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These are the first projects I made with my Arduino

One of the first projects that most people do on an Arduino is to light up or flash an LED. It seems ultra-simple because it ...
Hackaday

7x7x7 LED Cube Driven By Arduino Mega

Sure, the physical build itself looks great, but it’s what [Michael] did with the firmware that impresses us the most. He’s using an Arduino Mega to drive the 7x7x7 cube and manages to squeeze out ...
Hackaday

The Best Of Both Worlds: Arduino + 555 Should Confuse Commenters

That’s stupid! Why use a bunch of parts when you can use an Arduino? However, we rarely see those two comments on the same post. Until now. [ZHut] managed to bring these two worlds together by ...
Lifehacker

Build an Arduino-Based Hotel Room Master Key Housed in a Dry Erase Marker

A few months back at the Black Hat Security conference Cody Brocious demonstrated how you can easiy open an Onity hotel room lock, the standard system used in many hotel chains, with an Arduino but it ...
EDN

Pixel LED and Controller – Revised Primer

I’ve seen a lot of Pixel LED projects and know every maker does things differently. I wanted to show you what I am doing for my Pixel LEDs. This post will give you an Arduino Pixel LED Controller ...
University of Wyoming

LED Matrix

Most of us have an 8x8 LED matrix from one of our Arduino kits. What can we do with them? This module investigates how to use these interesting devices. Along the way, we describe a fun electronics ...