Arduino Team — February 4th, 2026 There are industrial robots, and there is Brian Brocken’s two-ton behemoth: an ABB IRB6400 capable of moving at least 150kg (330 pounds), thanks to partial hydraulic actuation. It is an absurd robot that a factory might use to put small engines in cars. So, it is an understatement to say it was overkill when Brocken turned the robot into a 3D printer. Rigidity is important for 3D printing and...
Arduino Team — December 24th, 2025 Brian got his hands on an old Lorenz 15 teletype machine, which was made in the 1950s. He also managed to snag an appropriate teletype modem. But the modem couldn’t seem to understand recorded teletype messages, so Brian used an Arduino Mega 2560 to “speak” teletype and get the Lorenz 15 printing. You can think of the Lorenz 15 with teletype modem as a bit like a vintage terminal...
Arduino Team — December 17th, 2025 When Vitor started building his humanoid robot a year ago, he didn’t have any specific application in mind. He just knew he wanted a robot and figured he’d find a use for it later. Well, he finally gave that robot a purpose by converting it into a bartender. The original robot looked like the sort of thing you’d see in a gritty sci-fi movie, cobbled together by some kind of...
Arduino Team — October 10th, 2025 Tactile displays — particularly for use as refreshable braille displays — have always been a challenge to design and fabricate, as they require so many moving parts. Every dot needs its own actuated mechanism and there needs to be dozens or hundreds of dots squeezed into a small space. Conventional micro actuators become very expensive and difficult to control in such quantities. But researchers at Monash University developed MagnePins, a...
Arduino Team — October 9th, 2025 We’re used to interacting with electronic technology that is cold, rigid, and overwhelmingly artificial. The device you’re reading this on doesn’t resemble anything found in nature and, consciously or not, you see it as something separate from the natural world. But what if the dividing boundary was less distinct? How would that affect the way you interact with technology? An international team of engineers and scientists created a sensor...
Arduino Team — August 20th, 2025 The population of the world is currently in an uproar as everyone panics about AI stealing jobs. But nobody seems to be concerned about the possibility of plants stealing video games. Nobody, that is, except a team of researchers from KAIST and the Royal College of Art, who decided to just go ahead and make that happen by building this system, called Plant.play(), that lets a houseplant care for...
Arduino Team — August 7th, 2025 Even if we ignore intelligence, humans are able to speak when other animals — even other great apes — can’t, because of our specialized and complex vocal anatomy. Similarly, ASL (American Sign Language) wouldn’t be possible without our incredible hand and finger dexterity. Like any other complex physiological system, that is difficult to recreate artificially. But Kelvin Gonzalez was able to pull it off and build his Vulcan V3 robotic...
Arduino Team — July 28th, 2025 Modern virtual reality headsets provide really great visuals and audio, but many experiences can’t be conveyed through those alone. There have been many attempts to expand on that to create more immersive experiences — we’ve even seen hardware to provide scent and thermal feedback. However, we’ve yet to see anything that can replicate eating food in the virtual environment. VirCHEW Reality is a novel new project that aims to...
Arduino Team — June 25th, 2025 Yes, the title of this article sounds pretty crazy. But not only is it entirely possible through the lens of physics, but it is also practical to achieve in the real world using affordable parts. Jon Bumstead pulled it off with an Arduino, a photoresistor, and an inexpensive portable projector. Today’s digital camera sensors are the result of a fairly linear progression from a camera obscura up through film...
Arduino Team — June 23rd, 2025 One reason that fans prefer mechanical keyboards over membrane alternatives is that mechanical key switches provide a very noticeable tactile sensation at the moment a key press registers. Whether consciously or not, users notice that and stop pressing the key all the way through the maximum travel — reducing strain and RSI potential. Developed by researchers at KAIST’s HCI Tech Lab, the UltraBoard is a novel wearable that provides...
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