[Boris Landoni] put together a guide to using an inexpensive 3-axis accelerometer with Arduino. The chip that he chose for the exercise is an MMA7455L made by Freescale. It’s got a lot of nice ...

The device we are building, as mentioned before, is a vibration detector. For this reason, it should be placed indoors on the ground floor. The location in a building, especially on the upper floors, ...

Reasonably priced add-on sensor modules are now widely available, and you can rig up your own fascinating hobby projects using these pre-assembled modules by linking them to suitable microcontrollers.

モジュールをマグネットでパチパチくっつけていくことで電子回路を組み立てられる「littleBits(リトルビッツ)」に、マイコンボード「Arduino」モジュールが登場。ブレッドボードやはんだ付けや面倒な配線などが一切不要で電子回路を組み立てて、Arduino ...

A question: if you’re controlling the classic video game Street Fighter with gestures, aren’t you just, you know, street fighting? That’s a question [Charlie Gerard] is going to have to tackle should ...