Project Ideas
(This page is a stub, please feel free to add to it)
List your project ideas. This can be helpful for both the novice and
the experienced.
Navigation
Easy
- Arduino Tutorials
- These tutorials will bring you up to speed in the arduino
syntax/API, and you will almost certainly get some project ideas. If
you do, remember to add them here.
- Intrusion alarm
- Thermostat
- Line Follower Robot
- RBS lights and switches: My rolling ball sculpture has switches
on the track and my Arduino triggers lighting events from them.
- Intelligent bug zapper: show how many bugs were zapped and
average/cumulative zap time.
- Photovore: a robot that goes to the brightest source of light.
Intermediate
- Write a library
- Stopwatch
- Email notifier see here.
- Tic Tac Toe
- LED Matrix Control
- MIDI Controller
- Maze Solver Robot
- Anti-tailgator: use distance and speed sensors to light up a sign
in the back window of a car.
- Auto-internals: read OBDII data from your car and display the
state of the sensors, calculate MPG (see opengauge mpguino, OBDuinoInterface too)
- Ultimate computer case fan controller: you got 6 analog inputs
and 6 PWM outputs. That's a lot of fan control!
- Fountain and/or lights that respond "happy to see you" via
proximity and/or motion sensors.
- Ham radio Morse code keyer/propagation beacon.
- A small ball of individually addressable LEDs.
- Fail Safe lock using keypad, LCD, electric deadbolt with optional
proximity sensor.
- Colour following robots: Two or more robots that follow lines of
a certain colour, so on follows blue the other follows Red etc.
Advanced
- Monome
- Synthesizer
- Motion Tracking Turret
- Autopilot with GPS waypointing
- Gameconsole
- Learning Maze Solver Robot
- Energy efficiency/reporting: put current sensors on each circuit
breaker in the AC panel and report usage/stats.
- Whole house climate control: Control HVAC and ceiling fans,
watch for diffs between upstairs/downstairs, ceiling/floor and outside
temps.
- UPS/power control system: Add power control and usage reporting
to a normal UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)
- Voice recognition library
- Use Arduino to collect and process position/weather/telemetry
data and then output data strings serially into an amateur radio
transmitter using APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System).
- Ham radio repeater controller with DTMF control.
- Arduino communication: Create robots with IR blasters and
receivers that can "talk" to each other and tell one's "voice" from
another's
- sudo make me a sandwich: A robot that makes a simple sandwich
when "sudo make me a sandwich" is received over serial
- Blue tooth remote controlled Arduino with WLAN web cam so you can
create an awesome remote controlled car
- Video Library: A library for making images / pixels appear on a
TV screen.
- Graphical calculator that graphs serial inputs on a graphical
LCD.
- Hands-free mobile display to message other drivers, i.e., "Back
Off!".
- Chromatic musical intrument tuner
