My version of the BakerTweet

In case you haven't heard about the awesomeness, the BakerTweet (www.bakertweet.com) is an Arduino based twitter client. It's a little box that sits on the wall of a bakery, and whenever something tasty comes out of the oven, the baker can select the product and let the world know via Twitter that there's a fresh batch of croissants ready.I thought this was a great idea! And I've been wanting an excuse to hook my Arduino up to...

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Cheap Joystick and Accelerometer for Arduino from Wii Nunchuck

For ages now I've been wanting to play with an accelerometer but didn't really fancy paying £20-25 for the privilege. I'd also seen a lot of posts about people using the joystick from a Wii Nunchuck to control robots, servos, cameras, etc, which I didn't have a lot of interest in. Then I remembered that the Nunchuck controller actually has...

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Arduino + Laser Pointer + Servos = Homemade Laser Cannon

After discovering how ridiculously easy it was to control a servo motor from the Arduino, I wondered what 2 servos and a laser pointer could do...Long story short, I now have a computer controlled laser cannon muhahha!The whole thing is controlled via serial commands, which let me:Control pitch (Y) and yaw (X)Turn the laser on and offMake...

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Arduino Based Data Logger

Well I thought it was about time I actually finished a project I started (enough to boast about online anyway). I recently bought myself an Arduino and just about every attachment under the sun, and have really been stumped for interesting projects to do with it.I decided to build myself a makeshift data logger to sample the temperature and...

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