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Measuring battery capacity with an arduino

A yet another reason to have arduino in your basic-electronic toolkit. You can build your own battery capacity measuring device. Now compare all the brands of the so claimed ‘long lasting batteries’. Know what you are buying! Follow the instructions to build from here. and get building! Via: [Instructables]

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Beatbearing using Arduino

This is an interesting project for an extreme geek and an amateur music maker. All you have to do, is to follow the tutorial here, and get a complete parts list. Via[Jameco]

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Electronic music from Jelly

Ever fancied making your own musical instrument? Or better, cooking your own musical instrument? Two students in their final year at Les Ateliers French National Institute for Design created this amazing musical project using gelatin, called – Noisy Jelly. When the jelly is stroked, it produces sounds of different patterns. Variations of shapes and salt […]

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A talk about “Making things”

Michael Newman, VP of Technology at Pomp Productions, was invited to participate at the TEDxUCLA 2011 event to talk about “Making things”. Following a trip to Maker Faire and taking inspiration from mind controlled Nerf guns, Michael built a special project using Arduino, a Nerf Gun and Twilio. [Via:Twilio]

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Arduino users are getting younger: Ella Smith, 10

Ella Smith, age 10, is an interesting young lady. At an age when most girls are fussing over the new dresses for the dolls, Ella actually started tinkering. She made Zeverino – a timely cat feeding device alongwith her father. With a passion for animals and an ambition to become a veterinarian, this young techie […]

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The famed @MBTweetFleet tweets using Arduino

In case you have been following MBTweetFleet and availing awesome parking spaces, you would be happy to know that the service was made using an Arduino and GPS/GPRS shield. The cars automatically generated a tweet with GPS data out of every empty parking space they passed. Via Arduino the onboard electronics were connected to a […]

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Follow me Skype

It is a noisy, yet a novel idea. Extremely useful to talk to your near and dear ones while moving around the house doing chores. The arduino controlled two 5V relays with 12 V 40A car relays prove as the base hardware. The control system however, consists of a simple html page with ajax calls […]

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Arduino users are getting younger: Davis Fortenberry, 10

Arduino users are getting younger! Davis Fortenberry, Age 10 designed his own robot and won The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, South eastern competition, in Orlando. He competed with a lot of college level teams and had a robot that was equally competent. Davis, who has tinkered with robots since he was 5, built […]

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Old style tweet printing machine

The Twittertape Machine prototype from Adam Vaughan connects to his Twitter account via Ethernet, checks for updates twice every minute, and prints out a hard copy of any new Tweets without the need for printer ink. Vaughan told us that the idea for the Twittertape Machine was born of a desire to have the kind […]

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E waste to toys: ThinkerToys

Ever looked at a pile of E-waste containing perfectly usable electronic spare parts? Ever cringed at the thought of such aggregated piling waste from all the countries advancing in the field of technology? And all this waste being dumped in landfills in developing countries where kids who should be in school, work here for a […]

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