRF05 A guide to using the SRF05 Distance Sensor with Arduino in order to calculate distances from objects. In this case I’m also altering the output of an LED with PWM according to how close an object is to the sensor. So the nearer you are…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects
  • 36. 266. Arduino Esplora Temperature Sensor This sketch shows you how to read the Esplora’s temperature sensor. You can read the temperature sensor in Farhenheit or Celsius. Circuit Only your Arduino Esplora is needed for this example. Connect the Esplora to your computer with a USB cable and open the Arduino’s…… Listed under: Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects 267. Knock Block using an Arduino board Knock Block: a modern knocking framework Man has long wrestled with Time. Also, with knocking on things and not getting the time of day. We propose a knocking platform through which these fundamental needs are met. This is illustrated with the Knock Block KUI and…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects 268. Arduino Analog Inputs This week is all about analog inputs for the arduino. I’ll show you how you can use a voltage divider circuit (see episode 3) and a variable resistor to make an analog sensor. [box type=”note” color=” #202020 ” bg=”# bb00 ” font=”verdana” fontsize=”14″ radius=”20 ” border=”#000″…… Listed under: Projects, PWM Projects 269. Intervalometer for Sony NEX 5n This intervalometer used infrared LED To built intervalometer you need: Arduino Nano (or Arduino-compability). I used Nano V3 Serial LCD Joystick Module IR Led and resistor ~200 Ohm Switch Push Button Plastic enclosure Battery 9V Schematic is very simple Step 2: Connection Serial LCD has…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 270. Arduino – Control a DC motor with TIP120, potentiometer and multiple power supplies A quick circuit showing how to control the speed of a DC motor with a potentiometer with your Arduino board. Also shows how to use a TIP120 transistor to allow the Arduino control a larger power supply. Transistors are 3 pin devices, which via the…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Motor Projects 271. Combo Blocks using an Arduino Project by CU Boulder Thinks That Think students: Michelle Bourgeois, Charles Dietrich, and Ben Link Imagine having a safe in which the combo is any small object of your choosing.  Perhaps it’s your favorite co ee mug, or a bat man gurine.  This project is based…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects 272. Fart Operated Random Channel TV Remote using an Arduino OK, I know that sounds weird, but bear with me for a moment.  My Pops really enjoys two things; 1) channel sur ng and 2) farting. So one day I was over at http://hackaday.com/ and read about a guy who used his Arduino to turn a…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects 273. Haptic Proximity Module (HPM) for Low Vision users The Haptic Proximity Module (HPM) seeks to enable people with low vision, or other vision impairments, to engage with their direct surroundings through vibration feedback from a range detector, and do so cheaply with readily available components. The aim of this instructables is to share…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
  • 37. 274. Control a DC motor with Arduino and L293D chip This is a quick guide with a bit of extra info (pin con gurations etc..) that I’ve learnt along the way on how to use the L293D with the Arduino, showing that we can: A) Use a supplemental power source to power the DC motor B)…… Listed under: Motor Projects 275. Reaction Timer using an Arduino I am new to Arduino and wanted a project which would teach me di erent things. This got me involved with sound and the use of a LCD. This project is based on the Instructable posted by bertus52x11 which you can nd here http://www.instructables.com/id/After-Dinner-Reaction-Time-Tester/ .  While…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 276. Buzz Wire Alarm Clock Does it happen to you to slide your nger across your phone’s screen and turn the alarm o … just because you have automated this task and don’t even need to open your eyes? Well, let me present to you the alarm clock that WILL…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 277. Making a 9v Battery DC power supply Rather than use the USB to power my Arduino board with a handy trip to the electronics store with some more knowledgeable people than I, I have constructed a 9Volt DC power supply. Taking a 9 volt battery, a 9v battery holder and a 2.1mm…… Listed under: Battery Projects 278. Simple Ipod Controller using an Arduino This instructable will help you understand the iPod serial protocol, and how to send commands to an iPod using an Arduino.  This instructable is only meant to show the basics of the protocol and is by no means complete.  I only had enough hardware space…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 279. 3 LED Crossfade with PWM and Arduino This ones quite simple, just mix/ crossfade 3 separate LEDs using Phase Width Modulation (PWM) and Arduino. You will need 3 LEDs, I’m using a 5mm Red, Green and Blue so I can make the full light colour spectrum (When all combined they make white…… Listed under: LED Projects, PWM Projects 280. Making a Mayan Tzolkin Calendar OK, I will admit that I am a little obsessed with things Mayan at the moment, which explains why I wanted to make a Mayan Tzolkin calendar. I modeled the general layout and fabrication on the very nice Sleek Word Clock by scottbez1 which you…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 281. Small form factor DIY Arduino on stripboard This board needs FTDI cable to program it. It is not Arduino compatible in the meaning of taking shields (just like every small form factor board isn’t). But it has all the same pins (exept 3.3V power and Vin*) available as female headers. The input…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects
  • 38. 282. Robot Snake Purpose This project was built for the Things that Think undergraduate/graduate class CSCI 4830-7 and CSCI 7000-7 for the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Our group consisted of one graduate and two undergraduate students.  We worked on the project for 8 weeks, most of the time trying…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 283. Controlling a Servo with Arduino Very simple basics of building a circuit to control a servo using Arduino and PWM For this you will need: Arduino Board – I’m using a Duemilanova ATMEGA328 Arduino Sketch software – I’m using version 0015 Arduino Servo Library found here save it to lib/targets/libraries…… Listed under: Motor Projects 284. Use your android phone sensors on the arduino Hello, this is my very rst step-by-step instructable, and today, we’re going to learn how the sensors in your android smartphone can communicate with your arduino. In modern smartphones, there are a lot of useful sensors for an ingenious arduino project. I have a motorola…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 285. Two ways to reset arduino in software If you want to RESET Arduino from the beginning without manually pressing the RESET button, there are a few ways. Here are two ways, using minimal wiring / circuitry. Step 1: Using 1 wire connected to the RESET pin 1. electronically, using only 1 wire…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 286. Siduri – An Arduino Control Smart Coaster Siduri named after the Sumerian god of happiness and merriment, is a smart coaster for your drinks. It recognizes when a glass is near empty and then glows yellow to alert waiters that you will be in need of a re ll soon. Designed speci cally for…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 287. How I’m building my bi-copter with Android and Arduino Last year I was fascinated by the “How to build your own Quadrocopter” by Lenz Grimmer and decided that somehow I should try to do a similar thing. This talk is about the way I’m building a bi-copter using lessons learned for last year’s talk…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 288. Discreet Data Logger using Arduino There is no better way to hide a covert device than to stick it inside a larger conspicuous device. That said… Essentially, this is a guide for making a data logging system for use with the breathalyzer microphone. To accomplish this, an Arduino and a…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Project Ideas, Projects 289. A DVD Player Hack This is a description of an open source/open hardware project of a remotely controlled Arduino (Freeduino) based clock/thermometer utilising power supply and VFD panel from a broken DVD player in a custom made acrylic enclosure. The aim of the project was to
  • 39. demonstrate what could…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 290. Texting mat using arduino Lusha and May created a “Text-Mat”. This surface can allow the user to write and send messages using one’s feet. This text-mat is designed to send secret messages during meetings or classes. The design utilizes conductive fabric and thread, as well as a ora-board. The…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 291. The KITT-duino, DIY Larson Scanner with an Arduino IMPORTANT: CODE IS NOW UPDATED. FIXES INCLUDE ADDING AN INTEGER VALUE TO MANIPULATE TIMING AND FIXING A DOUBLE-BLINKING LED. Thanks. It is my understanding that many Larson Scanners can only pulse from side to side. I felt that that needed to be changed, seeing as…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, How To – DIY – Projects 292. Low cost digital microscope with automated slide movement using arduino This is an easy-to-implement product modi cation that will be extremely useful for clinicians, pathologists, researchers or other microscopy enthusiasts interested in capturing whole slide images or creating virtual slides for later use. The device allows one to take multiple images of the slide under high…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects 293. Obstacle avoidance Arduino robot – build your own larryBot So after 5 previous versions that had various aws, I now have an Arduino robot that actually works and although basic is very cheap – although there a probably a few more aws so please point them out to me but this is a good…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 294. Water Tank Depth Sensor using Arduino Water is a precious resource in many parts of the world, and many people rely on water tanks to supplement their water supply by storing collected rainwater or water pumped from a well or bore. But how do you measure how full a tank is?…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 295. Arduino Dragon Wings Hello World!! I am making this Instructables on how to make arduino controlled dragon wings. XD I planned on wearing these dressed as Smaug to ‘The Hobbit Desolation of Smaug’ premier but I didn’t complete the entire out t in time, but I will continue working…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 296. Augmenting Plant Behavior Through Robotics using Arduino The PhytoBot is a semi-intelligent plant which responds to external stimulus (light intensity and light location) and responds to it as a phototropic plant would. Essentially it is designed as a piece of interactive artwork for operation over a long period of time. The motivation…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects
  • 40. 297. Rabbit Ears on a Cap using Arduino We are students from Singapore Polytechnic. After looking at the famous Necomimi Arduino Cat Ears, we decided to give it a try to help us familiarise ourselves with the accelerometer and the arduino. Using the materials that we had on hand, we managed to produce…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 298. Geoweaver: A Walking 3D Printer Hexapod using arduino Geoweaver is a student designed (team members Jia Wu, Mary Sek, and Je Maeshiro) robot created in the Creative Architecture Machines advanced options studio at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, California, taught by Jason Kelly Johnson of Future Cities Lab…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 299. Programmable auto filter interface for C64 using Arduino Overview A software / hardware combo that allows for control of the analog lter inside a Commodore 64 that is running Cynthcart from a host computer (eg, Macbok, PC). Software • 16-step lter sequencer • Set the speed of the lter sequence (with intervals between…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 300. Control Access of Arduino YÚN with MySQL, PHP5 and Python Hello Friends! Well, as you know, in September the new premiere shield  of Arduino, Arduino YUN. This little friend has a Linux embedded system with which we can run anything you can think of (at least so far). While there is very little information on…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 301. All in one Remote using Arduino Introduction August, 2007  One of my other hobbies is photography, and, about a year ago, I purchased a new digicam – a Panasonic FZ30. I joined the Panasonic forum on the dpreview site. One of the posters, a programmer and electronic hobbyist, designed a nifty wireless…… Listed under: Projects, Radio Projects 302. Simple Arduino Wing Shield I buy a lot of these stackable Arduino header sets because they are handy for a lot of things. I make some breakout boards with them, I use them to add some clearance between a taller shield and the next shield that I am stacking…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 303. Polar Plotter on Arduino and MakerBeams
  • 41. The project A polar plotter is a plotter with a rotating, extendable arm. Its characteristics di er greatly from those of a traditional plotter, which in most areas have a superior design. You could say the polar plotter is more portable or something, but mainly I…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, Projects 304. Build the Remote Control Bobble-head Bobbler! using arduino Bobble-heads!!! Every sports fan loves em, but they’re kind of boring, just sitting frozen on your shelf I thought it might be fun to create an Automatic Bobble-head Bobbler something that can wake that old bobble-head up and get him nodding away. I nally found…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 305. Clock with Meggy Jr RGB using Arduino There is a saying: “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. Well, when I see a display, I think of clocks I will show you here how to easily make a simple digital clock by hacking Meggy Jr RGB.…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 306. Let’s cook: 3D scanner based on Arduino and Processing Ever wonder of copypaste method, usable in real life, not only in virtual reality? Me too. It is  21th century, and those are nearer than most of all can imagine! This is possible thank to 3d scanners and printers. So let’s try to scan something!…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 307. Motion Sensing Eye using arduino I have always wanted to make something with my LED dot matrix display, and so when I found a old alarm motion sensor I knew just what to make, a Motion Sensing Eye! This instructable will hopefully nish with you having a working dmd, that…… Listed under: LED Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 308. LED Clock A 24-hour clock with hour, minute, and second indicators. Here’s the catch, despite being a digital media (LED’s) it is still displaying using an analog method (circles!). I nished making this clock months ago but did not bring it with me to school so I…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, LED Projects 309. Arduino Webserver Control Lights, Relays, Servos, etc… In this project using only an Arduino with an Ethernet shield. I’ll be controlling one LED and a servo, but you can apply this method to control a DC motors, buzzers, relays, stepper motors, etc.. Overview: When you upload the the code provided in this…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 310. Vehicle Telemetry Platform using Arduino Ever wondered what goes on under the hood of your car? Wish you could peek inside the engine management system and read values from it? Annoyed that your dashboard displays a cryptic “Check Engine” light (yep, the engine is still there) but gives absolutely no…… Listed under: Car Projects 311. Weather Station Receiver using Arduino
  • 42. The incredible popularity of home weather stations shows that it’s not just farmers who are interested in the weather. Many people want to be able to track and record weather events within their local environment rather than relying on a state or national weather service…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 312. Arduino Beer Pong Arcade We are going to be making a ashy beer pong table.   The table lights up as cups are eliminated and old style arcade sounds are played. This games elevates the subtle art of BEER PONG to a new level.  A sporting level.  A competitive, …… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 313. Lunch Decider Wheel using arduino The lunch decider wheel is basically a carnival-style wheel that spins every day at 11:45am and selects what is for lunch. It came about on account of my perpetual indecision on this very important culinary matter. In fact, this device does more than just decide…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 314. Arduino: Making a set of traffic lights THIS PROJECT IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS FEEDBACK APPRECIATED!!!This tutorial will step you through the process of creating a set of controlable and con gurable tra c lights whilst also teaching you the basics of Arduino. Some knowledge is needed and I highly recommend reading and…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects 315. 3D Printed Webcam Controller The camera controller box is an easy way to rotate a webcam from a PC or remotely through the internet. Step 1: Materials and 3D les In this project I used a Teensy 2.0 micro-controller since it was available, but you can use any other MCU like an ATtiny85…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 316. Woooshing leds – Rotated animation by arduino This project allows you draw in the air letters, symbols or other shapes – as you like. Controlled by the Arduino, the 7 simple leds blinking on and o – creating the illusion of oating text in the air. This combination of simple components with…… Listed under: LED Projects 317. UnDecima Audio Output from Arduino I already have one project where arduino outputs audio signal to USB speakers via software 10-bits PWM.  In rst, I was not satis ed with quality of sound generated via PWM. There are just not enough speed in arduino engine  to run PWM well.  For example for…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 318. Security / Automation Sensors using Arduino Security system sensors such as motion detectors, reed switches, pressure mats, glass-break detectors, infra-red beams, and conductive lm can be very handy for all sorts of things including home automation systems, interactive art installations – and sometimes even security systems! Almost all security system sensors…… Listed under: Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
  • 43. 319. Interval Long Exposure Camera There’s a real beauty in long exposure photography.  Hours and days and weeks and months and even years can be condensed onto a single frame, and that frame will catalog the constants in our fast paced and forever changing lives.  However, the issue is that…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 320. Lego Technic Car with Arduino + XBee Wireless Control I was perusing Instructables one ne winter Saturday, when my 8 yo son came in and peered over my shoulder and saw this: http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-Lego-Car/ by sath02. My son is a huge fan of all things Lego, and loves robots and cars, and this was right…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 321. Visual Navigator Making it MOBILE using Arduino Obstacle avoiding vehicle, continue in “3D Laser Range Finder” series ( project 1, project 2). The basic idea is the same, measuring distance using red laser pointers, CCD analog camera and Arduino UNO.  Modi cation was made in geometry.  Two lasers were set for “far eld”…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 322. The Adventure of Electricity: An interactive light diorama Where does electricity come from? Who invented the light bulb? How do cities use this technology today? These are just a few questions that we hope to address in this interactive diorama, The Adventure of Electricity! This project was designed for educational purposes so that…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 323. 8x8x8 LED Cube with Arduino Mega (+Sound +PS controller +Game) This is a instructable which is based on the Cube by Chr, ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Led-Cube-8x8x8/ ) by SuperTech-IT, ( http://www.instructables.com/id/CHRs-8X8X8-LED-Cu… ) and by das-labor.org, ( http://www.das- labor.org/wiki/Borg3d_Bauanleitung… ) but i think its better and easier. I started this Project without any skills from soldering toprogramming. First of…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 324. Tears of Rainbow using an Arduino It’s time to release new updates for my rst (ever) project with Arduino, “Color Light Music”.  From artistic perspective, VU BarGraph style (IMHO) is the best one for spectral dynamic representation, and not much could be improved on this side. But this time, it cross my…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 325. Joystick controlled Camera using Arduino Hi, First of all, my English is not perfect =) I’ve seen many projects with Arduino that describes how to control 2 servo’s with a joystick or use a lcd screen. All of the projects that i have seen are all seperate things. So i…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 326. HandSight: A Glove for the Blind to Feel Shapes and Navigate Obstacles HandSight is a prototype glove to aid the blind. It can sense the lightness or darkness of a surface with tactile feedback from a vibration motor for each individual nger. It can also sense distance from physical objects or obstructions and indicate direction and distance…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects
  • 44. 327. Arduino IR Musical Stairs This is a small scaled musical stairs! It was a project that had a deadline; had only two days to build it. So, it is a very small scaled project, but still serves its purpose! IR Sensor (receiver) that I used is TSOP38238 from Adafruit,…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 328. Gyro Camera for Motorcycle using Arduino As seen in MotoGP Race, the rider is seen riding through corners while laying aside his bike to the left and right. But there is an interesting moment when the motor looks to collapse sideward, the front views remain horizontally. How could that be? Such…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 329. Building a device that clips to your belt Our goal in this step-by-step instructable is to build a device you can clip to your belt and wear throughout the day.  This device will log data that, when downloaded to a back-end server system, will provide a report showing the location history of your…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 330. Hidden Wall Outlet Safe (w/Arduino Lock) using arduino Stash your valuables where no one will ever suspect. Wall outlets are perfect for stashing valuables since you have tons of them at home. You must be crazy enough to search every household outlet for a secret stash. Probably, no one would even think of…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 331. Power Arduino with a cellphone Old cellphones are easy to acquire and they have built in lithium charging circuitry. What a wonderful base for a power supply for small mobile things. I hooked up a cellphone to the arduino with the ability to charge the cellphone when you plug the…… Listed under: Phone Projects 332. DIY Arduino Motor Shield [for only $8!] (L298N 2x4A) Today, I’m going to show you how to make an Arduino motor shield (driver) at a low cost. It works splendidly, its posses almost all the characteristics of the original Arduino motor shield. It’s almost considered as a clone. The original Arduino motor shield has the…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Motor Projects 333. Intermediate Arduino: Inputs and Outputs using arduino Continuing from my Intro to Arduino post, this Instructable will go over some slightly more advanced topics with Arduino, speci cally relating to controlling and managing many inputs and outputs. The next class covers how to connect the Arduino’s inputs and outputs to MIDI. Parts List:…… Listed under: LED Projects
