Projects

Learn how we converted 72 lightbulbs into an interactive LED array for our conference room.

How to communicate between an Electric Imp and Arduino using serial.

Create your own Linking Book from the classic computer game, MYST

Learn how to move a slider on a webpage and make a motor spin. We connect HTML and HID to read sensors and interface with the physical world.

Make a Step Sequencer using an Arduino, the Auduino firmware, and a handful of hardware.

Review, teardown, and hacking tutorial for the MindWave Mobile, a $99 commercial grade EEG sensor.

Reprogram your Arduino from anywhere in the world using the Tomatoless Boots wireless bootloader with the Electric Imp.

This is a tutorial demonstrating one of many techniques to "hack" the Simon Says. We will highlight the technique to take your Simon Says Wireless.

A top hat decked out with LED strips makes for a heck of a wedding gift.

Demonstrate mental chronometry with this simple reaction timer!

100-in-1? 500-in-1? It's up to you when you build your own Science Fair style experiment board!

Getting People to do your job for you (badly) with some chocolate and a pcDuino!

Vernier Photogate Timer -- using the Serial Enabled LCD Kit.

A quick tutorial to show you how to add LEDs to gift or holiday bags or boxes.

How to use a Raspberry Pi to monitor Twitter for hashtags and blink an LED.

Our first-ever "Hackers in Residence" Tara Tiger Brown and Sean Bonner created a quadcopter that stays tethered to the ground. Here's how they did it!

A fun project that uses the LilyPad MP3 trigger. This apron will dispense helpful kitchen advice and humor from the host of My Drunk Kitchen, Hannah Harto!

A playful, geeky tutorial for a leather bracer that uses a LilyPad Arduino, LilyPad accelerometer, and seven segment display to roll virtual 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, and 100 side dice for gaming.

A guest tutorial from the astonishingly talented Mario the Magician showing how to put together your own servo-controlled lapel flower.

Because some of our boards need to be re-humidified after reflow, we decided to make our own humidor. This tutorial will focus on how to model a project in 3D and then fabricate it using a CNC routing machine.

The Uncertain 7-Cube is a non-committal, less-than-helpful, but also entirely honest fortune teller. Simply ask it a yes or no question, give it a nudge, and the 7-Cube will dutifully inform you that it doesn’t have all the facts and doesn’t feel comfortable making a guess.

Here we will learn how to say how you feel with pizza. Electric pizza.

Music Box Project based on the Dr. Who TARDIS.

DIY Project Idea: Create a custom hand warmer blanket using heating pads.