Arduino Based Aquaponics uses apduino to get things done. Kretzinger is able to configure the system to work as desired based on sensors and a large number of controlled pumps. He can get automated text messages when events occur or when something is going wrong with his system. He has plans to grow his system to use all of the spare land he has around his house before he
 This Propeller based heart project demonstrates how a heart actually works. The board looks great and the shape is heart shaped like a real heart (not the shape of the valentines chocolate boxes). Thanks for sending this in Jim. “This wearable LED heart simulator pendant was inspired by my work as a cardiovascular surgical nurse as well asmy love of electronics.  It simulates the electrical activity of 17
The prize this week is an Arduino Mini Clone. This contest will run for one week (July 27 – August 2, 2013). Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item above and what it can be used for. Please note the image above is a side view of the thing. Please do not give the answer in the comments. Send an email to contest
  An Arduino is being used here to power this Chess Playing Robot game that Max Justicz built. The assembly is built using drawer slides, some of these are very tight with some smooth ball bearing action. Nice thing about this platform is it could be used to play any board game that needs to have pieces moved around or as Max mentions, it could be made into a
Check out the cool WaterColorBot. It was dreamed up by Super Awesome Sylvia and helped to be created by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. I can see this be a great project for older school kids to put together and have the younger school kids use it. The Kickstarter has been funded so this is something that we will be seeing around. The robot is built from CNC router cut
Not sure how many people would shoot fireworks at their expensive RC plane but the video it creates is great. The guys from Louisiana Hog Control do this every year as part of their 4th of July festivities. Thanks to Cy Brown for sending this in. “It has become somewhat of a family tradition to try and shoot down Uncle Cy’s expensive little toy every 4th of July and
Seems like anything that is web connectable is hackable. Google Glass now gets added to the list. Many functions on glass are activated by reading in QR codes, it turns out that a malicious QR code can be used to perform some undesirable things!