  • 45. 334. EL Wire Hat: Sequenced and Sound Activated with Remote Control Welcome to the Instructable guide of my EL Wire hat with some fun features. The concept is an EL Wired hat with 8 sequenced EL wires controlled by a wired remote. Multiple speed controllable sequence modes are pre-programmed into an Arduino UNO, including a sound…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 335. Earth Globe Rotating With Arduino Or Raspberry Pi Controlled Stepper Motor using arduino This instructable describes how to upgrade your globe to a motorized version. It looks amazingly better on the shelf when it is slowly rotating, and any demonstration with your kids (to explain the day/night cycle or the seasons) will gain in interest. No need to…… Listed under: Motor Projects 336. TV Remote Controlled Car Nothing is worse than loosing the controller that came with your remote control car. Replace that sucker with an arduino and the one remote that always seems to be around, the TV remote! Remove these ads by Signing Up Step 1: Materials The materials for…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects 337. Arduino Solar Cell Tester When I’m building Solar Shrubs and other solar-powered creations, I often scavenge cells from various o -the-shelf devices such as solar garden or security lights. But these cells are rarely labeled as to their voltage, current, and power output. So it’s o to my bread-boarding station. First, I put each cell under…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects, Solar energy projects 338. Capteur temperature choix du type de degres par infrarouge using arduino ENGLISH VERSION HERE Dans ce programme nous allons voir comment capter une température et a cher sa valeur sur un lecteur LCD en choisissant si on veut l’a cher en°C ou °F grâce à une télécommande infrarouge. Dans ce tuto j’utilise: -Une carte SainSmart (similaire à Arduino…… Listed under: LCD Projects 339. A World of Possibilities with Java ME + Bluetooth + Arduino “This presentation shows how to easily go from user stories to automated integration tests that themselves read like user stories. You can accomplish this by using custom domain-speci c languages. Too often our automated integration tests rely on coding and intimate technical knowledge of our systems,…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 340. Smart Snow Globe (gives snow day alerts) using arduino What does a smart snow globe do? It tells you if tomorrow’s going to be a snow day! Is it snowing tonight? Will you have the day o from school or work tomorrow? Put this snow globe next to your bed when you go to…… Listed under: Radio Projects 341. 4x4x4 interactive LED-cube with Arduino
  • 46. To explain my 4x4x4 interactive LED-cube published before, a bit more clear, I will try to make my rst step by step instructable. This 4x4x4 cube is interactive by using the top four corner LEDs both as LEDs and as sensors that will react on…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 342. IR Remote Controlled Color Changing Cloud (Arduino) CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATED INSTRUCTABLE: http://www.instructables.com/id/IR-Rainbow-Cloud-ver-1/ This is a project I created for a Digital Art and Installations class.   The class covered basics of several types of programming, and our projects were meant to be an interactive cross between art and technology.  This was a fun…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 343. A Voice Shield for Arduino Board The objective of this project is to build an Arduino voice shield to empower thousands of voice related applications! All this mostly thanks to an integrated ISD1790PY chip. This particular voice/TTS  feature can be useful to integrate voice messages in alarm systems, to implement generic…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 344. Open Bitcoin ATM using arduino The world’s rst completely open-source Bitcoin ATM for Education and Experimentation. http://openbitcoinatm.org for more information. Step 1: Fabricate Box and Faceplate Out of a piece of 12″x12″ aluminum sheet metal, cut two rectangles and drill six rivet holes and four holes to attach the bill acceptor.…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 345. Arduino Wii nunchuck and Wii motion plus with updated code for IDE 1.0.2 and LEDs So, I was trying to hack my Wii nunchuck because I want to control motors and lights with the Wii nunchuck. The rst problem that I found was how to connect the control without an adapter, I was planning to make one, but when I…… Listed under: LED Projects 346. LED Dawn / Sunrise Alarm Clock, Nightlight & Security Light – Arduino Compatible As the nights gradually lengthened in autumn 2011, I discovered the joys of Arduino and thought that it would be a great way to implement something that I have wanted for a long while – a gentle way to wake up on a winter’s morning. …… Listed under: LED Projects, Security – Safety Projects 347. Programming the Arduino I/O pins Overview The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header,…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects 348. Arduino, Sensors, and MIDI Now that you’re up to speed on using Arduino’s inputs and outputs, this Instructable will give you everything you need to get started using sensors to trigger MIDI notes from Arduino. This post is the last installment in a series of workshops I led at…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects
  • 47. 349. Stripboard Arduino In this, my rst Instructable I’m going to show you how to make a stripped down Arduino for a fraction of the price, using Stripboard/Veroboard. Material List: 1x Atmel ATMega168 = �2.65 1x Stipboard = 72p 1x 7805 Voltage regulator = 26p 2x LEDs =…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects 350. Control an Arduino With a Wristwatch (TI eZ430 Chronos) The watch The Texas Instruments eZ430 Chronos is a cool gadget. It has bidirectional radio communication, and a whole bunch of sensors: temperature, pressure, acceleration. In fact, it is a development kit for the MSP 430 (a low- power microcontroller), that TI packaged as a watch…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 351. SuperScope: Circuit Simulation through Arduino-Processing Interface nto the program where you can physically manipulate them. Arduino tests for the value of the component (a capacitor, inductor, resistor, or waveform of speci c frequency) then sends the data to Processing. Imported components can then be plugged into circuit schematics. SuperScope builds upon the…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 352. Improved Simple Wing Shield using arduino Not too long ago, I made my own version of the popular Wing Shield out of some spare parts and scraps of perf board I had laying around. Instead of the screw terminals that the regular wing shield uses, I used some female headers that…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 353. A credit card sized Ethernet Arduino compatable controller board I love the Arduino as a simple and accessible controller platform for many varied projects.  A few months ago, a purchased an Ethernet shield for my Arduino controller to work on some projects with a mate of mine – it was a massive hit -…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 354. Make Your Own GRBL CNC Pendant So you just nished your DIY CNC machine, set up GRBL and even cut your rst part.  Now what?  Well, did you know that as of GRBL v0.8 there are pinouts some really useful commands such as Cycle Start, Feed Hold and a Soft Reset?…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 355. How to access 5 buttons through 1 Arduino input Using this method, I’ll show you how you can access 5 (or even more) inputs through 1 Arduino pin. These buttons will only be read correctly if only one is pushed at any time though. As we go through it I’ll explain whatever background info…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Project Ideas, LED Projects, Projects 356. LittleBitty Joe using arduino Say Hello to littleBitty Joe! Joe is my school’s mascot! Speak to Joe and watch his eyebrows lift, whiskers vibrate, eyes illuminate, heart spin and hear him ROAR! Not only does his roaring a ect work with our project, but it can de nitely work with your…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
  • 48. 357. Digispark DIY: The smallest USB Arduino Digispark is an ATtiny85 based microcontroller development board come with USB interface. Coding is similar to Arduino, and it use the familiar Arduino IDE for development. Digispark is copyrighted by Digistump LLC (digistump.com) and the full license is here: http://digistump.com/wiki/digispark/policy Speci cation: Support for the Arduino IDE…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 358. 3D-Printed Biologically-Inspired Robotics I have been spending the last few months doing research into biologically inspired robotic structures. While my approach may seem formalistic in nature, these devices were simply a means for ultimately conducting social research. This desire stems from my experience building Simple Bots, and their…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 359. Light Clapper using arduino This is a project that I quickly made one night because I wanted to ‘clap’ to turn o and on the light in my room! I have a small room for myself, so I basically have no other noise around. So, I was able to…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 360. RC Car Anti-Crash System Using Arduino Hi guys! So for my electronics class this year we were tasked with creating some kind of electronic gadget in order to demonstrate what we learned over the semester. Being a car-loving type of guy, I decided to get a cheap RC car and see…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects 361. Arduilay Arduilay is an 8 channel AC relay box for use with Arduino, Max/MSP, Processing, etc.  I designed this system as an alternative to the USB>DMX 4 channel relay option.  While DMX gives you dimming control, the setup is easily 5 times as expensive as this…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 362. ARDUINO Laser 3D Tracking or Range Finder The idea of using triangulation for distance measurements is well known since Pythagorean time, when his brilliant formula become available for mathematicians. What is new in this design, is lasers power control via “blooming” e ect of CMOS camera. Here this “negative” e ect was put to…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 363. Cheap and effective Sous Vide cooker (Arduino powered)
  • 49. Sous-vide cooking is a great new way of cooking food. I will not explain why and how it works here… for great recipes and explanations, you can check out those guys : http://modernistcuisine.com/2013/01/why-cook-sous-… Unfortunately, a good (and I mean precise to the half °C) sous-vide…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 364. 2 player Pong using Arduino I started with the Instructable from Kyle Brinckerho ; http://www.instructables.com/id/Ardu-pong-the-Arduino-based- pong-console/ Thanks Kyle! and the following at Make magazine http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/08/arduino- pong.html and I see the original code is attributed to Pete Lamonica Thanks Pete!! I am using the paddles instead of the joy stick and I have made…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 365. Arduino Step Sequencer I was wondering about on making a sequencer, a big 16 step sequencer was what I wanted to make. To it’s full extension with lots of features including single leds for each step, midi input and output, etc. Then I realised that I should start from a…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 366. ASCII Table using Arduino Demonstrates the advanced serial printing functions by generating a table of characters and their ASCII values in decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary. For more on ASCII, see asciitable.com Circuit image developed using Fritzing. For more circuit examples, see the Fritzing project page None, but the Arduino has to…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 367. A Simple and Very Easy Inverted Pendulum Balancing Robot Let’s make a simple inverted balancing robot, and operate it. You need only half a day to do them, if you have an arduino and some materials. [a video of a robot you would make] introduction: After a few work with arduino, I have thought…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 368. Wii Nunchuck Arduino Spirit Level Thanks to: http://jeonlab.wordpress.com/ Since I have read an article on todbot blog, I bought a couple of Wii Nunchucks from ebay. I don’t remember how much I paid for them, but it was much cheaper than buying the accelerometer breakout boards. With the nunchuck data reading…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects 369. Nama Instrument 1.0 A motion sensing soft-circuit interface. The following instructable will guide you through the construction of your own personalized Nama Instrument. I’d love to hear some feedback. Hope you like it and it serves you somehow! : ) Access http://www.viraseres.com/nama to download the project’s open source les…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects 370. Wex, the One Eyed Watcher using an Arduino Wex detects your location with ultrasonic sensors then follows you with his one ashing eye.  His red “heartbeat” can be seen through his mouth. Step 1: Parts needed include: Arduino Two ping ultrasonic sensors Futaba s3103 servo Radio Shack 276-0016 7 color led
  • 50. Radio Shack …… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 371. OpenSquare – Write big with a RC car Hi there, You’re going to transform any RC toy car into a big message writer that can be used to transform your city squares into witty messages, political statements or beautiful drawings, and for less than 20$. The idea is to drop a trail of…… Listed under: Car Projects 372. Building a Sentry Gun with Laser Trip Wire System and Arduino *NOTE* THIS PROJECT IS DONE BY A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC. Concept: Trigger gun when laser is blocked by intruding object. Note: Tilting is included for expandability but not used in this project. Skill Level: Basic soldering and basic metal works Things You…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects 373. I just wanna hold your hand Conducting energy through people to stimulate tangible public interactions http://ijustwannaholdyourhand.com/ http://vimeo.com/56350598 What did we do? We put together an Arduino, some wire, a Mac mini and a DLP Projector, then created a pair of hands out of aluminum. We additionally 3D printed some wall plates…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 374. How to Control a Ton of RGB LEDs with Arduino & TLC5940 This video explains how to use the 16 channel PWM controller TLC5940 The CODE: //Texas Instruments TLC 5940 with Arduino //www.kevindarrah.com #include <SPI.h>//Serial Peripheral Interface Library byte ch=0, chbit=0, spibit=0, spibyte=0;// variables used by tlc sub routine int SINData;//variable used to shift data to the…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects, PWM Projects 375. Forget Me Not- Remote Flower Watering Hi everyone, Lucy Matchett, Nicole Yi Messier, and Joselyn McDonald (Snax_and_Macs) made a remote ower-watering device so you can water your loved ones’ plants when you water your own. We used Arduinos, a photoresistor, a servo, Arduino and Processing sketches, Spacebrew, and a little elbow…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 376. How to build an Arduino synth This is a super simple and easily customizable little synthesizer. This is my rst time using the Arduino and also with acrylic, both I found very fun to work with though.  This is also my rst Instructables so hopefully I have explained this well enough.…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 377. Palm Arduino V3 I design and create this Palm Arduino V3 prototype PCB, as I was tired of recreating Arduino Compatible on perf board every time I prototyping a new project, especially when I had to spend  a lot of time tracing the wiring to see that I…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects
  • 51. 378. Smart Distance Measuring Tape v2 After posting up the v1 of my project many people requested an more detailed instructable. So i decided to start with a new one with a little upgrades to my previous instructable. What does this thing do? Well its quite simple it is just an…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 379. 2 Ways to Papercraft Stopmotion Good morning, please take a seat and watch that tofu wobble. This is not CGI, it is honest work of a papercraftsman. These are, in fact, 16 di erent papercubes that switch places in each frame. That technique is commonly known as replacement stopmotion. Problem: It only…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 380. Building an Open Archival Scanning Robot Using Python and Arduino Project Gado is an initiative which aims to create an open-source archival scanning robot which small archives can purchase for $500 and use to autonomously scan their photographic collections. This talk presents the Gado 2, a prototype… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 381. Bird cage LED daylight simulation system Sometimes you get a chance to combine helping out your family with a nice hobby project.. In this case my father in law was looking for a lighting system for his bird breeding cages. A daylight simulation system to be exact. He asked me to…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, LED Projects 382. Arduino Solar Shield – A DIY solar source for your projects without waiting for PCBs This instructable is a basic version of Bley Joel’s (“It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shu es in”) Solar Shield, and it should work for most arduinos.  I’ve tested it with SparkFun’s Arduino Pro, and the new Leonardo. Myself and the other Solar…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects, Solar energy projects 383. Audio Input to Arduino The easiest way to connect an audio signal to your arduino, is to build a simple 3 components (2 resistors plus cap) circuitry shown on the rst drawings on right side. Disadvantage: there is no ampli er, and consequently sensitivity would be low, hardly enough to…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 384. Burn Arduino Bootloader on Atmega-328 TQFP and DIP chips on Breadboard Parts required (Hardware) Arduino Uno Board (1) TQFP 32 to DIP 28 Adapter (1) Link Atmega TQFP 32 pin chip (1) Atmega DIP 28 pin chip (1) 10K resistor (1) 16MHz crystal (1) 18pf – 22pf capacitor (2) Tact Switch (1) Jumper wires (few) LED…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 385. How to make a LED 7-segment display with or without Arduino
  • 52. I’m going to show you how to make a 7 segment display with LEDS. Combine with Arduino to create countdown timers, simple text, and more. I like to make original projects. I searched the whole of instructables and didn’t nd one like this. In fact,…… Listed under: LED Projects 386. Ariadne – a 1st person maze on a 16×2 LCD using Arduino This game is a homage to Ariadne, the maze-generator from Inception  If you haven’t seen the movie yet – watch this video again after you do (you can also watch it now – it’s not a spoiler, it’s just funnier for inception-vets). The nice thing about…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Project Ideas, LCD Projects, Projects 387. Arduino Control DC Motor via Bluetooth Hi guys, In this project we will control a DC motor with a smartphone via bluetooth. This project is great to learn more about: -DC motor -Interfacing Arduino with your smartphone -Bluetooth module -L293D you can visit my website for more electronic projects, interesting news…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Motor Projects, Phone Projects, Projects 388. Arduino Powered 3-zone thermostat I was looking at all those swoopy-zoomy internet connected and controllable thermostats. “Self,” I told myself, “we should make one of those.” He didn’t seem all that excited about that – I mean, what do we know about hardware, rmware, electronics or HVAC? Well, now’s…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects 389. DIY BioPrinter Bioprinting is printing with biological materials. Think of it as 3D printing, but with squishier ingredients! There’s a lot of work being done at research labs and big companies like Organovo on print human tissues and human organs, with an eye towards drug testing, and…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 390. Simple RC car for beginners (Android control over Bluetooth) This is a simple project of Android Bluetooth Car with Bluetooth control. Arduino controller is used To control the car used Android-device with a built-in accelerometer. Tilt forward – car goes forward, tilt to the left – car turns to the left, tilt back – car…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 391. Arduino Digital 7-Segment Thermometer This a guide for an Arduino version, but I am working on a mini ATtiny84 version. Once I get that working, I will post another Instructable on how to make it. I’m sure you could make this same thermometer with an LM35 also, if that’s…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects 392. Wi-Fi Body Scale with Arduino Board In this post we present the design of a scale that connects to the Internet and automatically sends weight info on a Google Document. The project is composed of Arduino Uno board Wi-Fi shield additional shield that we used to manage data collection and I/O with…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Medical – Health based Projects, Projects
  • 53. 393. Playing Wave file using arduino This is a simple circuit to play wav les using arduino Nano V3.0 ,it consist from 4 buttons ,each one play speci c wav le loaded to SD card. Step 1: Parts 1- Arduino Nano V3.0 (I used the chines version called Funduino Nano). 2- SD…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 394. Paint Pulse: Digital Water Marbling Paint Pulse is a project which seeks to build upon the water marbling crafts of Ebru and Suminagashi with digital behavioral additions. The idea is to design intricate, owing patterns of paint directly on the surface of water which you can capture on the surface of paper. Expert…… Listed under: Other Projects 395. Bubblesteen Bubble Machine using an Arduino Is it a 3D Spherical Atmosphere Encapsulated Phosphorous Printer?   YES! Is it a CNC Anti Gravity transparent Orb Machine!   YES! Its The Bubblesteen Bubble Machine! The spherical miracle that kids and cats have been waiting for. It comes complete with robotic edge detection( when a bubble hits an…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 396. Cheap and Easy MP3 Shield for Arduino This is a follow up to an earlier Instructable for attaching the guts of a cheap clip MP3 player to an Arduino. http://www.instructables.com/id/MP3-Interface-for-Arduino-Cheap-and-Easy/ The previous Instuctable showed how to use the Arduino to control all of the functions of the MP3 player: volume increase and decrease,…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 397. Charlieplexed Arduino 8×8 LED Grid Display Shield made and simulated in 123D Circuits edit: Wow, this won an awesome prize! Very many thanks guys! Charlieplexing (http://wealoneonearth.blogspot.nl/2013/03/design-note-charlieplexing-led-matrices.html) is a powerful method for driving a large number of LEDs from a relatively small amount of IO pin and without using any extra components. The technique makes use of the fact…… Listed under: LED Projects 398. How to make a multi-layered acrylic and LED sculpture with variable lighting levels using Arduino Here you can nd out how to make you very own n as made for the exhibition www.laplandscape.co.uk curated by art/design group Lapland. More images can be seen at ickr This exhibition runs from Wednesday 26 November – Friday 12 December 2008 inclusive, and had…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 399. Remote control via GPRS/GSM SMS(Arduino)
