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May
09

Be a Mint Tin Hero

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After a night of brainstorming, and then another week or so of indecision, maker Brian Dolan settled on making a Guitar-Hero-like rhythm game inside a Trader Joe's mint tin involving a single sensor, an LCD screen, and a small speaker for playing some cheesy music. I play drums, and I was kind of thinking of the whole mint tin as a drum, with the plastic screen acting like a drum head. The other side, made of metal, would host the LCD screen and speaker, facing the “player.”

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Dec
14

Sensing Hot and Cold with Weekend Projects

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Combine an Arduino, an ultransonic distance sensor, and some common components to build a classic "hot/cold" project. Once assembled, we'll walk through the software "sketch" loaded onto our Arduino, and experiment with three variations of the "hot/cold" theme, all the while using the same circuit.

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Nov
02

Build a Basic Infrared Motion Alarm with Weekend Projects

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Build a motion-sensing alarm by combining a few common components: an Arduino, a PIR sensor, a piezo buzzer, and a breadboard. All you need is some jumper wire to connect them all, and the software to run it.

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