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EPILET IS A TINYML-POWERED BRACELET FOR DETECTING In addition to the physical device itself is an accompanying mobile app that handles the communication. When it receives seizure activity that lasts for at least 10 seconds from the Nano 33 BLE Sense, the app sends an SMS message to a contact of the user’s choice. WEAVING JUST GOT A LOT BETTER THANKS TO THIS ARDUINO Lea Albaugh and her team at Carnegie Mellon University found an affordable way to build a Jacquard loom from 3D printer parts — including an Arduino-based controller. The key development for this Jacquard loom was a special bistable switch for each heddle. Those switches keep their heddles in the position in which they were last

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THIS SENSORY EXTENSION PUPPET LETS YOU DETECT MAGNETIC Birds have an amazing sense of direction that aids in migrating across vast distances, and scientists think this is due to their ability to detect magnetic fields — just like a compass. Chris Hill on Instructables wanted a way to experience this for himself by using a sensor and some sort of feedback mechanism to feel a magnetic field’s directionality and strength. NO OPPONENT NEARBY? NOT A PROBLEM! THIS AUTOMATIC Chess is an excellent game to play with friends, but what if you don’t have any to compete against nearby? This is what prompted maker Carlos Pendas to create an automatic chessboard that’s not only able to record which pieces got moved, but even move the pieces itself. This means you can play a game of physical chess with someone thousands of miles away. COMMENTS ON: THIS SYSTEM USES MACHINE LEARNING AND HAPTIC Comments on: This system uses machine learning and haptic feedback to enable deaf parents to communicate with their kids COMMENTS ON: NO OPPONENT NEARBY? NOT A PROBLEM! THIS Comments on: No opponent nearby? Not a problem! This automatic chessboard lets you play others remotely ANNOUNCING THE ARDUINO IDE 2.0 (BETA) Announcing the Arduino IDE 2.0 (beta) Arduino Team — March 1st, 2021. The Arduino IDE is the well-known software we all use to program our boards. Its development started in 2005 based on the graphical interface of the Processing project and has never stopped since. During these years, countless hours of development by the Arduino team

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ARDUINO 1.8.13 HAS BEEN RELEASED Arduino 1.8.13 has been released. Arduino Team — June 17th, 2020. Today, we are excited to announce the arrival of the Arduino IDE 1.8.13. Significant improvements include fixing the crash on Mac OS X with multiple monitor setups and resolving the recent package_index.json issue without other user intervention. CHICKEN COOP DOOR AUTOMATION WITH ARDUINO When Geert Wanten’s wife got tired of opening up the chicken coop to let them out in the morning, he decided to automate the situation using an Arduino Nano. Wanten’s DIY system calculates the sunup/sundown via info from a DS1307 RTC module, pulling the door up with a gearmotor and a spool of fishing line. ARDUINO MBED CORE FOR RP2040 BOARDS Arduino support for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip is now available using the official Arduino Mbed Core. This is obviously very important, and exciting, for the upcoming Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect.But it goes beyond the Arduino device to also bring TOP 10 CREATIVE PROJECTS FROM ARDUINO DAY COMMUNITY CHALLENGE With over 170 creative projects sent in from around the world, choosing just 10 winners for the Arduino Day Community Challenge was almost impossible.. Hopefully you were with us on Arduino Day, and saw the winning projects being unveiled during the live stream.But we also wanted to send out another big congratulations to the inventive Arduino lovers who won. SIMPLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH ARDUINO KNN Machine learning (ML) algorithms come in all shapes and sizes, each with their own trade-offs. We continue our exploration of TinyML on Arduino with a look at the Arduino KNN library. In addition to powerful deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow for Arduino, there are also classical ML approaches suitable for smaller data sets on

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AN ARDUINO TACHOMETER FOR YOUR OLDER VEHICLE Unlike most cars today, deepsyx’s old Opel Astra did not have a tachometer. So what’s a Maker to do? Build your own, of course. To accomplish this, deepsyx used an Arduino Uno along with a few LEDs. The first LED turns on at 4000 RPM, while the others light up with every 500 RPM increment. At 5800 RPM, however, all the LEDs flash as a warning. There’s even a serial output of the RPM TOP 10 CREATIVE PROJECTS FROM ARDUINO DAY COMMUNITY CHALLENGE With over 170 creative projects sent in from around the world, choosing just 10 winners for the Arduino Day Community Challenge was almost impossible.. Hopefully you were with us on Arduino Day, and saw the winning projects being unveiled during the live stream.But we also wanted to send out another big congratulations to the inventive Arduino lovers who won. CREATE YOUR OWN LOW-COST CONTACTLESS IR THERMOMETER WITH In the age of COVID-19, being able to know when someone’s sick is vital, especially in countries where the disease is currently surging. It’s for this reason that Open Green Energy decided to build a battery-powered portable thermometer that not only takes a person’s temperature but alerts other if it’s too high as well. ARDUINO 1.8.12 IS OUT! Arduino 1.8.12 is out! Arduino Team — February 13th, 2020. Today, we are excited to announce the arrival of the Arduino IDE 1.8.12. Wow! Another release just after two weeks, you ask? Well, we fixed some serious bugs related to the compiler, and more importantly, we had to take a step back with respect to the transition to the new Java SIMPLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH ARDUINO KNN Machine learning (ML) algorithms come in all shapes and sizes, each with their own trade-offs. We continue our exploration of TinyML on Arduino with a look at the Arduino KNN library. In addition to powerful deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow for Arduino, there are also classical ML approaches suitable for smaller data sets on

