Top 40 Arduino Projects of the Web
Since we love the ever-popular Arduino, we’ve scoured the vast reaches of the interweb and unearthed the best Arduino projects just for you. The Arduino is an open source programming platform which allows you to easily control electronics with a microcontroller – See our Arduino tutorial to learn all about it.
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- Make a Simple Wall Avoiding Robot
- Basic LED Cube – Learn to Make LED Cubes
- How To Smell Pollutants
- XBee Wireless Accelerometer
- Breathalyzer Microphone
- Control Servo Motors with the Wii Mote Joystick
- Lo-fi Arduino Guitar Pedal
- Positional Memory with a Servo
- Miniature Pocket Piano
- Dirt Simple POV LED Display see also Wireless POV
- How to Build a Self Balancing Segway-like Robot
- Website Visitor Blinker – Christmas Bell
- Turn Signal Biking Jacket
- DIY Musical Keytar
- Tweet-a-Watt Wireless Electricity Monitor
- RC Car Controlled Via the Web
- DIY Gaming with a 3D Controller
- Sanguino – Arduino with extra I/O pins
- Rocker Scale Measures how Hard You Rock
- Hack a NES Controller into a Security Keypad
- Interfacing with Maya and 3d Studio Max
- Web Based Servo Control
- How To Make A Daft Punk Helmet – (see also DIY Daft Punk Suits)
- Automatic Head Tracking with Arduino
- Pong with the Arduino
- Interactive gaming controller
- Marble Labrynth controlled using the WiiFit
- Connect the the web: Ethernet Shield
- Physical Gmail LED Notifiers – RSS Notifier
- Robot that Reads and Speaks RSS Feeds
- Botanicalls Twittering Plants
- Wiimote Controlled Espresso Machine
- How to: High Speed Photography using the Arduino
- Controlling an RC Car with iPhone and Wii – Another version
- Etch-a-Sketch Clock
- Open source Game Boy
- Electronics Filled, Arduino Powered Room
- How-To: Make an RGB combination door lock
- Make a UAV Spyplane Using the Arduino
- Fantastic Arduino Laser Harp
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January 27th, 2009
Wow! Absolutely awesome article, the arduino is a fantastic programmer I have come to love. Great images!
January 27th, 2009
Whoa…how have I missed this arduino? it looks like it’s really powerful. i need to get myself one for sure.
January 27th, 2009
Nice list. (It’s also nice to make #3.)
–Will O’Brien
January 30th, 2009
Exciting to see our WiiFit Arduino powered Robotic Labyrinth come in at #14. Its been two weeks since the YouTube video hit it big.
We’re going bigger too with our Science City Robotic Labyrinth project going to 12 foot long. You can check it out on:
http://SomeoneKnows.Wordpress.com
February 2nd, 2009
How can the Arduinome not be on this list?
February 2nd, 2009
The Arduinome is pretty similar to #3.
March 17th, 2009
Load your Diecimila with Simple Message System from the archives at arduino.cc and use my linux shell script package to make a general-purpose controller. Easy to write your own shellscripts for any project. Maximum flexibility. Get the tar package from http://user.cavenet.com/rolandl, called SMS1.tgz. Full IO & PWM control. AD is scaled to mV and formatted for import to most spreadsheets. GUI via xdialog. I am using reed relays connected directly to the IO pins: elexp.com #22RD5, a buck and change each.
April 3rd, 2009
Hey guys, I am building a quadrotor helicopter. Could anyone help me out with the Arduino, I have no idea how to use this thing.
April 3rd, 2009
Just check out the Arduino tutorial to get started
http://www.hacknmod.com/hack/arduino-tutorial-how-to-introduction-guide/
May 26th, 2009
http://www.opensprints.org/
indoor bicycle roller racing using the arduino to connect the rollers to a computer.
May 27th, 2009
Nice find. Can’t wait to check it out!
September 1st, 2009
You guys are really great, thanks.
October 28th, 2009
this is great! I love it!
May 12th, 2010
Here’s an Arduino based web controller robotic arm: http://www.tnhsmith.net/Other/Orbduino/index.htm
Enjoy!
August 2nd, 2010
Great site to get ideas and help with Arduino code, Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
I can’t wait to get started.
August 9th, 2010
Check out Kegbot.org didn’t see it in the list. It is a Arduino powered keg monitor. keeps track of which friends are sucking all your beer. even has options for ibutton and dollar bill feeder.
November 28th, 2010
I have a few Arduino projects I have been working on that I would like to share. I have a really popular PHP Serial project I have been working on that is pretty cool. I have a special area on my blog just for Arduino projects. Here is the link http://missionduke.com/arduino-projects/
February 13th, 2011
What are the typical/most interesting use cases involving Arduino?…
This is a bit hard to reply to. The Arduino is a microcontroller similar to whatr you find in almost every device. So it’s a bit like asking hat you can do with software and the answer is “everything”. There are however lists of most interesting use…
July 16th, 2011
I’m surprised that the Rep-Rap open source 3D printers aren’t listed!
http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page
July 24th, 2011
What are some cool things one might make with the Arduino board?…
The Arduino is a small, cheap, microcontroller platform that’s easy to get started with. Artists and people with ideas, who may not know a lot about electronics can get good results fairly quickly. What you might make depends upon your imagination.
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August 10th, 2011
Check out http://daisyworks.com – we have an Arduino-derivative (ATMEGA328 w/Arduino Bootloader). It comes packed with custom case, Bluetooth, IrDa, SD Card, Servo ports, and we pull all the other pins out to standard RJ telco jacks so you can have plug-n-play sensors.
We wrote software for the Android & Mac, Linux, Windows so you can do Firmware Over The Air (FOTA) to the device using Bluetooth. You can also browse an App Store and pull down pre-made applications (firmware + user interface) – deploy it to the device and start interacting with it, one-click.