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A game for my nephew

“This is about an *uino game I made for my nephew Wes. It’s his birthday this month and since a few years back I am building something for him myself. Two years ago it was a traffic light. Last …

A Phone That Charges in Seconds? UCF Scientists Bring it Closer to Reality

“A team of UCF scientists has developed a new process for creating flexible supercapacitors that can store more energy and be recharged more than 30,000 times without degrading. The novel method from the University of Central Florida’s NanoScience …

Amazon Conducts First Commercial Drone Delivery

“Amazon.com Inc.’s drone delivery program has liftoff—from a rural corner of England. Amazon last week made its first customer delivery by drone, carrying a package containing popcorn and a Fire TV video-streaming device several miles to a …

Announcing updates to Google’s Internet of Things platform: Android Things and Weave

“The Internet of Things (IoT) will bring computing to a whole new range of devices. Today we’re announcing two important updates to our IoT developer platform to make it faster and easier for you to create these smart, connected …

Aquaponic system monitor

“This project started out as a swimming pool monitoring system that was re-purposed to monitor an aquaponic system. It measures the water temperature, PH, and Chlorine levels in the water. The output is displayed on a web page. If any …

Arduino controlled Beermachine/ dispenser

“Hello world, a few weeks ago I decided to upgrade my homebrewing setup from bottling to kegging. In this process, I decided I wanted to make the dispenser automated. Also with a payment system. The intention of the payment system …

Arduino Data Glasses for My Multimeter

“Trying to build a cheap Arduino Data Glasses for everybody. Why? I just wanted one. It’s working, and now it can even help to avoid accidents. From the first idea to the working prototype, it took 4 Month. The …

Arduino - Obstacle Avoiding Robot (with L293D)

“Dual H-Bridge Motor Driver for DC or Steppers - 600mA - L293D. This is a very useful chip. It can actually control one motor independently. We will use in its entirety the chip in this tutorial. Pins on the right hand side …

Arduino to ESP8266 By Serial Communication

“Following on from my last post, if you do not have a FTDI serial adaptor you can use an Arduino. Here is how to set up the Arduino to talk to the ESP8266. I an using a 5V Arduino Nano …

Astrophotography with the Raspberry Pi Zero

“I have made two other Raspberry Pi based camera projects before. This, my third camera idea, is my first Raspberry Pi Zero project. This is also my first go at Astrophotography! Spurred on by the recent ‘Supermoon’ I wanted to …