  • 54. Remote control, especially when this no ethernet or Wi in the outdoor, has been a very profound things in the past. When I was a child, I always image that I have an equipment which can control all home appliances. Now, this becomes a reality,with…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Phone Projects 400. Fairly Simple Simon – the evolution of an Arduino game Important notice: Final (i.e. relevant) version is at the last step of this instructable. If you want to build a Simon, that is the recommended version. The rest of the steps show how this evolved from a bare-bones game for LED 13 and Serial (i.e.…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 401. LilyPad Arduino Totoro Plush with Umbrella Materials: For Totoro: Felt:  1 black, 3 grey, 1 white, 1 beige Needle Black Thread Poly- l stu ng Cardstock Scissors Pins Pen or chalk DIY Totoro Plush Tutorial HERE Totoro Pattern HERE For Umbrella: 3 or 4 di erent types of fabric Felt: 1 grey, 1 black…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects 402. Arduino GSM shield This is a very low cost and simple Arduino GSM and GPRS shield. We use the module SIMCom SIM900 . It’s the cheaper module now avalaible in the market. The module is not simple to mount by an hobbyst, so we use the Breakboard TDGGSM_900…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Phone Projects 403. Compact 3-in-1 Stripboard DIYduino with Integrated Sensor and L298N Motor Shield I am presenting a compact design of a stripboard Arduino board (DIYduino) that includes a 2A motor driver and has additionally the functionality of a sensor shield. The 2-channel version cost approximately $29.43 and is more a ordable compared to $39.00 for a commercially available system…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 404. Dogduino:The Automatic Dog Feeder using Arduino Tired of having to nd the dog food to feed the dog? Tired of having to get up early so your dog doesn’t attack you for his food? Are just plain lazy? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this instructable is for…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Project Ideas 405. Easy Programmable EL-Wire Wall Art Project with Cool-Neon using arduino Blank space, what to do?, what to do? Our hackerspace has a blank brick wall above the replace. It’s been a cold winter so we’ve had a fair number of res, but there is just something wrong about a blank brick wall. Well in this…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 406. The Arduino OctoSynth What is the OctoSynth you may ask? The octosynth is a polyphonic synthesizer that is able to produce eight Pulse Width Modulated tones that form together a musical scale. In English terms, it is a 8 key electronic organ that can play more than one…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 407. Microcontrolled AC switch using arduino
  • 55. Always wanted to take total control of your electric appliances even without being at home? Well, thanks to this instructable you will be able to do that and much more. Some friendly suggestions before starting: Electricity is very dangerous, read and follow the “DANGER:” advices…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 408. Representing audio through vibration with Arduino This project functions to display sound using vibration.  You plug your iPod, computer, or TV into it and get tactile feedback representing the loudness of the audio.  It can help deaf people to experience sound. Stu you need: Arduino USB Cable Computer running Arduino software…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 409. How to Build a Robot – The BeetleBot Welcome! I have been in robotics since I was a kid and I am very passionate by robotics. I learn BEAM robotics around 1997-98 and started building robots for a science faire project call “Insectroides” in 2001. http://robomaniac.solarbotics.net ( they change server and the website…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 410. Psycho Scooter Scramble using an Arduino Psycho Scooter Scramble is a blind-driving electric wheelchair game. It consists of two riders, strapped into electric wheelchairs, and two blindfolded pilots, who remotely control the wheelchairs from the sidelines based on information given over headset by their driver. The basic mechanic is simple: players…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 411. Mug Music: Turn Water Into an Instrument with Arduino and ChucK What if you could turn any conductive surface into an instrument? Like, say…a mug of water? Best of all, it’s cheap; you’ll only need $1 worth of extra electrical components (not including the Arduino).   For this project, my friend Harvest and I combined Disney’s Touché…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 412. Making Robots Using Android and Arduino udar Muthu gives a talk on Making Robots Using Android and Arduino at Droidcon India 2011 by HasGeek.  … Listed under: Arduino Android, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 413. PORTABLE FORCED-AIR COOLING UNIT here is growing interest in the commercial production of high-value specialty fruit such as strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries. Much of the small fruit grown in North Carolina is currently marketed through pick-your- own establishments or roadside stands. A strong demand for these small fruit items…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 414. Perfboard Hackduino Arduino-compatible circuit Never again will you have to dismantle a nished project just to reuse an Arduino board! This tutorial will go through the steps involved in fabricating your own Arduino-compatible circuit using just ~$8 of parts (this includes the ATMega chip!).  This is perfect for installing and embedding…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects
  • 56. 415. A solar tracking automatic motorized window blind retrofit using Arduino Buildings account for 20-40% of total energy use in developed countries. Window shades (or blinds) can help to reduce building energy use and improve visual comfort (i.e., reducing glare and increasing daylighting). A recent study showed that occupants are fairly inactive when operating manual roller…… Listed under: Motor Projects 416. Flashlight tag using an Arduino board You probably know the game of ashlight-tag. You just run around in the dark on a campsite. You hold your ashlight and try to shine it on one of the other kids, without the other kids shining their lights on you. I wanted to make…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 417. Fish Sensing Overview Once again, my project was motivated by my curiosity to explore interesting and unfamiliar territory.  I decided to see if I could make my own capacitive sensor and then use it in a project of some sort.  After numerous  ascoes with Arduino and computers, I was…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 418. StopIt! LED Game (powered by arduino) This project was inspired by this video from YouTube and the Pendulum Challenge Kit from Makershed.com. Its a simple game consisting of ve LED lights and one pushbutton switch. The LEDs ash in a sequence and the player must press the button when the middle…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED Projects 419. Arduino 3-axis Mini Lazer Paper-Cutter Updated : 16/3 Add step 4, about using the stage. Updated : 18/3 Add photos (cutting vinyl adhesive sheet) Updated : 19/3 Add step 5, acting as pen plotter Updated : 20/3 Add laser engraving video (Wood) and photo Updated : 22/3 Add 2 drawings…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 420. Arduino: an easier way to work with seven segment displays Ever have trouble programming code for seven segment displays? Well they made the 4511 to make things a whole lot easier. What the 4511 does is takes a 4 digit binary input value (ones and zeros), and converts it to a decimal value on a…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Projects 421. Buddy the on-screen seal Robot I’ve made a video documentation of my midterm project for my 544 class. To keep it shorter, I didn’t detail in the video that this is only a completed phase of a larger project: an autonomous robot seal. I was originally going to incorporate a…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
  • 57. 422. Arduino Joystick Breadboard with LCD Output Want to be able to control a couple of servos with a thumb-joystick? But don’t know where to start? I don’t have servos, but I can put you on the right track on how to do stu when you move the thumbstick around. This instructable…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LCD Projects, Projects 423. LilyPad Arduino Stuffed Fox Toy For a class on technology in libraries, I had to create a project that used the LilyPad Arduino, and I chose to create a stu ed animal that sings “Jesus Loves Me” while lights ash with the notes. I made a fox, but the pattern to…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 424. PCB on a Box using Arduino Board Sorry, but I hate cleaning windows, is one of my un nished business as usual, but I had to do (at least) every time I wanted to etch a circuit board printed by traditional (and perhaps unorthodox) of stick it in cellophane and let natural light…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Project Ideas, Projects 425. Arduino Candygrabber I’ve seen a lot of ways to communicate to arduino over the net, but none of them could handle pushing back the messages from arduino to the client(you) in real time and vice versa. In this instructable you will learn how to connect to your…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 426. Arduino Hardware PWM for stepper motor drives With our new project, JustAddSharks, we are very keen to support the development of open source control software for laser cutters. We are more than happy for people to modify our laser cutters, replace the control system with something suitably open source and then let…… Listed under: Motor Projects 427. How to build your very own Time Fountain using Arduino We have all seen the sweet videos on the tube! You know the magical water fountains that seems to “freeze” the water droplets in mid air, or even make them go backwards! I’ve been fascinated by these “magical” thingamabobs  for quite some while now, and a…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, How To – DIY – Projects 428. MMAE Graduate Robotics This page provides general information to students enrolled in the EML 6808 course, Analysis and Control of Robot Manipulators. Prerequisites for the course are: EML 4312C, EML 5271, or C.I. Kinematics and dynamics of multibody systems. The topics to be covered include: basic components of…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 429. Control your motors with L293D and Arduino After long research and trial and error, I have came up to a new walkthrough regarding this nice chip, the L293D. Each project is one project and each one has its own unique power con gurations, so you must be aware of the best battery choice…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects
  • 58. 430. Barista championship brewing stopwatch • Introduction using arduino Upon the needs of the (2014) World Barista Championship Rules and Regulations, an adequate and precise time measuring is needed during the competition. These measurements are usually done by regular stopwatches with all the bene ts (ease of use, common availability) and drawbacks (two stopwatches needed…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 431. Arduino browser based remote control (linux) We have kids.  I love them to bits but they keep hiding the remote control for the satellite and TV when they put the children’s channels on. After this happening on a daily basis for several years, and after my darling wife allowing me to…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects 432. Tiich System – Prototype Final Report Introduction: Our main goal with the Tiich system is to design a teaching aid/tool which would replace the conventional whiteboard in a classroom environment. We want our system to be used as an electronic based white board, having all the written information easily be saved…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 433. Lilypad Arduino Rocket Ship Cape I am taking a Children and Technology course for my MLS this semester, and one of our assignments is to create a toy using the LilyPad Arduino development board. The LilyPad Arduino is used to create e-textiles that you can program to do various things.…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 434. Web-controlled Twittering Roomba using an Arduino I wanted to see if I could operate my Roomba remotely and get it to report its status via Twitter while I was away from home. I also wanted to make the device independent of a computer. This is the solution I came up with…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Project Ideas, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 435. DIY Arduino Nebulophone Synth I originally wanted to purchase a Nebulophone but, my El-Cheapo price range didn’t like the tag. I realized that I could program my own AtMega 328 by using ArduinoISP Then I found out that if the code was Arduino compatible, why not just use the…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Phone Projects, Projects 436. Social Alarm Clock What it is: Sometimes we want to send special messages to the ones we love but they are sleeping. Soci Alarm Clock allows you to record a message from your browser and send to your beloved’s alarm clock. They just have to put it near…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects
  • 59. 437. Cookies adminitrator box [Electronics only] using arduino At home the cookies disappear relatively fast. ¿Why? Well, principally because of me and my father. That’s why my mother and my sister have to hide some to eat them later. It’s embarrassing, I know, but it’s because we are like “Oh, I want to…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 438. Arduino Fart-O-Meter OH NO! He didn’t! Yes I did! My project is simple: Farting in a chair and sending the signal wirelessly to a panel that shows the intensity of the fart! Words of caution: Please do not force yourself to fart, you might shit in your…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects 439. One Touch Wardrobe using an Arduino I use Arduino Duemilanove With Motor Driver Shield Microcontroller ATmega168 Operating Voltage 5V Input Voltage (recommended) 7-12V Input Voltage (limits) 6-20V Digital I/O Pins 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output) Analog Input Pins 6 DC Current per I/O Pin 40 mA DC Current for…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 440. Controlling an LED using a switch Concepts So you know what a switch is, but what can you do with it? One of the uses of a switch is to tell the controller to activate/deactivate di erent components. In this case we are going to use the switch to turn on and…… Listed under: LED Projects 441. Nursery Rhyme Hat using arduino I created the Nursery Rhyme Hat for a class on youth and technology.  I’m new to instructables and e-textiles, so please bear with me! This is the rst time I have used the Lilypad Arduino or any kind of soft circuit technology, so my coding…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 442. Rainbow Mega Pong Clock using Arduino This is my take on the clasic Pong clock with an RGB back light that changes every time the date is displayed. A big thanks to mrnick1234567 and his http://www.instructables.com/id/Pong-Word-Clock/ I did want the light to change randomly through the day but it made a mess of…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 443. Artist’s Machine Tutorial 1 Part One Materials needed for tutorial Working BBB, RBBB, Arduino, or other Arduino compatible (BBB shown in photos) Solderless breadboard 22 gauge solid wire for use with breadboard 3 6mm momentary switches 8 LED’s, any color 8 1k resistors, (470 ohm or 220…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 444. LilyPad Arduino e-Reader Case For a youth and technology class, we were assigned the creation of an Arduino LilyPad project.  I liked the idea of connecting the LilyPad project to literacy, so I chose to make a Kindle case that would play music [Hedwig’s Theme from the Harry Potter…… Listed
  • 60. under: How To – DIY – Projects 445. NESBot: Arduino Powered Robot beating Super Mario Bros for the NES This guide will take you through the steps to build an NES playing robot You will need: An Arduino Duemilanove (other boards will probably work, but you will have to adjust the steps for your device) Working NES Console Super Mario Bros. (Note: this must…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 446. Arduino V-Twin Flux Capacitor I SHALL CALL HIM ” PEE-WEE ” Personal Electronics Entertainment With Embedded Education. Basically a project that is fun and I learn a hole lot of stu from it. . This project started out as just a small robot so I could learn more about…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 447. Tweeting Cat Door using an Arduino Note: to see everything on one page, please go to: www.tweetingcatdoor.com After receiving many emails requesting Instructions and Kits for building the “Tweeting Cat Door “, I decided to make a version that is stand-alone and doesn’t need a computer to be run and that…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 448. The Photometric Camera and the CCDs The Photometric System The photometric camera for the SDSS consists of two TDI scanning CCD arrays, one, using 30 Tektronix/SITe 2048 x 2048 CCDs in a 5 by 6 array for ve-color photometry, and the other using 24 2048 x 400 chips for astrometry and…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 449. Mechanical Led Matrix Display First of all we would like to thank everybody that helped organizing the 2nd edition of Arduino Jam, and especially the Jo3ri, who supplied us with some quite cool goodies and kept us safe during the weekend. (Video will come soon!) This project is a…… Listed under: LCD Projects 450. Simple and Impressive Business Card Printer At some point most tinkerers and makers have to take the plunge into the real world – the world of suits and dividends and business cards. Without going completely “American Psycho” on your asses: business cards are important. In many ways they are our keys…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 451. Interactive Logo using an Arduino rst of all we would like to thank the organisation and especially the main sponsor, Capgemini, which made all of this possible. This project is a contribution to the rst belgian Arduino Jam (2012). During the Arduino Jam 2012, me and two other colleagues put our
  • 61. heads together…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 452. Vacuum form an Arduino If you have access to a vacuum former, or have constructed a DIY one to use, simply vacuum form a compact case to house your standalone electronics or arduino project. I made this at techshop! www.techshop.ws Step 1: Bill of materials Material to vacuum form…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 453. Scratch 4 Arduino and Cybot Control (Rover basics) I’ve had a couple of Cybots as well as the Tom robots for a number of years – every so often they get dragged out and tinkered with. Now is this years turn. I have decided to try my hand at Arduino control of the…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 454. [Arduino] Linefollower with photoresistors I built a linefollower robot that could be used in many di erent ways, and I summed up my project in some steps. To begin with, all you need is the following parts: Step 1: Robot frame Parts List: -Robot frame -Two wheels -Two DC motors…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 455. Gas Cap using an Arduino board Since you’ve gotten into electronics, haven’t you wondered if there is a fart sensor out there?  I sure did.  I discovered that if you use a methane sensor, especially the MQ-4, even at very low concentrations, it reads farts.  What if you combined that into…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects 456. CrEST Let’s Set Up Your Arduino and Breadboard! Yep, for real: Let’s Set Up Your Arduino and Breadboard! (use the instructions here, or ip to page 12 in your book) Step one: Dig through your kit and pull out your: Arduino Wooden Base Breadboard and Jumper…… Listed under: Other Projects 457. New animatronic Eyes: Rock On! Someone had seen Peter Penguin or my Instructables on Animatronic Penguin Torso or Animatronic Eyes, and was working on a sculpture. He wanted to animate the sculpture when someone walked into the room and asked if I could do it. I thought about it for…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 458. Multifunction Digital Thermometer using an Arduino This instructable will show you how to create a multifunction platform with a thermometer, chronograph (count up timer), count down timer, and light display. It is also intended to be a platform for other analog sensors or any other functions you can think of. Multifunction_Digital_Thermometer.zip71…… Listed under: Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects 459. Twitter Controlled Pet Feeder using an Arduino
  • 62. A great project for busy pet owners.  This Twitter-Controlled pet feeder automatically dispenses food in response to activity on your Twitter account.  The project is controlled by an Arduino and uses the Arduino Ethernet shield to receive data from Twitter.  I hacked this automatic Pet…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 460. Singing Olaf Bag (Frozen) For my children and technology class, we were challenged to make a product using a Lilypad Arduino. I am currently obsessed with the movie Frozen, so I decided to create something using one of the most iconic characters of the movie, Olaf. I used a…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 461. Arduino MicroControllers, Card Readers, 3D Printing, GS4, Flip Camera! Episode 3 of AndroidTec, Formed by members thamind (Jon) chaostic (Lewis) & Computer Whiz (Jim) and introducing GuyCothal, who discusses about the amazing abilities of Arduino micro controller boards and how they can be used with Androids! Jason also made a guest appearance!… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, Development Board – Kits Projects, Memory – Storage Projects, Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 462. Randomized Arduino Drum Machine I like drum machines. However they are not always the easiest to build. I wanted one that is: A. Simple, Yet Powerful-If it uses lots of components then it is too complicated B. Sound-It’s not a a drum machine if it “beeps” C. Easily Modi able-If…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 463. Arduino Automatic Temperature& Humidity Controller for Pets Jack and Jose, a pair of beautiful hamster, has accompanied me over 100 days and nights. Their soft white fur makes me quiet and warm, especially when I coding in the winner. But the very tragic things happened in the last week. As the cold…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects 464. 9 Volt battery adapter for Arduino This is super simple but very useful if you are in a hurry or just like to do things yourself and on the o chance you didn’t know, this is about the easiest way to add mobile power to your Arduino. After looking at a…… Listed under: Battery Projects 465. Touch Sensitive Audio Desk Trays- Arduino After having completed my rst Arduino project (which can be found here) I wanted to try and create something that had more of a practical use. My idea behind this project was a way of aiding the visually impaired. By the end of this project…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 466. RGB lamp with Custom Moodlamp Library using Arduino I wanted to have an easily programmable RGB light to toss into a Jack ‘O Lantern for Halloween. Who really wants a dull pumpkin in these days of pumpkin pimping madness. So I set to work building a pocket tin sized RGB lamp that could…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED Projects, Projects
