Category Archives: Arduino

Slot Car Racing

Racing slot cars can be fun, but knowing who’s fastest when requires precision measurement equipment. Enter, an Arduino-based lap timer. The timer detects the cars using an infrared beam and records the lap time. For each track, the best lap … Continue reading

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Mini-segway using Arduino

Using a small Arduino and a couple of sensors, a segway-like, self-balancing robot can be constructed. The most interesting part of the project is not the construction, but the utilities developed in the project. Using the Arduino2Lego library, Lego NXT … Continue reading

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Arduino – Toolchain

Getting started with the Arduino toolchain is not hard. This week, we will look at the development environment, some tips and tricks for Ubuntu users and, as the grand finale, we will look at working with the Arduino using only … Continue reading

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Sanguino

The Sanguino board is a Arduino-derivate offering a more powerful CPU, more pins and more FLASH. All this, while being compatible with existing Arduino software. It is not physically compatible, so shields will not fit. The core of the Sanguino … Continue reading

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Arduino Pong

The Arduino is a highly versitile platform, and as such, it also supports Pong. Using three resistors, the sync and light values needed by a TV can be generated. According to the author, Alistair Parker, the Arduino can generate 100-105 … Continue reading

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Arduino

The Arduino is one of the flag ship products of the open hardware movement. A simple, microcontroller based motherboard with a well defined pin-out has rendered a whole forest of add-on boards called shields. But the Arduino movement is not … Continue reading

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Running Steppers with Arduino

Steppers are fun, so are Arduino. Combining the two means double the fun. Here is a three minute video showing how it is done. The original blog post can be found here. A great thing about steppers is that they … Continue reading

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Adafruit at the Arduino Factory

Adafruit, a great site with projects, forums, a blog and a shop, when to Italy an visited the Arduino factory. They made a video of their trip shown below.

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Daruino

The Daruino is an open hardware project aiming to build an Arduino pin-compatible board with a Arm-based CPU. The smallest board is based on the LPC1102 from NXP. This will bring around 50MIPS to a $5 package. The standard board, … Continue reading

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PIC32 in Arduino Format

Digilent and Microchip have recently released two new boards targeting the Arduino community, the chipkit 32 UNO and MAX. The neat thing about these board is that they both are based on the microchip PIC32 delivering up to 4 times … Continue reading

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