When people set out to learn to program, they often get mired in a lot of choices. What programming language should I learn? What will get me hired? What frameworks do I need to know? It goes on and ...

I find that I learn an immense amount of information by using examples — seeing how other people do things and understanding the “why” of their decision-making process. With this in mind, and by ...

The Arduino open-source platform is an excellent way to create your own home and hobby electronics projects from scratch. The logic boards sold under the Arduino brand are receptive to all kinds of ...

Aside from having a cool lil name, Arduinos can do cool lil stuff; and after this workshop at NYC Resistor, you’ll be able to make your Arduino do cool lil stuff, too. Recent Arduino-involved projects ...

When [Doug] moved into his new house, he found an old alarm panel set up — but it had no monitoring service any more. Not wanting to pay a monthly fee to have it setup, he decided to try interfacing ...

[Paul] likes his piano, but he doesn’t know how to play it. The obvious answer: program an Arduino to do it. Some aluminum extrusion and solenoids later, and it was working. Well, perhaps not quite ...

Some vibrators do nothing but buzz. Nicer models may have different vibration patterns, but if you really want to experiment—and try out your programming chops—you can create your own vibration ...