  • 63. 467. Homemade Magic Lamp Card Box using an Arduino A robot is a virtual or mechanical arti cial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer or electronic programming, and is thus able to do tasks on its own (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot). Well, today you will learn exactly how to build…… Listed under: Home Automation Project Ideas, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 468. High Five Camera Can I tell you a secret? I don’t like handshakes. I really don’t. Handshakes just make me feel dirty. It’s too impersonal. It’s a gesture with no soul and reeks of a corporate entity. Why must we limit ourselves to this one boring interaction? Of…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 469. Twitter Mention Mood Light using Arduino Twitter Mention Mood Light — a mood light that alerts you when @username is mentioned on Twitter. This is a simple intro in how to control your Arduino from Twitter. If you are new to Arduino Twitter / Arduino Processing Twitter / Arduino Python Twitter…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 470. Arduino makes 2D Level This is a project for Arduino to make a 2D Level, aimed at beginners. Arduino draws a circle on an LED Matrix that moves around according to readings from a 2D Accelerometer. Objectives: * Learn how to draw a circle using simple Maths * Learn…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects, LED Projects, Projects 471. CSCE 236 Embedded Systems 1  Instructions This is a group assignment for you to work on during class. You only need to hand in one copy of this, but make sure that the names of all of your group members are on this sheet to receive credit. Complete all of…… Listed under: Other Projects 472. Arduino Etch-A-Sketch Clock I’ve seen various Arduino driven Etch-A-Sketch clocks on the web , but none with instructions (is it some kind of secret? Is someone planning on making it rich in the Etch-A-Sketch Clock global market?). I’ve used Arduino, but never used stepper motors, real time clocks,…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 473. Blinky Fish using an Arduino Assembly instructions for an add-on board for the Arduino. **** FOR INSTRUCTIONS FOR MARCH 2013, KICKSTARTER PROJECT GO HERE http://www.instructables.com/id/Blinky-Fish-Kickstarter-Project/  ************ It has some LED’s and a button. It connects to digital pins 9-13 and ground.  My hope is that this will be useful to people that want to…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED Projects, Projects 474. Second degree equation solver with Arduino This instuctable is about making sort of a calculator that enables the user by using an analog 12-digit keyboard and 4 buttons to input the a,b,c variables into a equation and get the solution for it if there is any.(well if u don’t know what…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, LCD Projects, Projects
  • 64. 475. Home Alert: Arduino + Cloud Messaging On A Large Display In the age of mobile phones, you would expect that people would be responsive to your call 24/7. Or… not. Once my wife gets home, the phone stays buried in her hand bag, or its battery is at. We don’t have a land line. Calling…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 476. Simple Arduino Book clock This book clock was inspired by orinc and the impresive selection of clocks like the wise clock3 etc http://www.instructables.com/member/ orinc/ My girlfriend likes reading books and there is always a pile of them around the house, however to be able to build this for her birthday…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 477. DNA Melting Part 2: Lock-in Amplifier and Temperature Control In Part 2 of the DNA Melting Lab you will make revisions to allow greater control of your instrument and to reduce the e ects of noise. You will add a pulse-width modulation (PWM) heater controller to enable careful control of the heating and cooling rates…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects 478. Control Any Circuit With a TV Remote (and an Arduino) Most of the buttons on a remote control are never used. So why not use them to control appliances and other electronics around your house. In this project, I am going to show you how to use an Arduino to decode the signal from your…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, How To – DIY – Projects 479. ElectroFried electronic shock game using Arduino The ElectroFried is a game with a shocking fun level. ElectroFried is developed for the Global Game Jam 2011 in Antwerp in design center the winkelhaak. The Team Jekkos/ Cinezaster decided to make a simple game based on colliding electrons. With a nasty side e ect, a…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 480. Reginald: a UDP surveillance bot; control via the Internet using Arduino Reginald started from the simple, yet bold idea to control a bot from anywhere in the world with a live video feed. What I wasn’t expecting was for Reginald to develop into an involved, feature rich project. With my work and money, I was able…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 481. Hacking a Powerglove using Arduino First of all lets get this out of the way… It’s so bad This is going to be showing how to hack the Nintendo Powerglove. By hack I mean tap into the ex sensors and use the buttons and d pad and add anything you want. In…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 482. Chur-Robot Electrical Components The electrical components are the ve motors and their associated circuits, the buttons, and the thermocouple. The Circuit We are controlling two stepper motors, three servos, a thermocouple, and a set of buttons using an Arduino. Our nal circuit diagram looks like this:…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
  • 65. 483. Build a Complete AVR System and Play Mastermind using Arduino The game Mastermind has been around a long time, and I remember getting a board version with colored pegs when I was a kid. I love this game, as it is solvable simply by pure logic. One player (or a computer/microcontroller) chooses a sequence of…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 484. Sensor Arduino Lab 2013 This lab most recently revamped by Edgar Berdahl and Wendy Ju. Chris Carlson, possibly Bill Verplank, and others have likely contributed. For this lab you need your Satellite CCRMA kit, a laptop computer with Ethernet adaptor to program it, and some headphones with a mini…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 485. Universal Remote Laser Tag Blast away your friends for hours on end with this custom laser tag system. Who needs to pay to play in an arena when you can make your very own game? Best of all, no special equipment is required, because the “guns” are regular universal…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 486. Arduino from Evil Mad Scientist ATmegaxx8 Target Board I have been making my own Arduino’s on strip-board but recently bought some of the Evil Mad Scientist ATmegaxx8 Target Boards. While they weren’t designed as an Arduino board they are perfect to use as they have: – places for the crystal and capacitors (XTL…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects 487. Computer Controlled Aiming Method Design: The rotational motion produced by the motor is transformed into linear motion through the use of a standard 1/2″-13 threaded rod as a lead screw. To account for angular misalignments in the rod the motor is not attached to it directly, but rather through…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 488. Arduino based Etch A Sketch Laser Cutter In this project I take an Arduino Mini Pro connect it to a custom made Etch A Sketch panel and use it to control a Blacknose laser cutter. The result is hours of crazy laser cutting fun, which we will be taking round most of…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 489. Roll-A-Way Rover using an Arduino Age Group: 13 – 18 My experimental rover that I built from a Roll-A-Way alarm clock that was on clearance for $5. It can be controlled via the numeric section of a keyboard when the serial port is connected to a computer or a Wii…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 490. The Pick and Place Machine for Surface Mount Devices ¿What questions need to be resolved? ¿How to recognize the origin of the table? — The table is the piece of the machine where you place your board, and is critical for the pick and place operation. I’ve thinking in a limit switch system. Will…… Listed under: Other Projects
  • 66. 491. Beginner Arduino The Arduino is a pocket-sized computer (also called a “microcontroller”) that you can program and use to control circuits. It interacts with the outside word through sensors, leds, motors, speakers… even the internet; this makes it a exible platform for lots of creative projects. Some…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 492. Design of small scale smart home system DESIGN OF A SMALL SCALE SMART HOME SYSTEM Gabriel Johnson and Chance Kelsoe INTRODUCTION Design of a smart home system with a LabView/Arduino interface In this project we made use of an Arduino Duemilanove and LabView to design an easy to use graphical interface to represent…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 493. Arduino WiFi Garage Door Opener Ever come home in the rain to nd the door locked and your keys elsewhere? No? Lucky you then! For those who have had such an experience or never wish to, this project will let you open your garage door with nay but a smartphone/tablet/laptop/WiFi-thing…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 494. Auduino Lo-fi Synth for Arduino Hello again. Today I’d like to show you the Auduino. That’s right, the Auduino is a Lo- Granular Synth that works on arduino. It uses some analog pins and a digital pin. I had loads of fun making and playing with it so I’d love…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 495. Ambient Etch-a-Sketch We built a pseudo Etch-A-Sketch emulator that modi es its appearance based on the user’s environment – the temperature and light conditions. Instead of only drawing horizontal and vertical lines, we can draw curved lines by changing the slope of the current line to be drawn.…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 496. The iDial – Critical Making Personal Identity Augmentation Device In this critical making project, we will be making a personal iDial, which will give you, the wearer, the ability to re ect on your personal identity in a private space, and then spatially and temporally dislocate your ‘private self’ into public conversation! You might be…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 497. Using a laser pointer and a matrix LED as a two-dimensional input device Laser Command is a game which I build using a 8×8 matrix LED and an Arduino Mini. This game was developed as a “sample” class project in S10-05833 Gadgets, Sensors and Activity Recognition in HCI. The class is taught by Scott Hudson at Carnegie Mellon…… Listed under: LED Projects 498. Arduino Model Rocket Launcher for 3D Printed Rockets When I was a kid, I loved playing with Estes Rockets, so I decided to get back into the hobby but using all of my maker skizzls. So here’s a really cool Arduino Rocket Launcher launching 3D Printed rockets from my MakerBot Rep2! Enjoy! Fully…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
  • 67. 499. LED Super Mario Piranha Plant using an Arduino We are going to make an Arduino control LED Piranha Plant :] Step 1: What you’ll need Arduino Uno 9 Resisters 9 LEDs – Red, Yellow, Orange is best since they need less amperage PIR sensor 9v battery arduino wall plug (you’ll be cutting the connection…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 500. THE CUBE: A 3D Vibration Jigsaw Puzzle “THE CUBE” is a 3D jigsaw puzzle, with the added feature that a puzzle piece vibrates for approximately a second when it is placed in the correct place in the puzzle. We accomplished this by building an electrical design such that a circuit delivering power…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 501. DIY handmade Hexapod with arduino (Hexdrake) Hello, I’m David and in this instructable I’ll show how I made this hexapod whose name is Hexdrake. Since I was 16 I became interested in electronic and later in robotics. After getting some level and programming skills using arduino I decided to build a…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 502. Relay Motor Control Circuit Connect the Arduino outputs with 5 volt power to the relay coils. Use a separate 9 or 12 volt battery for powering the motor.  Connect the 9 or 12 volt power to the relay contacts and the motor.  Be sure to avoid connecting the 9…… Listed under: Motor Projects 503. NFC Computer Unlocker Quit pulling your hair out over incorrect passwords. Using an Arduino Leonardo and Adafruit’s NFC shield, you can unlock your computer with an NFC card. The Arduino reads the NFC card’s unique identi er and once it receives the correct one, it uses the Arduino Leonardo’s…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, RFID – NFC projects 504. Arduino Mini-Shields This is a set of simple, small form-factor, mini-shields that I created almost by accident. As I made more and more of them, I realized that they could be really useful. What started out as a way to use some spare parts, turned into a…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 505. Making a program start using a switch Connecting the Switch To connect the switch to the Arduino, you will need the switch, two jumper wires, and a 10kΩ (brown-black-orange) resistor. Once you have all the required parts, you will need to wire the switch to the Arduino using the breadboard. NOTE: The…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 506. ArduinoISP Bootloader/Programmer Combination Shield
  • 68. I started recently to get interested in building Arduino based robots. Since it is a traumatizing process to take any creation apart, I am opting to keep mine alive and kicking. To lower the cost of this strategy it seems obvious to switch from the…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects 507. Arduino Light Following Robot Overview This instructable will use three photoresistors (light dependent resistors) and an Arduino to control the motion of a robot. Any common robot chassis can be used for the robot. The light sensors will be mounted on the left side, right side and front of…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 508. A wireless voice-controllable household system Motivation    top We design a smart home control system which allow people control their home devices by voice command at home. This is a wireless, voice control system. People could control almost all the facilities at home including lights, fans or even back ground music.…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 509. Arduino desktop application on java in LAN Description: here we have created an java desktop application using neatbeans. this application turn on led on arduino. this application also work in your LAN. Step 1: Assigning MAc and IP to Arduino board UPLOAD THIS PROGRAM TO  ARDUINO. ALSO CHANGE YOUR MAC AND IP…… Listed under: RTOS – OS Projects 510. Magpi: The Micro Arduino Gaming Platform Interface Here’s a retro hand-held gaming console I built with my son. It uses an Arduino micro-controller, a small LCD screen, push-buttons, a 3D printed case and home-grown “PC” board. It’s really pretty easy to solder and put together. My son & I wrote two games…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 511. Arduino Double Dice Jewelry Box w/ Secret Switch This was a fun project. Push the red button, watch the dice ” ROLL ” then stop on a random roll most every time. The hart of this game is the ATMEL ATmega328P on a stand alone board. Powered by 4 AA NiMD batteries. Can you…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects 512. D.I.Y Pneumatic Linear Actuators The D.I.Y. movement has many implications for the future of creativity and commerce. The impact of inventing what one needs rather than purchasing it promises to be empowering, fun, and inspirational. In a long term e ort to develop dynamic computer controlled surfaces, I began exploring…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 513. Flashing LED Top Tube Pad for your bike using Arduino Well it’s that time of year again. That’s right, the sun is going down early, and it’s getting hard to avoid logging some miles on your bike after dark. You likely have great lights front and rear already, but what about on the sides of…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, LED Projects, Projects 514. Sugarcube MIDI Controller
  • 69. This project is a portable, Arduino-powered, grid-based MIDI controller that boots up into a variety of apps to do lots of things with sound. It has 16 backlit buttons, used as both inputs and outputs to give the controller some visual feedback. 2 potentiometers give…… Listed under: LED Projects 515. Fun Shway Display using an Arduino Build a nice looking LCD display with buttons for mounting on the wall. Key Features: 2 line by 24 character LCD display controlled with 4 I/O’s (74HC164). Back light control of LCD. 6 Buttons connected to 1 analog pin. LM335 and LM334Z temp sensors. Adjustable…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Projects 516. Build Your Own Sourcemeter This is an explanation and set of building plans for a USB-powered sourcemeter with a personal computer interface. The sourcemeter uses an open-source Arduino microprocessor and the user interface uses the open- source Processing environment. The sourcemeter was designed as a homemade current-voltage (IV) tester to measure the IV…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 517. Build a Controllable Coffee Roaster from an Air Popcorn Popper I have a passion for co ee.  I also have a passion for electrical engineering.  Why not combine them? This Instructable describes how I transformed a hot air popcorn popper into a completely controllable co ee roaster!  Follow these instructions to re-purpose and hack your West Bend…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 518. Xtreme Buzzwire-4-2 Arduino Jam project This project is part of the Arduino Jam 2012. First of all we would like to thank the organization and especially the main sponsor, Capgemini, which made all of this possible. At the Arduino Jam, during the brainstormsession, we came with the idea to make a classic…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 519. ESM – ExternalSerialMonitor Sometimes I needed an external serial monitor like the Serial Monitor in the Arduino Editor, to see what is going on. So I made one. The rst picture shows an example how could be it designed. For the ESM I used an Atmel Atmega328 (based…… Listed under: LCD Projects 520. Arduino USB LOG: Made a correction/modi cation Step 3 and added a picture step 5. So many Arduino users have RBBBs(Really Bare Bones Board (Arduino))  or Anarduinos or Boarduinos that could use a USB interface to program and power them but don’t want to spend $15-20 for a…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 521. Control TV functions using Analog input and Arduino Have you ever wanted to use a good old knob to control your TV volume instead of repeated button pushing? Or make it controlled by light? Do you want your remote to be replaced by an awesome arduino and let it do the hard work…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Radio Projects
  • 70. 522. DC Motor Control Using an H-Bridge using arduino Overview In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to control a DC motor’s direction using an H-bridge. To reverse a DC motor, you need to be able to reverse the direction of the current in the motor. The easiest way to do this is using an…… Listed under: Motor Projects 523. Digital Clock Introduction This design project utilizes an Arduino MEGA2560 with an ATMEGA1280-16AU microcontroller to create a digital clock.  The clock will be able to save time when disconnected from power, and it can be powered from a USB connection or from the wall outlet.  The clock…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 524. AVR Programming Tutorial This tutorial introduces programming for AVR microcontrollers. It uses the ATmega328p found on Arduino boards, but works with straight AVR C and a bare microcontroller. It covers the basic information you need to get started, whether or not you’ve used Arduino or other microcontrollers previously.…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 525. Sound Reactive LED Strip THERE MAY BE 9 STEPS BUT I PROMISE THIS ONE IS QUICK AND EASY!  In this Instructable I will be showing you how to create a light reactive LED system. In this clip, I used a single color LED strip, but you you can use…… Listed under: LED Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 526. Power your Arduino with a Hand-Cranked Battery If you’ve ever wanted to power your Arduino or AVR from a battery for development testing (batteries have di erent power delivery qualities than, say, transformed AC or even a regulated wall wart in DC) testing but were tired of going through batteries (Hey, I admit…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Projects 527. Heat-Seeking Desk Fan (using Arduino) Summary: The following is a step by step guide on how to make a Heat-Seeking Desk Fan from an Arduino microcontroller, a computer fan, a servo, and an infrared temperature sensor. The device scans the room periodically, automatically pointing itself in the hottest direction (ideally towards…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 528. Proximity sensing mouse wheel scroller using Arduino List of tools: 1. Exacto 2. Arduino Nano / USB chord (Mini-B) 3. Dremel / Drill 4. Paper & Pencil 5. Sharp IR Sensor (2Y0A21 F) 6. Hot glue gun 7. Solder gun / Solder 8. A small mirror Ok so you might ask, why…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 529. Make a Desktop Tamagotchi One day I was sitting behind my desk at work and I got that weird need to build something, after looking around for a bit I got my eye on an LED matrix and that sparked an idea in my head : “I WANNA MAKE…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, LED
