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Sensors Hacks |
 | DIY Capacitive Touch Made Easy
Capacitive touch allows electronics to sense when your finger is within a few millimeters of a surface to simulate a button "press" without the use of an actual mechanical button. You'll notice the feature on the new Xbox 360 Slim. Here's a... |
 | DIY Sound Localization Sensor with Arduino
We have covered loads of motion detection projects, but what about sound? A sound localization sensor helps you to identify the location or origin of a detected sound and find out its direction and distance. Our ears do it for us, but building an... |
 | Add Internet to your Arduino (for half the price!)
Imagine being able to control your Arduino projects from anywhere... Yes, this is possible by simply adding an ethernet shield to your Arduino, but you'd have to sacrifice the programming board. Instead of sacrificing the entire Arduino, just... |
 | DIY Interactive LED Stair Lighting
Learn how to spice up your boring staircase with interactive LEDs to illuminate each step. As the video above demonstrates, the LED lights switch on one at a time when a person begins their journey up or down the stairs. The lights get... |
 | Touchpad Built With an Arduino and Infrared
We've seen a few multitouch projects including a 5 minute dirt cheap pad and the more complex flexible multitouch display. This multi-touch device (the TRKBRD) is basically is a finger tracking sensor. By the looks of it, it doesn’t... |