embedded

THIS SENSORY EXTENSION PUPPET LETS YOU DETECT MAGNETIC Birds have an amazing sense of direction that aids in migrating across vast distances, and scientists think this is due to their ability to detect magnetic fields — just like a compass. Chris Hill on Instructables wanted a way to experience this for himself by using a sensor and some sort of feedback mechanism to feel a magnetic field’s directionality and strength. NEW WORKFLOW FOR ARDUINO LIBRARY SUBMISSIONS Arduino library submissions have a new, easier and more transparent workflow. Libraries are one of the pillars of the Arduino ecosystem. At time of writing, more than 3,780 open source libraries are available to perform any kind of task. This includes communication with external components and using algorithms for data processing. EPILET IS A TINYML-POWERED BRACELET FOR DETECTING In addition to the physical device itself is an accompanying mobile app that handles the communication. When it receives seizure activity that lasts for at least 10 seconds from the Nano 33 BLE Sense, the app sends an SMS message to a contact of the user’s choice. COMPETITION(S) ARCHIVES Invent Your Future with the Arduino 101. Just days after celebrating the Arduino 101‘s first birthday at Maker Faire Rome, we’ve partnered with Hackster, Intel, and Seeed Studio to launch an exciting new contest. We’re challenging you to unleash the powers of the Intel® Curie™ Module-based board and “Invent Your Future.”. DIY PERSEVERANCE ROVER REPLICA LOOKS AND MOVES LIKE NASA'S Dejan of How to Mechatronics created his own scaled-down version of NASA's Perseverance rover that not only looks great, but is able to drive and show what it’s “seeing” to the driver. JAMES BRUTON'S ROBOT USES THREE BALL-SHAPED WHEELS TO MOVE YouTuber James Bruton came up with a great design for a highly mobile robot platform that employs a novel wheel design to move in any

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QUICK TUTORIAL: CURRENT SENSING FOR DC MOTORS Quick tutorial: current sensing for DC motors. Alessandro Paganelli — June 15th, 2012. On her blog, Dustyn Roberts presents her own experience on current sensing for controlling DC electric motors with an Arduino board and an Arduino Motor Shield. This shield, based on a L298 H-bridge, provides two current sensing pins to the user, which

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ARDUINO IDE: NIGHTLY BUILDS ARE NOW HOURLY BUILDS Arduino IDE: Nightly Builds are now Hourly Builds. Federico Fissore — April 23rd, 2015. The Arduino IDE is a collection of modules written in different programming languages and available for three operating systems: Windows, Mac OSX and GNU/Linux. Every time you download the Arduino IDE, you are actually downloading the result of a

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ARDUINO NANO TURNED INTO UNIVERSAL IR TRANSLATOR Arduino Nano turned into universal IR translator. After purchasing a new television, maker Andreas Spiess’ remote no longer worked seamlessly with the controller his family had been using. While a universal remote could have solved the problem, in order to keep things simple to use, he instead came up with an infrared “babel

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WEEKEND PROJECTS TO GET YOU STARTED WITH THE ARDUINO CLOUD Weekend projects, as we like to call them, are often the most fun. We all have half-a-dozen unfinished projects that we need to work on. But weekend projects are the kind of things you want to work on. Something that isn’t a big commitment, doesn’t take too much effort, and offers a fun result. SIMPLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH ARDUINO KNN Machine learning (ML) algorithms come in all shapes and sizes, each with their own trade-offs. We continue our exploration of TinyML on Arduino with a look at the Arduino KNN library. In addition to powerful deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow for Arduino, there are also classical ML approaches suitable for smaller data sets on

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CREATE YOUR OWN LOW-COST CONTACTLESS IR THERMOMETER WITH In the age of COVID-19, being able to know when someone’s sick is vital, especially in countries where the disease is currently surging. It’s for this reason that Open Green Energy decided to build a battery-powered portable thermometer that not only takes a person’s temperature but alerts other if it’s too high as well. WEAVING JUST GOT A LOT BETTER THANKS TO THIS ARDUINO Lea Albaugh and her team at Carnegie Mellon University found an affordable way to build a Jacquard loom from 3D printer parts — including an Arduino-based controller. NEW WORKFLOW FOR ARDUINO LIBRARY SUBMISSIONS 1 day ago · Arduino library submissions have a new, easier and more transparent workflow. Libraries are one of the pillars of the Arduino ecosystem. At time of writing, more than 3,780 open source libraries are available to perform any kind of task. This includes communication with external components and using algorithms for data processing. JAMES BRUTON'S ROBOT USES THREE BALL-SHAPED WHEELS TO MOVE YouTuber James Bruton came up with a great design for a highly mobile robot platform that employs a novel wheel design to move in any

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A SIMPLE ARDUINO-BASED TACHOMETER Alessandro Paganelli — September 6th, 2012 Chris, from PyroElectro.com , proposes a comprehensive tutorial on how to make a simple, yet effective, Arduino-based tachometer. The circuit is very simple: an IR led is coupled with an IR phototransistor to detect possible interruptions of the light beam, while the Arduino is responsible to calculate the time interval between two such events. Finally, a LCD is used to display the current RPM to the user. To validate his project, a typical computer fan has been used in the set-up and the outcomes have demonstrated to be very close to the true RPM value (2600 +/- 100 RPMs). The bill of materials, as well as the schematic, the source code and a detailed tutorial on how to build the circuit is available here

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