Hilary Hayes, an industrial design student at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) in Toronto, Canada, has come up with a smart scarf that boasts a dynamic light pattern which depends on your breathing. A LilyPad temperature sensor will play nice with the LilyPad Arduino, while potential supply modules ensure that the scarf is well juiced to perform as intended. The temperature sensor itself is located near the mouth, allowing it to pick up the temperature variations which is soon after translated by the LilyPad to various points instead of the standard degrees measurement, making that scarf wearable even when it is not during chilly winter months. All the LEDs in the scarf will fade in and out in sync with your breathing, making you look way cooler than you already are. We do wonder how faraway the batteries will last though.

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Haroon Baig’s Twitwee Clock has been updated to keep up with the times, where it will deploy the cuckoo and show the tweet on a tiny LCD display whenever there is an incoming tweet – we assume that is made possible thanks to a combination of an Arduino and Chumby innards to get its game going.

The Twitwee Clock is a modified Cuckoo Clock that wirelessly connects to the Web and constantly checks for new status updates or search results from the Twitter API. New Tweets are displayed on the built-in display in near-realtime accompanied by the charming yet obtrusive shout of a mechanical cuckoo poping out of the clock. The clock could monitor any twitter stream or search, so it could for example inform the user about new tweets in his personal timeline. In exhibition context however it is configured to react on self-referenced tweets. whether “TwitweeClock” is mentioned in any tweet, the tweet is displayed on the built in screen and the cuckoo mechanism is triggered.

Want to get the cuckoo out of its nest? Just send any tweet with TwitweeClock in the report and you’re good to go.

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Something as staple as a TI-84 graphing calculator has now gotten a touchscreen display, thanks to the efforts of Owen. To achieve that, he had to write some z80 assembly cipher in order to use the linkport as a UART. that proof-of-concept video shows off where he draws on the screen, and that input is thereupon interpreted by the Arduino with commands sent through the UART, resulting in the calculator program drawing on the screen itself. Good job, but don’t expect these to hit the market by themselves anytime soon since it is probably an one-off occurence.

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Our memory does fail us sometimes, and even more so as we get on in age. The Meet&Playback glove could help avoid such a situation since it will record the moment you meet a friend and shake hands or give a high five to reminisce about the good old days. All the meeting and action will be stored as a musical note, where you can next build up as many meetings as possible with others via handshakes only to play back the day’s “meetings” in a random melody format. that fingerless glove comes with two knitted capacitive sensors made from conductive yarn and one piezo sensor, where the sensors are hooked up to an Arduino which will handle musical memory conversion.

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XenonJon received a truckload of attention for his skateboard/Segway-style balancing platform which he created, making quite a splash at the Makerfaire in Newcastle. Since us humans are all about improving ourselves always, he has made up his mind to build a cheapest version possible without it being complicated at the same duration. While the build is documented very well, you will still need to mail him personally for the Arduino cipher.

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When Nintendo first released their nunchuk controller, we’re pretty certain that they never realized the potential of hacking that device. Fast forward a couple of years, and here we are with a model train that can be controlled through the Wii nunchuk itself – of course, that project gets some help from an Arduino microcontroller, an Adafruit motor shield and the Wii nunchuk itself. Wave your way through your collection of tracks at home, but chances are you will toss the train set away after a while and settle for a real Wii game instead.

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ProjectExciteBike is a mod that turns your exercise bike into a controller for the Xbox 360. that model will receive pedal input from the cranks of the exercise bike, where a ring of five hall effect sensors will be able to detect a passing magnet that is attached to the crank. Such sensor info is thereupon collected and processed by an Arduino which in turn is hooked up to a wireless Xbox 360 controller for output. While you won’t see professional gamers adopt such a setup anytime soon, who says you can’t lose weight while playing the Xbox 360 when compared to the Nintendo Wii?

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Jared has some leftover lasers from a previous project, and deciding to follow the mantra “waste not, want not”, he decided to put them to good use by conjuring that magical laser harp. that fine musical instrument replaces traditional strings on a harp with laser diodes that shine at Cadmium Sulfide photo resistors. Whenever the beam of light is broken, an Arduino will detect the sudden change thanks to the CdS cell, playing a sound via the connected Altec Lansing speaker within its case. Will there be laser orchestras in the future whether that view catches on big duration? Makes us wonder what types of harps do angels use now…

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Since it is the Yuletide season and all, how about some Internet-controlled Christmas lights and music for your home? that is what happened to that specific house, where 3,300 mini lights, a trio of spotlights, 1 LED rope, a quartet of LED branch trees and one reindeer dominate the exterior to manufacture that the least green house on the road with all the juice being used to look the part in that coming festive season.

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Now here’s a DIY gadget that you don’t see everyday, a DIY reverse geocache puzzle box, given as a wedding gift. Using the Arduino prototyping platform and a GPS device, it will lead you to a specific location on the globe, before you’re able to open the box. Of course, you’ll need to assemble certain the person who receives such an item is fairly adventurous, whether not you’re going to run the risk of them just throwing it in the junk pile at the back of their home.

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