Car Hacks Category

M2 by Macchina joins AtHeart!

We’re excited to announce the latest member of Arduino’s AtHeart program, Macchina! Now live on Kickstarter, M2 is an open-source, versatile development platform for hacking and customizing cars. M2’s two-part design is compact, modular, wirelessly connectable, and based on the popular Arduino Due. It consists of a processor board with a SAM3X8E Cortex-M3 MCU, a USB port, some LEDs, an SD card […]

Social Fuel For Your Car: Travel With A Little Help From Your Friends

Impressing automotive hacking lets this FIAT car moving by the number of “like” from the Guarana Antarctica Facebook Fan Page. The advertising idea is simple: let the social audience support this Sau Paulo to Salvador trip to reach the Carnivalby commenting / “liking” the page. The onboard Arduino ADK (connected to a tablet and the […]

Control a Slot Car Race With Your Mind

[Riccardo Giraldi] posted a nice project controlling a slot car race from a Mindwave headset (=> your brain waves). From B-Reel’s secret laboratory comes a brain-bending experimental project utilising a number of cutting edge tech tools. B-Reel’s UK creative director Riccardo Giraldi led the development of the project, and you can view the explanatory video here, as […]

Customize Your Car’s Electronics Using Arduino

Customizing your car with Arduino is getting easier and easier, with plenty of examples online. After the MPGuino Community, different OBD and CAN shields, we welcome the JEEPuter: The JEEPuter is a programmable push-button system for controlling things like ignition, GPS navigation system, CB radio, RF scanner, 110V inverter, external and internal lights, and garage […]