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Project Ideas

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List your project ideas. This can be helpful for both the novice and the experienced.

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Easy

  • Arduino Tutorials
    • These tutorials will bring you up to speed in the arduino syntax/API, and you will almost certainly get some project ideas. If you do, remember to add them here.
  • Learn how to build a Talking Clock.
  • Make an automatic night light which switches on when its dark
  • Intrusion alarm
  • Thermostat
  • Line Follower Robot
  • Make a capacitive switch using capsense library which controls lights or some other devices.
  • RBS lights and switches: My rolling ball sculpture has switches on the track and my Arduino triggers lighting events from them.
  • Intelligent bug zapper: show how many bugs were zapped and average/cumulative zap time.
  • Photovore: a robot that goes to the brightest source of light.
  • Automatic exhaust fan in the toilet that turns on and off with a methane sensor and relay
  • Poo and Pee detector, with a Diaper Shield, for use on newborn newbies.
    • [luisgus] - I've tried using the MQ-2 Gas Sensor, which senses propane, butane and metane, but it works well only with farts, really. Since it can't touch anything liquid, it was a NO GO. I've tried with a cooler to try to pull the gases from a used diaper, and did not work too.
      • [orcinus] - I think you'd need an H2S or mercaptane sensor for poo.
  • Red Desk Lamp dimmer
    • 12V DC, Red LED strip light, for Astronomy enthusiasts. Aim is so that light does not adversely affect you night vision [It is an astronomy thing]
  • A binary clock

Intermediate

  • Build a Talking Clock with an LED display, temperature sensor and light sensor. Contains a good video introduction to Arduino and a tutorial with a components list.
  • Write a library
  • Blinkenlight Experiments Implement lots of different experiments with just 20 LEDs. Lots of ideas for just a bunch of LEDs. Difficulty ranges from novice to advanced. Figure out more applications for this setup.
  • Stopwatch
  • Email notifier
  • Arduino Ipod like-SMARTGPU
  • Tic Tac Toe
  • Make a speedometer for your vehicle using a hall effect sensor and a magnet
  • LED Matrix Control
  • MIDI Controller
  • Drawing Bot
  • Maze Solver Robot
  • Anti-tailgator: use distance and speed sensors to light up a sign in the back window of a car.
  • Auto-internals: read OBDII data from your car and display the state of the sensors, calculate MPG (see opengauge mpguino, OBDuinoInterface too)
  • Ultimate computer case fan controller: you got 6 analog inputs and 6 PWM outputs. That's a lot of fan control!
  • Fountain and/or lights that respond "happy to see you" via proximity and/or motion sensors.
  • Ham radio Morse code keyer/propagation beacon.
  • A small ball of individually addressable LEDs.
  • Fail Safe lock using keypad, LCD, electric deadbolt with optional proximity sensor.
  • Colour following robots: Two or more robots that follow lines of a certain colour, so one follows blue the other follows Red etc.
  • kitchen timer:use in kitchen
  • Home Wireless Internet Thermostat:Controllable from anywhere from an IPhone via 802.11 connectivity.
  • Radon Gas Detector: Interface Safety Siren Radon detector to Arduino Ethernet and post data to Pachube
  • web server that can turn on and off outputs via a web form - see haavardgj's example here(OUTDATED - does not compile in 22 without editing)
  • Seismograph- Hang a pendulum. Put an LED on the bottom. Put a small "webcam" under that, looking up. (Choosing the right "camera" critical to success) Monitor and record which pixel in image is brightest. Hardest: Achieving high enough data capture rate. This was also raised in a forum post
  • Arduino + vineyard = Vinduino. Soil moisture measurement, not only for vineyards ;-)

http://vanderleevineyard.com/1/category/vinduino/1.html

Advanced

  • http://amigojapan.github.com/Arduino-Retro-Computer-TV/ Arduino Retro Computer TV- How to build a computer using 2 Arduinos, an SD card reader, a TV, and a PS2keyboard. This computer can execute BASIC programs. This is like a C64 or Sinclair.

  • http://amigojapan.github.com/Arduino-Retro-Computer-with-SD-card-and-LCD-display-and-Keyboard-input-with-BASIC-interpreter/ Arduino Retro Computer LCD- How to build a computer using an Arduino, an SD card reader, an LCD screen and a PS2keyboard. This computer can execute BASIC programs. This is like a TSR-80 and is portable.

  • Modify open source projects done with other micro-controllers like PIC, AVR, Basic stamp, PICAXE etc. to work with Arduino
  • Make an IVRS phone system using a DTMF decoder, WAV or MP3 shield and a phone or a GSM shield
  • Arduino theremin using ultrasonic sensor or capacitive plates
  • Monome
  • Synthesizer
  • Motion Tracking Turret
  • Arduino Windows mini tablet-SMARTGPU
  • Arduino Project Autopilot and Navigation waypoint*Autopilot and navigation waypoint
  • Learning Maze Solver Robot
  • Energy efficiency/reporting: put current sensors on each circuit breaker in the AC panel and report usage/stats.
  • Whole house climate control: Control HVAC and ceiling fans, watch for diffs between upstairs/downstairs, ceiling/floor and outside temps.
  • whole house (mega) light and heat control or living room status with possibility to turn on the heat over the web(uno/older)
  • UPS/power control system: Add power control and usage reporting to a normal UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
  • Voice recognition library - [[http://arjo129.github.com/uSpeech/|µSpeech library with docs]
  • Use Arduino to collect and process position/weather/telemetry data and then output data strings serially into an amateur radio transmitter using APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System).
  • Ham radio repeater controller with DTMF control.
  • Arduino communication: Create robots with IR blasters and receivers that can "talk" to each other and tell one's "voice" from another's
  • sudo make me a sandwich: A robot that makes a simple sandwich when "sudo make me a sandwich" is received over serial
  • Bluetooth remote controlled Arduino with WLAN web cam so you can create an awesome remote controlled car
  • Video Library: A library for making images / pixels appear on a TV screen.
  • Graphical calculator that graphs serial inputs on a graphical LCD.
  • Hands-free mobile display to message other drivers, i.e., "Back Off!".
  • Wifi controlled RC-Car
  • Chromatic musical instrument tuner
  • Cycling computer
  • LED Clock
  • Remote controlled desktop missile launcher
  • Wii Nunchuk Computer Mouse using Arduino and AutoIt
  • Build a radio controlled copter http://AeroQuad.com
  • Create and build an MP3 jukebox, that is easy to see, use and operate (technologically impaired elderly parents). Use an SD card array to load music permanently. Provide visual feedback, song titles and audio driven menus. http://arduino-guay.blogspot.com.es/2012/10/reproductor-mp3-con-arduino-i.html
  • Build an NTP synchronized sidereal clock http://www.longavista.com.br/sideral.htm
  • Arduino-based automatic control system for a tiny Ni/H fusion reactor
  • Brewmigo - An All Grain Home Brewery using an Arduino Uno
  • Automate your Chicken Coop http://arduino-coop.blogspot.com/
  • Automatic trash can moving using integration between UNO and Kinect for Windows http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NqDTE6dHpJw
  • Universal Remote for media center
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