As the preeminent tool for makers, Arduino is a versatile platform that covers almost every type of creative making. With its simple-to-use coding language and fun programming concepts, Arduino enables users to create modern electronics with ease. From beginner level projects like flashing LED lights to more advanced builds such as interactive robots, there are an endless number of possibilities when it comes to building projects with Arduino. Whether you are new or an experienced builder in search of fresh ideas, these posts will provide interesting Arduino tutorials and unique ideas that may spark your creativity and motivate you take on any type of maker project!
Gavin of Syndey, Australia, wrote in to share his Arduino Cheat Sheet: Description: I really love cheat sheets. In a lot of cases they can take the place of an entire manual. So I was surprised, given its popularity that I couldn’t find a single-page reference for the arduino online. I tried to make a […]
The Voice Shield is an analog audio shield for the Arduino. It allows you to easily add audio to your next project. The Voice Shield uses a unique and very user friendly way to access different sound bytes making it easy to build “talking” devices. It can work with words, complete sentences, or use it to add sound effects.
This is the shield John Park used in his audio sampler + joystick build video.
Over at MAKE: Japan, Takumi Funada found this fun-looking open source hardware instrument called RakuChord Mobile.
Tweet Haroon Baig’s Twitwee Clock and it will deploy the cuckoo and show the tweet on a small LCD. The project appears to use a combination of an Arduino and Chumby guts to do its thing. The Twitwee Clock is a modified Cuckoo Clock that wirelessly connects to the internet and constantly checks for new […]
Would you like to play a game? I put together a VoiceShield, plonked it on an Arduino, recorded and manipulated my voice in Garage Band, uploaded the sound bytes to the VoiceShield, and wrote an Arduino sketch to control samples and delays from a 2-axis joystick.
Check out this handy DTMF remote control interface from EmilioFicara. Turn relays on and off with sound.
Ed Baafi has been working up Modkit, a great new interface that combines the language Scratch with the ability to write programs for the Arduino. Like Scratch, Modkit provides the user with clickable and expandable code blocks. When you have the program the way you want it, you send it down to your Arduino board and test it out. All those fussy semicolons and syntax are handled automatically, no typing required.
