The Arduino open-source platform is an excellent way to create your own home and hobby electronics projects from scratch. The logic boards sold under the Arduino brand are receptive to all kinds of ...

Arduino fans, this project turns TVs on when you want them off. It makes a perfect April Fools' Day joke or gag gift—or, in the spirit of Evil Week, use it anytime of year to drive people crazy. You ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCHqhV6xPMg&w=470] A few weeks ago, we saw codebender, an online replacement for the Arduino IDE that allowed you to upload a ...

An Arduino can be used to test the life of any battery with less than 5 volts, Boxall says. So, for a quick way to see how much juice your AAA, AA, C, or D batteries have left, build this ...

The creative adventures with ATtiny series microcontroller are awesome if you know how to play them. ATtinys — especially the ATtiny85s — are all around us, and by using one, we can shrink the size of ...

Arduino is a great way for today’s novices to start to learn how to write and run codes that interact with the external world. Somebody on Facebook recently asked about finding an easy-to-use shield ...