[scott] had a need to capture a mouse and wanted to learn about how to program an arduino, so he built an Arduino controlled mousetrap. It is made from things he had laying around the house, like some Tupperware containers and wooden rods. The program is pretty simple, when a trip wire is touched, t...

I'm sitting in Leah Buechley's Lilypad Electronic Fashion tutorial. Where we'll be playing with Lilypad Arduino kits, a collection of sewable electronic pieces that lets you build soft electronic devices. Essentially it's a specially packaged Arduino, a sewable computer. The materials are strange an...

Stefan Hermann, a hardware hacker in Berlin, has come up with an interesting suite of plug-in sub-circuit prototyping modules for Arduino, called JEP ("Just Enough Prototyping") Shields. JEP shields are complete circuits for Arduino microcontrollers. They are modular in construction such that the fu...

Flickr user solipsistnation created this rather awesome sample sequencer using Meggy Jr. and an Arduino WaveShield - The Meggy Jr RGB from Evil Mad Science running MeggySeq, driving a Wave Shield from Lady Ada. MeggySeq is a pattern-based drum machine sequencer. It has 8 patterns of 16 steps each an...

"The Meggy Jr RGB from Evil Mad Science running MeggySeq, driving a Wave Shield from Lady Ada. MeggySeq is a pattern-based drum machine sequencer. It has 8 patterns of 16 steps each and each step can play one of 8 samples (the colors are hard to tell apart on the video). Next steps: Saving patterns ...

This is the 3rd installment of my Aduino How-To Tuesdays. This week I am going to cover using another basic part, the potentiometer. I will also cover connecting a servo to the Arduino. Servos can be hard to control, but not with the Arduino! That's just another reason why I love this little micro-c...

Open and DIY doesn’t have to mean you don’t get a finished product. It just means the product can continue to change once you’ve got it - which is the beauty of three new tools coming to the music tech world. Photo: Bug Labs. You buy a box. You unwrap the box. You plug it in. You r...

Nothing terribly clever here, but sometimes you've got to build your own tools before the real fun begins. I've been doing some mobile Arduino development and I got annoyed with carrying around a bulky coil of USB cable. I could buy a pre-made A-to-B gender changer, but not at 10pm on a Sunday, when...

New kit in the Shed today gang - The Arduino controlled servo robot kit is a great kit that includes everything you need to begin experimenting with robots, Arduino micro-controllers and open source hardware. Solder-free & ready to run out of the box. Features: Fully programmable using the optio...

Make subscriber Trevor built a simple drawing interface using Arduino and Processing - There are two potentiometers (horizontal and vertical) plugged into two of the analog inputs of Arduino. The board reads the state of the two potentiometers, and sends them as an ordered pair via USB (technically,...