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1900 Chinese lanterns and more than 15000 LEDs controlled by Arduino in Jakarta

We are delighted to share a video about the light installation performed by Arduino Verkstad in Jakarta in 2013. 15200 LEDs in 3800 groups adding up to 1900 Chinese lanterns controlled by 40 Arduino Mega boards with a specially design shield to handle communications and a lot of manual work. Take a look at the […]

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Teach kids how colors are made with the color machine

The Color Machine (La macchina dei colori, in Italian language) is a tool to teach children about the use and the operation of RGB color coding, which is used in all digital devices (TVs, smartphones, computers, etc.). It was created with Arduino Mega by an italian duo composed by Fabio Ghidini and Stefano Guerrini: Using 3 knobs you can […]

Boards:Mega
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How to monitor a domestic photovoltaic plant with Arduino

  ArdaSol is the name of a project for a solar energy monitoring system based on Arduino Mega and UNO, made by Heinz Pieren. It’s a system built to monitor energy production and consumption of a domestic photovoltaic plant: The ArdaSol Energy Monitoring System has 3 devices: – ArdaSol Display based on a Arduino Mega Board […]

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Growing your veggies with a smart greenhouse called MEG

MEG is the world’s first social and automated greenhouse, part machine and part community, now on Kickstarter. Carlo D’Alesio and Piero Santoro, the designer duo based in Milan presented the prototype  at Maker Faire Rome and also at a PopupMakers event last year. MEG means Micro Experimental Growing system, runs on an Arduino MEGA 2560 which controls an […]

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An electronic diesel engine controlled with Arduino Mega

A few years ago Sven and Juho started working on the same type of project without knowing about each other and only by a coincidence their paths crossed. They wrote me about their cool story and the successful experiment of upgrading a diesel engine using Arduino Mega:

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Categories:ArduinoCars

TouchSynth – A high school senior project

Steve Mostovoy and his partner Tim Boy Jr, worked for over 9 months to  create a TouchSynth and share all the documentation about it.   It was hard but they learnt  a lot about how not to organize code, how to think in terms of data, and how many amazing things you can do on a […]

Boards:Mega
Categories:Arduino

DIY Amp Hour Meter

Ever wanted to see how much electricity your next project is consuming? Look no further; this Instructable will guide you about how you can, too, make a device to monitor the same. This project was developed by Steve Spence of Arduinotronics with input from forum members at the Yahoo Group – Arduino Home and The Arduino Forum. Steve […]

Boards:Mega
Categories:EnviromentLCDTutorials

The Rhythm of City

This is an art project born as the collaboration between Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet. During the last couple of years they have been collaborating in the creation of several interactive installations, some of them containing Arduino boards. The Rythm of City is about to be presented in the following weeks at the Czec Festival […]

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BMW Instrument Cluster on PC via USB application Arduino MEGA board

Here one of the more realistic car interfaces I’ve ever seen. But let’s start from what [hrsim] posted some time ago: Browsing around the www, I came across this simple, easy to use development board, which seemed just right for my project. As I’ve said in an earlier post, I want to reduce my efforts […]

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BMW Instrument Cluster on PC via USB application Arduino MEGA board

Here one of the more realistic car interfaces I’ve ever seen. But let’s start from what [hrsim] posted some time ago: Browsing around the www, I came across this simple, easy to use development board, which seemed just right for my project. As I’ve said in an earlier post, I want to reduce my efforts […]

Categories:ActuatorsGame ControllersHacksHardwareInspirationLED(s)Machine HacksUrban Hacks
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