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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 1d

Joining forces with Qualcomm Technologies will supercharge Arduino's commitment to accessibility and innovation, empowering the global community with powerful tools that make AI development intuitive, scalable, and open to everyone. Read more: www.arduino.cc/qualcomm

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 1d

Meet the Arduino UNO Q, an all-in-one platform powered by a Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QRB2210 and featuring the new Arduino App Lab for a unified development experience.

Discover now: arduino.cc/product-uno-q

Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 2d

Marcel Veldhuizen's NutriSense is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi-powered food diary device that automatically tracks calories, protein, and more using NFC tags.

NutriSense - Automated Food Diary

NutriSense - Automated Food Diary: People who watch their diet may keep a food diary. They write down what they eat throughout the day to gain insight into things like their calorie intake. But that's...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 5d

Pete LeMaster has put together an informative video that covers how to wire up and control a linear actuator using relays driven by an Arduino Opta micro PLC or a microcontroller board like an UNO Rev3.

How to Control Linear Actuators from a PLC or Microcontroller!

YouTube video by LeMaster Tech

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 7d

EarPressure VR is an Arduino-equipped system that modulates ear canal pressure to simulates sensations like underwater depth or high-altitude environments in virtual reality.

You Need an Altitude Adjustment

EarPressure VR simulates air pressure changes, adding altitude and depth sensations to make virtual reality experiences more immersive.

www.hackster.io

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 7d

Flip this Arduino Nano-controlled LED hourglass over and watch its “sand” pixels fall down from one matrix to the other.

This Arduino Nano R4-controlled hourglass simulates sand with LEDs | Arduino Blog

Outside of playing board games, hourglasses are almost entirely pointless these days. And yet, they’re still incredibly satisfying. Watching the sand fall in a steady and consistent stream is downrigh...

blog.arduino.cc

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 8d

Jeremy Cook's Hackstercaster is a 3D-printed electric guitar with Arduino Nano-controlled LEDs, snap-in light diffusers, and more.

3D-Printed Guitar [Prusacaster ==> Hackstercaster]

The Hackstercaster builds on the legendary Prusacaster 3D-printed guitar's open-source design w/ structural improvements, lights & more! By Jeremy Cook.

www.hackster.io

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 8d

BiotronicMaiker's project uses a TSL25911 light sensor and an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi to measure and visualize Pyrocystis fusiformis lux levels: projecthub.arduino.cc/biotronicmak...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 8d

YouTuber Vaclav Krejci's latest video walks through creating a custom turbo boost gauge using a round Nextion 2.1″ Edge Series HMI touch display and an Arduino UNO Rev3.

Arduino Boost Gauge, 2025 edition

YouTube video by upir

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 9d

Grendel Studios created an Arduino Nano R4-controlled prop from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, complete with the beating heart of Davy Jones.

This chest contains the beating heart of Davy Jones | Arduino Blog

The Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise really likes to make figurative elements and metaphors quite literal, as shown in Dead Man’s Chest when the chest in question is shown to contain the actual...

blog.arduino.cc

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 12d

Researchers at Concordia University and Qatar University have developed an affordable, Arduino UNO WiFi Rev2-based sensor system that's capable of continuously monitoring indoor air quality in real-time.

Low-cost sensor system can check indoor air quality in real time

Humans spend about 80% of their time indoors, but keeping track of the air we breathe usually requires expensive lab-grade equipment. Researchers at Concordia and Qatar University have created a low-c...

techxplore.com

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 13d

Ardui-NO way you want to miss our live stream event! Join us on Tuesday, October 7th at 4PM CEST/7AM PST to find out why. 👀

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 15d

Khaled Makshoush's Everchange is an Arduino-powered interactive tree installation made of 3D-printed branches with 70 small OLED screens displaying animated pixel art leaves, flowers, and symbolic forms: www.reddit.com/r/arduino/co...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 15d

Controlled by an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense Rev2, LIFT is a weather telemetry payload package for model rockets that transmits environmental data from the apex of a flight to a ground station over LoRa.

