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The Sparkfun Proto-Snap Minibot Kit
Robots are cool. I know that's a given but I just had to say it. There are plenty of easy kits out there that can get you started in robotics. The problem with many beginner robot kits is that they ...
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FireFly Controller Board Simplifies Rocket Science
Recently, my friend Mike Doornbos from Evadot got together with the small-satellite crew down at the non-profit Kentucky Space to try to fix an annoying problem. They wanted a standard "mission...
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Adding a Real Screen to a Lego Train Station
After seeing the Ladyada Workshop built in Lego, Dan Malec came up with another way to get Adafruit and Lego to play together. Using an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) from Adafruit Industries and...
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Tinkering Around With TinkerForge
While I have a great fondness for developing and prototyping my electroncis projects on the Arduino platform, and I always will love the Arduino and Atmel microcontrollers, there is new favorite in my...
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Kickstart Your Own Space Program With Firefly, A Flexible Mission Control Board
We’ve previously highlighted the Firefly, an Arduino-compatible system with onboard power, charging, data logging, and radio communications–all the standard stuff that can take a while to piece...
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Dragon*Con: Two E-Textiles Panels You Should Attend
Join Sparkfun's own e-textile specialist Dia Campbell at Dragon Con this weekend in two special costuming sessions about electronics and special effects in costumes.
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If you build it... | Using Motion Detectors With an Arduino
Using motion detectors and an Ardunio you can add a little extra wow to your Halloween displays this year. This article covers the circuits and the code to make that happen.
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If you build it... | How To Move Big Electrons With an Arduino
This week I explore how to use the Arduino to drive lights and motors, and take over the world, with a few lines of code and a handful of electronics.
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If you build it... | How to Light Your Jack-o’-Lantern the Arduino Way
Learn about Pulse Width Modulation and give your Jack-O-Lanterns a warm pulsing glow.
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A $13 ARM Single-Board Computer
We live in a great time to be an electronics tinkerer. What with the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard and other single-board computers, it's cheap and easy to get started with hardware hacking. And...
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Weekly Rewind | A $13 ARM Single-Board Computer
We live in a great time to be an electronics tinkerer. What with the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard and other single-board computers, it's cheap and easy to get started with hardware hacking. And...
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If you build it... | Arduino Wireless Fun
Okay, all you Arduino fans, now that you've mastered the basics of blinking LEDs, driving motors, and monitoring environmental sensors, you're ready for something a little more interesting, right? Well...
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This Week on the GeekDad Community
Our weekly round up of what's happening over on the GeekDad Community.
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Arno: The Best Darn Arduino Starter Kit Ever
We're huge fans of the Arduino around here at GeekDad, so we're particularly enthused about the "Arno." What makes this kit stand out among the dozens of Arduino-based boards out there? Well, the Arno...
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Arduino Esplora — DIY Handheld Gaming Platform?
This is a great time for anyone interested in hardware and low-level programming, and things just keep getting better. The most recent proof of this is the recent release of the Arduino Esplora, an...
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If you build it... | PIN-Cracking Robot
So, imagine you picked up a second-hand GPS unit that requires the entry of a 4-digit PIN code to unlock, and you don't have the code. What do you do? Well, if you're JJ over at Dashfest, then the...
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Light Painting with Temperature
If there's one thing we appreciate here at GeekDad, it's an elegant DIY project. Given that, we're awfully impressed with Max Justicz's latest project, a home-brew thermal imaging camera. Now, a...
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Page Turners | Enhancing Lego Mindstorms with Arduino
Lego Mindstorms NXT is a sophisticated and fun educational robotics set that teaches kids and adults engineering and programming skills. As versatile as it is, however, wouldn't it be cool to enhance...
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If you build it... | Best of Both Worlds: Make: Lego and Arduino Projects
GeekDad's very own John Baicthal has joined Matthew Beckler and Adam Wolf (co-founders of Wayne and Layne) to release Make: Lego and Arduino Projects. Just like the other Make: books, it's a...
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Robots, Electronics Hacking, and Kids
I built my first robot at age 7. It was made out of parts from an Erector set and stood about three feet tall. It had arms and legs and wheels under its feet. A (very weak) motor was supposed ...
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