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A four channel (I/O) RN-42 Bluetooth interface controlled by an Android app
With the new RN-42 Bluetooth module we created a Bluetooth remote control board and transform it into an Android Based system: a board that manages input/output and it’s equipped with four outputs...
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Light up your XMAS from your Smartphone
This post is about a light animation game that can light up your Christmas. There’s Bluetooth, Android and audio files: a perfect festive mashup. A spectrum analyzer will help us color the winter...
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Spherebot Reloaded: Customize Your Xmas
Let’s create a plotter to decorate Christmas Tree balls with writing and drawings. Christmas is coming you dusted off your xmas tree and decorated it: everybody try to make it different, buying new...
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An Arduino powerer, easily extendable GPS Datalogger
By coupling a standard NMEA GPS receiver and an Arduino board we created a super simple and effective Arduino GPS logger. This device allows you to trace the route taken by a person or vehicle (or any...
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An ARDUINO Yun Security Guard!
Let’s capitalize on the Yun Arduino new features to create an electronic “guard dog”, which allows you to watch your stuff, a hidden corner of the backyard or our car silently laying in the garden....
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How to Transform your 3Drag 3D Printer in a CNC milling machine
After a fair amount of work we can finally presents you a tutorial on how to modify our 3Drag printer or K8200 printer to transform it in a perfect CNC milling machine, to be used for the production...
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3Drag as a CNC milling machine: Creating G-Code from gerber files
How to create the G-code files from any gerber file (using PCBMill software) necessary to create a PCB with 3Drag, by milling. To create a PCB with 3Drag, by milling, you need the G-Code files for the...
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3Drag as a CNC milling machine: Creating G-Code via EAGLE software
To create a PCB with 3Drag , by milling , it is necessary to have the G-Code files for the tracks patterning and for the holes relating to the printed circuit board itself. In this section we describe...
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LEWE: the biometric wristband
The Lewe project aims to collect and use available technologies to make a low cost idea that is applicable to all sectors using sensors for data collection. This project goal is the development of a...
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A new Wi-Fi Shield to connect your Arduino to the Internet
Since now on, it will be easy to provide your Arduino with Internet connectivity by using this shield. The shield sports a TCP/IP stack manager, in order to free up the Arduino from some basic tasks....
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Hack your Valentine with HeartThrob
Today we present the perfect Valentine gadget: just shake it and it will turn on and crate incredible light animations. That will be cool for sure! We know that, as it’s Valentine’s Day, looking at...
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A useful and simple IO Shield for Arduino
In order to “visually” highlight the behavior of Arduino programs you must connect a device to the I/O pins, which gives you tangible signals. Normally, if you want to check if a program changes a...
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Add functions to your Dotklok: Remote Control
Today we present a mod of Dotklok, the product that we presented few months ago , with new features such as reading ambient temperature and controlling display brightness based on the ambient light....
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Using REST with Arduino Yun
With this short guide we release today, we will explain you how to use your Arduino Yun to do something that was never accomplished before with a board of such family. We’ll face a real embedded...
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Interact and remotely control Arduino YUN with Ajax
Once experimented with REST technology and with the “Bridge” communication mode, we can introduce a project that achieves something difficult so far with an Arduino board: writing a web page, to be...
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UDOO: a Linux/Arduino compatible board on Steroids
In the past months we presented the Arduino Yun and Arduino Galileo boards. Today we present you a new board, quite more powerful, but still Arduino compatible and powered with GNU/Linux. It’s an all...
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Welcome OpenWheels the Open Source personal vehicle inspired by the Segway
As you may know, the invention of the SegWay is due to Mr. Dean Kamen who, noting the difficulties faced by a man in a wheelchair in just climbing a sidewalk, spotted the possibility of a vehicle...
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Openwheels: Put the mechanical pieces togheter
Openwheels is fun! See me (Boris Landoni) happily driving the OpenWheels at Rome Maker Faire 2013 Here comes the second post regarding our amazing OpenWheels: the Segway inspired open source and...
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Discover OpenWheels Electronics and Test It!
With this post we get more into the specifics of Openwheels and we’ll talk extensively about the electronics we adopted. The first thing we faced was the choice of the core system to be adopted: being...
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Learn More about OpenWheels Firmware
During the months spent developing OpenWheels, we worked hard to achieve a firmware that was both functional and fast. We used float type variables only when it was strictly necessary and we...
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