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The $50 Pen Plotter

March 19, 2023 Chris Lott 12 Viewsarduino, CoreXY, grbl, low cost, pen plotter 1 min read

[Arca] sets out to build himself a low-cost pen plotter that doesn’t require access to a 3D printer. The plotter uses a coreXY arrangement, powered by 28BYJ-48 stepper motors, which

How To Build Jenny’s Budget Mixing Desk

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How To Build Jenny’s Budget Mixing Desk

February 15, 2023 Jonathan Bennett 43 ViewsArdour, arduino, mixer, Pipewire 8 min read

Jenny did an Ask Hackaday article earlier this month, all about the quest for a cheap computer-based audio mixer. The first attempt didn’t go so well, with a problem that

An Open Hardware Automatic Spinning Machine

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An Open Hardware Automatic Spinning Machine

January 21, 2023 Dave Rowntree 65 Views3030, arduino, ATMega2560, processing, spinning, textiles 1 min read

The team at the Berlin-based Studio HILO has been working on ideas and tools around developing a more open approach to small-scale textile production environments. Leveraging open-source platforms and tools,

Get Pumped for This Miniature Gym

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Get Pumped for This Miniature Gym

January 9, 2023 Abe Connelly 83 Viewsarduino, atmega328p, desktop toy, led strip, miniature, mp3, peak detector 1 min read

[Duncan McIntyre] lives in the UK but participated in a secret Santa gift exchange for his Dutch friends’ Sinterklaas celebration. In traditional maker fashion, [Duncan] went overboard and created a

Arduino Synthesizer Uses Modified Slide Pots

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Arduino Synthesizer Uses Modified Slide Pots

January 6, 2023 Kristina Panos 67 Viewsarduino, slide pot, slide potentiometer, synthesizer 0 min read

There comes a point in every Arduino’s life where, if it’s lucky, it becomes a permanent fixture in a project. We can’t think of too many better forever homes for

Weasley Clock For Magically Low Cost

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Weasley Clock For Magically Low Cost

November 24, 2022 Bryan Cockfield 118 Views3d printer, arduino, clock, cloud, gears, harry potter, hivemqcloud, mqtt, owntracks, weasley 1 min read

For those unfamiliar with the details of the expansive work of fiction of Harry Potter, it did introduce a few ideas that have really stuck in the collective conscious. Besides

Tidy POV Display Using The ESP32

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Tidy POV Display Using The ESP32

November 23, 2022 Dave Rowntree 107 Viewsapa102, arduino, ESP32, JLCEDA, led, persistance of vision, POV 2 min read

Chinese Youtuber [corebb] presents the second version of his POV display. The earlier version used 5050-sized SMT addressable LEDs, which didn’t give great resolution, so he rev’d the design to use

Better Air Quality Sensing with CO2

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Better Air Quality Sensing with CO2

November 21, 2022 Bryan Cockfield 123 Viewsair, air quality, arduino, carbon dioxide, co2, eink, sensor, VOC 1 min read

Measuring air quality, as anyone who has tried to tackle this problem can attest, is not as straightforward as it might seem. Even once the nebulous term “quality” is defined,

DIY Streamdeck Helps You Professionalize Your Twitch Show

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DIY Streamdeck Helps You Professionalize Your Twitch Show

November 12, 2022 Lewin Day 104 Viewsarduino, stream deck, streamdeck, twitch 1 min read

The one thing that separates the pros on Twitch from the dilettantes is the production values. It’s all about the smooth transitions, and you’ll never catch the big names fiddling

Trigger Your Home Automation Routines With Home Buttons

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Trigger Your Home Automation Routines With Home Buttons

November 10, 2022 Dave Rowntree 111 Viewsarduino, e-ink display, ESP32, flexures, home automation, mqtt, wi-fi 2 min read

Home automation systems are all well and good, so long as the person who built it all is around to drive it. Let’s face it, they’re quite often a complex