  • 71. Projects 530. Twitter Enabled Text to Speech using an Arduino Let the world know what you’re eating for breakfast with an 80’s style vocal synthesizer!  This project uses an Arduino to send your Twitter stream to a voice generator chip called the SpeakJet.  The setup that I use here can also be extended to other…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 531. Microcontrollers: The Basics Di erent kinds of computers are designed for di erent purposes. The computer at the heart of your laptop is optimized for di erent puprposes than the one in your phone or the one in your mouse. The simplest computers are those that are designed to take inout…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 532. Arduino Lilypad Slipper Automatic Foot Massager I made a little automatic slipper foot massager with the Lilypad Arduino and some of the Lilypad Vibe Boards for the actual massager. The sensor it uses is a Lilypad Accelerometer that I’m only using as a basic tilt sensor. Essentially it detects when the…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Medical – Health based Projects 533. Holiday Dreidel Light Display for Roof using Arduino This Instructable details how to build a holiday dreidel display for your roof. It uses coat hanger wire, rope light, and an Arduino controller to control a fading demo mode and a “spin” mode. In the demo mode, the symbols fade in and out, going…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects 534. John Doherty’s Lab Notebook January 9, 2013 (1 hour): Met as a team after class to discuss preliminary project proposal. January 10, 2013 (2 hours): Met as a team after class to nish writing preliminary project proposal. WEEK 01 SUMMARY Accomplishments: Submitted preliminary project proposal. Weekly Work Total: 3…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 535. Arduino Robot V2 (Fast) Also Voice Controlled This is my second version of my arduino robot after “Build your rst robot”. My Second version is slightly complicated as compared to my rst one but o ers better features. In this instructable I’m going to show you how to build a fast robot which…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 536. Breathalyzer Microphone using an Arduino The breathalyzer microphone is a system for the inconscpicuous collection of blood-alcohol content level data sets. In other words, you can measure a person’s sobriety with a device, that for all intents and purposes, looks no di erent than a standard microphone. This tool adds new…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 537. PowerBox: The Safe AC Power Meter
  • 72. Introduction We designed a device that measures and graphs various aspects of AC power and acts as a computer- controlled remote switch. With the recent push for green energy and environmental friendliness, more and more people are concerned about their personal daily power usage. We developed…… Listed under: Motor Projects 538. Make an Oscilloscope Using the SainSmart Mega2560 with the TFT LCD shield and the 3.5 “color touch screen This instructable will show you how to build a portable Touch Screen Oscilloscope for less than 40 U$! The oscilloscope is one of the most powerful electronic instruments that is available to electronics hobbyist, experimenters, and engineers. It is mainly used to measue time-varying signals.…… Listed under: LCD Projects, Medical – Health based Projects 539. Robot shield for Arduino Board The idea behind this post is to bring together some robot designs and trasform them in a new device with new hardware and standard software (arduino of course) and so easier to use.  These robots have three things in common: a mechanical structure, the hardware…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 540. Small DC Motor Pwm Speed Controller The photo depicts a speed controller, wired on a breadboard which allows you to vary the resistance in the potentiometer in order to, in e ect, control the speed of the small DC motor. The big picture problem is creating an e cient PWM motor controller that…… Listed under: Motor Projects 541. Capacitive Sensing + Open Frameworks + SPACEBREW This is a step-by-step on how to connect Arduino to OpenFrameworks using Spacebrew. More speci cally our project focuses on the awesomeness of Capacitive Sensing to alter OF projections to create an awesome tactile experience! What the process will involve: Arduino -> Processing -> SpaceBrew ->…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 542. Arduino Personal Soundtrack Hoodie This was inspired by Raj’s personal soundtrack shirt in Big Bang Theory S3, E16, “The Excelsior Acquisition”. You can now buy them online but it’s much more fun to make your own and it’s possible now that buttons designed for use in electronic clothing are…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 543. Programming an ATtiny w/ Arduino 1.0 This tutorial shows you how to program an ATtiny45, ATtiny85, ATtiny44 or ATtiny84 microcontroller using the Arduino software. These are small, cheap ($2-3) microcontrollers that are convenient for running simple programs. The ATtiny45 and ATtiny85 have eight legs and are almost identical, except that the…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 544. Charliexplexed LED Clock – Arduino One of my clocks stopped working – and it happened to be a clock my wife likes a lot. Went to the repair shop and the guy said that he didn’t have the spare parts and could not repair this. So – I thought –…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, LED Projects
  • 73. 545. Star Jar Geiger counter triggered LED decoration using Arduino This instructable builds on top of the Geiger counter triggered LED decorations I made last year. This version powers the Geiger counter from the Arduino (itself now powered from a mains adaptor, so I no longer need to keep feeding them batteries) and the LEDs…… Listed under: Calculator Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, LED Projects, Projects 546. Arduino Cat Detector SD Card Logger I used: an Arduino Uno a Parallax PIR Motion Sensor and a Seeed Studio SD Card Shield Arduino, shield, sd card, logging shield, storage, logger Check out This instructable on PIRs in case you didn’t know what it is: http://www.instructables.com/id/PIR-Motion-Sensor-Tutorial/ Step 1: Connect your PIR…… Listed under: Memory – Storage Projects, Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 547. Physical Computing with Arduino Digital pins 1-7 are generally used as input pins and Digital pins 8-13 are used as output pins. Digital pins 9-11 can be used as analog output pins. That is, they can send they can send signal of variable voltage. 5/15/2012 Getting started with Arduino.…… Listed under: Calculator Projects 548. Pi…In A Single Digit using an Arduino Ah yes. It has been a long time since I posted an Instructable…well here goes: It has been a while since I have been otivated to write an ‘ible. During this idle time I have been writing, rewriting and editing code as well as designing…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 549. Printer to vinyl cutter hack Vinyl cutters are used in the sign writing industry, and are great for making stickers, signs and graphics. I would like to thank Instructable  members silverjimmy  and Groover for their fantastic laser cutter instructables, without which I would not of been able to complete this…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 550. Auto reset stuff with Arduino Have a problem with my wireless bridge. It works for a some time then, despite it saying everything it ne, refuses to connect wirelessly. All it needs is to be turned o and on again and it works again (for a while!). I decided that…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 551. Automatically water your small indoor plant using Arduino + pump Have you ever wanted a little plant to brighten up your desk or home, but you’re afraid that you’ll forget to water it? Fear no longer! Using an Arduino, a scavenged wall-wart, and a peristaltic pump, you can set up your plant to be watered…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Motor Projects 552. Solar Module
  • 74. This page maintains the necessary documentation (hardware & software) for recreating the Solar Hardware Module (“Solar Module”) using either Arduino UNO or TI Launchpad. Prior to creating the solar module, we performed several experiments using a custom built solar panel xture. For more information on…… Listed under: Solar energy projects 553. Arduino Vocal Effects Box This Arduino-powered vocal e ects box pitch shifts and distorts incoming audio signals to produce a wide variety of vocal e ects.  This project is my rst experiment with real-time digital signal processing using Arduino.  It samples an incoming microphone signal at a rate of about 40kHz, manipulates…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 554. Momentary Switch as Digital Sensor In many cases switches are just switches. They directly control the ow of electricity to an appliance, ashlight or mains-voltage lamp. An example of this is the switch on the wall in your living room. In many cases nowadays however, switches are digital sensors, meaning…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 555. Simple and reasonably accurate pedometer system Our nal project for ECE 4760 provides a simple but e ective exercise monitoring system of the user’s walk or run. With an increase of the number of health conscious individuals hoping to remain t, we designed a system that allows the user to keep track…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 556. Smart Thermal + Arduino Many times we are  faced with a heat containing co ee and don’t  know if the uid is at  the proper temperature and it is impossible to know just by looking at  the bottle ended up losing time with a co ee that is cold and we…… Listed under: Temperature Measurement Projects 557. Bacon Alarm Clock – Arduino This is a project I came up with that was inspired by my love for bacon! This is an alarm clock that is designed to wake you up with the smell of bacon. With the help of an arduino the alarm clock will already have…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects 558. Arduino controlled webcam panner This is an instructable to show how to mount a webcam on a servo in a meccano frame and controlling it via an Arduino board. For a while now I was looking to do something more than blinking LEDs with my Arduino. This idea came…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 559. Robotic Arm Trifecta (Science Olympiad) In the fall of 2012, we set out to construct a robotic arm for the Science Olympiad competition that would be capable of performing the required set of tasks e ciently and to perfection. This instructable will attempt to guide you through the thought processes used…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
  • 75. 560. Arduino FIO Tutorial Overview The Arduino Fio is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P (datasheet) runs at 3.3V and 8 MHz. It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 8 analog inputs, an on-board resonator, a reset button, and holes…… Listed under: Battery Projects 561. The Motivational Moody Workout T-Shirt using an Arduino I call this project “The Motivational Moody Workout T-Shirt” . Basically what I wanted to do was a t-shirt that makes you want to get out in the open and work out. To make that work, I sewed a LilyPad arduino onto a t-shirt and…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects 562. Self-Balancing Robot First of all I want to apologize for my English, if you don’t understand something, please, ask. I know that a self- balancing robot is not new, but when i started this project i found a lot of information, but never in the same site, i…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 563. Interface and Application Programming My sensors have not been functioning too well with my computer, as every time I try to connect the hello.light or hello.mic boards and run python through my terminal, I either get the error “resource busy”, or my computer completely freezes! Therefore, I decided to…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 564. Arduino+Stepper Motor Camera Slider This is a trial and error / design and development process which I followed in developing a camera slider for creating time-lapse video clips on my DSLR camera. The idea came from using standard Aluminium extrusions I have available at hardware stores, and create a…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 565. Urban Sensing Networks using Arduino Often government data sets available to us online are taken from major nearby metropolitan areas or infrastructural centers. With an easy to follow introduction to new softwares and technologies the “urban sensor kit” allows anyone to obtain location speci c information and share that information with…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 566. FINAL Touch sensor with arduino
  • 76. The tutorials we used. http://www.instructables.com/id/Touche-for-Arduino-Advanced-touch-sensing/?ALLSTEPS http://www.instructables.com/id/Calm-Relaxed-Interaction-Plant-Plus-1/?ALLSTEPS Download arduino software and the processing software. From their respective websites. Processing.org arduino.cc   All of the supplies we used: (we didn’t include the water bottle as a sensing object, and used an inductor instead of a coil) Arduino…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 567. RFID touch screen Automated Bar – Barduino v2.0 with Facebook Integration! Got an Arduino? Like parties / alcohol? Can’t be bothered to make your own bar quality cocktails? Make a Barduino! Its back, with new features in v2.0: Facebook integration – Facebook registration Page to track and graph drink consumption Touchscreen with gesture support RFID user…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, RFID – NFC projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 568. Stripboard Arduino shield for programming ATtiny45 and ATtiny85 This instructable (entered in the Arduino Challenge contest – you can vote for it above) shows how to make a stripboard Arduino shield for programming either ATtiny45 or ATtiny85 microcontrollers with an Arduino, as per these tutorials from the High-Low Tech group at MIT: Arduino…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 569. Schematic Entry and PCB layout In this lab you will be using a program to enter a schematic and lay out a printed circuit board (PCB) that will then be manufactured.  At this point of the semester you don’t know enough to design your own circuit, so I am giving…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 570. Binguino: An Arduino-based Bingo Number Generator Bingo! My granddaughter enjoys playing Bingo, so I went out and bought her a cheap set at a local discount store. The cards and the markers are ne, but the spinner disk for selecting the numbers is a piece of garbage. It ew apart about…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 571. Intuitive Vibrotactile Feedback Educational Feedback Devices The goal of the project is to come up with an a ordable yet generic vibrotactile feedback device to be used for educational purposes. A chemistry learning environment is developed to demonstrate a speci c application of our device, in which users can manipulate ions and feel…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 572. Bird Proof Squirrel Feeder & Solar Powered Camera using Arduino The Solar Powered-Bird Proof Squirrel Feeder w Camera will allow squirrels to retrieve seeds, nuts, and corn kernels without worrying about those pesky birds stealing all their food. While your squirrel enjoys the spoils of your feeder, you’ll enjoy lovely digital photos to entertain and…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 573. Arduino mood lighting
  • 77. This instructable will show you who to build a rgb lighting system with an arduino. You can also control it with an ipod/iphone/ipad using touchOSC. In my previous instructable I showed how to control one rgb led in this you can control heaps with a single chip…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 574. Combination Circuit for Digital and Analog Goals Understand the Analog Signals and use your knowledge to program your Arduino and let it play music Get known of the Seven-segment display and use your Arduino Board together with the Shift Register to control the number. In the Second Week you will be…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 575. LilyPad Arduino Sensor Demo Mat This tutorial shows you how to create a sensor demo mat for the LilyPad Arduino. I wanted a place where I could experiment with the di erent sensors, but also something that I could use to show examples of what can be done without constantly uploading…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 576. Build Your Own BARBOT using Arduino Ever wanted a robotic liquor server? I purchased a Lynxmotion robotic arm last year and an Arduino (deci) to play around with. I had it serial controlled with a joystick and it was a great way to start in robotics. More recently I wanted to…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 577. Highly maneuverable search and rescue robot Finalized Prototype Shown below is the nalized prototype. The purpose of the prototype was to demonstrate the feasibility of a small, highly maneuverable search and rescue robot. As such, the completed prototype was successful. Capabilities include a ground speed of 10 inches per second, battery…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 578. How to make and use the arduino as an Isp for an ATtiny85 In this instructable I will show you how you can make your own Atting programming shield for the arduino and then use the arduino as a programmer. Usually If you don’t have a shield you can do a breadboard version to program the ATtiny. (Step1)…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects 579. DIY Super Bright LED Skate Lights You might remember my rst set of lights that I put on my dad’s skates. Well those weren’t bright enough and they were a lot of work because I didn’t know how to make PCBs. In this i’ble I’ll cover how to make your own…… Listed under: LED Projects 580. Interactive LED box Project Goal The goal of this project is to create a low resolution display of graphical art that interacts with people who are handling it. My basic idea is to create such a “magic box” with a LED matrix on one side. It should be…… Listed under: LED Projects 581. Brushless Gimbal with Arduino
  • 78. This is a Spring 2014 Electronics project at Pomona College created by Andreas Biekert and Jonah Grubb. Thanks to Professor Dwight Whitaker, Tony Grigsby and the Pomona Physics Department. Our goal with this project was to create a 2 axis brushless gimbal controlled solely by…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 582. Biometric Sensing Computer Mouse In the past ve weeks, we have considered and built three projects, ranging from: optical sensing, electromyography (EMG), and galvanic skin response detection. Initially, our project was using an optical sensor and EMG to detect nger movement for applications, such as: playing piano and Morse…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 583. BabyTrackr I found a pressure sensor matrix that we could adapt to a pressure sensor patch on the stomach of the women in labor on this webpage (see below). It gives instructions how to build a pressure sensor by using two pieces of cloth and conductive…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects 584. Custom Arduino Shield and Sensors Overview: This instructable will construct a series of custom sensor modules and an Arduino shield. Such modules are available from many di erent sources, but fans of the Instructables website would probably nd satisfaction in making their own. Each module will be a set size of…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 585. How To Make The Easiest Breadboard Arduino-Compatible Sanguino-Equivalent Okay so the Title is indeed a bit of a mouthful lol ! Ive been needing to mess around with a desire for MORE Input/Output pins than the Arduino UNO and nowadays the UNO uses an Atmega328 microcontroller, & its limited to only about 20…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 586. Head Mouse – Game controller or disability aid using Arduino My kids wanted to have a head controlled mouse for playing Minecraft – they wanted to move their heads and have the eld of view move. I decided that was a challenge I couldn’t resist, so I decided to build a movement controlled mouse using…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Medical – Health based Projects 587. Build Your Own Arduino Web server The Arduino Ethernet Shield is a sweet toy!!!  Everybody, from the beginner who got their Arduino yesterday and hasn’t slept since, to the hard core pro who learned c as a second language, can learn how to use the Ethernet Shield and have lots of…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 588. Connect 4 Binary Clock using an Arduino Welcome ladies and gents! As an entrepreneur, I’m always looking for great projects to share.  Myself and two other classmates recently put together a project for our Master’s of Engineering program in Technical Entrepreneurship, and we’re thrilled to share our
  • 79. vision with you.  Remember that…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 589. Speech-controlled Game Boy Advance using arduino This is a project I worked on for my electronics class at Pomona College. Thanks to Professor Dwight Whitaker and Tony Grigsby for their help and guidance throughout this project, and credit to Jonathan Wong for the idea for this project! Also, here’s a list…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 590. Sign Language Translator using Arduino First of all, this project is not nished. We’re still trying to improve and x some problems. Right now, we’re only able to translate letters from “A” to “E”. The program still have problems while identi cating those letters, the values for each of them match…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects 591. AC Dimmer Circuit: 46 Green wire is zero_cross signal, goes to Arduino digital pin 2 in. Yellow wire is light dimming signal, comes from Arduino digital pin 11. The LED on board should dim or fade along with the AC light source. Fading will not work until AC power…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 592. Extra inputs for Arduino with a keyboard The Arduino is perhaps the coolest thing on earth. There are many types, the Uno, the Mega, the Pro, the Pro Mini, etc. etc. But one thing that often can be a problem is that you only have a limited number of inputs and outputs.…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 593. Motion Sensing Digital Camera & Alarm using Arduino Welcome to my instructable on how to make an Arduino-controlled motion sensing camera and alarm! The motivation behind this project, which I worked on in my electronics class at Pomona College, was the need to keep away varmints (particularly raccoons) that were digging up my…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects, Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 594. Easy Electronics Organization using Arduino Like many other electronic enthusiasts I need to have a constant supply of materials in order for us to keep building, hacking, or just playing around with electronics. However as probably any of us have come to realize we need a lot of space and…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 595. A Planar 2-DOF Haptic Device for Exploring Gravitational Fields For our project, we built a planar, 2 degree-of-freedom haptic device for educational use. The design is based on a 5- bar mechanism. We wanted to build a device that would have the versatility to teach various concepts, but would still be relatively a ordable (as the…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
  • 80. 596. Make a Musical Bench using Arduino The Musical Bench is an exhibit which makes music when people touch, kiss, or hold hands. It uses a micro-controller to detect changes in resistance, via the copper armrests, and plays high or low notes depending on how much current ows through you and a…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 597. Portable Haptics System Hardware Mobile Phone There is a wide selection of mobile phones on the market. For our development, we chose Nokia 6210 Navigator due to its ability to run Java, accompanied by Bluetooth communication, and its small form factor. The phone mainly acts as a remote control…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 598. Robo-Mobile – A Homemade Bluetooth Robot using arduino Background This robot is one I built to learn. Before this project I did get my feet wet with a few small scale Arduino projects like an ultrasonic robot, (that would move backwards until it was a certain distance away from the wall,) and I…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 599. Knockdown Warning Indicator (Redux) This week I continued developing a device that warns of the potential of a knockdown – the process by which an over- canvassed sailing ship is lain over on her beam-ends during a squall.  The potential for sinking at this point is high, especially if there…… Listed under: Security – Safety Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 600. Smartphone controlled Arduino tank using Annikken Andee Hi guys, I am Robin, one of the developers of Annikken Andee. Just a few weeks back we were invited to be a part of Arduino Day Singapore 2014. On the day of the event, we showcased a missile- ring lego-crushing smartphone controlled Tank built using…… Listed under: Phone Projects 601. Bitcoin Price Ticker (almost) from scratch using Arduino as ISP Hello everyone! I decided to create this tutorial on how to make a Bitcoin Price Ticker. Well, this is only a prototype and I will make a smaller edition with a more pleasant design and some other features at a later time. However, this serves…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 602. Machine Design The assignmente for this week is to automate the machine assembled two weeks ago. For this Roxanna milled the Arduino’s shield for controlling the steppers, but Alejandro found that we haven’t all the components for stu ng, specially the A3982 – stepper motor driver, so as…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects 603. Tracking Cat Eyes via Kinect using Arduino This instructable was made as part of the CS graduate course “Tangible Interactive Computing” at the University of Maryland, College Park taught by Professor Jon Froehlich. The course focused on exploring the materiality of interactive computing and, in the words of MIT Professor Hiroshii Ishii,…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