Gathering weather telemetry with a Nano 33 BLE Sense payload | Arduino Blog

Most model rockets don’t do anything practical — they just go up really fast and then come back down more slowly to land in a field somewhere. Those launches can still be a lot of fun to watch, but th...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 19d

Mark Donners created an Arduino Nano-controlled FM radio that's small enough to fit inside a Smint tin, providing a portable device for emergency situations.

This mint tin radio is a fresh take on emergency communication | Arduino Blog

Most of us get our news via the internet these days, which is only natural given the convenience and availability. But during an emergency, such as weather extreme enough to cause power or network out...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 20d

The UNO R4 WiFi is the first Arduino board to support our brand-new provisioning flow on Arduino Cloud. No USB, no drivers, just power your board and let Bluetooth + the Arduino IoT Cloud app do the rest!

Learn more: blog.arduino.cc/2025/09/18/i...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 21d

Jean Michel Sellier built a low-cost "GPU" with an Arduino Nano Every as its primary controller.

Building a DIY GPU with Arduino | Arduino Blog

A GPU (graphics processing unit) is a specialized computer component for, primarily, rendering graphics. That RTX 5090 that you took out a second mortgage to buy is one example. But GPUs are useful fo...

blog.arduino.cc

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 22d

Electromaker's Robin Mitchell dives into the Blues Wireless for Opta, demonstrating how he used the expansion module to add reliable connectivity to an Arduino Opta-based solar panel monitoring system.

Add Wi-Fi and Cellular to Your PLC - Blues Wireless for Arduino Opta

YouTube video by Electromaker

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 28d

From industrial applications to edge AI, we'll be bringing more tech, more insights, and more demos than ever to The Things Conference 2025.

Meet us in Amsterdam, September 23rd-24th! blog.arduino.cc/2025/09/10/t...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 29d

FG Sensors developed a low-cost traffic monitoring system using its FG-3+ fluxgate magnetometer and an Arduino UNO R4 for Arduino Cloud connectivity: projecthub.arduino.cc/fgsensors/tr...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · 29d

Arduino was born in education – and still thrives where creativity meets technology. See how artists and students built robots inspired by the natural world, using the UNO R4 WiFi and more during Salvador Marino's recent workshop.

Exploring the edge of design and biology with Arduino: inside the “Parasites and Robotics” workshop | Arduino Blog

This summer in Berlin, a group of artists, designers, and curious minds gathered around a creative question: What can parasites teach us about robotics? Led by Salvador Marino, a transdisciplinary art...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · Sep 8

With Halloween just around the corner, Appalachian Forge Works converted an old computer tower case into an Arduino-controlled vending machine that dispenses prizes to trick-or-treaters.

An old PC case becomes a Halloween vending machine | Arduino Blog

Halloween is creeping up on us like some kind of impatient ghoul, which means that half the maker community is currently scrambling to throw together some spooky projects. Those projects become a lot ...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · Sep 8

Rather than helping learn some programming, Niklas Roy's Arduino-powered turtle bots create surprisingly intriguing emergent art.

Turtle bots, Gestalt principles, and emergent art | Arduino Blog

In the worlds of programming and robotics, turtles are entities — either virtual or physical robots— that follow commands to move around a 2D plane. Those are usually very simple commands, such as “mo...

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · Sep 7

Aritrakdebnath2003 built a theremin-style MIDI controller that uses an Arduino and VL53LOX ToF sensors.

Theremin-Style MIDI Controller Does It With Lasers

Strictly speaking, a Theremin uses a pair of antennae that act as capacitors in a specific R/C circuit. Looking at [aritrakdebnath2003]’s MIDI THEREMIN, we see it works differently, but it do…

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Arduino @officialarduino.bsky.social · Sep 5

In his latest element14 Presents project, Clem Mayer shows how to reverse engineer a keychain breathalyzer and repurpose it into an Arduino-compatible sensor module.

Repurpose gadgets as Arduino-ready modules | Arduino Blog

Most people have a general awareness of how economies of scale play into the cost of products; a bespoke, handcrafted vase is going to cost a lot more than a mass-produced vase sold in the millions. B...

blog.arduino.cc

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