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Innovation in healthcare is happening at a rapid clip. Between funding sources like incubator Rock Health and open APIs from companies like Nike, there has never been a better time to serve hypochondriacs. However, it's still difficult for engineers to collect biometric data like blood pressure, galvanic skin response and respiration rates.

There's a new kid on the Arduino block, and it's called the Arduino Robot. Launched yesterday at Maker Faire Bay Area, it's the company's first product

Thermal imaging can be used to document heat/AC leaks from insulation gaps on a building's facade, reveal warmer ground water inflows (either fresh or chemical-laden) or "thermal pollution" from industrial processes entering ocean-temperature waterbodies, as well as identify areas on the human body experiencing infection or stress (includes epidemiological applications).

Screens speak of color in terms of 3 channels: Red, Green and Blue. Humans tend to think of colors in 3 channels too, but the channels that seem more natural usually are Hue, Saturation and Brightness. Here is an arduino color library so you too can specify colors by their hue! We use this code in our RGB Rainbow Sun and HSB RGB Sketcher. If you need help learning how to install libraries in arduino check out this thorough Adafruit tutorial. We use this library to draw colors on LCD screens, for example see the HSB RGB Sketcher Tutorial and onto RGB LEDs in the Sun Kit.

I designed and built this robotic hand and the controller for less than $200.  The fingers and thumb are controlled by servo motors.  The first video shows the hand in action.  The second video shows how to make the hand.  I will have a tutorial on how to make the controller soon...

The AAR (Arduino-Compatible) Robot is a small autonomous mobile robot which is perfect for those new to the robotics world and also for experienced Arduino fans. Designed in the Arduino open-source prototyping platform, the AAR is easy to program and run. With many expansion kits available (ARX-SNK Snake Vision shown), your creativity is the only limit to where your AAR Robot will go.

In the past two years, i have released two version of GPS logger, with a lot of default like, poor autonomy, need to take off the sdcard to get the log, no function to upgrade the code easily, by the way, i have redesigned a new version with a lot of news feature, see bellow.

- Better autonomy.
- Be lightweight and portable.
- Be rechargeable easily.
- Got log directly from USB.
- Upgrade code via IDE Arduino through USB.
- Future options implemented for improvement.
- Many more …

Finally!  It's been about 3 months since my last arduino tutorial - I've been keeping busy as usual.  I've been working on this one for some time.  I got the parts months ago, made an outline a few...

The miniSWARM is a versatile USB stick-sized wireless Arduino development board. It’s as powerful as the Arduino Mega and has the wireless capabilities of an XBee radio, but we’ve made it a fraction of the cost of an Arduino + radio shield - cheap enough to leave in any project.

We’re happy to announce the release of a new version of the Arduino software, version 1.0.5. Barring any unexpected bugfixes, this is the final planned release of the 1.0 series of the IDE. Future releases will be from the 1.5 branch that has been in beta since last summer.

Massimo Banzi announced it some minutes ago during his annual “The state of Arduino” presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area:  Arduino Yún  is the first of a revolutionary family of wifi products combining Arduino with Linux.

Yún means “cloud” in chinese language,  as the purpose of this board to make it simple to connect to complex web services directly from Arduino.

The Arduino Robot is the first official Arduino on wheels. The robot has two processors, one on each of its two boards. The Motor Board controls the motors, and the Control Board reads sensors and decides how to operate. Each of the boards is a full Arduino board programmable using the Arduino IDE.

In this post I will be talking about how to get an Arduino and an Android tablet talking to each other using Bluetooth We will be using an Arduino Uno ($29.95) with a Silver Bluetooth Mate ($40.95)...

Arduino gives a second life to a R2D2 robot toy: full explanation including wiring and source code. (in french)

Learn how to use MC14489 LED display driver ICs with Arduino in chapter fifty-one of a series originally titled “Getting Started/Moving Forward with Arduino!” by John Boxall – A tutorial on the Ard...

WiFiDuino is a new Arduino board that has a WiFi module. The circuit is based on the famous open source “Arduino Micro” from Arduino and Adafruit. To add WiFi connection, the new module “CC3000” from TI is used.

As I mentioned earlier this week, I recently “lost” an ATmega168 due to flashing the configuration fuses to disable the RESET pin, without realizing that this makes the device impossible to reflash with SPI. This is particularly frustrating because the device is still 100% functional, just completely deaf to ordinary serial programmers. The only way to recover the device is using what Atmel calls “High Voltage Parallel Programming Mode” which very few programmers support, most importantly, not the USBtinyISP I otherwise love.

How I used an Arduino mega to make my own ascom compliant telescope control system with DC servo motors

There are plenty of Arduino-based robots in the world, but actually building one is a bit tough if you're not familiar with Arduino programming. But a company called ArcBotics has created an Arduino-based robot called "Sparki" that can be used—and programmed—by anyone. You don't have to assemble it yourself; the little plastic robot will be ready to go out of the box with an included remote control. To let users create additional functionality, ArcBotics is preparing programming samples and tutorials for controlling the robot's sensors and actuators.

I recently completed an RFID project using an Arduino and the Parallax RFID Serial Card Reader - here are the hardware and software notes on making it...

It's a follow up to the Arno board for those that prefer to work with a shield.  When you've completed all the projects that are in the included book, you can pop the shield off your Arduino compatible board and start building your project.  

It's also a great way to test out your project ideas without setting up a breadboard.  Sometimes you just need an LED or two and a button to interact with your sketch. Plug in the Arno Shield and you're ready to go.

The Arno Shield can be used for all the same sketches that are included in "Learn Arduino with the Arno"