ClearCrawler Strandbeeest walks under Arduino control

From blog.arduino.cc 1 week ago in Platforms Stores

Maker Jeremy S. Cook has been building Theo Jansen-style walkers for literally years, and after several iterations has come up with what he calls the “ClearCrawler.” This little guy stands at just over 15 inches tall — including its comparatively large clear cylindrical head — and travels around via a...

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theMIDInator is a marvelous MIDI controller

From blog.arduino.cc 3 days ago in Platforms Stores

While you may know on some level that an Arduino can help you make music, you probably haven’t seen as good an implementation as this MIDI controller by Switch & Lever. The device features a numeric pad for note input,...

Wearable synth plays programmed or random tunes

From blog.arduino.cc 3 days ago in Platforms Stores

Unless you’re very good, personal synths are fun for you — though often quite annoying for onlookers. After making his own wristwatch-based synth in 2016, Clem Mayer decided to build a new version that’s larger and louder than ever, and programmable via...

Now you can battle real robots over the Internet

From blog.arduino.cc 5 days ago in Platforms Stores

Robot-sumo bouts can be a great way to pit your automation skills against others. Participating normally means a lot of hard work to get your bot functioning properly, and likely a fair amount of travel to meet your opponents. SurrogateTV,...

This Portal 2 fan created his own Space Core

From blog.arduino.cc 6 days ago in Platforms Stores

Portal 2 is one of RobotsWithRyan’s favorite games, so he — of course — decided to build his own personality core character from this title. His Space Core is 3D-printed from a model that he found online, scaled up by...

An Arduino-powered fishing pole with automatic casting and reeling

From blog.arduino.cc 6 days ago in Platforms Stores

YouTuber MrTeslonian was asked if he could create an automatic fishing pole for someone with a serious disability. While this would seem like a daunting task, he was able to build one using a spring-loaded mechanism, a number of motors,...

James Bruton’s 3D-printed, Arduino-powered Nerf blaster fires 10 darts at once

From blog.arduino.cc 1 week ago in Platforms Stores

Nerf guns can be a lot of fun, but what if you want your launcher to shoot 10 projectiles simultaneously? Is so, then look no further than James Bruton’s custom blaster. His 3D-printed project employs two BLDC-powered rollers to accelerate...

Contributing back to Ansible — flexible secrets with some Sops

From blog.arduino.cc 1 week ago in Platforms Stores

This post is from Edoardo Tenani, DevOps Engineer at Arduino. In this blog, we’re going to answer: How does one store sensitive data in source code (in this case, Ansible playbooks) securely and in a way that the secrets can...

2D-RFID input at the tip of your fingers

From blog.arduino.cc 1 week ago in Platforms Stores

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have developed a novel hand-based input technique called Tip-Tap that amazingly requires no batteries. The wearable device uses a series of three custom RFID tags on both the thumb and index finger...

Meet Aster, the 3D-printed humanoid robot

From blog.arduino.cc 2 weeks ago in Platforms Stores

If you’d like to build your own vaguely humanoid robot, but don’t care about it getting around, then look no farther than Aster. The 3D-printed bot is controlled by an Arduino Uno, with a servo shield to actuate its 16...

Improve human-robot collaboration with GhostAR

From blog.arduino.cc 2 weeks ago in Platforms Stores

As robotics advance, the future could certainly involve humans and automated elements working together as a team. The question then becomes, how do you design such an interaction? A team of researchers from Purdue University attempt to provide a solution...