As a biomedical equipment technician [Adam Outler] equipment needs to be in top working condition. The emergency room staff were complaining about erroneous noise on the electrocardiogram and it&#8… ...

I recently had to build an infrared close proximity sensor that could tell if something was dropped in a parcel delivery drop box. After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece ...

Because of the affordability and seeming ubiquity of the Arduino platform, they have been hard at work this last month trying to get their Geiger counter sensor board for an Arduino out the door.

RFID enables wireless data collection by readers from electronic tags attached to or embedded in objects, for identification and other purposes. This article describes the construction of a simple ...

To let its employees socialize from 300 miles away, ad agency Allen & Gerritsen hacked together an interactive game using RFID sensors, an Arduino, and some custom in-house development. Now ...

Makers, developers and hobbyists looking for a quick way to program RFID cards might be interested in a new Arduino compatible RFID reader development board called the RFID123 which has been ...

If you can dream it, Arduino can help you build it -- perhaps with a dash of MakerBot thrown in for good measure. The latest homebrew project to hit the ol' inbox sounds an alarm whenever you ...

UC San Diego has developed a system that uses analog sensors with a direct interface to RFID tags, making them passive sensor devices.