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Foxes Like Beacons explores alternative navigation systems

Jochen Maria Weber’s Foxes Like Beacons is an exploratory project using open data of public radio stations with inexpensive, low-power signal detection in order to create an open positioning system. According to the designer: Today’s satellite based GPS enable and augment uncountable everyday processes, ranging from logistics to fitness trackers and even intimate dating applications. These proprietary […]

Boards:Nano

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Makers bring the “Push Button, Receive Bacon” meme to life

“Push Button, Receive Bacon” is a popular catchphrase and graffiti tag often spotted next to the graphic instruction on hand dryers. Well, the Hammerspace Workshop team has decided to bring that meme to life with their latest project for the upcoming Maker Faire Kansas City. In order to raise awareness of the link between bacon and hand health […]

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Arduino Pro Mini powers this Pac-Man festival totem

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas is just days away, and YouTuber “Korberos” is ready. The Maker has created an LED Pac-Man totem using 967 lines of code, 256 NeoPixels wired in succession and laid out in a game-inspired map, and an Arduino Pro Mini. The controller and game lights are powered by a 5V power bank with 10,000mAh of storage, […]

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Build your own life-size, multipurpose robot with Arduino

If you’ve always wanted a bot for a friend, personal assistant or butler, you’re in luck. John Choi, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science and arts student, has managed to build his own life-size robotics platform for about $2,000. Sure, a price tag like that may not seem “cheap” but in comparison to other research-grade platforms out there, it’s a bargain. Ideal […]

Boards:Mega

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Watch 24 colorful acrylic blocks dance to music

Lights synchronized to music, what’s not to love? YouTuber “Robert Robert” has done just that using 24 acrylic blocks, an Arduino Uno, four 12-pixel WS2812B addressable LED strips, an Adafruit electret microphone amplifier, a 12000mAh external battery pack, and some code. The blocks are divided into two sets of 12, held together by threaded rods and nuts, with LED strips hot glued to […]

Boards:Uno

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Hacked typewriter prints selfies as ASCII art

Last year, Moscow-based artist Dmitry Morozov — known by many as ::vtol:: — came up with a far less modern way of taking selfies. The Maker modified an old Brother SX-4000 typewriter to create portraits in the form of ASCII art. The machine, called “i/o,” is controlled by an Arduino Mega and works by capturing an image using an iSight camera (with […]

Boards:Mega

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Teach your drone what is up and down with an Arduino

Gyroscopes and accelerometers are the primary sensors at the heart of an IMU, also known as an inertial measurement unit — an electronic sensor device that measures the orientation, gravitational forces and velocity of a multicopter, and help you keep it in the air using Arduino. Two videos made by Joop Brokking, a Maker with passion for RC model ‘copters, […]

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Listen to an artist play the piano with a PC keyboard

German composer Oskar Schuster recently uploaded a YouTube video showing off a new project he is working on: an Arduino-controlled upright piano. Called Utopiano, it’s described as an electro-mechanical device that replaces the traditional mechanical piano action and enables him to control the 100-year-old instrument with a computer keyboard. Amazing!

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Kniterate is a 3D printer for clothes

Why head to the store when you could simply create your outfits right at home with the touch of a button? That’s the idea behind London-based startup Kniterate, who has developed what they’re calling “the 3D printer for knitwear.” The system features Photoshop-like software that enables Makers to easily design patterns using various templates, which are then imported over to the Arduino Mega-driven machine equipped with 80 five-gauge […]

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FarmBot is an open-source CNC farming machine

With hopes of reinventing the way food is grown, Rory Aronson has developed humanity’s first open-source CNC farming machine. The FarmBot Genesis — which is currently taking pre-orders — is capable of planting seeds and then watering them precisely. Designed with the Maker community in mind, FarmBot is driven by an Arduino Mega 2560, a RAMPS 1.4 shield, NEMA 17 stepper motors, and a Raspberry […]

Boards:Mega

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Foxes Like Beacons explores alternative navigation systems

Makers bring the “Push Button, Receive Bacon” meme to life

Arduino Pro Mini powers this Pac-Man festival totem

Build your own life-size, multipurpose robot with Arduino

Watch 24 colorful acrylic blocks dance to music

Hacked typewriter prints selfies as ASCII art

Teach your drone what is up and down with an Arduino

Listen to an artist play the piano with a PC keyboard

Kniterate is a 3D printer for clothes

FarmBot is an open-source CNC farming machine

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