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Arduino Cloud and Opta WiFi make an injection molding machine connected and smart

In the rapidly evolving landscape of industrial technology, three interesting trends are intertwining to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and reduce downtime. They are retrofitting, remote control/monitoring, and power metering – and together, they make for a great strategy to upgrade and improve existing machinery, reaping all the benefits of connected things and data analysis without […]

Boards:Arduino Cloud Pro

Categories:Arduino Opta

Can I build my own robot with Arduino?

When you think of automation, what’s the first image that comes to mind? For many of us, it’s a robot. From the blocky, square-headed characters of sci-fi comic fame to household more complex creations like the Replicants of Blade Runner — robots have captured our collective imagination for a long time. It’s no surprise, then, […]

Categories:Robots

Autochef-9000 can cook an entire breakfast automatically

Fans off Wallace and Gromit will all remember two things about the franchise: the sort of creepy — but mostly delightful — stop-motion animation and Wallace’s Rube Goldberg-esque inventions. YouTuber Gregulations was inspired by Wallace’s Autochef breakfast-cooking contraption and decided to build his own robot to prepare morning meals. Gregulations wanted his Autochef-9000 to churn out traditional […]

Boards:Mega Uno

Categories:Arduino

Brenda is classic automata nightmare fuel

Art is a strange thing. Sometimes its purpose is purely aesthetic. Sometimes it makes a statement. And sometimes it exists to disturb. Kinetic art is no different and some robots fall into this category. Graham Asker’s art elicits pondering on the relationship between humans and robots, as well as the relationships between different robots. But […]

Boards:Mega Uno

Categories:Arduino

Automated plant tending with Arduino

Do you like plants, but not so much tending to and watering them? If that sounds like you, then you might be interested in your own CNC growing machine. The system—created by 15-year-old maker “daily3dprinting”—is controlled by an Arduino Uno, and uses a single stepper motor to pull a watering head into position based on […]

Boards:Uno

Categories:Arduino Featured

Winners of the Arduino/Distrelec Automation & Robotics Contest announced!

Earlier this year, Distrelec launched an Automation & Robotics Contest that invited our community to help advance Industry 4.0 leveraging the Arduino ecosystem. Submissions were required to use Arduino hardware—ranging from WiFi (MKR1000 and Yún Rev2) to GSM/narrowband (MKR FOX 1200, MKR WAN 1300, and MKR GSM 1400) to feature-rich boards like the popular Mega and […]

Categories:Arduino Featured

Feeding the dog over twitter

Many times you would have wished that you could take care of your dog remotely instead of letting a careless friend handle him. The answer to the problem is this ingenious twitter based feeding device by Nat Morris. Theres a Nanode microcontroller (an Arduino clone with ENC28J60 ethernet), LCD screen from an old Dell laser […]

Categories:Arduino Twitter

Arduino Cloud and Opta WiFi make an injection molding machine connected and smart

Can I build my own robot with Arduino?

Autochef-9000 can cook an entire breakfast automatically

Brenda is classic automata nightmare fuel

Automated plant tending with Arduino

Winners of the Arduino/Distrelec Automation & Robotics Contest announced!

Feeding the dog over twitter

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