 Phil and Limore from Adafruit took a trip to the Arduino manufacturing facility in Italy, it turns out that there are many facilities that perform the various functions needed to produce the boards. They were nice enough to share their pictures for everyone to enjoy. As big as Arduino is I was surprised at how modest the facilities are. To see a ton more pictures of the facility
 Thanks to Daniel Kramnik who is a high school junior from Massachusetts for sending in his award winning DIY Digital Salinometer project. If you have never heard of a Salinometer before you can learn more about it here. The system is easy to troubleshoot since it is completely modular, since it is mounted to a piece of acrylic you can trace out circuits from the front and back of
Are you getting fed up with your Fan’s speed? If Yes! then here is the solution. Circuit-projects brings a fantastic tutorial that will help you to alter the power of your Fan’s motor winding. This will help in increasing your Fan’s speed. Even you can monitor how fast the spin of your fan.Â
If you love taking pictures you either have or need to purchase a Intervalometer, if you love DIY electronics you should look into building your own. Nice thing is there is a great new Arduino based DIY Intervalometer to get you started. Â “After some thinking, I convinced myself that I needed a navigating menu and at least these 4 different operating modes: input mode: set the various options confirmation
Glen Johnson built this Frankenkindle to help out his sister who has cerebral palsy. It uses some controls that were scavenged from a different device which has big easy to press buttons. Buttons on the added keypad have been made to activate macros that perform features on the Kindle. It is a bit slower than the normal Kindle controls but since this is a book reader and not a
 You might remember the Top 10 WALL-E Hacks post that we made back in 2009? Well the DIY WALL-E builders are still hard at work. Have a look at the video above showing the tracks that Michael from the WALL-E Builders group is working on. UPDATE (January 6, 2012): Thanks to Michael for sending in some of the build pictures.
Dave took some time off building his new lab and finished building an ArduCopter, Dave goes through some troubleshooting when the control board doesn’t work. Turns out there is a mystery short on the previously functional board. You will get a good laugh at the culprit. 🙂
