They can see what a microcontroller does.” For example, Castro and her Teach Me to Make partner and Arduino teacher Michael Shiloh made unsophisticated, movable robots out of tin cans using Arduino.

An Arduino can be used to test the life of any battery with less than 5 volts, Boxall says. So, for a quick way to see how much juice your AAA, AA, C, or D batteries have left, build this Arduino ...

The Arduino micro controller can be easily removed from the robot, and it is placed on the prototyping board so that you can program to your heart's content. It easily connects to a PC or laptop ...

Folks have been using the popular Arduino DIY computing platform to build robots and all sorts of other simple computing devices for a while. Arduino boards are inexpensive and relatively easy to ...

This product is courtesy of It was super easy to make this mobile tracked platform and radio-controlled useful for building ...

Sparki is mostly geared toward education, with a suggested age of 11 and up. But there's nothing stopping adults from using Sparki as an easy introduction to Arduino programming. "To write your ...

London-based roboticist Evangelos Georgiou wants to offer an open-source platform for helping Arduino hobbyists take their projects mobile, thanks to a remote controlled robot called the RK-1 that ...

For $30, Intel's Arduino 101 board provides an easy path for makers to build a wearable computer, a mini-robot or a smart appliance for the home.

The $36 Arduino at Heart kit works by snapping components on to a board instead of soldering them and is also designed to make programming easier, while the Zero board has a more powerful ...