Glimmer the Mermaid is an incredible project by Erin St. Blaine: it uses about 180 Adafruit Neopixels, an Arduino Micro to control them and silicone. To change animations and brightness she added a bluetooth module to connect it to an Android tablet:
If you want to discover the details of the project or watch it in a live show, check her website!
Following in the footsteps of the original Paperduino—and the Paperduino Leonardo—comes the Paperduino Tiny. 
NooTrix submitted us a 4-part tutorial to build a Lego Mindstorm Elevator controlled by an Arduino Uno:
The elevator is built using components from an old Lego Mindstorms RCX 1.5. For the control part, we use an Arduino Uno board instead of the obsolete Lego RCX brick. The motor and sensors are from Lego. The connection to motor is done using a set of transistors organized in a H-Bridge.
The goal of the project is to show how to control Lego parts (motor, sensors, …) using an Arduino:
the elevator carries a smartphone and keep it level which is useful for taking snapshots of documents instead of scanning them. Full description, a step by step tutorial, as well as pictures, videos are available online.
All circuit schematics and source code are released under a free open source license (creative commons).
Tonight at at 9pm ET / 6pm PT, we’re wrapping up Getting Started with Intel Galileo Maker Sessions with a “show-and-tell” Hangout On Air.
This is part two of a three part Series to explain how I control my BotTwo semi-Autonomous Robot from a webpage on the Internet.
This is part two of a three part Series to explain how I control my BotTwo semi-Autonomous Robot from a webpage on the Internet.