  • 81. 604. Simon Game High Level Description: For part 3 of the lab, our group decided to build a “Simon” game. Our game setup uses 3 buttons and 4 LEDs. Each button corresponds to one LED and the 4th LED is used to indicate an error. The game starts…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 605. Musical Exercise: Workout Shirt MP3 Player Powered by Exercise using Arduino People love listening to music while exercising. Music provides the motivation needed for individuals to keep exerting energy and get in shape. So, because people enjoy listening to music while exercising, what if an MP3 player only played an individual’s music while they are active?…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 606. ANDROID BASED ROBOTICS While the eld of robotics is continuously expanding at a remarkable rate and better performing robots are created every year, robotics still remains out of reach for many students and researchers. The main reasons for this di culty are the high complexity of the hardware and…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 607. Bird Feeder Monitor using Arduino This is a project to monitor the number of birds that visit my bird feeder, as well as record the amount of time spent feeding. I used an Arduino Yún and a capacitive touch sensor, Adafruit CAP1188, to detect and record the birds feeding. On…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 608. 5x5x5 LED Cube – Orientation Independent 3D Display Introduction   Our project, in one sentence, is an orientation independent 3D LED display. We were inspired by various videos on youtube of similar cubes but also by the idea of creating an interactive 3-dimensional display. We built a 5x5x5 LED cube display and controller…… Listed under: LED Projects 609. Talking Arduino Heart Rate Monitor My partner and I wanted to make heart rate monitor that does more than simply measure a user’s heart rate. Our heart rate monitor talks! Each button gives a verbal description of its functionality and makes the measurements visible on the screen. This monitor will…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects 610. SoundBox Group #1 Avneesh Sarwate (asarwate@) John Subosits (subosits@) Joe Turchiano (jturchia@) Kuni Nagakura (nagakura@) Yaared Al-Mehairi (kyal@) Ideas and Sketches   Squat Coach – Detects the depth of your squats and assesses your form. Flex sensor is positioned to run up the back of knee…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 611. Digital I/O with Arduino Boards
  • 82. Readings in Physical Computing Ch 6. pgs 87-136 (this week and next week) Ch 7: Serial Communication [137-143; 149- 150; 153-161] Before the lab You should have already successfully installed the Arduino environment on your laptop, built the LED circuit, and successfully load/run the “blink” program to…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 612. The Creepy Doll using Arduino Here at Mikamai, we often organise events and hackathons. After the last hackathon, someone left an old doll, and it was kinda creepy… so why not make it even creepier? I decided to put two red LEDs instead of the eyes, and a vibration sensor…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 613. Capture the image of a falling object The aim of this project is to create a setup to capture the image of a falling object or any object in motion at a precise time using a DSLR and Arduino microcontroller. It can be done in many di erent ways, but the method I…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 614. Catchin’ time using Arduino This tutorial will show you how to build an interactive toy for children. This toy wants to give a boost to children to move and play with friends at home or in a park, instead of watching TV and playing videogames. Catchin’ time is a…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 615. Sleep n’ Tweet Step 1: The Sleep n’ Tweet Now I am lucky enough to work at the greatest company in the world as a University of Waterloo, co-op student. It might not even be a company you’ve heard of yet. They’re named Upverter and we are trying…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 616. Password access with arduino ~~ The complete kit for this tutorial is now for sale at www.razvantech.com   Get one! ~~ This instructable will show you how to make a pass-code lock system using the Arduino Mega board. Whenyou type the right code, an LED lights up an the servo…… Listed under: Security – Safety Projects 617. Make your pet dishes tweet You give your pets everything: Food, water, a home, toys, and love. Why not give them a twitter account? This project allows you to monitor your pets’ eating habits and receive alerts when their supplies are low. It’s also a cute, fun way to learn…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 618. Animatronic Green-Winged Macaw Papercraft Hello everybody! This macaw was part of a work of biology at the college of my daughter, who was attempting to educate people not to buy wild animals. This beautiful animal, natural tropical forests of South America, is highly coveted by smugglers. In captivity, unlikely…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects
  • 83. 619. AlarmingTweet This project will add tweeting capabilities to the GE 45142 Choice-Alert Wireless Control Center Alarm system. The alarm system allows you to connect up to 16 di erent sensors across 4 zones and with the addition of the Arduino powered AlarmingTweet you can enable it to…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 620. Maze Solving Robot In this instructable I will be showing you how to build a maze solving robot. This is actually my 3rd attempt at making one. The rst was a complete failure. The second was alright at nding the end of the maze, but it could not…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 621. USB Mouse Made Out Of A Wii Nunchuck This instructable will describe how to convert a Nintendo Wii Nunchuck controller into a USB 2-button mouse using a Teensy USB.  The Teensy USB is a very user-friendly development board that can be programmed in an Arduino environment. The Teensy USB development board and necessary…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c - ISP) Projects 622. Reddit Controller, USB Upvote/Downvote button Not too long ago I saw the “Awesome Button” video on the Make Magazine podcast. In the video Matt Richardson shows how you can take a Teensy development board and turn it into a simple USB keyboard. In his example everytime a button is pressed…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 623. Electric Turtle Robot Be sure to check out my new instructable , the ‘little Tank’! Really nice tracked design complete with cut les! update: I’ve had so much response on this instructable, thanks to all. If you end up making one, please let me know! I’d love to…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 624. LED Microcontroller Debug Module When it comes to debugging a microcontroller circuit, there aren’t a lot of simple options.  Since a microcontroller circuit might have multiple things going on at the same time, measuring voltages with a DMM isn’t an option.  Using an computerized In-Circuit-Debugger solution is expensive and…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, LED Projects 625. Wise Clock 3 – Arduino-based geeky alarm clock Wise Clock 3 is an open-source, highly hackable geeky clock that shows a lot more than the time. Its main function is to display user-editable quotations retrieved from an SD card (like those used in photo cameras). In addition, Wise Clock 3 can show the…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects
  • 84. 626. Giant Leaf Planetarium Have you ever wanted a mini-planetarium for your room? Well now you can! This instructable will help you create a fairly portable planetarium leaf that you can put over a bed, a couch, or anywhere else in your house. All you need is an IKEA…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 627. Universal Gripper – Syringe Powered The “universal gripper” developed by researchers from Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and iRobot inspired me to create my own version. The YouTube video is quite impressive. The gripper can form around very asymmetrical and smooth shapes and still pick up the object. I…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 628. Arduino Project Board The Arduino Project Board is basically a board to transer your ATMEGA168/328 to when you have completed your project and no longer need to use the Arduino as a development board. Simply transfer the programmed chip from the Arduino board to the Arduino project board…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 629. Turn your Arduino Uno into an USB-HID-Mididevice While building an Arduino Uno based Midi-Controller for Ableton Live, I came across the HIDUINO project ( http://code.google.com/p/hiduino/ ). It allows you to turn your Arduino Uno (or any other device using an AVR-USB chipset like the 8u2) into a driverless HID/Midi device. It’s much…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 630. Rave Rover – Mobile Dance Stage Rave Rover was designed and built to be a portable dance platform for parties, raves, and any other trouble we can get into! I will go into as much detail as I can explaining the entire build process, and where to nd parts and other…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 631. How to hack EEG toys with arduino i had heard a few years back about the ability of hooking up toy EEGs so you can interface them with your computer. I was reminded of this for a project i wanted to do for a class (instructable coming soon ;-)), and i also…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 632. Building a Portal Turret with motion controlled audio and lighting In this Instructable I’m going to show you how I went about building my very own life size talking Portal Turret from start to nish. This is a fairly in depth project that will cover every stage of construction and all the techniques I used…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 633. Pan/Tilt Motion System for Control Education
  • 85. Pan/Tilt Motion System for Control Education Ricardo G. Sanfelice, University of Arizona Project supported by Mathworks Website developed by Colin Lasharr, University of Arizona   Contents Introduction Instructions for Building the System Installation Instructions The Arduino Board Simulink Initial Parameter Identi cation System Identi cation for Zenith…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects 634. Hack the Nabaztag using Arduino This is a Nabaztag – Armenian, apparently, for “hare”. It’s an adorable bunny rabbit packed with sensors and communication devices…. and it’s completely unusable. There’s people who wrote some interesting software to hack it, and I applaud them: however, I could never actually get my…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 635. DIY Parking Sonsor using Arduino The last time I was home visiting my parents I noticed bumper imprints caused by my mother suburban on the stairs leading up from the garage. Their garage it turns out is just barely long enough to t their gigantic vehicles. So I decided it…… Listed under: Car Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 636. Using Mozzi Library with 5 potentiometers using arduino Getting Started The goal of this project was to create lters and controls to that can manipulate sound that is being generated through an Arduino. Normally Arduino can only generate simple tones that are not useful if you are trying to achieve complex sounds and…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 637. Arduino Quilting Machine The Arduino Quilting Machine combines the mechanics of a sewing machine, CNC technology and Arduino as an operating system. The project is designed to translate a vector le from a computer into G-code and subsequently into Arduino language which then moves the machine. The project…… Listed under: CNC Machines Projects 638. Diy Xbox wireless controller adapter for Pc This instructable will go over the steps to connect a RF module from an RROD xbox to your computer so you can use a wireless controller with your computer. ******DISCLAIMER******* DONT TRY THIS IF YOU DONT HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH ELECTRONICS/SOLDERING OR COMPUTERS IM NOT…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 639. Make a digital “meow” from analog clock using arduino Is your analog clock just not doing enough stu ? Want to do digital things with an analog clock? This tutorial will show you how to make a Kit Cat Clock play a “meow” sound clip, at precise time intervals, using the Atmega 328P-PU via the…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects 640. DIY Telepresence Documentation This is the documentation page for the Spring 2012 DIY Telepresence project. Here you will nd schematics, software, and guides for the robot. The goal of the project was to design a low-cost, easy to build telepresence robot. Some of the features include: Segway
  • 86. based…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 641. Total Recall- Arduino Simon Says on steroids Total Recall is a Simon based game for the Arduino. Your basic Arduino Simon Game consists of 4 buttons, 4 LEDs, an Arduino, some code and maybe a speaker and sound e ects. Total Recall takes things a step further by adding an LCD display and…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 642. Voice Activated LED Lighting with Arduino This project is an extension to the Speech Recognition with Arduino by leandro4b (http://www.instructables.com/id/Speech-Recognition…). However, instead of using 3 separate colored LEDs, I used a multicolor 4-channel RGBW LED Emitter. I had the opportunity of working at LED Engin last summer, which is why I…… Listed under: LED Projects 643. The Wondrous Weather Cube We created an Internet-enabled companion cube for your computer, which displays di erent kinds of information by glowing red or green. Depending on its orientation, and which labeled face is oriented upwards, our companion cube displays either stock readings of the NASDAQ or the outside temperature…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 644. Laser Pointer Switch using arduino This instructable will detail how to make a switch that uses an arduino to sample light. When the light sample reaches a threshold it will trigger a relay that can be used to turn on/o a small appliance (light, radio, fan, etc…) The parts for…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 645. FabECG: a simple electrocardiogram board Technologies for rudimentary physiological sensing are getting cheaper and easier to implement. Consider, for instance, these non-contact sensors from UCSD which can be used to take an EEG through hair or an ECG through a T- shirt! One can even make a simple oscilloscope to digitize,…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects 646. Arduino controlled Rotary Stewart Platform This instructable is about building a Rotary Stewart Platform. It allows to position its moving platform in six degrees of freedom. This speci c platform is designed to be able to position a DSLR or any other digital camera. This version of Stewart Platform uses instead…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 647. DC motors Relays Let’s get the math over right o the bat. There are a LOT of attempts to describe how Ohm’s Law works, each one nerdier than the last. Here’ one I like. Warning: SFWBN (safe for work but nerdy). V = voltage measured in volts -…… Listed under: Motor Projects
  • 87. 648. ATtiny85 POV Display using arduino The rst time I saw a POV (Persistence Of Vision) display was on a show called FAQ on TV. The POV display consisted of an oscillating shaft with 6 LED’s mounted on the end of the shaft. Since then I have always wanted to make…… Listed under: LED Projects 649. making art interactive Unfortunately, due to my need to reclaim my arduino and breadboards, we don’t have photographic documentation of our circuit. However, the structure of it was rather self-evident. Although we arranged the circuit in a such a way that we could program other functions, but we…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Phone Projects 650. Control Keyboard & Mouse Android app via Arduino This instructable will show you how to control your computer’s keyboard and mouse with an Android app via bluetooth to an Arduino BACKGROUND Ever wanted to control your computer’s mouse/keyboard functionality without having to actually sit in front of it? I do all the time.…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 651. Augmented Water using arduino The Augmented Water device helps you save water by turning red after one Liter. The device, built by @tamberg during a water hackathon, is made from an Arduino, a ow sensor and coloured LED pixels. Video https://www. ickr.com/photos/tamberg/14346321456/ (thanks kiilo) In case you want to build…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 652. Blind Maze Navigation using 2-DOF Haptic Joystick The domain of haptics has immense potential as a technology to assist visually-impaired individuals with their navigation of the physical world. In this project, we sought to develop a 2-DOF haptic joystick to provide force- feedback to a user as she attempts to navigate a maze…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 653. Temperature Displayed on 4 Digit 7 segment using Arduino In this project I’ll display the temperature in a 4 digit 7 segment display (common anode). The sensor is the cheapest you can nd so actually the temperature changes pretty easily which makes the display to show always di erent temperatures. But the idea is to…… Listed under: Projects, Temperature Measurement Projects 654. A compact, Arduino altimeter for RC Planes Please vote for this Instructable if you think it deserves it! Thanks! The Ultimate Altimeter is a super-compact, Arduino controlled altimeter capable of measuring the altitude with an accuracy of 0.3 meters, and saving the highest and lowest values it has measured. It is powered…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 655. Wiring Harness for the LCD Panel
  • 88. Assembly of the Female Connector Block The wiring harness has a male and female end. The gender of electrical and mechanical parts is described on this Wikipedia page. The header pins that are soldered into the circuit board for the LCD panel are plugged into…… Listed under: LCD Projects 656. Android Accessories Made Easy With Arduino The Android Open Accessory Protocol makes it possible for you to create custom Arduino-based accessories for your Android phone or tablet. Attend this session to learn how to get started, the hardware &amp; software required and how Handbag makes development easier. Content will be useful…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 657. Huge Arduino Animatronic LED Eyeball using arduino I’m currently in the process of making a Halloween contraption that has a few components that are worth documenting. The Huge Arduino Animatronic LED Eyeball is one of them. Background Most animatronic eyeball projects that I found were more or less life-size. They were usually…… Listed under: LED Projects 658. Brain-Computer Interface Introduction Our goal was to build a brain-computer interface using an AVR microcontroller. We decided that the least invasive way of measuring brain waves would be using electroencephalography (EEG) to record microvolt-range potential di erences across locations on the user’s scalp. In order to accomplish this,…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects 659. Happy Androids with Arduino Video instructions Arduino + Android Normally smartphone events are tightly coupled to your phone device itself. When your cell phone is ringing, your phone speaker plays a ringtone. When you get a new text message, your phone displays it on its screen. Wouldn’t it be thrilling to…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects 660. Hack an old iPod using an Android and an Arduino This tutorial shows you how to use an Arduino to turn that old dusty music player into a Bluetooth controlled docking station. Even if it has a cracked screen or a dead battery it can still be used. The following instructions will show you how…… Listed under: Arduino Android 661. Finalized Prototype Shown below is the nalized prototype. The purpose of the prototype was to demonstrate the feasibility of a small, highly maneuverable search and rescue robot. As such, the completed prototype was successful. Capabilities include a ground speed of 10 inches per second, battery life of…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 662. Line Following Robot using arduino This is a Line Following Robot. It follows a black line that is drawn. It is able to detect the black line through one photocell and one analog light sensor. There is an LED in between the two sensors that gives o red light when…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation
  • 89. Projects 663. AC Dimmer Circuit Overview Simple AC Dimmer circuit for incandescent bulbs. 128 levels of brightness. Parts are relatively cheap! How it Works This is an AC Chopping Circuit. The dim level sets where the AC waveform gets chopped on. More of the cycle makes the bulb brighter, less…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects 664. Traffic Signal Wiring with Arduino Controller I always wanted an old tra c signal and nally got one recently.  However, it was very simply wired so that all the lights were xed on.  What fun is that?  I also wanted to try out an Arduino controller and thought this would be a…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Other Projects, Projects 665. Make a High-Altitude Balloon Tracker (Arduino) One of the coolest projects I have done so-far with my kids is a “near-space” balloon. That’s not quite into space itself (100Km+) but so high that the sky looks black and you can start to see the curvature of the earth below you. The…… Listed under: Other Projects 666. Zigbee Wireless Relay Control and Power Monitoring System Introduction We designed a system for wirelessly controlling relays and monitoring current.  This is used for a home load simulation.  By wirelessly turning relays on and o by sending commands from a PC to a microcontroller we can change the total load (current) to our…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects 667. Balancing Instructable Robot using arduino In this Instructable I wanted to show to you how to make a self balancing robot. What makes it unique is that its exterior is made to look like the Instructables Robot. Internally it works in the principle of PID, it is a very popular…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 668. Bidirectional motor control One of the simplest ways to get a motor to turn in both directions is by using a double-pole, double-throw (DPDT) relay. Along with the relay, this hookup requires two transistors and two Stamp pins, one for on/o control and the other for direction control.…… Listed under: Motor Projects 669. Fab Lab Barcelona SuperNode [assigment] Add an output device to a microcontroller board and program it to do something. Class syllabus:: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/classes/output_devices/index.html [what i learned /am learning] _ Relearned Arduino installation. _ Work with DC motors and H-Bridge IC with Arduino; and its general concepts. _ About the various…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects
