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  • Cellbots get Nexus One upgrade, ad-hoc motion control (video)

    Cellbots get Nexus One upgrade, ad-hoc motion control (video)

    Posted on May 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Sprint and Verizon may have shunned the Nexus One, but that doesn't mean the handsets can't be put to good use: these Android-controlled, Arduino-powered Cellbots now feature the one true Googlephone as the CPU. At Intel's 2010 International Engineering and Science Fair in San Jose, we got our hot little hands on the DIY truckbots for the first time, and found to our surprise they'd been imbued with accelerometer-based motion control. Grabbing a Nexus One off a nearby table, we simply tilted the handset forward, back, left and right to make the Cellbot wheel about accordingly, bumping playfully into neighbors and streaming live video the whole time. We were told the first handset wirelessly relayed instructions to the second using Google Chat, after which point a Python script determined the bot's compass facing and activated Arduino-rigged motors via Bluetooth, but the real takeaway here is that robots never fail to amuse. Watch our phone-skewing, bot-driving antics in a video after the break, and see what we mean.

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  • Air rockets are dumb. Make your own floppy drive echo / delay unit

    Air rockets are dumb. Make your own floppy drive echo / delay unit

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    You could spend your weekend making the compressed air rocket posted below. That’d be fun. Or you could get a few floppy drives together and make your own tape delay and reverb. Yeah, that sounds much more exciting. This DIY project comes by way of Oakland, CA from a Daniel McAnulty. Musician, tinkerer, and just a [...]

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  • Wearing your unread email count on your chest

    Wearing your unread email count on your chest

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    If you're like me, you get a little.. obsessive about checking your email. Wouldn't want to miss that important message after all. So when I see a project like the email count t-shirt, I start to get a little twitchy. It looks like it could be a DIY project, but I'm not sure I have the necessary skills. Like sewing.

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  • Party people, wave your wristbands in the air

    Party people, wave your wristbands in the air

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    This cool Instructable teaches you how to build your own persistance of vision wristband, one of those things that spell a word when you swing it in front of someone fast enough. The device uses a Lilypad Arduino board and about eight 8 LEDs. You actually have to program the board to get things to show [...]

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  • Play (rock paper scissors) with yourself

    Play (rock paper scissors) with yourself

    Posted on March 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Self proclaimed glove hacker and electronics wiz Steve Hoefer just came out with his latest project, the Rock Paper Scissors glove. His project isn't just random either, the glove actually learns how you play and will take advantage of your patterns in order to defeat you. Kind of creepy.

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  • Even as tiny blocks, you’ll recognize Super Mario Bros. in this Arduino project

    Even as tiny blocks, you’ll recognize Super Mario Bros. in this Arduino project

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Funny thing, isn’t it? That you can watch some little blocks moving on an 8×8 LED matrix and recognize the first level of Super Mario Bros. buried in the squares? Developed by a Carnegie Mellon student named Chloe for an Arduino class, the project is “a simple version of Super Mario Bros using an 8×8 LED [...]

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  • Drummer Hero for the Wii is powered by Arduino

    Drummer Hero for the Wii is powered by Arduino

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    So many cool things you can do with Arduino. The possibilities are endless now that we have the technology! Jazari has constructed this very elaborate solenoid/Arduino rig to play a myriad of instruments, all with two Wiimotes. Sure beats playing percussion in band back in high school. [BoingBoing]

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  • DIY: Six rotor helicopter

    DIY: Six rotor helicopter

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Adurino seems to be everywhere these days, particularly in the world of DIY. Take for example this helicopter project. Built by a German hobbyist with an inclination for projects related to flight, this 6 rotor helicopter is fast, stable, and extremely responsive. This is obviously not this particular hobbyists first experience with helicopters; he's actually built an 8 rotor version as well.

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  • The Quadcopter, or build your own Drone

    The Quadcopter, or build your own Drone

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    We told you about the AR.Drone that we saw at CES, but here's a homebrew alternative that you can build today. Sure, it's not iPhone/iPod controlled, but it does most everything else: fly, hover, look cool, terrorize the neighborhood.

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  • The DuinoTagger and Talcapult

    The DuinoTagger and Talcapult

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Like a ’70s cop team – one is the goodie two shoes and the other one is the drunk – the DuinoTagger and Talcapult allow you to shoot things and make smoke appear. The gun uses an Arduino board to control a tiny catapult that blows out a little puff of smoke. The instructions are pretty [...]

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  • Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone

    Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone

    Posted on October 31, 2009 | No Comments

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    Why confine your nerdy sloth to your living room, where large robots mime fake guitar and serve you sloppy mixed drinks? Take that zest for the sedentary life with you on the road by having one of your robot ninjas steal this iPhone Rock Band robot from its ingenious creator, Joe Bowers. The Arduino-based device uses ambient light sensors to detect the falling notes and then taps out the music with some conductive foam attached to some squeaky fake fingers. Joe did a fairly detailed write-up, and even uploaded his code, so there's presumably nothing stopping you from actually doing something with your life and building one of these with all that free time you've saved up by hacking your way through all the console-based guitar games. Video is after the break.

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  • DIY: Attack of the pumpkin

    DIY: Attack of the pumpkin

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Tired of the hoodlums destroying your pumpkins? Looking for a little payback? Here's a project that will allow you to get some vengeance. Plus, it'd be fun to shoot silly string at the older kids that show up on your front step this Halloween.

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  • Video: Arduino-powered life size electronic snowball fight game (I can’t explain it)

    Video: Arduino-powered life size electronic snowball fight game (I can’t explain it)

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Okay, just humor me and watch the video, please. It’s not like I get paid to describe things with… those… um, you know, the things that make stuff readable. With individual letters, etc. And periods, commas — the things in between those. This here’s an interactive, outdoor electronic snowball fight comprised of two life size [...]

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  • Droplet: A twee Arduino notification system

    Droplet: A twee Arduino notification system

    Posted on August 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Need to know the weather? Need to check Woot? Want to read the news? Well, all you need is an Arduino board, an LCD read-out, four buttons, a breadboard, some experience in electronics, and a computer. Then you can build yourself a Droplet.

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