Brian Dorey is working on a DIY Pick and Place Machine that look like it is coming along very well. You can see the full build log of the machine on his site here. You can see some information here about the vision system that will be used. “The component selector is controlled via an Arduino Mini and this interfaces to a Smooth Stepper Ethernet board which is controlled
Martin Stromer made a great looking Hard Disk Clock that is actually very easy to read and looks like a great art piece at the same time. It is based around the ATMega16 Microcontroller. “The time is set by turning the disk and setting the read/write head to the desired time by hand. Then you push the reset button on the back (the upper one of the tree on
Are you looking for a project that will let you take control of the lighting around you? Look no further than the Glo Control. “Glow Control is an Android app that couples to an Arduino-based controller over Bluetooth allowing for control of various tasks including Landscape / Patio LED lights. Â You can either schedule the zones to turn on / off within a time range, or use a light
 When the power fails you could look for the candles that are tucked away in the kitchen drawer, but why not have a Rechargeable Waterproof Bottle Lamp on standby? ASCAS mounted a charging jack and switch to the lid of a medium sized jar, this is connected to a battery and a 3 watt LED. A small 5mm red LED is used to indicate when it is charging
Instead of a lawn tractor this Robot Tractor might be just the thing you need around the yard. It might need a bit of weight added to the design to allow it to pull anything substantial but that shouldn’t be an issue. I an see it being a great help to landscapers needing to pull around carts of material such as mulch, sod, hand tools, etc. If there are
Raffael Herrmann from en.code-bude.net stuffed the guts of his RadioduinoWRT project into an old piece of stereo equipment. Inside the box he has about $100 worth of electronics including a WRT router, an Arduino Mega and an ethernet module. The result is a great looking component that can stream internet radio without having to keep a computer running to play it. “Once the basic idea to build a web
Ben Krasnow wanted to use a cheap digital scale to use in a project that needs to automatically dispense the correct amount of material and stop when the appropriate weight has been achieved. We have seen this type of system used in factories that bag things by weight such as potato chips. These small scales use a strain gauge to read how much weight is on the scale. The
