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Internet of Dirt: a Texting Plant

“Do you struggle to keep your plants alive? Looking to get started with an IoT project? Why not have your plants text you when they need watering? This simple project combines a capacitive soil sensor, the WiFi-enabled Adafruit Feather HUZZAH …

IOT Beverage Machine

“Each time we buy a bottle of water or cold-drink, we are paying for the contents as well as packaging of the contents. So the idea is to create self vending water or cold-drink machines that are connected with mobile …

IoT Smart Alarm Clock (Open Source Project)

“Welcome to the Smart Alarm Project! Smart_alarm is an open-source project about building and programming a Internet of Things alarm clock. This instructable provides all information you need to build the smart alarm clock on your own. Even though we …

ir light dimmer v2

“This is a modification of my simple IR light dimmer v1 that you should also check out. Modification is mostly in hardware so that dimmer does not require both phase and neutral wires to operate. I am releasing source code …

IR Thermometer, StopWatch, Cooking Timer, Inactivity Tracker

“This is a story about making an pocket carry-able USB stick like IR Thermometer made using Arduino programming and some other stuffs. The device will also have Stop Watch function, Kitchen Timer & Inactivity Tracker function. IR Thermometer is a IR …

Project  Kandybot

Kandybot

“Kandybot is an Internet-controlled, multipurpose robot which can be controlled anywhere from the world using Android app. Kandybot can be used for surveillance, home automation, to kill zombies and whatever you want to do - the limit is your imagination. Kandybot …

Lego targets pre-Mindstorms minds with its Boost educational kit

“Boost is an impressive kit. The five on-board building experiences cover a lot of ground, from a robot to a guitar, to quasi Lego “3D printer” that’s more like an assembly line Rube Goldberg-style device that pieces together its …

Lunar Phase Clock

“In this Instructable we will be building a dynamic lunar lamp with the Raspberry Pi. With your very own lunar clock you’ll always know the current phase of the moon, no matter the weather! Budding astronomer? Recently bitten by …

Mbed OS 5.7.2 released

“We are pleased to announce the Mbed OS 5.7.2 release is now available. This is the latest patch release based on the feature set introduced by Mbed OS 5.7. Summary We have added a new example program …

NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System

“NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun. The …