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Twitter garage door using the GE Choice ALERT system & Arduino

You know that feeling of driving away from your house almost getting to work and saying “Now Did close the garage door?” .  I hate that feeling and seeked out to resolve it in the smiplest/cheapest way...

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Light and Water Reactive Raincoat

This semester at college, I am in a class called Computing and Craft which is about incorporating circuitry and micro-controllers and craft to bring our projects to the next level. For our first big...

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Rotary Emotiphone using Arduino

Introduction The Rotary Emotiphone is a vintage rotary phone that tweets mood emoticons. It has a predefined list of 10 emoticons, each assigned to a digit, so that when you are happy / sad / drunk /...

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Arduino Noise Machine Jacket

As a project for one of my college classes, we were asked to create something using the Arduino. After a few different ideas, I settled on putting an Arduino noise machine into a suit jacket. It uses...

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Arduino controlled window for cat

I am submitting this instructable to the Arduino challenge. Please remember to vote! My neighbor had a little problem with his cat. It want’s to go out and back inside too frequently. Usually he opens...

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Tweet-a-Pot: Twitter Enabled Coffee Pot using Arduino

Like the idea of making coffee on the fly? from your bed? While you’re on the bus coming home? Then the Tweet-a-pot is for you! Tweet-a-pot is the next in fancy twitter enabled devices. This coffee pot...

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A laundry alarm for the hearing impaired and everyone else using Arduino

This Arduino based project was designed to solve a recurring problem for my hearing impaired wife. Our laundry room is located remotely from our living area.  If our laundry has finished washing and is...

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Flora- an interactive flower

Hello everyone…..Today I have taken something out of my flower garden….We all know,plants have their own lives,they can feel just as we feel..but they can’t express it…But what happens if a flower...

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Gravity Touch bluetooth glove using Arduino

Hey guys! I’d like to share with you the input device I created specifically to interact with AR glasses like the Google Glass, Meta, Moverio BT or with the VR headsets like Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear...

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Homemade Magic Lamp Card Box using an Arduino

A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer or electronic programming, and is thus able to do tasks on its...

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Arduino Internet Controlled Desk Lamp

Step 1: What You’ll need A linux web-server with PHP, an arduino, a relay and some other components. Step 2: Upload your code to the arduino Upload the following code to your arduino: void setup(){...

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Mobile Chicken Coop with some automation using Arduino

My wife and I have wanted to raise chickens(for the eggs) and we finally decided to do it this spring.  I have read a lot about pastured chicken and wanted to create a mobile coop so that the chickens...

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Arduino controlled Interactive wallpiece

This project is a subset of my idea of an interactive wall.. so this is an interactive wall-piece.. What does it do ?   Mine is a touch activated light display. How does it work?  It is controlled by...

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Using Arduino tide predictions using arduino

In the previous post, I outlined some Arduino code to generate tide height predictions for a NOAA tidal reference station. Now let’s do something useful with this newfound functionality. In the...

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Team 12 – Prototype I Final Report: Home Automation Project using arduino

Introduction The Home Automation Framework project is a web application that can remotely control the electronic devices in one’s home using a web interface on a smartphone, tablet or desktop computer....

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A laser barrier with Arduino

In this post we will see how to make a laser barrier to integrate with an Arduino board. The applications of a light barrier (laser and infrared) are numerous, especially whenever we want that the...

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Arduino – based camera trigger unit

I developed the camera trigger unit in order to synchronize various events and actions during free-flight experiments with hawkmoths in the wind tunnel described in a previous post. More specifically,...

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Automated LED stairs using arduino

After seeing the lovely LED stairs at interactivefurniture.de, I decided to make my own, open-source version. Here is a video of them in action. I am not an expert videographer and cannot do the stairs...

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General Instruments SP0256-AL2 English Phoneme Speech chip & an Arduino

The GI SP0256 chip is an early 1980s bit of technology. It’s a 5V (to 7V) NMOS chip which is compatible enough with the 5V TTL circuity common in that era. 5V TTL disappeared for a while, then came...

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IR Harp using arduino

Contents 1 Team Members 2 Mentor 3 Introduction 4 Components Used 5 Idea 6 Arduino Uno Board (ATMega328P) 7 Approach to Project 8 Sound Synthesis 8.1 Delay() 8.2 Interrupts 8.3 The nature of the...

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