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Shapeways.com adds $50.00 Coupon for Arduino Fun Contest

ShapeWays.com has added a $50.00 Coupon to the ArduinoFun – Build It- contest! Have you ever wanted to turn your 3D designs into reality? Enter Shapeways! Just upload your design, we print it and ship it to you – it’s easy. Within ten working days you’ll hold your own design in your hands.
But that’s not [...]

Secret Knock Detecting Door Lock (Build It)

Contest Entry by Steve Hoefer
How many times have you seen a secret hideout with a secret knock?  It’s a staple of cheesy dramas, Saturday afternoon movies, and tree houses throughout the world.
While working on another project I ran across the Arduino knock sensor tutorial.  Sensing a single knock is a great little project for learning [...]

Silly String Shooting Spider (Build It)

Contest Entry by Todd Harrison
I had great fun this Halloween with a silly string shooting spider!  My plan was to use an Arduino micro-controller developer board to control my son’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” RC car that already shoots silly string.  I didn’t get the spider to actually squirt the silly string but when you’re looking at [...]

Arduino Halloween Dropping Spider (Build It)

Contest Entry by Noel Portugal
My Halloween project consisted of a dropping spider triggered by a PIR motion sensor mounted on a Jackolantern. The motion sensor triggered a dropping spider, lights, sounds, low laying fog and finally a tweet with a picture attached.
Setup: It’s all pretty basic. The arduino controlled the PIR motion sensor, the servos [...]

Open Source ADM-Robot 1.0 (part 1)

It’s that time of year again… where the sounds of knowledge fill the home labs, garages and basements across the globe. Here in the ArduinoFun lab, we have been busy working on this years project ADM-Robot 1.0 aka Recycle-bot.
I will be posting progress photos and notes as we go along to document the process for [...]