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Smart Plant: Low Power Plant Monitoring
I’m not amazing at looking after plants. They need to be a pretty rugged species to survive my sporadic and forgetful approach to plant care! Perhaps this Smart Plant monitoring system could improve...
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Deej: Physical Volume Control Kit
We’ve all run into it at some point: you’re on a videoconference or phone call, and suddenly you click the wrong thing or hit the wrong button and music starts playing or a YouTube video blares out....
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Breadboard PCB: Make Your Prototypes Permanent!
Some projects find their way into a precarious, delicate position; perhaps they aren’t worthy of a complete PCB design and manufacture but linger on a breadboard for a long time as they are just too...
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The Euchre Cube
Do you play euchre? My family has always played it whenever we get together for holidays. It’s always a riot, with my uncle trying to sneakily deal multiple times in a row (according to him, the rule...
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Hakko Thermal Insert Heat Tips
One of the most useful tools I ever made was a converted Dremel workstation to hold a cheap soldering iron to be used to heat and press into place thermal inserts into 3D printed parts. It’s a handy...
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The GlowDuino Uno: A Better Arduino?
This fresh take on the traditional Arduino layout is the GlowDuino Uno. Featuring LEDs on almost every I/O pin and a bevy of other tweaks and additions brings a breath of fresh air to a board that has...
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Arduino and nRF Fused!
The FuseRFv2 from Woodoonics brings the flexibility and power of the ATmega328 and the associated Arduino bootloader with the wireless functionality of the nRF24L01+! This makes developing simple RF...
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Pico Breakout With Screw Terminals
It only seems like yesterday that the Raspberry Pi Pico was the new kid on the block and therefore any type of accessory was worthy of mention. These days our cup runs over with all manner of add-ons...
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GLAMOS Walker: LoRaWan testing on the go
The Glamos Walker is a portable LoRaWan device with heaps of capabilities. It’s a veritable Swiss Army knife for those involved in deploying sensors and devices to LoRaWan networks, or indeed those...
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Stop Checking Your Phone: The Subtle Timer
I know I’m not the only one out there who constantly checks their phone. Whenever there’s a spare moment, the phone gets instantly unlocked and notifications checked. This becomes such an unconscious...
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Hack Your Ikea Vindriktning!
If you own an Ikea Vindriktning (a very inexpensive PM2.5 air quality monitor), this board allows you to take over its functionality and add wireless capability! After you’ve disassembled your...
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2023 Open Hardware Summit: Tickets Available!
It’s that time of year again! The 2023 Open Hardware Summit by the Open Source Hardware Association is just around the corner. This year, the Summit will be held both in-person in New York City, as...
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Small Budget Friendly Hot Plate
Surface mount soldering with a hot plate can be an absolute joy; the application of some solder paste, the positioning of components and the satisfying seconds where everything melts and flows and...
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Stylish Digital Pocket Watch
If you love the look of traditional pocket watches, but still want the flexibility and hackability of digital displays, then this digital pocket watch might be the perfect fit! It features a round...
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Arduino Nano Every Relay Shield
This pleasingly purple PCB is great for those looking to control mains voltage systems drawing up to 10 amps. On board are 2 relays that can be brought under the control of an Arduino Nano, or its...
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9 Valve Sprinkler Control via ESPHome
As I sit here in the UK more rain has fallen out of the sky in the last two hours than I imagine some US states and other parts of the world see in a few months, so it’s hard to imagine needing this...
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Easy Ambiance Lighting
Getting strips of RGB LEDs is only half the battle toward having cool lighting. You also need a controller that is configurable and can comfortably drive the LEDs. The Ambiance controller combines...
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Gundam Solder Practice Badge
Many LED badge kits nowadays have SMD parts, or perhaps an onboard microcontroller animating all kinds of RGB goodness. This excellent Gundam-themed badge eschews all this by using 4 fading and...
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Program With the Piezo Piano!
We see all sorts of different Arduino clone boards, but now and then a totally different idea shows up on Tindie. This piano-shaped Arduino clone has 8 tactile buttons and 8 piezo beepers. It uses the...
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ESP32 SI4735 All-Band Radio
We love seeing more amateur radio products on Tindie! As an amateur radio operator, projects like this all-band radio with a beautiful display jumped out at me. It’s created by a ham in Malta, who...
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