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Remote Flower Watering

Forget Me Not- Remote Flower Watering Using Arduino

Hi everyone, Lucy Matchett, Nicole Yi Messier, and Joselyn McDonald (Snax_and_Macs) made a remote flower-watering device so you can water your loved ones’ plants when you water your own. We used Arduinos, a photoresistor, a servo, Arduino and Processing sketches, Spacebrew, and a little elbow grease to put it all together. We’ve posted the instructions, …

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Sentry Gun

Building a Sentry Gun with Laser Trip Wire System and Arduino

*NOTE* THIS PROJECT IS DONE BY A GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC. Concept: Trigger gun when laser is blocked by intruding object. Note: Tilting is included for expandability but not used in this project. Skill Level: Basic soldering and basic metal works Things You Need: Toy Gun(Any will do, preferably a semi-auto) Continuous Rotation …

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Nama Instrument 1.0 (1)

Construct Nama Instrument 1.0 Using Arduino

A motion sensing soft-circuit interface. The following instructable will guide you through the construction of your own personalized Nama Instrument. I’d love to hear some feedback. Hope you like it and it serves you somehow! : ) Access http://www.viraseres.com/nama to download the project’s open source files and access the full description of the project. INTRODUCTION: Nama Instrument …

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Sous Vide cooker Arduino

Cheap and effective Sous Vide cooker (Arduino powered)

Sous-vide cooking is a great new way of cooking food. I will not explain why and how it works here… for great recipes and explanations, you can check out those guys : http://modernistcuisine.com/2013/01/why-cook-sous-… Unfortunately, a good (and I mean precise to the half °C) sous-vide machine is very very expensive (500, 1000$ or more). If …

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