Ribbon-Synth Guitar with Arduino Micro

After the 4-way B-Bender for Telecaster guitar, worked with pedals controlled by an Arduino, here is another invention from the same musician in the form of a very original hybrid electronic instrument, comprising 3 percussion pads, 3 potentiometer ribbons, a joystick and an Arduino Micro.

This board is an evolution of the Arduino Uno R3 board. Identical form factor as the Uno but based on the ATmega328PB-AU, this board has many more features than the Uno. Because it is backwards compatible you can think of it as revision 4 of the Uno, which is why we called it the R4.

You like the Telecaster B-Bender? Means nothing to you? But there is a strong chance that you’ve heard it and appreciated the effect, without even knowing it existed. It’s a mechanism which, on an electric guitar, allows the musician, while he is playing, to move the tone of the B-string up or down and obtain a portamento or glissando melodic effect.

While its northern neighbor is preparing for war and the end of the world as we know it, South Korea is investing in a friendlier future where the children of today develop the technology of tomorrow. To achieve this goal it was decided to rework the Arduino platform a bit to make it safer for children.

About himself, Guido Bonelli writes 'my mission is to expand upon an already awesome hardware platform by providing equally awesome and unique shields for the hobbyist, inventor, DIY’er or anyone else curious about Arduino'. His Dr.Duino™ board makes debugging Arduino as easy as programming Arduino! Forget now about spaghettis and juggling with probes. On the World’s first Arduino Breakout board, all Arduino pins are brought out to headers for easy probe access, even when your Uno is connected to one or more shields.

Announced a few months ago at the Rome Maker Faire 2015, the new Intel Curie-based Arduino/Genuino 101 board is now finally shipping. One of these boards landed on my desk, so I gave it a try.

Arduino boards are as invasive as mice and rats. After conquering many home labs, they now have started entering kitchens too. Must we lock them out or can we bend this force in our favour? How about baking a cake together?

Control your lights at home, your LEGO Robots and many other wireless projects with the Pretzelboard, a low cost yet powerful easy-to-use IoT WiFi-Board, offering a versatile learning and teaching platform. It nicely combines an Arduino NANO and an ESP8266 Wi-Fi module. The Arduino IDE provides the simplest way of programming the board. As an example, this video shows how to use a Pretzelboard in your wireless home network.

If your Arduino project needs more energy than a regular Uno can provide then the NerO board may be for you. Specified for up to 1 A at 5 V without overheating this board remains cool under heavy load conditions. Now on Kickstarter at a very efficient price.

Here is an excellent opportunity for anyone to win a brand new Arduino UNO WiFi board. And if you are really lucky (or good) you can even win a scholarship of $10,000...