The Arduino software environment, including the IDE, libraries, and general approach, are geared toward education. It’s meant as a way to introduce embedded development to newbies. This is a great ...

If you didn't think you could make a high speed photography trigger or hack together some creepy googly eyeballs for Halloween, then you've got another think coming, because learning how to use ...

I know how to solder, but I do not always want to solder, and I think there are a lot of folks like me. Even if the act itself can be done (and undone, and redone), the friction of hauling out the ...

When [gdarchen] wanted to read some NFC tags, he went through several iterations. First, he tried an Electron application, and then a client-server architecture. But his final iteration was to make a ...

As a geek father, I have a reputation to uphold. And BearDuino has helped me maintain some shred of credibility with my kids… while creeping them out a bit in the process. The BearDuino is a ...

Why this hasn’t been done before is a mystery to me. This little hack project by Kellbot of NYCResistor takes a rolling ball, an optical mouse, a gutted PS2 controller, and some Arduino hacking and ...

This is the second part of the “PONF” series. For those that are not familiar, I am the CTO on the PONF (Photography On Film) Project. This project is the first dual back camera: digital and analog.

Anyone who has ever hacked around in their PC will have been hit with an urge to take their tinkering to the next level and create a custom-built device, but few actually try - believing such things ...

We often feature projects here, especially on the weekend, that require the magic of an Arduino processor. If you've put off a bookmarked project for lack of Arduino knowledge, now's your chance to ...