The Arduino software environment, including the IDE, libraries, and general approach, are geared toward education. It’s meant as a way to introduce embedded development to newbies. This is a great ...

If you didn't think you could make a high speed photography trigger or hack together some creepy googly eyeballs for Halloween, then you've got another think coming, because learning how to use ...

I know how to solder, but I do not always want to solder, and I think there are a lot of folks like me. Even if the act itself can be done (and undone, and redone), the friction of hauling out the ...

When [gdarchen] wanted to read some NFC tags, he went through several iterations. First, he tried an Electron application, and then a client-server architecture. But his final iteration was to make a ...

As a geek father, I have a reputation to uphold. And BearDuino has helped me maintain some shred of credibility with my kids… while creeping them out a bit in the process. The BearDuino is a ...

Why this hasn’t been done before is a mystery to me. This little hack project by Kellbot of NYCResistor takes a rolling ball, an optical mouse, a gutted PS2 controller, and some Arduino hacking and ...

Anyone who has ever hacked around in their PC will have been hit with an urge to take their tinkering to the next level and create a custom-built device, but few actually try - believing such things ...

This is the second part of the “PONF” series. For those that are not familiar, I am the CTO on the PONF (Photography On Film) Project. This project is the first dual back camera: digital and analog.

We often feature projects here, especially on the weekend, that require the magic of an Arduino processor. If you've put off a bookmarked project for lack of Arduino knowledge, now's your chance to ...