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Motion Sensing Pumpkin Vibrobot

Posted on November 10, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Mechanical Engineer and K-12 STEM educator, Ben Finio, has designed this kid-friendly motion sensing pumpkin Bot, which could be a fun project to make for the next Halloween. The thing I liked the most about this PumpkinBot is its simplicity and microcontroller-free design. His motion-sensing bot uses a passive infrared (PIR) sensor attached in front of the pumpkin to detect motion. Three toothbrush heads are glued underneath the PumpkinBot to give it a stable tripod. When a motion is sensed, it triggers the robot’s LED eyes and a DC motor attached on its back. A wine cork fixed to the

Order your favorite pizza with just the push of a button

Posted on November 9, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Hungry pizza-lover yet excessively lethargic to pick up the phone or use an app to order online? Don’t worry, this Emergency Pizza button will let you instantly order a pizza full of your favorite toppings with the simple push of the button. The Pizza Button uses the BeagleBone Black microcontroller board which does all of web scrapping for you behind the screen. When the button is pressed, the web scraper can log into your Grub Hub account and order a pizza from your favorite online store (the author has programmed it for making online order from San Francisco North Beach Pizza). The Python

Mobile Sun-seeker for indoor planters

Posted on November 9, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Indoor plants are great for adding some greenery to home interior decoration. Most of the time low-lighting conditions can sustain indoor plants. However, it is still important that they get proper sunlight for healthy and greenish growth. If you have windows in more than one direction of your house, it is possible that the sunniest spot inside your house is not always the same during the course of day. This mobile sun-seeker robot helps to navigate the interior plants to enjoy the sunniest spot in the house. The mobile sun-seeker uses two continuous rotation servos to move around and are

Arduino pin monitor shield

Posted on November 9, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

Carsten Tonn-Petersen has designed this Arduino pin monitor and tester shield to assist his prototyping work with Arduino. The key features of this shield is it provides one LED for every single I/O pin and can be used with Arduino Uno, Leonardo, Mega, Due, and Mini. The shield also features one tact switch and one toggle switch for digital inputs along with two potentiometers for simulating analog input voltages during prototyping. The complete list of features as Carsten has mentioned about his Arduino pin monitor and tester shield are listed below: One LED for every single input or output Can be used

Raspberry Pi Mediabox

Posted on November 8, 2014 by R-B Leave a comment

MrLeeh’s Raspbmc Mediabox multimedia player uses a 7″ LCD for user interface, and is controlled by Raspberry Pi running Raspbmc, a minimal Linux distribution based on Debian for turning Raspberry Pi into an XBMC player. It can be controlled through an IR remorte, a web interface, a smartphone or tablet.

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