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Dot Matrix Business Card

“If my flashlight business card isn’t advanced enough for you, then how about one with a full graphical display on it that can be customised for a number of scrolling messages? This one could be made in quantity for …

High Speed Coin Shrinking

“We recently had a chance to work with the fine folks at Intellectual Ventures to quantify some of what goes on with our coin shrinker. Using a bunch of neat gear (including an extremely high speed camera), we were able …

1-Pixel Pac-Man

“I created 1-Pixel Pac-Man using a 32x32 RGB matrix which is part of the SmartMatrix bundle. A Teensy 3.1 drives everything, with an Atari Joystick for control. The original coin-op Pac-Man divided up the playing area into a grid …

An FPGA-Based Robotic Rubik’s Cube Solver

“We tasked ourselves with designing a mechanical Rubik’s cube solver. The mechanical arms rotate the cube to show each cube face of the cube to the camera. After each face is scanned, the cube faces are passed into the …

Arduino: 3 Powerful, Yet Overlooked Uses

“Most engineers cringe when they see an Arduino in my toolbox. Their reaction is partly due to the fact that Arduino is often viewed as being too easy to use or just not feasible. For the most part, they are …

Automatic Print Ejector

“The purpose of this device is to remove finished objects from the printer in the most amusing Rube Goldbergish way possible. The original plan was to have a boot swing down and kick the part off the bed, but we …

Build an inexpensive handheld Arduino color console

“If you love classic games like Tetris and Breakout you can now build a portable Arduino console and play anywhere you are.”

DIY Vending Machine using Arduino & 1Sheeld

“Simply the machine has four types of candies and each type has it’s special code, you should tweet with this special code to get your candy. Actually we participated with this project at Bay Area Maker Faire last week …

Digital voltmeter using arduino

“Voltmeter is used to measure voltage in circuit,Analog voltmeter have 5% error, it shows the approximate value ,where the digital voltmeter gives exact value of voltage in circuit. Voltage is measured using voltage divider circuit.this voltage meter can …

PVC Pipe Based CNC Mill using Arduino

“What hobbyist doesn’t want a CNC machine? But realistically, how many can really justify the need for one? Not me, but we did want to learn about CNC machines and experiment with GCODE. If you are wanting to do …