esp32 & esp8266
Turn Escape Room Puzzles into Home Assistant Devices with ESP32
Two open source Arduino libraries turn escape room puzzles into Home Assistant devices over MQTT. Here's the parts list and the I2C wiring to…
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CantaStorie: Offline AI Storytelling Toy on Arduino UNO Q
CantaStorie runs YOLOX-Nano and Gemma 1B on an Arduino UNO Q to spot an object and narrate a custom story, with zero cloud and…
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AVR Laptop: 24 FPS Video and Sound on an 8-Bit ATmega2560
An ATmega2560 running FreeRTOS plays 24 fps video with sound on a 128x64 LCD. See how one maker squeezed a laptop out of an…
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Webcam Depth Camera: 20 FPS AI Depth Sensing on Arduino VENTUNO Q
A cheap USB webcam and Depth Anything V2 on the Arduino VENTUNO Q NPU make a 20 FPS depth sensor with heatmap, slicer, flood,…
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Build an 8-Bit Arduino Laptop with FreeRTOS and 8 KB of RAM
An ATmega2560 with just 8 KB of RAM runs FreeRTOS, video at 24 fps, and a UI. See the parts, the memory tricks, and…
arduino
XGO Duck: Build an Open-Source Robot Duck with Arduino UNO Q
Luwu Dynamics built XGO Duck, an open-source, 15-servo robot duck on Arduino UNO Q with a custom IMU-equipped PCB, ready to build before Microduck…
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Arduino UNO Q Smart Doorbell Runs Its Vision Model On-Device
Banzi and Richetta live-build a doorbell whose face recognition never leaves the board. Here is the UNO Q hardware behind it and what you…
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Arduino VENTUNO Q Runs a Vision Model on a Robot Arm
A $299 Arduino VENTUNO Q runs a vision-language-action model on-board, teaching an SO-101 robot arm to pick and place from just 50 demonstrations.
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Arduino’s Zephyr RTOS Core Hits 1.0.0: What Changes for Makers
Arm killed MbedOS, so Arduino rebuilt on Zephyr. The 1.0.0 core adds Nicla Vision camera support, Zephyr 4.4.1, and VENTUNO Q silicon.
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This Arduino Watches a Treadmill With a Webcam to Clock Speed
A rented treadmill, a USB webcam, and an Arduino VENTUNO Q: an on-board neural net reads belt speed and broadcasts it over Bluetooth as…
diy projects
An ATmega Robot Arm That Serves Badminton Shuttlecocks
A Denso VS050 arm, a pneumatic grabber and two silicone-rimmed discs turn a solo badminton drill into a robotics build you can scale down.
arduino
An Arduino Nano ESP32 Robot Flips All 666 Pixels of This Display
Most flip-disc displays need one solenoid per pixel. This 666-tile panel uses a single Arduino Nano ESP32 gantry robot that prods each tile instead.