Top 10 creative projects from Arduino Day Community Challenge
Meet the winners of the Arduino Day 2021 Community Challenge, and take another look at their inspired, creative projects.
MKR WiFi 1010 Category
Arduino control system puts defunct washing machine back into operation
After three short years of use, Roni Bandini’s Samsung washing machine started to act erratically, and several technicians looked at it without really fixing the problem. Bandini then decided to take matters into his own hands and replaced its brains with a MKR WiFi 1010 board, along with four relays and a trio of buttons. This new […]
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Say hello to the new Arduino Oplà IoT Kit: Experience the Internet of Things in your hands!
We’re excited to announce the launch of the Arduino Oplà Kit, the first open programmable IoT platform that allows you to add smart connectivity to the devices around your home or workplace and build custom IoT devices. The Oplà IoT Kit contains all the hardware necessary to create eight connected applications, access to an online […]
Boards:MKR WiFi 1010
Arduino Security Primer
This article was written by the Arduino Security Team. At Arduino, we are hard at work to keep improving the security of our hardware and software products, and we would like to run you through how our IoT Cloud service works. The Arduino IoT Cloud‘s security is based on three key elements: The open-source library […]
Announcing the Touch Less, Do More Challenge
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we interact with people, things, and the world around us. We’re calling on the community to use an Arduino Nano or MKR board to build solutions that can help us practice better social distancing, improve queue management, or enable touch-free technologies. Stepping out from our homes, to go to […]
Nailz turns your fingernails into wearable input system for smart devices
Researchers at UNIST in South Korea have developed a novel technique for smart device input using touch-sensitive fingernails, called Nailz. As noted in the team’s paper, fingernails have long served as a site for body extension and are extremely accessible, making them a perfect unobtrusive input surface. 144 thumb/finger gestures were identified for the setup, […]
Boards:MKR WiFi 1010
The Synthfonio is a guitar-shaped MIDI instrument
Learning to play an an instrument well takes a lot of time, which many people don’t have. To address this, Franco Molina — who enjoys MIDI controllers and writing music, but describes himself as being terrible at playing the keyboard — created the Synthfonio. Molina’s DIY device is vaguely reminiscent of a guitar, with a […]
Boards:MKR WiFi 1010
Wearable synth plays programmed or random tunes
Unless you’re very good, personal synths are fun for you — though often quite annoying for onlookers. After making his own wristwatch-based synth in 2016, Clem Mayer decided to build a new version that’s larger and louder than ever, and programmable via an Arduino controller. Mayer chose the MKR WiFi 1010 here to take advantage of its […]
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This YouTuber recreated the D-O droid from Star Wars: Episode 9 with Arduino
While it’s yet to make its premiere, Matt Denton has already built the D-O droid from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker using a MKR WiFi 1010 for control, along with a MKR IMU Shield and a MKR Motor Carrier. The droid scoots around on what appears to be one large wheel, which conceals the […]
Boards:MKR WiFi 1010
BLE central support added to ArduinoBLE
This post is from Sandeep Mistry, Senior Software Engineer at Arduino. Today, we are pleased to announce BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) central support in v1.1.0 of the ArduinoBLE library. This major feature addition allows your Arduino board to scan for and connect to BLE peripheral devices. With one simple library, you can now use BLE […]
