For you Arduino fans, here's a great last-minute Halloween project idea from the guys over at Open Electronics: The basic idea is that they are using an Arduino to monitor ambient audio levels and ...

What is Halloween without that funny and scary stuff we buy at the market? Now, we can simply put things together to make your own. With the simple steps to follow, you sure can make your own moving ...

Halloween is creeping ever closer, and while it can be difficult to carve out the time to prepare, it's going to take more than a couple of cobwebs and a haphazard costume pulled from the closet to be ...

Our Halloween costumes are just about ready to go, yet we can’t help but feel jealous after seeing this excellent electronic demon costume. What started out as a prank during a Google+ Hangout has ...

All of my Halloween projects. The budgets allotted to each one. What I would do differently if I built them again. What my next project is all about. Who doesn’t like a good scare? Halloween is the ...

This week I will outline a project for Halloween that uses the Arduino and a light to create a glowing effect inside a pumpkin. I use artificial pumpkins for projects like this so I can reuse them in ...

There is a wide variety of creative projects which can help introduce children to the world of microcontrollers. A microcontroller is simply a small computer that can interact with the outside world.

Green fire, magic mirrors, fiber optic fairy wings—just a few of the ways to geek out this Halloween with do-it-yourself projects. Eric Wilhelm, founder of Instructables, joins Ira to suggest a few of ...

Halloween brings out the trick-or-treaters, the fun-sized candy, and, in many cases, the most creative projects from the DIY types. Given license to get as goofy, dramatic, or witty as they can, some ...

With their cheap price tags, massive I/O provisions, and low power consumption, microcontrollers like the uber-popular Arduino family have diverse use cases, from simple automation projects to full-on ...

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 ...

Happy half-term! If you’ve managed to swerve all the nasty autumn bugs doing the rounds, and you’re trying to work and parent this week (solidarity!), you’ll probably want a handful of ideas up your ...