Arduino’s Plug and Make Kit lets your hacking imagination run wild, sans solder Daisy-chain tiny boards into weather stations, game controllers, and way more.

Arduino is a company that’s best known for making small, programmable microcontroller boards. But the new Arduino Pro Portenta X8 is a full-fledged, Linux-friendly computer with a compact design.

An Arduino Pro Mini is more than up to the task, and a custom PCB makes for a fairly neat installation.

The full orchestra consists of 11 Arduino Nanos, 6 Arduino Unos, 1 Arduino Pro Mini, 1 Adafruit Feather 32u4, and finally, a Raspberry Pi. Different synths handle different parts of the performance.

Arduino digital tape measure “The brains of the DMW is an common Arduino Pro-Mini, which monitors the buttons, rotary sensor, and battery, while recording and displaying measurements on the DMW ...