Customer Projects

Check out these projects built by our customers.  They range from data logging, to animatronic displays, to projects that mess with your cat.

I hope you’ll find the following projects as interesting as we do!

Arduino Animatronic Pirate Skull

Patrick Ryan was inspired to make a motion detecting, talking, and moving Pirate as fun project good for Halloween and International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19).  It’ll be great for guarding the candy booty from hornswagglers, and oh…

Arduino Art Installation for special needs children: cLOUD

cLOUD is an art project that Eleanor (one of our members) designed as part of their university training. Eleanor is going to university for a design degree. Strangely enough, she’s been assigned a project heavily centered around Arduino. Luckily the…

Arduino Aquaponics – Automating fish care

Arduino Aquaponics? Check out this project one of our members made to feed his fish with Arduino. Dimitris , Dimitris , quite ingenious,How does your garden grow?With Arduino, and relay modules,And pretty tanks all in a row. Project purpose: Dimitris…

Arduino VU Meter with LCD

Having the ability to see sound levels is a useful tool for setting levels on audio equipment. It can also be a fun addition to for entertainment systems to get more connection to the music. This project from Jorghe Ayala…

Joystick Controlled Light Show

Have you ever seen one of those automated light shows and wondered how they are done? Using an Arduino, a few bits of extra hardware and some patience, Wayne and his daughter have tackled the idea and taken their first…

HC-12 and Arduino Weather Station project [Code + Schematic]

Keeping track of the weather can be an interesting hobby by itself or an important part of another job like flying or farming – this project demonstrates how a HC-12 coupled with an Arduino can make monitoring weather from afar…

Next Level Networking with the Arduino

Arduino is a great platform to delve into the world of electronics and programming, but the rabbit hole of possibilities may go even deeper than you know!  One of our members has taken Arduino to a whole new level by…

Christmas Tree Defender Cat Diversion Laser Turret with Arduino

How are you supposed to defend your Christmas tree from curious and fiendish cats? Why not distract them with a Christmas Tree Defender Cat Diversion Laser Turret! This project, submitted by John Hart, uses a motion detector to activate a…

ESP8266 and ThingSpeak, a match made in IoT heaven

James Trace (a member of Programming Electronics Academy) has been working on an IoT project: wirelessly monitoring the performance of a Solar Geyser.  He is uploading 9 fields of data to ThingSpeak and measuring temperatures, humidity, light exposure, the list…

Can you actually simulate industrial controls with Arduino?

Imagine for a moment you are an experienced engineer technician at a power plant and you need to train up and coming techs on how to operate different work stations. While you can talk people through the operation of critical…