Make shows off how to build your own version of that device that's a little smarter and more useful. Make's guide uses an Arduino so you can set specific sound pattern for each outlet in your house.

You likely don't realize how important it is to use the right wire for your speakers to sound their best.

You use wires to connect the Arduino to the breadboard and create the circuits that make everything communicate. This is why you see movies where they need to cut a wire to stop a bomb from exploding.

Open Sound Control (OSC) is a communications protocol that can be seen as a modern alternative to MIDI. It’s specifically designed to play nicely with network communication systems. The probl… ...