If you’ve ever wondered how to use the potentiometer on the MakerShield (available in the Maker Shed) to control a servo with an Arduino, wonder no more. Now there is a simple tutorial to show you how on Make: Projects!

Servos are very useful things; they provide precise movement in 180 degrees of motion. This guide will show you how to hook a servo up to your Arduino and use the potentiometer on the MakerShield to control it.

All the parts you need are available in the Ultimate Microcontroller Pack. There’s just something fascinating about seeing a servo rotate to a position dictated by your fingertips!

Get a little more adventurous and play with fire. Feel like a true rockstar complete with guitar (hero) and flames!

Here are the complete instructions to build one for yourself.

Via[HacknMod]

A yet another reason to have arduino in your basic-electronic toolkit. You can build your own battery capacity measuring device. Now compare all the brands of the so claimed ‘long lasting batteries’. Know what you are buying!

Follow the instructions to build from here. and get building!

Via: [Instructables]

This is an interesting project for an extreme geek and an amateur music maker. All you have to do, is to follow the tutorial here, and get a complete parts list.

Via[Jameco]

Ever fancied making your own musical instrument? Or better, cooking your own musical instrument? Two students in their final year at Les Ateliers French National Institute for Design created this amazing musical project using gelatin, called – Noisy Jelly. When the jelly is stroked, it produces sounds of different patterns.

Variations of shapes and salt concentration, plus the strength of finger contact, determine the audio signals that result. Once created, the jellies are placed on top of the game board, which is a capacitive sensor connected to an arduino that translates the interaction into sound.

The highlight of this piece of art is the visualization of electric signals in the form of theremin-like noises.

Via[Popsci]

Don't want to learn C (or for that reason the Arduino IDE)?

Could you make a small flowchart/block diagram of the program you want? Then (want) to change it into a running script?

ArduBlocks will do that for you! Translate your flowchart/block into a Arduino program and then show it in the Arduino IDE! Not only is this a great way to "model and test" it could also make a great way to learn to program scripts (then you know C!!!)

What type blocks does it have? Almost any you can imagine. Makes a robot control program fairly easy to write.

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Just in time for today’s celebration of Foursquare Day, Christopher McKirgan created The Foursquare Clock, a servo-driven clock that uses the Foursquare API to let his roommates know where he is and how long ago he checked in there. He created a clock face that includes icons for his most visited locations and an indicator for for how many hours ago he checked in. At the core of the project is an Ethernet-connected Arduino, which controls the servos inside an old fashioned wooden clock. Thanks for sharing Christopher, and Happy Foursquare Day! [via Twitter]

Right, back again with an update on my idea for a kick-ass fanctroller.

So far, I've been coding away and right now, I'm up to the point where the actual fan control is implemented (I've already written the LCD-commands, several input functions, a setup and a menu.) But I'm having some problems.

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Hello,

Greetings from Hong Kong.

This is my first Arduino project. I have worked with the handyboard and NXT few years ago. The Arduino seems popular and easy to get into for people from non-electronic background like me, so I decided to build something simple to get myself familiarize with the Arduino board and interfaces. For the look I decided to make it the Minecraft Creeper, for the non-gamers, it's a iconic mob that appears in the 8-bit inspired 3D game Minecraft. If you havent try it before, grab a copy now! 

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