THERE’S A NEW ARDUINO AT HEART: LITTLEBITS ARDUINO MODULE!
– May 15, 2014
We are excited to announce that littleBits joined the Arduino At Heart Programto easily incorporate programming into littleBits circuits!
littleBits Arduino Module is everything you know and love about Arduino without the breadboarding, soldering or wiring. littleBits takes care of the electronics, while you focus on the code.
MEET ARDUINO ZERO – THE NEW BOARD JOINTLY DEVELOPED BY ARDUINO AND ATMEL
– May 15, 2014
It’s a pleasure to announce the latest development board, Arduino Zero, expanding the Arduino family by providing increased creative opportunities to the maker community.
Arduino and Atmel unveil the Arduino Zero, a simple and powerful 32-bit extension of the platform established by Arduino UNO. It aims to provide creative individuals with the potential to realize truly innovative ideas especially for smart IoT devices, wearable technology, high-tech automation, crazy robotics, and projects not yet imagined.
The board is powered by Atmel’s SAMD21 MCU, which features a 32-bit ARM Cortex® M0+ core and one of its most important feature is Atmel’s Embedded Debugger (EDBG), which provides a full debug interface without the need for additional hardware, significantly increasing the ease-of-use for software debugging. EDBG also supports a virtual COM port that can be used for device programming and traditional Arduino boot loader functionality. Read the rest of this entry »
MAKERFAIRE EUROPEAN EDITION AND OPEN HARDWARE SUMMIT NEXT OCTOBER IN ROME!
– May 14, 2014
Come and join the biggest European gathering of Makers, full of amazing people who enjoy learning and love sharing projects and inventions from the3rd to the 5th of October in Rome.
If you have an awesome project and want to show off to an international community, remember that the Call for Makers will be open until the 25th of May. Click here to submit your project.
There are a number of different types of maker applications you can do. You can apply as: Read the rest of this entry »
ARDUINO TRE DEVELOPER EDITION IS NOW AVAILABLE! JOIN US IN THE BETA TESTING PROGRAM
– May 13, 2014
We are excited to announce that starting today a limited batch of 50 Arduino TRE Developer Edition boards is available in the Arduino Store.
The Arduino TRE Developer Edition (see other pics) is a pre-production board. Its release kicks off our redesigned Beta Testing Program: anyone in the community who purchases the board will be able to give us feedback and suggestions in a new, direct way.
After buying the board you’ll receive an invitation to join the beta-testing program, as a beta-tester you will be able to contribute to the development of the board by signing up for tasks and projects. You’ll be working alongside the Arduino and BeagleBoard.org teams on tasks such as writing examples, testing libraries and external hardware, and making projects. Completed tasks will be rewarded with a special program of benefits, including the possibility of featuring your project on the Arduino blog and receiving a coupon for the same value of the TRE Developer Edition you purchased. We will be beta-testing the board for about three months. Read the rest of this entry »
CREATING COLOURFUL CLOUDS OF LIGHT
– May 12, 2014
Arduino user SicLeung is part of Do Interactive, an interactive design team based in Hong Kong. He sent us a video about his experimental installation at Hong Kong Poly University – School of Design and exploring unusual ways of activating light: Read the rest of this entry »
LIVE STREAMING FROM TORONTO: MASSIMO BANZI AT #DIGIFESTTO2014
– May 8, 2014
Massimo Banzi will be featured as Meet the Media Guru at #DigifestTO2014 in Toronto on the 9th of May!
Digifest is Toronto’s international festival celebrating digital creativity and this year the theme is Digital Urbanism and the Future of Cities:
For the first time in our history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. With a continual growth of 60 million urban residents every year, 70% of the population will live in cities by 2050.
If you are not staying in that part of the world, follow the livestream starting at4.30 pm local time (20.30 GMT).
A SOLAR CHARGE CONTROLLER MADE WITH ARDUINO
– May 7, 2014
Instructables user deba168 is an electrical engineer based in India. He posted a tutorial to solve a common problem in his country:
In India most of the people are living in rural area where national grid transmission line is not reached till now.The existing electric grids are not capable of supplying the electricity need to those poor people. So renewable energy sources (photo voltaic panels and wind-generators) are the best option I think. I know better about the pain of village life as I am also from that area. So I designed this DIY solar charge controller to help others as well as for my home.You can’t believe, my home made solar lighting system helps a lot during the recent Cyclone Phailin.
He then made a charge controller running on the Arduino Uno and with an important task: to protect the rechargeable battery of photovoltaic systems. It regulates the voltage and current coming from the solar panels and it’s placed between a solar panel and its battery . It is used to maintain the proper charging voltage on the batteries so as the input voltage from the solar panel rises, the charge controller regulates it, preventing any over charging. It works on the principle of PWM which improves efficiency of the solar PV systems.
You can follow all the steps on his page but first take a look at the video:
TIME TO EXPAND YOUR YÚN DISK SPACE AND INSTALL NODE.JS
– May 6, 2014
Following the announcement of the new Yún image, we are happy to announce two new features of the Arduino Yún.
- The first feature allows you to use a micro SD card as a replacement for the Yún’s internal flash memory. We have a tutorial that demonstrates how using this expands your Yún’s free disk space from the original 7 Megabytes to the available Gigabytes of your SD card.
Having more disk space allows you to make more complex projects, like activating webcams and saving pictures taken with it. In addition, by using an external SD card you avoid using the internal flash memory, thus extending the life of your Yún.
To upgrade your Yún to access this feature, follow the tutorial. Report back to the Arduino Yún forum if you have any issues or questions.
- The second new feature is the availability of Node.js as an installable package.
In order to install Node.js on your Yún, use the Arduino IDE to upload theYunSerialTerminal example or access your Yún via SSH.
Be sure your Yún has access to the internet, then type the following commands:
opkg update
opkg install node
opkg install node
And voilà! You’ve got Node.js on your Yún.
Try it out with the following command:
node -e "console.log('Hello_Yun')"
If you are a Node.js fan, you probably want to use your favourite modules. Unfortunately, not every Node.js module is “pure javascript”, so some modules won’t work on the Yún. We are solving this by preparing packages for the most common native Node.js modules. We have already prepared node-serialport(opkg install node-serialport) and noble is on the way. If you miss your favourite module and want it added to the list, please consider joining us indeveloping the Yún.
AN EMOTION ROBOT FOR LONG-DISTANCE LOVERS
– May 5, 2014
If you live far away from your lover, this project could make you feel the presence and the emotional state of your partner without making voice calls.
El Niño is the prototype of a set of physical avatars for casual communication built on Arduino Uno. The system designed by a duo of designer of the Faculty of Arts & Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, helps enhancing the emotional connection and awareness between people in long distance relationships by providing a low-threshold channel for exchanging simple messages: Read the rest of this entry »
SUGARCUBE, A GRID BASED MUSIC CONTROLLER WITH ACCELEROMETER
– May 2, 2014
Once again Amanda Ghassaei sent a cool project she’s been working on lately as an extension of the work she’s been doing on the monome project. Sugarcube is an open source, grid-based, standalone MIDI instrument self-contained and relatively cheap to make. It communicates via a MIDI output with other electronic MIDI instruments and software environments like Ableton and MaxMSP.
An Arduino Uno generates all of its MIDI data and drives LEDS, buttons, a 2 axis gyroscope, a 3 axis accelerometer, two potentiometers, and the whole device is powered by a lithium-polymer battery making it pretty portable.
She published detailed documentation on Instructables to make one yourself and shared a bunch of videos to discover its main features: Read the rest of this entry »
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