Mute01 adds faders to the Arduino Pocket Piano for additional noise control. Nice mod - this starts to shows how much potential the synth has beyond its onboard controls.
Arduino Pocket Piano Synth Kit
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
This is a really interesting project that uses an Arduino with an XBee to control an R/C airplane. You can purchase remote controls fairly inexpensively, but can they be infinitely hacked like an Arduino? How about 2-way communications? Think about all the cool sensors you could add!
Read more about the Arduino powered R/C airplane [hack a day]
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Arduino Diecimila
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Original post by Marc de Vinck
SilverHalo’s Digital thermostatic beer refreshment regulator - he writes…
This is my work in building an Arduino based digital thermostat for controlling my DIY kegerator.
The project is based around the Arduino and uses a Lḷ sensor for temperature measurement, a solid state relay for turning on/off the refridgerator, and a serial LCD panel for displaying the temperature inside the fridge and a handy-dandy button to turn the back-light on for reading beer temperature in the dark! WoW!! .
I consider this v1.0 and plan to update this instructable as I add new and fun things that make beer drinking more pleasurable… as if that can really happen!
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
This looks like a cool project that uses an Arduino & Processing to generate LED graphics based on MIDI inputs. I really like how it is housed inside an old slide viewer.
A while ago I found an interesting post on the arduino forums about a guy who made a 8×8 LED panel for his friend to use to visualise when playing music. So when I was browsing my local thrift-store I found an old slide viewer (for you kids, it’s an old pre digital way to take photo’s).
More about Opal: Arduino based LED and MIDI [arduino.cc]
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Original post by Marc de Vinck
Massimo Banzi writes over at the Arduino blog:
After a couple of years of prototypes, tests and announcements, finally we have produced an ethernet shield for Arduino. This module gives Arduino the ability to open connections to other Internet hosts or behave like a server, for example a simple web server. We like this design because it uses the w5100 chip from WizNet that implements the whole IP stack in itself providing up to 4 sockets simultaneously. I believe this will provide Arduino enthusiasts around the world with a platfrom that is initially simple to use but with room for growth as the knowledge of the user increases. From the Internet of Things to the Internet of Arduinos, happy tinkering.
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XPortShield for Arduino Kit (not the same one as mentioned above)
Getting Started with Arduino- This valuable little book offers a thorough introduction to the open
source electronics prototyping platform that’s taking the design and hobbyist world by storm. Getting Started with Arduino gives you lots of ideas for projects and helps you get going on them right away. To use the introductory examples in this book, all you need is a USB Arduino, USB A-B cable, and an LED. By Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino Project.
Making Things Talk - Programming microcontrollers used to require an expensive development environment costing thousands of dollars and requiring professional electrical engineering expertise. Open-source physical computing platforms with simple i/o boards and development environments have led to new options for hobbyists, hackers, and makers. This book contains a series of projects that teach you what you need to know to get your creations talking to each other, connecting to the web, and forming networks of smart devices.
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Original post by Becky Stern
Our friend Massimo from the Arduino project wrote in to tell us about this cool competition…
I’m writing to tell you about a competition at the school where I teach. Domus Academy is a design school in Milano which has different masters in design, fashion, car design and interaction design. Every year they have a competition that gives away scholarships for their courses to geeks who want to get in to design. This makes sure the course has a nice mix of technical and design skills. The class is usually made of about 20 people from all over the wold. I teach there all year so they get to work on Arduino throughout the year and I also take a couple of students as interns during the summer. If somebody wants to study for a master and work on Arduino all year is a good chance
I thought it would be interesting for the people who read the blog to know about this.
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
I′ve found the power jumper on Arduino (Diecimila, NG, etc.) comes in handy for quickly powering down a project - helpful when you′d rather not disconnect the DC or USB power. Even handier if you actually replace the jumper with a little slide switch, like so -
And who can resist the super-bonus leftover jumper! Well, it’s good to have an extra around anyway 
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
It was just a matter of time… Physical keyboard for iPhone via CG.
It gets better, the same maker seems to have a self-propelled iPhone “robot”…
With an Arduino… trifecta of COOL OVERLOAD in play.
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
This is a nice example of scavenging parts from an inkjet printer to make cool stuff. It uses an Arduino and a Motor Shield to control the DC motor. The web site has a lot more information and the source code to get you started.
More about Using a DC motor as a servo with PID control
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MotorShield for Arduino Kit
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Original post by Marc de Vinck
I recently updated my arduino ambient orb to use some boards I got cut at a boardhouse in Colorado, and handed off a few of the finished products off to various friends of mine. Well, my good friend John Erickson tossed together an awesome script for the election returns tonight. The orb starts off dark, and the script periodically checks the election results. As the results come in, the orb will gradually get brighter and brighter blue or red based on who is pulling in the EVs.
I grabbed his script and a spare board I had with me at the office, and used a plastic cup to whip up a quick electoral ‘orb’:
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
Although this robot is still under development, it is able to stand on it’s own. The maker has posted several videos and the source code so you can get started on making your own.
The system features a kalman filter to acquire data from the IMU and a PID controller to control the motors. The robot is actually able to stand by itself indefinitely, but it’s not completely stable, either because of my software or because of the motors that have a little “loosiness” (a couple of degrees of “free” rotation). I’m still working on it
More about making a Self-balancing robot powered by an Arduino
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Original post by Marc de Vinck
Marc “Nostromo” Resibois wrote up a nice piece on Arduino for portable sound synthesis over @ CDM, referencing the Arduino Pocket Piano kit.
My first hands-on with hardware was when I started fiddling with the Arduino piano. You might argue that once it’s built, it’s still software platform, but I really enjoy working on this bit of kit. The interaction is even more straightforward than game consoles: press a button, turn a knob, and get sound. Although it might seem limited compared to software synths, it also has dimensions that a lot of virtual instruments lack. I’ll call these qualities depth and exclusivity.
- Software Programmer Dreams of New, Small Music Machines
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
LEMUR fall classes are starting off soon…
Have you ever wanted to build a robot or an interactive art installation? Have you ever wondered how LEDs, sensors and motors work? Through collaborative exercises and the development of in-class projects, you will learn how to program and prototype with an Arduino microcontroller. This class is geared towards beginners, and no prior knowledge of electronics or programming is required.
The class will demonstrate programming and electronics basics through hands-on microcontroller projects. You will learn digital and analog input and output techniques for controlling motors and interpreting sensors as well as the programming skills necessary to use these components effectively. By the end of the class, students will have a firm understanding of how microcontrollers, sensors and actuators work and how to utilize these tools in their own creative projects.
Microcontroller Progamming for Artists: Introduction to the Arduino System
Tuesdays 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 6:30-9:30 pm
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
The “Gigapan” robot allows an ordinary digital camera to take a giga-pixel photo. Check out the video above to see it in action.
via Taiyoung Ryu
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Original post by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Matt shares this quick vid of the assembly of a Bare Bones Arduino board.
Hrrmmm … it usually takes me a fair bit longer :/
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MAKE Build: Mechamo Crab & Halloween Hack from make magazine on Vimeo.
Bare Bones Arduino Board Kit (Unassembled)
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Original post by Collin Cunningham
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