  • 90. 670. LED Matrix Bike Safety Backpack using arduino Biking around cars can be a frightening thing, and staying visible at night is crucial for your safety. This tutorial will teach you how to make a custom LED Matrix Backpack that is much larger and brighter than traditional rear bike lights. Parts You’ll Need:…… Listed under: LED Projects 671. An FTIR Touchscreen Device The DJ Touch is a portable turntable touchscreen and interactive LED display. Our end goal was to produce a low cost touchscreen device, and demonstrate its application in a common consumer application. Out of an interest in electronic music, and with the knowledge of deejaying’s…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 672. Arduino Scouting Robot Summer Project: Arduino Scouting Robot [video id="P6PVLhjQ5FY" type="youtube"] Arduino Scouting Robot Part 1 * 12,9,5 volt power supply recharge it with a 12-volt charger keep power switch on to charge * 2 DC motors operate at 7.2V with a maximum current draw of 3 amps…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 673. Rubik’s Cube Solver using arduino This robot that can solve a Rubik’s cube using Arduino. I learned how to solve a Rubiks cube last year, and I was also into Arduino, so eventually I ended up with an idea to make my own Rubik’s cube solver. Like many people searching…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 674. Connecting an IR Sensor Schematic Since the IR Sensor uses a light sensor, the schematic is very similar to that of the light sensor. The only di erence is the addition of an IR LED and that the IR detector requires connection to 5V and ground. Breadboard Setup To setup…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 675. Learn how to use 7-Segment LED Display using Arduino 7-Segment LED Display is a very useful component, but also a very confusing and di cult piece to use for beginners. It won’t be di cult once you get it working for the rst time. This is what you will get at the end of the tutorial (part…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 676. Bass Master 3000 Carnival Game using arduino The Bass Master 3000 is a game that I built for a work carnival along with a small and very talented team of co- workers. I’ve seen this type of game on the net, but I wanted to kick it up a notch with some Arduino…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 677. L293 Motor Driver and H-Bridges The most common method to drive DC motors in two directions under control of a computer is with an H-bridge motor driver. H- bridges can be built from scratch with bi-polar junction transistors (BJT) or with eld e ect transistors (FET), or can be purchased as
  • 91. an…… Listed under: Motor Projects 678. How to connect a servo to the Arduino Servo Cable The continuous rotation servos that come with the BOE Shield-Bot have a 3-wire cable for connecting it to the power and controller. The black wire is the ground, the red wire is the power (positive) and the white wire (sometimes yellow, depending on…… Listed under: Motor Projects 679. Conversational Gloves using arduino This is what came out of my attempt at combining some of my favorite tools and themes…Grasshopper, 3D printing, kinetic motion, and linguistics. I put these gloves on my friends, asked them to tell me a story, and used Grasshopper to record the data from…… Listed under: Radio Projects 680. Pneumatic Inverted Pendulum Construction Mechanical structure Compressed air comes from air compressor and goes in the proportional valve. Coming out from the proportional valve, there are two branches of air ow (one is compressor air, the other one is exhausted air) which connect to the air cylinder (pneumatic…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 681. Make your own TV ambilight using Arduino This is a very easy project. Here is the result I won’t go into too much detail how each part works, because I have written some information on my blog. But you should be able to make it work with the information given on this…… Listed under: LED Projects 682. Step Sequencer Drum Machine Overview [top] As avid audiophiles, we wanted to apply our newly acquired knowledge of microcontrollers to build a fun consumer electronic device. Our project is a step sequencer drum machine. The user is able to program a 16-step percussion pattern using one of a wide…… Listed under: Sound – Audio Projects 683. Build your own 4x4x4 RGB LED Cube using arduino LED Cubes are awesome. The rst one I created was a 8x8x8 blue led cube. It still works like a charm. But being able to display every colour in the spectrum is much more spectacular. Let’s start with a small and simple 4x4x4 RGB LED…… Listed under: LED Projects 684. Programming an ATTiny13A using Arduino & servo interpreter So there I was, browsing eBay, looking for some cheap deals on Atmel chips when i came across a pair of ATTiny13 chips for £2.50. I just had to have them! After all, how hard can it be? I needed a small chip to read…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Motor Projects, Projects 685. Retablillo de las Maravillas v1.0
  • 92. 4./ Interactivity & electronics 4.1/ Switches / characters 4.2/ Screen / interface 4.3/ Motor controller 4.4/ I/O controller & interface [4./ electronics] [4.1/ switches / characters] The characters on top of the moving platform function, as interfaces, actually as on-o switches. While standing in its…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 686. How to control a Servo using Arduino In this one, servo is programmed to be controlled by two buttons, one turns servo to the left and the other one turns it to the right. When the servo is turning, corresponding LED will be switched on to indicate the operation. Result: Because Arduino…… Listed under: Motor Projects, Projects 687. Desktop Fist Bumper using arudino This simple device sits on your desk at work, ready to give you st bumps throughout the day as you need them. A 3D printed “ st” is moved by a servo attached to a rack and pinion mechanism. An ultrasonic range nder detects when you…… Listed under: Battery Projects 688. Arduino Basic Wifi Project using ESP8266 wifi module Overview ESP8266 is a highly integrated chip designed for the needs of a new connected world. It o ers a complete and self-contained Wi-Fi networking solution, allowing it to either host the application or to o oad all Wi-Fi networking functions from another application processor. ESP8266 has…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 689. $1.50 Arduino TV Annoyer Hey Arduino fans! Here is an ‘ible for making a device that turns TVs on when you want them o , and o then you want them on! If you hide it in something inconspicuous, it would make a great April Fools joke or gag gift.…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects 690. Katrina And Maya bOunce is a haptics-based learning game system that teaches the concepts behind wave dynamics, and in particular, resonance. The bOunce device (an adaptation of the Haptic Paddle) allows a user to “bounce” a ball in a virtual environment. By feeling the haptic force feedback from…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 691. Stereo Audio with an Arduino Recently I’ve been posting a lot of projects that use an 8 bit resistor ladder digital to analog converter(DAC) and an Arduino to make sound.  (see the Arduino vocal e ects box, the Arduino drum sampler, and my audio output tutorial).  The technique I’ve been using to make these DACs is…… Listed under: Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 692. Arduino All-In-One Remote Now you can have all the remotes of your house in a device that ts in your hand with Arduino, never ght for who has the TV remote again! To make it you will need: Arduino (I used a cheap copy of the arduino UNO).…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects
  • 93. 693. Just Veggin with an Arduino Beetbox Bring Touch Control to the Arduino. Use interesting touch sensors like Carrots or Beets to make a “Beetbox”. In this instructable you will learn: * How to use the Cap Sense library to make Arduino responsive to touch * How adding a Wave Shield (and…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 694. MOTOR SWITCH LED Here is how to connect a motor, a swtich and an LED to your Arduino and how to do some checking to make sure that everything works The strategy is to get the circuit going in stages, testing each part as you go. Once everything…… Listed under: LED Projects, Motor Projects 695. Arduino Controlled Lighthouse Overview: I’ve often thought that a lighthouse would make a great project for an Arduino, and so I decided to give it a try using one of the local lighthouses here in Erie, Pennsylvania as inspiration. I chose the North Pierhead Lighthouse that guards the…… Listed under: LED Projects 696. LittleGoal: World Cup Match Notifier using Arduino [ This Instructable was made at the Taipei Hackerspace littleBits Instructables Build Night. ] Can’t watch the World Cup football games, but want to know when important game events (ie. goals) happen? Then littleGoal is for you! The littleGoal setup will monitor the game’s progress,…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 697. Pololu Dual MC33926 Motor Driver Shield for Arduino This shield makes it easy to control two brushed DC motors with your Arduino or Arduino-compatible board. Its dual MC33926 motor drivers operate from 5 to 28 V and can deliver a continuous 3 A per motor. These great drivers also o er current-sense feedback and accept ultrasonic…… Listed under: Motor Projects 698. Stepper Motors Stepper motors are not smooth – they move in “steps”. Di erent motors have a di erent number of steps to make one complete rotation. You use software to step the motor forward or backward at di erent speeds. There are two kinds of stepper motor bipolar and…… Listed under: Motor Projects 699. DIY FPV RC Tank V2 [2km RANGE upgrade!] using Arduino Lets build An FPV tank that could be controlled within 2 kilometers! With the help of my best friend ASCAS I was able to borrow his old parts for this updated version. Ok So Roverbot version 2 is a highly educational Arduino based ATV- drone. It’s…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 700. Sweep Sweeps the shaft of a RC servo motor back and forth across 180 degrees. This example makes use of the Arduino servo library. Hardware Required Arduino Board (1) Servo Motor hook-up wire Circuit Servo motors have three wires: power, ground, and signal. The power wire…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Motor Projects
  • 94. 701. DIY GPS Tracked Bike Lock using Arduino Having just purchased a half decent bicycle, and living in a city with a bike theft rate almost as high as New York, I wanted to have some peace of mind that if a thief with an angle grinder were to cut through my U-lock…… Listed under: Car Projects, GPS Based Projects, Security – Safety Projects 702. Critter Twitter Trap using Arduino Havahart traps are really nice if you have pests to rid your home of but you don’t feel the need to do this through means of killing the animal. The problem we are faced with is constant monitoring of the trap. If you forget to…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 703. Capture the image of a falling object using Arduino The aim of this project is to create a setup to capture the image of a falling object or any object in motion at a precise time using a DSLR and Arduino microcontroller. It can be done in many di erent ways, but the method I…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 704. LED Binary Clock using an Arduino A Binary Clock! I was recently looking at some binary clocks and I felt like Why not? I have everything to make one and I don’t have a clock in my room. So I decided to build one and here it is. Hope you Like…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Projects 705. Wiring of the Solenoid Valves Overview of Wiring for the Salinity Sensor Other pages describing sh tank wiring: Connect electrical power to the pump and the breadboard Connect the salinity sensor to the breadboard and Arduino Connect the solenoids to the cascade control circuit (this page) Return to the main…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 706. Cheap wireless transmission between two Arduinos with Infrared Hi all, For a project, I was looking for a cheap solution to send data from an Arduino to an other one. The serial port was already taken, and my transmission (unidirectional) needed to be wireless. My researches has brought me to discover these kinds…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 707. Bug-Catching Spider in Web using Arduino Part 2 This project is a collaboration between  idesigner4 and bhasudha(me), students in the Fall 2012 course Things That Think (CSCI 7000) at The University of Colorado – Boulder. The story of our bug-catching spider automaton goes like this: A giant evil spider resides in a big…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects 708. Hack a TowerPro Micro Servo to Spin 360 / Continuous Rotation Hey guys! Since I’ve got my servos, I’ve had two that I set aside for hacking. So, coming to my favorite website for help, I was sorely disappointed when I couldn’t seem to nd any instructables on how to mod a micro servo. After viewing…… Listed under: Motor Projects
  • 95. 709. Arduino R/C Lawnmower What this is: This instructable will show you how to make your Arduino into an R/C interface that you can use for just about anything requiring remote control. I will also show you how I built an R/C lawnmower using my Arduino, a cheap R/C transmitter and…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects 710. RGB LED Tutorial (using an Arduino) (RGBL) using arduino LEDs are great. But with any project there comes a point where ashing is simply not enough. For these cases an RGB (Red, Green, BLue) LED is the answer. With an RGB LED you’ll be able to produce any colour glow your heart desires. At…… Listed under: LED Projects 711. Darkness Map Data Collection Device The Darkness Map encompasses both data collection and visualization of nighttime light levels. You can add to the map by downloading the app for iPhone or Android, but you can also contribute data by creating your own data collection device. This tutorial will cover how…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 712. Arduino-based line follower robot using Pololu QTR-8RC line sensor UPDATE FEB 2012: This guide is featured on Adafruit’s blog http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/02/14/arduino-based- line-follower-robot/ This is Faz3a II, my rst line-following robot, which I also hope to use for maze-solving. I used the Arduino Uno, Adafruit motor shield, Pololu’s QTR-8RC line sensors and motors. You can build a…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 713. RGB LED Rainbow Fader using an Arduino Introducing the RainBoard: A simple RGB LED Rainbow fader using an Arduino Uno and a few simple components. Believe it or not, we will control 45-channels of RGB LEDs at 32 brightness levels using only 3 digital pins from the Arduino! How is this possible…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects 714. Window Painting Robot (arduino, processing, accelerometer) The idea for this project came from one of my favorite ‘ibles: the polargraph. I loved the drawing style and thought how cool would it be to do this on the side of a building? Unfortunately the challenges to setting up such a large polargraph…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 715. Kaleiduino: A Battery Powered Arduino LED Kaleidoscope Hello everyone, and welcome to my Instructable! This instructable will show you how I made the rst ever DIY Arduino controlled “LED Kaleidoscope”! What is an LED kaleidoscope? Well, our traditional kaleidoscopes used 3 mirrors joined as a triangle with stu like sequins and stolen…… Listed under: Battery Projects, LED Projects 716. Using The PCF8575 i2c i/o Expander To Read Inputs With Arduino This Instructable will show you just how easy it is to add extra inputs to your Arduino. You can use this technique to add hundreds of extra inputs to your Arduino with only two wires by using a fancy communication protocol called i2c (eye-squared-see). Step…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects
  • 96. 717. Robotic Spider V8 I needed a project that would use all my servos, so I decided to make the do-nothing, worthless spider. If you have schertechnik and servos to waste, this is the project for you! Really, this opping spider makes for a great learning project. The main…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 718. Laser Cut Sphere-O-Bot using Arduino The Sphere-O-Bot is a simple 2 axis CNC machine that can draw on most spherical surfaces. You can use it to decorate ping pong balls or eggs.This design is based on the 3D printable Sphere-O-Bot. By building your Sphere-O-Bot using a laser cutter, you can…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 719. Arduino controls cheap RC car transmitter OBJECTIVE Cheap Chinese RC toy cars can be had for about 5 Euros in the local market. The wireless brains behind the majority of these cheap RC toys is a pair of very cheap ICs the TX2 and the RX2. Yup, that’s what they are called. So this…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects, Radio Projects 720. Arduino Ping Ultrasonic Range Finder Code The Ping))) is an ultrasonic range nder from Parallax. It detects the distance of the closest object in front of the sensor (from 2 cm up to 3m). It works by sending out a burst of ultrasound and listening for the echo when it bounces…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 721. Internet Devices for Home Automation This instructable shows the principles involved in making devices to control home automation over the internet. We’re going to construct a device (or several of them), that talk to each other over the internet to control lights, motors for curtains/blinds, power sockets etc. In contrast…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 722. Arduino based Bi-color LED Matrix Audio Spectrum Visualizer After we came up with the Bi-color LED Matrix Driver Module kit, we have been looking around for interesting projects to work with it. You may be interested in some of the projects we have put up at instructables using this LED Matrix kit. Instructable…… Listed under: LED Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 723. Breathalyzer using an Arduino What is a breathalyzer you may ask? It is a device for estimating blood alcohol content (BAC) from a breath sample.In simple terms it is a device to test weather a person is drunk or not. As the title suggests it runs on the arduino.Our breathalyzer…… Listed under: Medical – Health based Projects, Projects 724. Magic Light Capacitance Sensor using an Arduino This was my very rst arduino project.  Its great for beginners. Fade the color or the lights my moving your hands near it.  It fades from a pretty purple blue to a rey red-orange. Its was SUPER easy to build, not to hard to write…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects,
  • 97. Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 725. LED Flipbookit: full color and brightness control with an Arduino Step 1: Gather the materials Materials: – addressable RGB LED strip : I used a new variety of three conductor WS2811 strips. – an Arduino : I used a Arduino Leonardo. Any 5vdc Arduino should be adequate. – 4 AA batteries and a battery holder…… Listed under: LED Projects 726. Infinity Mirror Clock using Arduino Ever since my addressable RGB LED strips (WS2812B) came from Aliexpress, I’ve been fascinated with LED projects. Following up on my success with my Charlieplexed LED clock, I wanted to create something with more Jazz.. While browsing google images, I came across an instructable for…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects 727. How to Make a PIP-Boy using an Arduino So what exactly is a PIP-Boy, you ask? For those unfamiliar, a PIP-Boy is a device used by the protagonist in the popular Fallout series of video games for navigation, radiation detection, data storage/playback, and inventory management. Being a major fan of the franchise, I…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 728. Experimenters Guide for Arduino as Performed at OIT Resources Adafruit ARDX – v1.3 Experimentation Kit for Arduino Experimenters Guide for Arduino (PDF) Bread Board Layouts (PDF) Arduino Tutorial Bundle (Instructable) This Arduino Tutorial is going to be very similar to the Arduino Tutorial Bundle Instructable but because we are working on this in…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects 729. ZAPpelin, or how to train your blimp with an Arduino and IR remote Is it ying seal? A apping alien? No it’s a ZAPpelin, an Arduino controlled indoor blimp, setup to learn in the signals from an IR remote to command it. This project came to life at the third Arduino Jam Februari 15th to17th 2013, at Timelab,…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Radio Projects 730. Digital Zoetrope using Arduino A zoetrope is a mechanical device that animates a series of pictures by spinning them fast enough that the images appear to merge together and move, My digital zoetrope works on a similar principal, by ashing the LEDs while they are spinning it is possible…… Listed under: Video – Camera – Imaging Projects 731. The machine of answers Should you ask your boss for a raise? Call that cute guy you met at a party? Sell your stock?  Wouldn’t it be nice to have a handy method of handling some of life’s more pressing dilemmas? This machine give you the answer to all…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects
  • 98. 732. ABC 123 Toddler Trainer using Arduino Here is a kid tested and teacher approved trainer for the kids in your family and / or extended family that are learning their ABCs and their 123s. It was kid tested on my granddaughter, who really loves it, and was approved by my wife, …… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 733. Aergia: Android controlled TV Remote(with Speech Recognition) using Arduino Have you ever faced this situation while sitting on your favorite spot on the couch or recliner, comfortably watching your favorite TV program? You’re snugly tucked under the blanket, the air conditioning is pleasantly cool, the sun outside is shining it’s delicate warm golden rays…… Listed under: Arduino Android 734. The Arduino AA Undershield I recently bought an Arduino Diecimila board. It’s awesome and the applications, you can use it for or with is almost unlimited. However there’s a problem when you want to use it in portable applications. You can use the Liquidware lithium backpack, which is a…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects 735. Bluetooth RGB Shelf Lighting using Arduino Being the giant fan of LED’s that I am i’m always trying to come up with new ways I can put them throughout my house. Today i’m going to show you how to create a simple, yet extremely eye catching, RGB Bluetooth controlled Shelf lighting…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, LED Projects 736. L.O.G. $10 Arduino There are probably thousands of articles on making an Arduino. So who needs another Arduino? Well, this Lazy Old Geek(L.O.G.) needs one. Here’s the features I would like: Features: Low cost More permanent than a breadboard Not a custom PCB More prototyping area than a…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects 737. Love Gauge I’m working together with my wife. But sometimes one of us has an external appointment. So, if one of us is thinking about the other, we want to show it together. For this, I have made an Love Gauge for us. It stands on our…… Listed under: Other Projects 738. Arduino Powered Autonomous Vehicle A few months back I started playing around with Arduino micro controllers as a learning exercise (and for fun); this project is the culmination of that. The goal of the project was to create a vehicle that can autonomously navigate through a series of waypoints…… Listed under: Car Projects
