Projects

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.

An EL project that displays one person's heartbeat on another person's costume.