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Autochef-9000 can cook an entire breakfast automatically

Fans off Wallace and Gromit will all remember two things about the franchise: the sort of creepy — but mostly delightful — stop-motion animation and Wallace’s Rube Goldberg-esque inventions. YouTuber Gregulations was inspired by Wallace’s Autochef breakfast-cooking contraption and decided to build his own robot to prepare morning meals. Gregulations wanted his Autochef-9000 to churn out traditional […]

Boards:MegaUno
Categories:Arduino

The Hardware-Oriented Microprocessor Simulator illustrates the inner workings of microcontrollers

Do you really understand what is happening within the mysterious black packaging of a microcontroller or microprocessor? Most people don’t — we just learn how to use them. That’s because they’re wildly complex circuits combining many different subsystems that are all abstracted away from the view of the user. To help students better understand these integrated circuits […]

Boards:MegaUno
Categories:Arduino

This DIY Jurassic Park pinball machine is a T-Rexcellent use of Arduino

Pinball machines are prime examples of the dizzying heights achieved by engineers in the electromechanical era before digital electronics came along. But while those classic pinball machines are extremely impressive from an engineering standpoint, they required an immense amount of expertise and were therefore unapproachable to most. By utilizing modern digital components like Arduino development […]

Boards:MegaNano
Categories:Arduino