Development company Mr. Sensorium has this week launched a new Kickstarter campaign to raise the required funds it needs to take its Arduino mini sensor in the form of the MozziByte Mozzi Arduino ...

To capture an instant on film or sensor with a camera, you usually need a fast shutter. But alternately a flash can be triggered with the scene in the dark and the shutter wide open. It’s this latter ...

Data journalism, meet sensor journalism. You two should talk. What’s sensor journalism? I’ll get to that. But first, let me tell you a story about bugs — and a pair of gadgets that sat for months in a ...

The [Libelium] team wanted to help people in Japan measure radiation in their surroundings following the nuclear accident in Fukushima. Because of the affordability and seeming ubiquity of the Arduino ...

The Clapper was a goofy little device popular in the '80s and '90s that made it so you could turn on any outlet in your house with a clap. Make shows off how to build your own version of that device ...

• Measure the sound intensity - Turn on a red light if it gets too loud! • Give sound commands: two claps turns on a light, one clap turns it off (anyone remember “The Clapper”?) ...

It’s an inexplicable thing, the urge to wander into a room and activate the lights with just a clap. Some say it stems from our Egyptian forefathers, who would clap to communicate with the aliens (you ...

Researchers deserve a round of applause for uncovering the science behind the acoustics produced from hand clapping that had not been clearly understood until recently. The daily gesture that people ...