Student and Arduino enthusiast Tom Carpenter has published details of an MP3 player he build around an Arduino Mega board, trackball for UI and various hardware. Although the concept of an Arduino-based MP3 player is not new, this project stands...
Once again Michael Kohn has shown us something different with electronics and related items. In this article he shows how to use an old floppy disk drive as a source for noises that can be arranged into tunes. The drive...
If you need to use an 8-bit parallel to serial shift register (such as a 74HC165) but can't spare the three data pins on your microcontroller, this small hack may be of interest. The people at Open Music Labs have...
For fun and more serious purposes, this proximity-sensing pocket square system uses XBee radio transceivers and Lilypad Arduino boards to detect matching transceivers in the local area and report the number of them using LEDs sewn into the pocket squares....
Using Lilypad Arduino, Michael Zoellner built a persistence-of-vision display into a jacket for his Miniature Pinscher dog. Although POVs are quite popular this has to be the first one we've seen mounted onto a dog. It sure beats waving your...
Electronics enthusiast Michael Kohn has built and documented his talking clock thermometer the TI MSP430 development environment. Sound files are read from a usual SD card, the time from the DS1305 real-time clock IC and the temperature readings from a...
For those looking to generate RGB patterns to suit European-spec TVs, projectors and composite-input monitors comes this handy little project from Dim based on the ATtiny2313 microcontroller. It can generate a range of colour patterns, lines and dots as well...
Using a Lilypad Arduino board, user 'purly' has created a good looking piece of wearable electronics in the form of a ribbon necklace. The Lilypad is a functional and interesting centrepiece to the design, and also controls a string of...
Using a netduino plus development board, Matt Isenhower has created a method of tweeting directly without the use of any external API or web service, making the entire process more efficient and simpler. With a variety of classes the procedure...