  • 99. 739. Emotidora: Hats with Emotions using Arduino This project, Emotidora, will help a user express his/her emotions about events in day-to-day life. Weve all been in situations where something very exciting or unfortunate has happened to us and we want to share it with other people. This usually involves the expression of…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects, Projects 740. Traffic Signal / Stop Light Wiring with Arduino Controller I always wanted an old tra c signal and nally got one recently.  However, it was very simply wired so that all the lights were xed on.  What fun is that?  I also wanted to try out an Arduino controller and thought this would be a…… Listed under: Other Projects 741. WAVEbuoy using Arduino The WAVEbuoy is a arduino lamp connected to the internet that displays the current wave height of any of the National Data Buoy Centre’s wave buoys. This lamp is currently connected to the Sevenstones Lightship buoy that gives an indication of swell approaching Cornwall in…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 742. Arduino Keyboard and Mouse Control Code This example illustrates the use of the Mouse and keyboard libraries together. Five momentary switches act as directional buttons for your cursor. When a button is pressed, the cursor on your screen will move, and a keypress will be sent to the computer. Once you…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 743. Arduino ADK LED Lighting Have you ever wanted to control electronics with your smartphone?  The Arduino ADK (Android Development Kit) is the Arduino Mega with a built in USB host device, ready for your smartphone to be plugged in!  We’ll make a simple introductory project with a few LED…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 744. Pixel Drop Ceiling using Arduino In our living room we have a small patch of drop ceiling right in the middle of the room, basically a giant piece of duct tape to cover up bad carpentry. It was constantly getting water damage from what looks like a giant hole in…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects 745. Arduino Leonardo Pinout Diagram Arduino Leonardo Introduction: The Arduino Leonardo is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega32u4 (datasheet). It has 20 digital input/output pins (of which 7 can be used as PWM outputs and 12 as analog inputs), a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a micro USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP…… Listed under: Pinouts
  • 100. 746. Push-button using an Arduino Pushbuttons or switches connect two points in a circuit when you press them. This example turns on the built-in LED on pin 13 when you press the button. image developed using Fritzing. For more circuit examples, see the Fritzing project page Connect three wires to the Arduino…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 747. Create an internet controlled robot using Livebots Here you will learn how to create an internet controlled robot or other installation using Livebots. Livebots is a project I’m working on which consists of an easy to use website for all the robots that people can interact with through the internet. As an example I…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 748. Model Airplane Autopilot using Arduino Hi All! I am twenty years old. I picked up my arduino for the rst time this Christmas, and I’ve been keeping busy on my arduino applications so that I can bring you this instructable. I hope that it helps!!! The purpose of this project…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 749. Using the Arduino Uno to program ATTINY84-20PU Using the Arduino Uno to program ATTINY84-20PU (Newark item # 68T3783). This Instructable shows how to use the Arduino platform to work with physically smaller processors, such as the ATtiny84 (84/44/24), ATtiny85 (85/45/25), and ATtiny2313. This example is speci cally for the ATtiny84-20PU processor (Newark item…… Listed under: Arduino Programmer Projects, Projects 750. Home Made Bezel / Window for LCD, LED, TFT Displays. I’ve been working on a project that used a 16×2 LCD display and wanted a nice nish that also allowed me to seal against water and other liquids. I also needed impact resistance, low cost and the ability to be changed easily if worn or…… Listed under: LCD Projects, LED Projects 751. MaKey MaKey Monome using Arduino Objective: build a monome – a complex electronic music instrument – using easy-to-learn, inexpensive components and a process that’s so easy a kid could do it. Gist: This touchscreen music instrument is essentially 4 parts: MaKey MaKey (or Arduino) Neopixels copper tape cardboard Sound is…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Sound – Audio Project Ideas 752. Arduino and Xbee wireless setup The Arduino Wireless shield allows your Arduino board to communicate wirelessly using Zigbee. This documentation describes the use of the shield with the XBee 802.15.4 module (sometimes called “Series 1” to distinguish them from the Series 2 modules, although “Series 1” doesn’t appear in the o cial name…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 753. Arduino or Twitter Mets Apple
  • 101. Whenever I go to Citi Field with my kids to see the Mets, they go crazy for the Home Run Apple.To me, the Apple is part of what makes baseball exciting for kids. Even though my kids may not watch most of the games, I…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 754. Control Fluorescent Lights with a Laser Pointer and an Arduino A few members of the Alpha One Labs Hackerspace do not like the harsh light given out by uorescent xtures.  They wanted a way to be able to easily control the individual xtures, perhaps with a laser pointer? I got right on it.  I dug out a…… Listed under: Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 755. How to make your own Arduino board If your are like me which I am guessing you are, then ever since you got into doing stu with arduino you have wanted to make your own arduino board. You may be surprised to nd out that making the prototyping board is actually very…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 756. Polydexter: Arduino Robotic Translation Arm Polydexter was the introductory project in the Creative Architecture Machines (CAM) advanced options architecture studio at the California College of the Arts (CCA), taught by Jason Kelly Johnson (co-founder of Future Cities Lab) and Michael Shiloh. Parts developed for this robot would go on to…… Listed under: Robotics – Automation Projects 757. Boot Bot Arduino Bootload Shield The Boot Bot Shield lets you burn the arduino boootloader onto a blank Atmega 328 chip. The bootloader is that magic piece of software that turns a mundane chip into the open source programmable miracle known as the arduino. Blank chips cost a few dollars…… Listed under: Projects, Robotics – Automation Projects 758. Arduino Power outlet with exposed pins I found my self often trying to plug stu at home with Arduino. So I thought it would be good to have a system that you can just plug your sensor, plug the appliance and code something to see how it goes. I never liked…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 759. Arduino Orb Build Warden An Arduino based Ambient Orb designed explicitly for monitoring Source Code Autobuild systems. This orb can easy be repurposed for monitoring really anything that can have alerts from time to time. Step 1: Purpose Some time ago a co-worker passed me an article about “Extreme…… Listed under: Other Projects, Projects 760. Spinning Tardis with blinking LED (Powered by littleBits) using Arduino Construct a Tardis that spins and blinks! Total Build Time: 30 mins · Coding: 5 mins · Construction of the Tardis: 20 mins · littleBits LED and motor assembly: 5 mins Tardis.wmv(320×240) 10 KB Step 1: Gather all needed parts. LittleBits: · (2) Wires ·…… Listed under: LED Projects 761. 4x4x4 RGB LED Cube using Arduino
  • 102. A while ago, when I rst started using Arduino, my rst project was a 4x4x4 LED cube, I built it from a Guide I found here in Instructables, I didn’t know anything about programming, and little about electronics, yet I was able to build it…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 762. Simple Basement Security System using Arduino In this project I will show you how to build a very simple security system for all kinds of rooms. It might be simple but still e ective. It is based around an Attiny85 and uses a reed switch and a key switch as inputs to…… Listed under: Security – Safety Projects 763. Monitor – Thinking Skins using Arduino This project was part of Multimodal Media Madness 2014, hosted by the chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) and the Media Computing Group of RWTH Aachen University. For more Thinking Skins, please check this page: http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/m3_ss14 Given were small shared space containers for 6/8…… Listed under: LED Projects 764. Make Voice Call using Arduino This sketch connects a voice call from your GSM shield and Arduino to a remote phone number entered through the serial monitor. You’ll need to attach a speaker and microphone to hear the connected phone and send your voice.   First, import the GSM library…… Listed under: Phone Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 765. Arduino Peak Power Tracker Solar Charger This project is an update of my original Peak Power Tracker Battery Charger Project. It is designed to control a 12V solar panel charging a 12V lead acid battery. The updated version of this project uses the Arduino Duemilanove development board (from www.sparkfun.com) as the…… Listed under: Battery Projects, Projects 766. Ping Organ using an Arduino I was trying to think of a quick toy I could build for my kids.  I came up with this idea of an ultrasonic range nder, an Arduino, and a speaker.  Basically the Arduino plays a tone out of the speaker based on the distance…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 767. Papercraft Automata Race Game littleBits Circuit using Arduino This instructable will show you how to create a game using littleBits. The game will start with a sound trigger. Each player will have to press a button repeatedly. The rst person to press their button 25 times wins. A buzzer will sound to end…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 768. Arduino decision box (Attiny85) So I was a bit bored this weekend (actually I wrote this some months ago) and since I had ordered a bunch of Attiny85 chips the week after I decided to make a quite random project with them. This is a decision box, it takes…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 769. RGB LED with Arduino 101
  • 103. To Learn about the basic LED usage practice, read here. What is a RGB LED? With an RGB (Red Green Blue) LED you’ll be able to produce any colour that is ashing everyone’s eyes. At rst glance, RGB LEDs look just like regular LEDs, however, inside the usual…… Listed under: LED Projects, Projects 770. SmartMesh – Arduino and Android Controlled Pneumatic Facade This project was part of Multimodal Media Madness 2014, hosted by the chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) and the Media Computing Group of RWTH Aachen University. For more Smart Skins, please check this page: http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/m3_ss14 During this project, the students were asked to…… Listed under: Arduino Android 771. LED Pattern Hat using an Arduino This is a (moderately) simple Arduino project that is a spectacular display from LEDs – that you can wear on your head! It also uses a program that is not intricate at all, so you can modify it for di erent patterns and cycles. It’s also…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Projects 772. DIY Android Home Automation Box Here’s a little show and tell of my Android controlled home automation box. It’s a small extension box that’s controlled by an Android smartphone. You can turn the individual outlets on by tapping a button from the app or use the speech recognition app, found…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Home Automation Projects 773. Use foot switch to open Linux terminal using an Arduino So here is how i made my foot pedal used to start Linux terminal using an Arduino. It’s made because I am board of pressing the terminal icon with my mouse. P.S. Sorry for my English. I am from Croatia. Tools needed: -Soldering iron and…… Listed under: Projects, RTOS – OS Projects 774. Musical Table using Arduino   The Musical Table is a toy table that allows kids to play musical phrases by moving toys around the surface. Each of seven switches can play di erent musical phrases in four bases, making 27 di erent musical phrases in total.  Some of the phrases are…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Sound – Audio Projects 775. ARDUINO WIRELESS HOME SECURITY SYSTEM In this project I will discuss how you can make a cheap wireless home security system.Though during starting of this project the main objective was only for security alarm but later I found this device can be used to solve several problems.These are the few…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Security – Safety Projects 776. Assembling the ZIFduino USB 1.2 The ZIFduino, for all intents and purposes, is an Arduino with a ZIF socket. It’s geared toward those that want to do prototyping on the platform, but then move the ATMega chip to a stand-alone environment. The pin layouts are exactly the same, so it…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Projects 777. Using Servo Motors with Arduino
  • 104. In this instructable, I am going to show you what a servo motor is, how to use it, and ideas for starting projects using it. I used arduino to control my servo, I added how to use a 555 in some of the later steps.…… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects, Motor Projects, Projects 778. How to build a whole home energy monitor using Arduino This page and linked pages detailed below document how to build whole house energy monitor that has a display for easy, quick access to current energy use information, usb datalogging for detailed long term data storage and Internet connectivity for online graphing. First a quick…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, How To – DIY – Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects 779. Internet-Controlled RC Car using Arduino The Internet Controlled RC Car allows you to remotely drive around a small rc car from wherever you may be and see where it is going. This is fun because you can remote explore whatever space you leave it in, or hand over the keys…… Listed under: Car Projects, Game – Entertainment Projects, Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 780. Arudino- No Blinky So you just bought this Arduino kit or Arduino-clone kit. You spent hours inserting parts and soldering components. You connect everything up and turn it on and stare at the little LED. You wait a second and nothing happens. You wait a minute and still…… Listed under: Development Board – Kits Projects, Projects 781. Arduino Seismic Activity Monitor – Ethernet Shield Have you ever wanted to impress your friends by saying something crazy like, “I think there’s going to be an earthquake soon” moments before an earthquake hits? Or do you just want some warning, a few seconds that could save your life. This project will…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects 782. Arduino Traffic Light Controller with Remote Control I had a tra c light that I was re nishing.  The only thing left to do was to build the controller for the light’s signal patterns.  To give it a twist I incorporated a remote control.  This was also the perfect opportunity for me to try…… Listed under: Car Projects, Projects, Radio Projects 783. Light-Up Disco Table using Arduino Every apartment needs awesome furniture, so why not make your own? This co ee table contains LED strips that light up into various customizable patterns and colors. The lights are controlled by an Arduino and a hidden button, and the entire thing is battery powered so…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 784. DIY Arduino FM Radio (Part 2) If you have read my rst blog on the topic, than you already know what I’m experimenting with. Low price FM Radio, build with TDA7088 / YD 9088. It was obvious, that technology from the early 90-x is outdated. I mean, simple “search and hold” function of…… Listed under: Projects, Radio Projects
  • 105. 785. Theremin Toy using Arduino I wanted to make a little toy for my granddaughter to play with when she visits. I know like most kids, she enjoys things that make sounds and have di erent colored lights on them and if she does something, the toy does something. I thought…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 786. Using Servos with Arduino made easy ! Servomotors or simply servos are essential components of a robot which convert electrical energy into mechanical energy.They are widely used in the eld of RC hobby and robotics. But unlike simple geared motors , these servos are made by integrating a geared motor with a…… Listed under: Motor Projects 787. Face detection and tracking with Arduino and OpenCV UPDATES Feb 20, 2013: In response to a question by student Hala Abuhasna if you wish to use the .NET Serial class, use the naming convention “.COMn” and replace n with a number > 9 to de ne your com port for COM ports above 9…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects, Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 788. Teensy MIDI USB foot controller for controlling Mobius Looper using Arduino Motivation: Playing in a 2 piece band, with the drums and lots of other samples being played back as backing tracks, there was a need to use a looper to add in more elements to the tracks. A hardware based looper fails in this respect, …… Listed under: Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects 789. Under $8 Arduino Serial Data Logger – Record to SD Card Disclosure: This project operates the ATmega328-P-PU outside the published ATmel speci cations: According to ATmel, the 328P requires slightly over 3.3V to reliably start the oscillator at 16MHz and to otherwise perform acceptably.  Lab testing here at SofKinetics has shown that the ‘board-duino’ 328P-PU can withstand…… Listed under: Memory – Storage Projects, Projects 790. DIY Solar Tracker using Arduino Introduction We aim to introduce young students to engineering and teach them about solar energy; by having them build a Helios as part of their curriculum. There is an e ort in engineering to push energy generation away from the use of fossil fuels and towards…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects, Solar energy projects 791. iAndroidRemote – Control Android mobile using an Apple Remote I love to integrate devices which are not supposed to be integrated and this guide shows you how you can control an Android mobile using Apple’s Remote. (Who said Apple devices work only with Apple products 😉 ) Also this is my entry to the…… Listed under: Internet – Ethernet – LAN Projects 792. Arduino Digital Switch Code This is basic for your arduino projects, input switch read from digital input. When ever switch pressed, LED will turn on.   [caption id="attachment_4235" align="aligncenter" width="600"] PushButton_arduino_code[/caption]   Instruction; 1) Connect cathode lead of
  • 106. LED (shorter lead) to ground pin and anode lead of LED…… Listed under: How To – DIY – Projects, Projects 793. Hacking my RC Car using Arduino and Android Smart Phone Have an old toy car? I hacked mine using Arduino and an H bridge circuit to control the motors, used my Sony Z1 Android phone to control it with the recent 1Sheeld I got from Kickstarter. I thought to use the Gyroscope sensor in to…… Listed under: Arduino Android, Car Projects, Phone Projects 794. Analog reading box using an Arduino I made this box for my music project to our school. This is only tutorial for the box, no for playing melody. It´s based on serial connected switches. You will need: Some wire 6x switch 1x LED 1x 330 ohm resistor 5x 2000 ohm resistor…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects 795. Washing machine countdown timer using Arduino Hello, and welcome to my instructable for a washing machine countdown timer. The timer is operated with the very popular Arduino micro controller. See here for more information. Arduino Home Page Aim The aim of this project is to be able to delay the start…… Listed under: Clock – Timer Projects, Home Automation Projects 796. Nintendo Keyless Entry System using an Arduino Use a Classic Nintendo controller to lock and unlock your door! The output from the Controller is read by an arduino and it looks for a particular combination of buttons, once the combination is entered it sends a signal to eject a Cd- Rom Drive which…… Listed under: Home Automation Projects, Projects, Security – Safety Projects 797. DIY Infrared Sensor Module using Arduino Have you ever wanted to make a line following robot but the infrared sensors were too expensive for you? Do you want to upgrade the robot in my other instructable? Well this instructable comes in two stages, Stage 1 is the prototyping stage, where you…… Listed under: Projects, Sensor – Transducer – Detector Projects 798. Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard using Arduino Introduction: Okay, I cheated. Any similarities between previous Instructables uploaded by me and the graphics, pictures, text and / or programming code is purely intentional. It certainly made putting this one together a whole lot easier. This Instructable is my Arduino version of the Rock…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects 799. ADXL3xx Accelerometer using an Arduino This tutorial shows you how to read an Analog Devices ADXL3xx series (e.g. ADXL320, ADXL321, ADXL322, ADXL330) accelerometer and communicate the acceleration to the a personal computer. This tutorial was built using the breakout boards from Sparkfun. The adafruit accelerometer breakout board also works, though…… Listed under: Metering – Instrument Projects, Projects
  • 107. 800. Make your plant smile using Arduino This is a funny project that makes our plants “talk” to us. It’s very simple and you can create it in few hours. We use a sensor to read the soil moisture of our plant and a led matrix to dislay how the plant “feel”.…… Listed under: Game – Entertainment Projects, Home Automation Projects Previous 1 2 3 4 Next Share this: This Post / Project can also be found using search terms: arduino x/y alphabet scriber mega 2560 r d master kit motor servo lcd module for arduino learner instructions USEFUL LINKS Advance Search USEFUL RESOURCES Arduino Complete Projects List Arduino UNO Projects List Arduino O ine Projects PDF Arduino Mega 2560 projects Arduino Tutorial Courses Videos Esp8266 Arduino Projects List Arduino Zero Projects List Arduino Nano Projects List ESP32 Arduino Projects List Arduino Tutorial Online Courses Video Training FACEBOOK You and 4 other friends like this Arduino ProjectArduino Project…… 37K likes37K likes Liked ADVANCE SEARCH Select Category: Select a Category Enter Search Terms: Search for... Search LAST VISITED: Using an Arduino to Control an Infrared Helicopter How to build an Arduino energy monitor – measuring mains voltage and current Soldering Robot – Head Assembly © 2013 Powered By Wise Technologies, Use Arduino for Projects | Sitemap | Privacy Policy