How to make an homemade open source exoskeleton arm with an Arduino board
Hi everyone, Who knows about the future? we also talk about the past, the present but nobody know what will happen in the future and specially for technology. We may have a light idea about it by saying maybe virtual reality "VR", artificial intelligence ''AI'', 3D printing, robotics, drones or even super humans will take over the world. That's an idea but nobody is sure at 100%. Let`s stay for this article on the super humans. We don`t know yet what the super human of tomorr
Free robotics classes at the Washington DC libraries with the children for the summer
Hello everyone, Summer is there and all the kids are at home, vacation or enrolled in different type of camps. You live in Washington DC and you also want to enjoy those STEM classes and learn more about all those DIY, programming and maker stuffs. That's the right time. Come join us twice a week, every week at the DC libraries with your children from 4 to 12 years to learn about Robotics. The classes will be hold with Thymio an opensource robot where they'll be able to lear
How to build a open source DIY camera with a Raspberry pi board: Pijuice
Most of us that love technology or not got a smartphone in our pockets. We like the fact that we can do anything with that powerful tool like go on internet, make some online purchases, record voices, use application, take pictures and videos. The last theme seems interesting and this is what we are about to focus on today. Have you ever think about building your own DIY camera? if yes, you are at the right place. A project call Pijuice was made to build a DIY camera with a
How to build a cheap DIY calculator with an Arduino board
Everyone at school on day or until now had or have a calcultor to make calculation. When you thing today, that a small calculator, smartphone and tablet are more powerful than the computers at the beginning. Computers that needed a big room only for themselve But now as you know everything changed and you can even create your own calculator. This is what a maker called Kale_3d did. He has built a DIY calculator. With this calculator, you can process basics calculation like ad
Happy 4th of July 2017!!!
Happy July 4th to all of you!!! Hope you enjoy all the tutorials and the news for makers, builders and tinkering. More to come soon. ;-) Stay tuned.
How to connect a Raspberry pi and a Arduino via serial communication
You want to connect an Arduino board to a raspberry pi board. There are several different ways to do it. It can be done with I2C communication, SPI or even the GPIO port on the Raspberry pi. But in this tutorial, we'll use a serial comunication. But why do we want to connect a raspberry pi 2 B+ and an Arduino uno Rev 3 together? As maybe some of you already know, both of them got their advantages, misadvantages and each of themopen source and open hardware Arduino strengths:
How to build a DIY homemade GPS tracker with a Raspberry pi for less than $50
You want to build a DIY GPS tracker at home? With that GPS tracker, you'll be able to track something from your computer or smartphone remotely. This is the concept behing the 3 letters IOT. So be be ready to roll up your sleeves, we got job to do. :-) This tutorial will enumerate the steps to build a DIY GPS tracker with a Raspberry pi for less than $50. To start, your need the following parts: A Raspberry pi zero A Lithium polymere battery 6600 mAh A sim card A battery char
Thymyo the open source robot: How to start programming a robot
Thymio the robot was born in Switzerland a few years ago. It has been created to teach how to program, make robotics and education more accessible for kids and adults from 4 to 99 years old in a funny way. Thymio is a opensource openhardware two wheeled robot. The hardware has been developed under an open license which the schematic can be found online. It hasa mutlidirectionnal button on the top allowing to turn it on or off and choose different modes with colors for the ro
