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How to create custom shortcut keys with Arduino
You're still pressing buttons, but like, not as many.
DIY Solution to Annoying TV Celebs Mutes Your TV Whenever Charlie Sheen Is Mentioned
It’s become a refrain in this age of 24-hour news stations, media-starved talking heads, and hundreds of channels of stuff...
Marshall’s Plans: Getting Started With Microcontroller Projects
If you’re looking to gin up a project that can interface with the world–say, a device that tells the weather...
Hacking the 21st-Century Auto
A crowdsourced, street-legal rally racer; Neil Young's electric Lincoln Continental; tinkering with an Audi R8's computer for crazy horsepower boosts--and much more
What Comes After Arduino?
Arduino is a great microncontroller package for entry-level electronics tinkerers, but once you've got your sea legs, cheaper DIY microcontrollers used to build anything from grow-lights to irrigation systems are what you might reach for next
Making Alcohol Making Easy
A collection of our favorite automated brewing and winemaking setups
How To Make Ferrofluid
Ferrofluids are made up of tiny magnetic fragments of iron suspended in oil (often kerosene) with a surfactant to prevent...
A One-Button Game System
Simplify your gaming experience with a homemade mini console
The Littlest Arduino
Build a matchstick-sized Freeduino kit and add a 5V battery for microcontroller power in a tight space